The Best Pubs in Norwich

Welcome to The Fat Cat, a celebrated real ale pub that has won CAMRA's National Pub of the Year twice and the Good Pub Guide's Beer Pub of the Year a record 11 times. Described as a real ale lover's paradise, it offers an amazing selection of beers, including popular sour options, with friendly staff ready to offer advice or let you taste a couple. You can grab a tray of halves or order from their online shop, and enjoy your drinks in the outdoor seating area.

This Victorian corner pub offers a warm welcome with a choice of two bars, a comfortable conservatory, and an enclosed patio garden. It serves many well kept local ales and a range of lagers, catering to everyone from sports fans to local history enthusiasts. The pub has a village feel and features a large patio garden, two pool tables, a dartboard, and is family friendly with children welcome until 7pm.

This pub is a proper haven for anyone who loves a top quality pint, with a brilliantly friendly team and a fantastic range of ales that keeps regulars coming back. The legendary pork pies are a must try, and the unbeatable value makes it easy to settle in for the evening. It’s a welcoming spot that feels like a true local, delivering simple, satisfying pleasures done right.

Welcome to The Brewery Tap, a welcoming public house on the outskirts of the city centre that was named both Norwich City Pub of the Year and Norfolk Pub of the Year. This fully independent free house boasts an incredible 33 ever changing draught lines, from cask ales served by handpump or gravity poured from the firkin to 20 rotating keg lines showcasing the best independent UK and foreign beers. You can relax in the sunny main garden or the covered rear gardens, and enjoy deliciously naughty loaded chips, smash burgers, and saucy wings from the resident kitchen. The pub also hosts live music, special beer events, and a monthly quiz showdown with an in house quizmaster.

This pub is a true gem, home to its own micro-brewery, bar, and restaurant where the team is passionate about great beer, great food, and great service. You can watch the world go by with a freshly brewed beer, and venture upstairs to find function rooms filled with classic board games overlooking the brewery. They craft a fantastic range of on-site ales, from hoppy IPAs and light rice lagers to rich stouts with tasting notes like coffee, chocolate, and malt. The venue also hosts great weekly events and is a perfect spot to enjoy a pint of their exclusive brew collection.

This is a friendly city centre free house and riverside local, known as the city’s favourite local, offering up to 9 real ales and craft beers on cask at any one time. It serves delicious pub food 7 days a week, including a pizza menu, and features live music, a pub quiz, and sports on multiple screens. The historic pub has a riverside terrace and triangle garden perfect for sunny days, plus a free downstairs meeting room. It is dog friendly for friendly dogs on leads and has Cask Marque status, with staff happy to offer tasters to help you pick the perfect ale.

The White Lion is a true gem for anyone who loves a proper, honest pub with top tier food and drink. It’s a place where you can settle in for a phenomenal Sunday roast, with both chicken and beef getting high praise, or start your day with a legendary bacon and egg roll. The bar is always rotating through exceptional cask beers and local ciders, ensuring there’s always something new to try. This is a welcoming spot that feels like a home away from home, driven by fantastic fare and a constantly changing selection of well kept brews.

This historic pub, open since 1861, sits overlooking the market and offers a terrace, a bar with local ales and wines, and cosy corners with a permanent exhibition of historical photos. You can enjoy food from nearby market stalls or have brick pizza delivered to your table, and it is dog friendly. The pub also features an expertly curated off licence with wines to enjoy by the bottle or take home, alongside a next door stores with locally sourced homewares and a cafe.

This pub offers authentic Belgian beer and cuisine, featuring an ever changing draught and bottled beer menu with over 45 different beers including 10 draught and 35 bottled varieties, plus over 80 beers total. Their menu includes restaurant quality Belgian and northern French inspired food, most famously their Belgian monk mussel pots which are available year round. The bar is open daily from 11am until 11pm, and the kitchen serves freshly cooked food from noon until late. They also have an extensive list of wines, spirits, and liqueurs, including Belgian jenevers for something different.

This traditional real ale pub is a welcoming and lively all-cask alehouse, offering an ever-changing selection of top quality cask ales from East Anglian microbreweries. With up to 14 ales and ciders on hand-pump, it is celebrated as one of the finest real ale pubs in East Anglia. The Telegraph describes it as "the english pub as a home from home," a place for great beer and pleasant banter.