The Empress – Cambridge, UK
Situated off Mill Road – probably the most culturally diverse streets in the city – The Empress offers up a surprisingly spacious area and a few other secrets besides…
Walking down Mill Road, past cramped houses and a steady stream of people, the last thing you expect as you turn onto Thoday Street is a decent-sized pub with room to spare. But that’s exactly what you get, and that’s not all – out the back is a well-kept secret that only a lucky few know about!
That’s right, this pub has everything, including a number of resident pigs. Hanging out in their pen in the beer garden out back, you can check out their curly tails over a pint and then head inside for a game of Pool if that’s your bag!
Inside the pub it’s dark wood all round. Nothing new, apart from the furnishings, which have recently been upholstered. The sister pub of The Emperor in the heart of the city, The Empress is comfortable, always friendly, and run by some of the nicest people around. Not only that but the food is exceptional and every singe week they run pub quiz’s and all kinds of other entertainment, including but not limited to live music.
Hanging out in their pen in the beer garden out back, you can check out their curly tails over a pint
Another thing which The Empress does is make you feel cosy and at home – not the easiest thing to do for a large pub with a big outdoor area containing a large Connect 4 game and a maize of picnic tables bent out of shape from years of drinking. And this is one of the guests'favourite aspects, I suspect. It’s not something which you can engineer but rather something which is either there or not.
Finally, The Empress wins on one very important point – possibly the most important there is: the drink. While they serve all the popular mainstream beers they also have a discerning selection of quality local and special brews. As Lenny from human resource software says after he’s drunk half a bar full of Old Speckled Hen, “That’ll do me, my friend!” (And let me tell you, if it’ll do Lenny they it’ll probably do you as well. Lenny hates pubs which don’t conform to his strict quality control measures, and he makes this point know at every opportunity, including in the morning when I get in, in the afternoon, and also on the way home. I really need to learn to run faster so I can get away from Lenny’s wrath…)
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