Not advertising but this is tomorrow. Strawberry fair is a…read morefree festival in the center of Cambridge, UK. This years fair is on Saturday June 7th, 2008. It has music on several stages, stalls, food, art, crafts, kids entertainment, performers, participation and of course a beer tent. I went for the day last year and it was a hot day (rain tomorrow). If you can't get to this one put it in your diary for next year because it is good and it is free! After the event. A crowd of us went. Kings Cross to Cambridge and we got on enroute..like a rolling snowball..it had picked up other friends enroute. The trains were packed and the queueing and police presence at Cambridge station seemed a bit OTT. The festival itself was packed but the music, beer and food were good as were the selection of stalls. I got a rainstick for £1. As this is free one wonders how much longer it can run but if it is on next year then go!

This was my first year at the Cambridge Beer Fest. I was designated driver (DD) so I couldn't…read moreparticipate in the drinking festivities as much as I wanted to. Upon entry it is £5.00. You then purchase your pint glass in which you can take home with you for £2.50. There is a warehouse full of beer vendors, such a huge selection, there is something there for everybody. The volunteers were very helpful and quick to serve you, it looks like fun being a volunteer because I think they may be allowed to drink for free, all of them were drinking. I tasted some of the best beer of my life there, had a nice 1/2 pint of 11%. There are tons of food vendors to help soak up the alcohol in your system when needed. Dogs are welcome. It was a really good atmosphere with lots of positive vibes flowing. Had a great time even as a DD.

Now in its 40th year, CAMRA's CBF is a great event. It runs for a week and is huge with lots of…read morebreweries featuring mostly British ales. You have to like said ales to get the most of this festival. Their IPAs, porters, stouts and lagers come from brewers all over the country but I find most British brewers stay within a narrow taste profile. No cascade hops here. There is a small foreign bar featuring Belgian and German offerings and one for mead. If you have the time you can volunteer to pull beers. You'll earn credits and learn quite a bit but do the lunch shift it's much easier than the evenings or weekends. The huge tented space keeps everyone dry, there are food vendors too. £4 entry.

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This is a well established winter ales festival, organised by the Cambridge and District Branch of…read morethe Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). As a winter ales festival, the emphasis is on the heavier, and generally darker (and stronger!) seasonal ales and winter warmers, although with around 120 beers on offer, the festival has plenty of other beer styles too, as well as ciders and foreign beers. I attended for the first time this year, and had a very enjoyable evening - once I got in. The qualification is important, as one of the main features of the venue is that, for a beer festival, it's relatively small. There are two downstairs bars, the very small 'Back Bar' and the slightly larger 'Front Bar', where food is also served, and the main bar area upstairs. Entry is free for CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) members. We arrived on the Friday at 7pm and had to queue for nearly an hour (that's dedication for you) in a biting cold wind as the venue was already full, and they could only let people in on a one-out, one-in basis. Unless they try for a larger venue next year, it's worth therefore getting there early: a friend of ours who arrived an hour earlier had no trouble queueing. Once we'd warmed up, though, and purchased our £4 commemorative glasses (this is refundable if you don't want to keep it at the end of the evening), the beer choice was very good. The emphasis - and I suppose about half the ales - are of the heavier winter seasonal variety, including stouts and porters. Some of these are pretty strong stuff: Bartram's 'Soviet Stout' comes in at 6.9% ABV, Cambridge Moonshine's 'Chocolate Orange Stout' comes in at 7.2%, Harwich Town's 'Sint Niklaas' at 7.8%, and Elveden's 'Harwich Charter Ale' at a whopping 10% ABV. Those trying the foreign beers have plenty of choice in the 8-10% range, with the Belgian Bush de Noël from Brasserie Dubuisson Frères brewery taking the ribbon with its staggering 12% ABV. (And you would be staggering, too, after one too many of those). Unsurprisingly, they only provide you with half-pint glasses. That all said, as with most beer festivals, people drink steadily and sensibly and the atmosphere is warm and friendly and very well behaved. There are plenty of beers in the 3.5-5% ABV range if you want something less alcoholic. Some of the beers have wonderful names: Bartram's 'Mother In Law's Tongue Tied', a rich tawny ale (9% ABV) must rate as one of the best, Elgood's 'Wenceslas Winter Warmer' (7.5% ABV) wins the prize for alliteration, Potbelly's 'Jingle Bellies' (5% ABV) for the most humorous, Son of Sid's 'Strapped Jock' (4% ABV) for the most ribald and Woodforde's 'Headcracker' (7% ABV) for honesty! Food is served until 9pm, although they carried on after this on our visit. The menu is pretty basic but filling festival fare: most popular, and best value, were the hearty and very fresh chips at £1.50, but there were also veggie chilli, game stew, fish and chips, various filled rolls and soup on offer. Apart from the queue, the other main downers are that it is very crowded, there's no cloakroom to leave coats etc, there's no level access and relatively little seating for the numbers present. These are all limitations of the venue, but worth knowing about before you go if they're important for you.

