The Approach Tavern

Introducing - Locals Night

Once a season, 4 times a year!

Join us for 'Autumn Locals Night' on October 17th from 7pm.

Flyers shall be put through as many letterboxes as possible surrounding our pub.

On the night - 10% off everything we offer, raffle prizes to be won, Live Jazz & it's time to meet your neighbours within this huge city of ours.

Bring your flyer. If you don't get one pop in and grab one if you want that discount!

Good times guaranteed.

A wonderfully fruity fusion to accompany you after a delicious pub meal on your stroll through Victoria park.

A .art masterpiece.

Closing out the summer with a proper gig!

Live Blues this Saturday 7pm

Free entry of course.

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Grilled Goats Cheese. Magnific!

We have been building up on coppers for the last 10+ years. The time has come to make a far greater use for them.

Guess its value in £££'s

The winner gets a lovely case of red wine! You also get to donate all those coppers to a local sporting charity so it's keeping in sync with the Olympic spirit. We will change them into note form not to worry!

An Approach clue: Its heavy.

A few pictures from The Finals.

Hats off to,

Team Approach
YOU (definitely brought the passion!)
England
Spain

2026...

It's coming home.

Semi final scenes. One more game to go! See you on Sunday for the Final. Walk-ins only.

Are you a fan of lager and football?

are in town from 3pm. Thursday 20th. Pub opens at 12pm, do get here early if you want the best view (an Approach tip).

Which only means happy offerings, such as:

Mobile bar in our beer garden - no one likes a long walk to the bar after a few.
Reduced prices to usual - their lager shall be the cheapest lager onboard our ship guaranteed.
Free giveaways! - buy a jug of beer, just roll the dice and a free prize is yours! From bar blades to Ray Mears shorts. All you need to survive in the wild.
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Shall be playing live! Belting out England footie tunes to get Approach Road fired up from 4pm! Come on England!

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Kick off 5pm.

Spain v Italy to follow at 8pm. Happy days.

SINGLES NIGHT IS BACK! New hosts & new vibes!

To the 40+ peeps that rocked up last Monday...THANK YOU! We hope a good old pub did the business for ya!

Liz & Sophie our new hosts were simply magical! They bring the BEST and easiest icebreakers for you to find your match.

So let's do this!! Stop staring at your phone swiping for non-existent perfection.

Get down here and get involved! Bring a buddy!

This is not speed dating.

Going forward it shall now be on the first Monday of every month. Kickstart the month with purpose!

Next one - July 1st 7pm.

Spread the word and spread the love.

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Our beer garden in full flow over the weekend. Hope you had a nice bank holiday and got rather trollied. 🍻

Falafel wrap. Beetroot & Raita doing wonders. 🍻

Litovel. Our house lager. Czech magic. We like to call it 'Red Diesel'. 🍻

Litovel. Our house lager. Czech magic. We like to call it 'Red Diesel'. A mighty fine lager.

Friday priorities are in order here.

Wednesday 27th March. Jazz on your doorstep. Grab a bottle of red, forget about the world outside of your local tavern, grab another bottle of red and enjoy these brilliant artists. See you then hopefully! You know it makes sense. 🍻

The Approach has lost one of its most precious figures far too soon.

We have lost our Mick.

This one has been very tough. A treasured character within these four walls. We were too fortunate to be called his local. 

Certain people throughout our individual journeys are clearly remembered, they stick with you. One thing MIck did for sure to us all was engulf us with laughter and friendship. His humour was so infectious within this rapidly changing world where you can't do this or you can't say that as you may offend an endangered type of aubergine in North Dakota...Well, "why don't you F # # # off!" as Mick would beautifully say, 47 times a night. He brought that wonderful refreshing wave of normality and simplicity upon you. He made you stop worrying about the needless little things. Just have a laugh! Call it old school humour heightened by many pints of Guinness and a pub atmosphere to back him up, it just formed THE winning cocktail. He came alive here and was a joy to talk to. A real joy. 

He loved having a laugh with the team and terrorising newbies for the rest of their days if they didn't pour his precious Guinness correctly, "Cheers for the half!" Barked at anyone who hogged all the fireplace. (According to him, only he was allowed to plonk his arse right on top of it). We could go on and on. He was part of the pub.

Mick was always the last to arrive and the last to leave the pub 6/7 days a week. We would be worried if he didn't arrive on any given day. Speaks volumes of how highly we loved him here. The bell for last orders would ring and the seasoned warrior would arrive. Impeccable timing. You were proud when you saw a new member of the team had Mick's Guinness poured without being asked. He earnt that service. Not many get that treatment in life. Or deserve it. 

Oh how we miss him and there will never be enough words on here.  Instead we shall continue to shout loudly about the great man in this pub he adored.

We're a little down here, have too much Guinness now and definitely too few chocolates. 

Love you, miss you and finally be at peace. Your pub. 

"If you cannot have a laugh, there's no point living" Michael Patrick Davy

Lamb Rump.

There shall be life! Don't forget the pints too! 🍻

Dickens...Truly loving the Six Nations here at The Approach.

An Approach Guinness. We think one or two of these may be drunk over the next 2 months.

This is what a 4 year cask 'derailed porter' looks like. Beautiful.

Are you a lover of real dark beers??
The time has come.
Brewed in 2019.
Put into cask in 2020.
Ageing in our cellar for over 4 years.
Derailed Porter.
An unprecedented moment for pub and brewery.

DM to reserve a pint.
Wednesday 17th January - The Approach
6:30pm
You know where to be, see you here!

New this year! Book out our lovely piano room as private for your desired Size Nations Day! 2 TVs in there, which means every angle is covered for your party. Exciting times!

Pics of 2023