Five Lamps

Five Lamps is a cosy pub which is very welcoming and very cosy. I only started coming here after I moved back to London and was coming to Derby annually to visit friends. I am gutted I never came here when I lived a 3 minute walk away from here!!! The pub is a typical pub with real ales and has 14 real ales as well as 1 draught cider and 3 hand pulled ciders. They have a number of local ales permanently on tap as well as a selection from National Breweries. I am not an ale person so not sure which ale is from what brewery but here is a list —
* Arran Blonde from Arran
* Bass from InBev
* Chatsworth Gold from Peak Ales
* Citra from Oakham Ales
* Directors from Charles Wells Brewery
* Five Lamps from Derby Brewing Co
* Gold from Littleover
* Hartington IPA from Whim Ales
* Harvest Pale from Castle Rock
* Jaipur from Thornbridge
* Proper Job from St Austell
* Tiger from Everards
* Tribute from St Austell
Five Lamps is also well known for its food but I have never tried the food here, next time I am here I will definitely try it.
I love the atmosphere here so I will always come back here a few times when I am back in Derby. If your in Derby and looking for a real ale pub with ale from a local brewery, then I totally recommend this place as it is in my opinion the only real ale pub worth checking out in Derby.

I sometimes go here for lunch to talk about how I’m planning on taking over the world.
They’ll usually get your order wrong but the food is good, they’ve changed chefs a few times I believe.
Plenty of tables and there’s some low comfy chairs in the corner by the fire place too.
Besides getting our food orders wrong several times in the past, I would argue however, that you don’t go here for food. The ales here are brilliant. Always see some new ones on tap every time I visit. I think it has an award for the best real ale pub in Derby? Could be wrong but it’s certainly a worthy competitor.
Some friends have said it’s even better at night when it gets busier and I can imagine. There’s a «proper pub» feel to it. Plus the old man reading the newspapers that never seems to leave.
Also has a nice little beer garden /​terrace area out the back which is nice in the summer.

Liked
the décor in this quite big traditional pub, particularly the tankards. It is
the local CAMRA branches current pub of the year and not without merit!
Amber Ales gold made for a very good pint.

This pub is a good place to sample some decent real ale. It has had many guises in the past few years but the latest incarnation seems to have found a successful formulae. It’s more of a starting point than a sit and stay type of pub, but never the less it is definitely worth a visit.

This pub has had 2 re-​vamps in last year, we had high hopes for it as the new tenants had awards for their cooking and keeping of pub. Well on July 10^th 2010 we went in to eat, the beer was fine a good standard, and we looked at food menu. I decided on the 5 Lamps Finest Burger and my daughter had the 5 LAmps burger. This took over 40 minutes to cook despite their only being about 10 people in and most had not ordered food. This was ok as I expected the food to be freshly cooked for us, Imagine the disappointment with what come out. Poor standard food that was left on bar while the located knife and fork for us, then it was put in front of us the chips were soggy and frozen chips nothing special at all, well I come onto the burger, It was a double burger that was supposed to be a 10oz burger but was just 2 burgers on top of each other, if this is finest burger they need to get out more because this tasted like cheap Birdseye burger, grey and full of onion in the meat. It was never worth £6:50, my daughters burger was the same but half the size of mine but it was advertised as 4oz so mine was just a 8oz as it was the same burger but two of them, the onion rings were soggy. I paid £11 for poor substandard food that would not be served in a roadside burger bar.
I would go again for a drink but never again for food I will stick with The Flowerpot some 100m up the road