Not a patch on the spring festival…read more Most of the breweries are local with all that implies. Very few from outside Cambridgeshire are represented and those that are are good. Entrance is £3 but by 5pm on the last day with 4 hours to go, the list showed 1/3 of the beers had run out. Actually it looked like much more than that. By 6 pm it was less than 1 in 5 and one of the three bars closed. It seems the aim is to sell all the beer by closing time - in which case how can you justify charging an entrance fee? The best beers run out the quickest. Food is poor compared to the Spring festival. Essentially pork, sausages or burgers with rolls, mashed potatoes or chips and pricy. There are no salads, snacks - pork pies, pork scratchings crisps or anything else. Much better to go over to Fitzbillies for lunch Worth visiting when entrance is free but otherwise you'll find better beer at local pubs. With the entrance price I paid £6.20 per pint. Waste of money. Don't visit on the last day unless you're prepared to pay for entrance and a poor choice of beer.

Arts Picturehouse is a theatre that has a cafe/bar inside for eating too. Around the afternoon-ish…read moretime, this place was bustling with people and positive energy so we decided to come here to eat, and ditch the movies. My friend got a classic wrap with chips and I got the sirloin steak medium rare with a side salad. I was quite impressed by the menu options since I'd assumed they would keep it quite simple for pre-theatre meals, but I was mistaken. My steak wasn't stellar quality, but it was certainly good enough, and cooked to medium rare, just how I like it. I stole some of my friend's chips to sneak in some carbs lol. I wouldn't go out of my way to come here again for the food, but certainly would for the vibe :)

The Arts Picture House is by far the best cinema in the Cambridgeshire vicinity; much like my…read morebeloved Cornerhouse in Manchester, it's a step up from the sticky floors and arcade filled lobby areas of your AMCs etc. Hidden away next to Wetherspoons, you could quite easily miss it - but keep an eye out. We're not talking about huge blockbusters here - it's more Indie films and the like, though the Lion King was showing when we visited on Easter Sunday. We were there to see Calvary (which is my film of 2014, so go and see it right now. This review will still be here when you get back!) My only gripe? God there's a lot of adverts. I'm sure there was more than your mainstream cinema, or at least it felt like there were, which isn't a great sign. However, there's a small cafe situated on the upper level here, where you can grab pre or post movie snacks or sandwiches, and is a great space for dissecting the film you've just seen!

This is a Members-only social venue, available to various categories of Cambridge University staff,…read morealumni and graduate students, which is also occasionally hired out for events. There are bars upstairs and downstairs, and rooms that can be hired individually. The club's aim is to provide to all University staff: Good food, Inexpensive drinks, a friendly atmosphere, beer festivals & lots more! It has a reciprocal access arrangement for members of the University Centre. As a building, it's pretty basic: a two-storey functional brick exterior (easily the ugliest building on Mill Lane) which resembles a 1970s sports centre, with very limited access for those in wheelchairs. The interior is also pretty basic, with the feel of a 1980s student cafeteria. But it does provide cheap drinks and cafeteria-style food, in unpretentious surroundings, and is close to the attractive riverside walks along the Cam. Friendly staff, too.