Pub of the Year 2020 (City Centre)
Our Sheffield City Centre Pub of the Year is awarded to the Sheffield Tap.
The Sheffield Tap was opened by Pivovar in 2009 in the railway station’s former first class refreshment room, which was built in 1904. After years of neglect the main bar area has been the subject of an award-winning restoration retaining many original features and is included on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. Further seating has been provided in the entrance corridor and to the right of the bar. A further room of seating is the impressive former dining room, which is now home to the Tapped Brew Co’s on site brewery, which can be viewed through a glass screen.
The Tap’s bar has 11 handpumps dispensing a range of cask beers including both on site brews and guest beers, alongside 14 keg taps and a fridge stuffed with around 200 beers in bottle and can – all served by knowledgeable staff.
The Sheffield Tap is often described as a great place to miss a train!
REOPENING…
The Sheffield Tap are planning on reopening in a Covid-19 secure manner on Saturday 4th July with table service and an app available to order on. For more details check out their Facebook page.
Josh and Louise took over the running of this established real ale pub two years ago. It has won many awards over the years since reopening in its current guise.
The winning formula continues with the basics of a clean and tidy pub with a civilised atmosphere, varied choice of well kept real ales at reasonable prices and a well tended beer garden, their stamp on the pub is very much evolution rather than revolution – for example they’ve had a bar refit to add more UK craft beer on tap alongside the real ales and European beers and they have upgraded the pub’s lunchtime food offering.
The Kelham Island Tavern is currently open part time Wednesday to Saturday for take home beers (cask, keg, bottle and can) and snacks such as crisps and pork scratchings. Check their social media for current opening times and beer range. 
When current owner James Birkitt bought the pub in the year 2000, it was a failed and closed Marstons pub. Investment was made improving the interior and outdoor drinking area as well as adding an extension and it was reborn as a freehouse pub with a variety of reasonably priced real ales and European beers served by friendly staff. In the two decades since, the winning formula has changed very little – only noticeable differences are bar snacks such as sandwiches are now sold, some of the beers are always from Neepsend Brewery (same owners) and the keg taps have UK craft beers alongside the European imports.
When long standing owners and licencees Pat and Eddy retired and sold up, a whole bunch of regulars put money into a community enterprise (Gardeners Rest Community Society) that now operates the pub. As before it is a great real ale pub with a choice of rooms, bar billiards, traditional music performances and slightly eccentric riverside beer garden but the community element has been cranked up a notch or two which is reflected in the people working there and the groups using the meeting room upstairs.
The pub is currently opening part time (afternoons Wed-Sat) for take home beer sales, check their social media for current opening times and beer choices.
This friendly micro-pub is a converted gift shop and offers five real ales along with a number of craft beers on keg taps. Many of the bar snacks are of a Porcine theme with pork scratchings and pork pies involved, hence the humorous name!
The Itchy Pig is currently open selling beers to take home from 3pm to 5pm Tuesday to Sunday with home deliveries available locally those days from 5pm to 7pm (orders and enquires by email orders@theitchypig.co.uk).
All of us here at The Wisewood Inn would like to thank customers both old and new for continuously supporting us and watching us go from strength to strength in the last five years.
Since re-opening our doors in October 2015, relaunching a pub that had struggled for at least ten years under various pubco ownerships, we have received lots of positive feedback and support from the community and it is an honour to win Sheffield CAMRA Pub of the Month twice in the last two years.
Since winning Pub of the Month in July 2017, we have expanded and made lots of positive changes to create an even better environment. We now even have our very own on-site microbrewery – Loxley Brewery.
With four cask pumps serving Loxley Brewery ales, there are also two guest pumps which are rotated frequently, these pumps have seen us support many fine local breweries and many more from further afield. (Around 400+ to date!!)
The ‘Cellar Bar’ has also been refurbished to an exceptional standard and is the perfect place to grab a pint in the winter months with the real log fire and candlelight. In the summer months, our roller blinds are opened up on to one of the largest beer gardens in Sheffield and the spectacular views of the Loxley Valley surround. The Cellar Bar is also the perfect place to have a function of any kind – we cater for everyone!
We have also undergone a kitchen extension, serving delicious homemade food every day of the week but our Sunday Roasts are a very popular hit, booking is a must almost every Sunday of the year.
Another great achievement that we are very proud of is opening our second pub, The Raven Inn on Palm Street, Walkley, a cosy local also supported by Loxley Brewery and offering a diverse range of cask and keg.
Looking to the future, there are plans to refurbish the upstairs bar in early Spring. We are expanding our beer lines during the refurb too, which is something for the ale lovers to look out for! There are talks of a new food menu too which will pair nicely with the new drinks on offer. As well as this, our second beer festival will be held in June this year, and after a great success last year we are really looking forward to this years event which we are sure will be bigger and better, with great beer, music and people – Keep your eyes peeled for updates in Beer Matters!
A huge mention goes to our staff who work tirelessly to make sure our standards are as high as you expect.
We invite friends old and new to join us on our presentation evening, on Tuesday 7th of April for a few beers, bar snacks and a celebration! 
Our chairman Glyn Mansell presented Bankers Draft shift manager Alex Crowe with our February Pub of the Month award, which he accepted on behalf of all the team at this Wetherspoons pub located in Sheffield City Centre by Castle Square tram stop.
The award is voted for by our members and reflects the local managements passion for keeping a good range of well kept real ale and on the night they also hosted a meet the brewer event with Little Critters Brewery, which also featured a pop up bar with a selection of their beers – all at Wetherspoons affordable prices too! 
The Campaign for Real Ale also support real Cider and Kev and Steph were delighted when their pub, the New Barrack Tavern on Penistone Road was awarded Yorkshire Cider Pub of the Year. CAMRA regional cider co-ordinator Christine Jane made the award.
CAMRA members and staff at the Ball Inn, Crookes, celebrated more than Christmas as the pub was awarded Pub of the Month by The Campaign for Real Ale. The pub has fourteen hand pumps and serves a fine selection of real ales. Chairman of CAMRA, Glyn Mansell on the left presented the award to Kham, the duty manager.