The Cavendish

The Cavendish is a bar and restaurant on West Street, one of the less fashionable quarters close to the city centre of Sheffield. Its décor aims to appeal to younger clientele, with colourful, slightly rickety wooden furniture and long, back-​less benches. They offer a fair number of guest beers and real ales which, they say, are changed regularly.
I had a pint (Punk IPA, quite good as usual) and their slow-​cooked pulled pork and beans nachos there for lunch (£ 6.95). The food was certainly well-​prepared and quite tasty (the Pulled pork was moist and aromatic), even if, again, the presentation is squarely aimed at young folk (that means it’s lacking).
In short, good place for a well-​maintained beer (service was 100% friendly, 50% competent) and a quick bite. Not quite comfy or atmospheric enough to linger.

The Cavendish isn’t just a student bar, in fact it’s miles better than any student bar I had!
Firstly the food is lovely; well priced, generous portions and pretty varied in terms of menu. Then there’s the beer, 3 cask, 5 keg and a load of bottles — plus your standard draught lagers and stout.
I ordered two meals and two drinks that came in under 14 pounds, that is great value and the fire and smoke burger is a serious slab of meat!
Want a craft beer and a burger for a tenner, the Cavs your place!

Best bar in Sheffield, cheap and friendly… what more do you want?!

Scream pub — discounts with a Yellow card.

Studentville but what do you expect. It’s dirt cheap and has a decent atmosphere, live sport and plenty of pool tables. Decent selection of beers too. I love it!

God damn packed with students all the time, which is not a bad thing, theres a good atmoshphere in there, and the drinks are very cheap. foods not bad either.

Full to bursting with students and others seemingly desperate to get very drunk, very quickly, very cheaply! A place to avoid if you have slightly more discerning tastes.
Also the décor is pretty bad and in need of some modernising, but for what it offers, it’s just about everything you’d expect. The Yellow Card thing is very annoying!

Apart from being an overtly obvious student pub what really gets up my back about these kind of pubs is the Yellow Card system. You buy a Yellow Card for a £1 and you get cheap drinks don’t have one and you pay the premium which pays for the cheap drinks had by the owners of the Yellow Card. Also most people will only go in the once and not go back so waste of resources making the damn Yellow Cards. Also the pub is always full to the brim and gets very rowdy. It does have a good beer garden though. The beer variety is non existent!

Part of the It’s A Sream! chain of bars, this place is always full to the brim. It’s good because you can get cheap deals on drinks if you buy the Yelllow Card, and these can be used in all pubs of the chain. All students will come here at some point in the uni lives, but its novelt soon wears off and you go in search of more original establishments.