Salisbury Arms (Charles Wells)

Pub with rustic interior in central Cambridge with afew Charles Wells beers and reasonable food.

We stopped by on a Monday evening for a pizza on a few ticks. We were lucky to stumble across a two for one offer on the pizzas. We found three new Well’s beers, which was not bad at all. Swift service.

Traditional pub with good 2 for 1 pizza offer. Service was fast and as expected. Picked up three new beers from Bedford while <i was there.

Visited 13/4/2018. Close to the station and easily found on the walk in towards the city centre. Mix of modern and old interior, relaxing environment, beer range fair. Service was good. Don't seek out but do pop in if doing a station to centre pub crawl.

This place has quite many doors. I think we ran between 'em for about 3 minutes 'til we realized despite of couple minutes past opening time, place wasn't open. Eventually 30 seconds later it was opened for us. So nothing exciting about this place. Just business as usual, couple ticks and off we went.

Found this little unspoilt Place on my way from the Train station to the buss. About 10 min walk from the Train station. Not that difficult to find. Not actually the most interesting beer selection. But I did get one Charles Wells beer that I had not tried befor i had to go. Seemed like a very local pub. Relaxed friendly atmosphere. If you are in this area it is ok to pop inn. But I will not actually recommend this place as a Place you have to visit.

Update: November 2015.
Haven’t looked in for a few years but happened to glance at their website recently and it seems they’ve given themselves something of a makeover as more of a pizza joint. Beers appear to have been pruned back to a couple of Charlie Wells’ bog standard casks and two unspecified guests plus a couple of Wells’ "craft" offerings - i.e. the underwhelming DNA & the Dry Hopped Lager, which I haven’t tried (or seen) yet. I imagine I’ll peg back the score a bit on account of this if I ever pop in again.

Not the very best of the pubs in the Mill Road quarter but it’s a pleasant enough place and the first you come to after leaving the railway station so worth a peek. Comfortable and laid back. Eight handpumps although it’s now a Charles Wells house so there are a few of their beers (Bombardier, Eagle etc) but a couple of guests too. Crones Cider from Norfolk is always on tap. Was actually owned by CAMRA many moons ago. Quiet on a midweek lumchtime when I visited with Pat (oh6gdx).

The Salisbury Arms is a good enough boozer. You can get the standard Charles Wells beers here, but they don’t carry that much else of interest. The food is good, and it’s certainly friendly, but only worth including if you’re on a Mill Road crawl.

Once a pub owned by CAMRA Investnents then trolling through the decades until it becomes a regional-industrial place with a few very slightly off centre ales. The UK beer problem writ large.

Nice old fashioned back street bar.