"You will be hard pushed to find better elsewhere"

 “...with the mix of clubs it has, catering for all wants and tastes, you will be hard pushed to find better elsewhere.” 
The Times Good Unversity Guide 2010

Bars, pubs and clubs

Nottingham is famous for its colourful and varied nightlife - with the amount of bars and clubs that inhabit the compact city centre you won't be spoilt for choice.

Drinking in history

Three of Nottingham's drinking establishments,  The Bell Inn, Ye Olde Salutation Inn and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, claim to be the oldest in the city and are certainly amongst the oldest in the country. 

• Carved into the rock below Nottingham Castle, the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, with its cave cellars and tales of Crusades and roaming ghosts, dates back to approximately 1189AD
• Ye Olde Salutation Inn states that it was established in 1240AD when a Tannery was built on the site of a 13th century alehouse
• The Grade II listed Bell Inn dates from around 1437 and originally served as a refectory for a Carmelite monastery.  In 1536 after Henry VIII closed small monasteries it became a secular alehouse

Although the dates are disputable these real ale pubs are worth a visit for their sense of history and charm.    

City chic

"It's Hockley neighbourhood is as hip as anything this side of Manchester or London"
Frommers.com

The beautiful architecture of Nottingham's Lace Market and Hockley areas are the jewels in the city's crown, so it is no surprise that here you’ll find an assortment of stylish cafe bars, cocktail bars, dancing venues and even a late-night tea shop.

On the waterfront

Nottingham's canalside provides the perfect location for waterfront drinking.  This lively area offers a mixture of venues:  traditional pubs that brew their own beer, warehouses converted into trendy wine bars and even the UK's only pub which has an internal canal and barge moored inside. 

Heading out

Mansfield Road and Derby Road offer a wide variety of pubs and bars catering for those with a taste for real ale, continental beers or fine wines.

Gay and lesbian

There is a vibrant and thriving gay and lesbian scene in Nottingham, with a number of venues all situated on or near the fringes of Hockley a stone's throw away from one another.

Clubs

Nightclubs include Gatecrasher, Stealth, Oceana, NG1, Cookie Club, Rock City, The Rescue Rooms, The Bodega, The Maze, Reflex and Flares, offering everything from charts to indie, house to funk, seventies to soul, eighties to emo, goth to glam and rock to drum’n’bass.