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    A small doorway on Pelham Street opens onto a staircase, which is your only warning before you arrive at a two-floor cocktail bar and blues club with a spit-and-sawdust soul. Drinks come from a tiny bar tucked under the stairs, and the menu runs to combinations that would raise an eyebrow elsewhere, Campari and Patron XO among them, pulled off with more confidence than the setting suggests. There is also a £35 cocktail called Barry Big Bollocks.

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    • Barry big bollocks

      “There's also the cheekily named Barry Big Bollocks priced at £35.”

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    1. Rank 5, Cocktail Bars in Nottingham, tied with Harts and four others
    2. Rank 5, Nottingham’s Best 100: Drink, tied with Chino Latino and eight others
    Address
    Upstairs, 9 Pelham Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 2EH , United Kingdom · Nottingham
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    • Monday Closed
    • Tuesday 5 PM to 1 AM next day
    • Wednesday Today 5 PM to 1 AM next day
    • Thursday 5 PM to 1 AM next day
    • Friday 2 PM to 1:30 AM next day
    • Saturday 2 PM to 1:30 AM next day
    • Sunday 5 PM to 1 AM next day
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    +44 (0)115 950 1226
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