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Norwich Area Pubs

New Cases - Awkward?

1. : Problems

As mentioned, under Trends, the various terms :
  bar, restaurant, grill, café, brasserie etc.
are not only interchangable, at the whim of the
proprietors, but are often used in combination
to describe the kind of business.

In fairness, the market for a particular pub may be
constrained by its environment (although usually
selected deliberately!)
e.g. within a Business Park or an Airport.

Hotels are proliferating around Norwich International
Airport, and also beginning to spring-up elsewhere.
A fashion to ally a pub/restaurant to the hotel,
rather than catering "in-house", is clearly
catching-on countrywide.

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2. : Getting a Drink

But the most all-pervading trend is towards provision
of restaurant facilities : already a well-established
feature in existing pubs in almost all areas of the
City and County.

However, it remains the 'rule' that, if you can't drop-in
for a drink, the alleged pub is a licensed restaurant
- not a pub.
If "pub grub" is advertised this may
well be a useful clue.

It is important for readers of this site, who have the
opportunity to visit the new establishment(s), to
decide for themselves how the land lies and,
hopefully, to provide feed-back to this website.

In the first instance, the business is given the benefit of
the doubt i.e. default status as a PUB; but with suitable
warnings and caveats displayed.

Of course, it may be sufficient - to dissuade a drinker
from entering the premises - if the business is styled
Restaurant & Bar, rather than Bar & Restaurant !
N. B.
Restaurants and cafés which have been established
in the premises of earlier pubs are given special,
positive status in the lists.

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3. : The Airport

The newcomers are the Oaks, on Cromer Road
(Sept. 2003)- an example* of the hotel "add-on"
concept;   Happy Landings - a more humble facility,
open by 2006, especially angled at amateur aviators,
hence sited closer to the airport itself.

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4. : Broadland Business Park

Since then an (essentially unrelated) hotel complex has
been built (November 2000), on the "add-on" principle.
The restaurant/pub is the Broadland View.
As in the case of the Oaks* (para. 3) this is a
Premier Travel Inns operation.

5. : Other Hotels

The latest Premier Travel Inns new building
(Spring 2005) is in the heart of the City, in Duke Street.
Owing to the smaller site, all catering is done "in-house".

The latest (new) Holiday Inn (mid-2007)
adjoins the Football Ground in Carrow Road.

The continual changes of hotel ownership, and related
changes of title, are reflected in the special index for
current hotel records.

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6. : Central Restaurants

The following list applies, in date order :-

pre- January 2001 : Auberge  (Castle Mall)
      - French menu.
c. 2003 : Castlegates  (Timberhill) - Malaysian menu.
c. 2004 : Marzano  (The Forum) - Pizza Express.
Aug. 2004 : Pulse  (Guildhall Hill)
      - Vegetarian menu.
Autumn 2006 : Library  (Guildhall Hill)
      - Mediterranean menu.

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7. : Other Outlets

In December 2000 an historic pub building was
re-opened as the Belgian Monk, specialising -
as the name implies - in Belgian beers.

By January 2003 an outlet connected with the
University of East Anglia - called the Sportspark
Sports Cafe - was opened.

By September 2006 King Street saw a new arrival
- at last - with the odd title New Mu; but sadly
closed by 2008.
It has since re-opened as a licensed restaurant.

Around the same time, the Workshop opened in
Earlham Road, near the re-named Fountain,
and opposite the Black Horse.

By November 2007 a bar, attached to a TV enterprise
(in the old Anglia TV studios) in Magdalen Street,
had opened and called itself the Epicentre.

Frank's Bar opened in Bedford Street in April 2008.

Another restaurant-cum-pub in the Riverside
complex is Chicquito's, opened by July 2008.

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8. : Latest News

http://pubs.norridge.me.uk/news.htm