Category: Awards

The Raven Inn on Palm Street, Walkley, opened in November 2019, an unexpectedly challenging period for any business – let alone a new pub. Formerly the Palm Tree, the Raven underwent an extensive refurbishment before opening. The mixed contemporary and traditional interior consists of wooden furniture with contrasting walls adorned with antlered light fixtures.

The Raven Inn is Loxley Brewery’s second pub, following the Wisewood Inn in Loxley and preceding Sharrow Vale’s ‘No.3’. It offers five of Loxley’s own real ales and a rotating guest real cider alongside nine keg lines including guest craft keg, Loxley’s own craft offerings, and a lager. 

To the rear is a very spacious beer garden which in the warmer months usually hosts a pop-up kitchen on weekend evenings. Throughout the year a variety of pork pies, sausage rolls and scotch eggs are available over the bar every weekend. Each Wednesday there is a pub quiz at 8pm and other one-off events including live music are listed on the pub’s social media feeds.

Join us for a drink at the Raven on 10 February at 8.30pm where they’ll be presented with February’s Pub of the Month award.

Getting there: buses 52a and 95 stop a short walk away on Walkley Road or South Road.

Happy new year to everyone, and thanks for all your nominations and votes over the last 6 months. Nominations are always open on our revamped nomination form, and are ratified at each month’s committee meeting (third Tuesday). Voting then opens until the branch meeting (first Tuesday). If you have feedback on the process or the new form, contact us at potm@sheffield.camra.org.uk.

This time of year is always the hardest for pubs, and 2026 will be no exception – at the time of writing both Turner’s bottle shop and the Closed Shop have already announced their closures. Please consider visiting and nominating venues you may not have been to before, and supporting independent businesses in our branch area.

The Beer House Hillsborough (recently renamed from the Beer House S6) is the sister pub of the Beer House on Ecclesall Road and opened in May 2023, joining several other micropubs opening in Hillsborough in recent years. 

While the micropub remains under the same ownership, new manager Karl has undertaken a gentle rebrand over the last part of 2025, with new external signage. Their emphasis on serving good beer and being a part of the Hillsborough community has continued, reflected in the nomination and award of Pub of the Month from local members.

In the heart of Hillsborough and positioned handily on the inbound tram stop, the venue was in the early 90s a Famous Army Stores before becoming Mad Harry’s Discount Warehouse. As noted by locals in The Star in 2023, the Beer House was a welcomed new addition to HIllsborough.

The open planned yet cozy bar has six cask lines and five craft keg on rotation. The micropub places importance on both variety and quality, stocking from breweries such as Two by Two (always on one line), Pentrich, Elusive, Black Iris, and North Riding, among many others. They always have an unusual flavoured stout on offer, a best bitter, and a range of pales.

Unusually for a micropub there is a fully utilised basement room, with a centrally located staircase leading down to a games room where you can enjoy pool and darts. They also run a Wednesday night pub quiz, for which booking is recommended.

Atmosphere and community is just as important as the real ale offering in this Hillsborough micropub, and this award is well deserved. Join us on Tuesday 13 January at 8:30pm to celebrate this award and enjoy a few drinks!

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Thanks to everyone who has nominated or voted in our Pub of the Month competition since we refreshed the rules and relaunched for August. Since then we have awarded a PotM every month – we’re now finished for the year as there is no award given in December. This lets us (and the pubs!) focus on the busy Christmas period.

Nominations are open for February 2026’s award and voting will open around Christmas – check the website or your inbox closer to the time as the voting will close at our branch meeting on 6 January.

Our pub of the month for November 2025 is the Dog & Partridge in central Sheffield. With full disclosure in mind, the pub has long been a friend to the local branch with owners Sarah and Conor Smith offering the snug as a meeting room for our committee, and the pub receiving deliveries of Beer Matters for us each month. It’s great to see them recognised by our membership with an award.

The pub itself dates back to 1796 – one of the oldest still operating in Sheffield, and is on the CAMRA Local Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. It has a fairly traditional layout, most notably featuring a relatively unaltered snug (the venue for committee meetings) featuring an old fireplace with a more modern hearth, a serving hatch, and original bell pushes for table service – now only ornamental. There are three other larger rooms with a central bar. The exterior still has raised lettering for ‘Gilmours Windsor Ales & Stouts’ above the entryway.

On the bar are 4 cask lines, usually including at least one Abbeydale beer, with a choice of a bitter, a stout and 2 paler options. There is also a central column of 4 craft keg lines, and a further 8 keg lines for lagers, ciders, and the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Irish Stouts; Guinness, Murphy’s, and Beamish (as of writing this is claimed to be the only pub in S Yorks offering Beamish). These offerings earn them a spot on Sheffield’s legendary ‘Irish Triangle’.

The pub offers a range of events including a quiz night every Tuesday at 7pm followed by ‘Irish Bingo’ at around 8.30. There are music sessions every Monday, Wednesday, Sunday and two Thursdays a month, a Bi-Monthly “Dogfest” music Festival (next is on November 29th), as well as live gigs every other Saturday night. For advance information on any of these check the pub’s socials and website.

They also offer an Irish pub food menu including a ‘spice bag’ inspired by Ireland’s chinese takeaway menus, chicken fillet rolls, as well as specials.

Join us on Tuesday 11 November at around 8pm after the quiz finishes (or join in and see how you do!) for the presentation of their award.