Queen Adelaide Inn

A brilliant pub for drinking proper beer. If you drive to it you’re very likely to need a taxi home!

Once you know this pub exists, you’ll keep going back!
Very pleasant village location, but with curry available only 200 yards away! Result.
Proper pub. proper beer.

Put simply, a real belter of a pub. This is a proper pub. The way pubs used to be. A pub that has a regularly revolving selection of terrific ales. From the mainstream and yet still excellent London Pride to some very interesting Wherry from Norfolk, a number of local breweries and obviously a couple of lagers for those with the palate of a child. Never fewer than five tip top ales on the go though. This is a pub that has wooden floors too. Not the vomit yellow faux wood that has infected so many pubs of late. They are old. They have had beer spilt on them. They are terrific. There is also a Northamptonshire skittles table here which seems always to be available. This is also a pub for watching rugby. The landlord is a Gloucester fan, but let not this put you off. After a home game, the place will be full of Saints supporters. Drinking real ale and eating pork scratchings. I recommend you do the same. Watch rugby, drink ale and eat pigs. It’s brilliant.

Oh, should also add that it is in a beautiful location in Kingsthorpe Village, has a stonking quiz night, a lovely little garden, is the perfect place to sit with a pint in the summer and watch the Swifts and Swallows at play, does some food which I’ve not tried (apart from the scratchings and nuts, which did what scratchings and nuts do really).

An all round good egg. Add it to your list