CAMRA Pub of the Year 2024 Cambridge and District
This small, two-room city-centre pub has a truly friendly atmosphere. It's one of the four remaining pubs on the infamous King Street Run pub crawl, which involved a pint in each of the eight pubs with no lavatory stop. The oarsman after whom the pub is named is commemorated in the fine etched windows. Both bars are wood-panelled with Victorian counters, fixed benches and a part-glazed partition between the rooms. It is on the National Inventory as having a historic pub interior of regional importance. The humour and chatter of customers predominates. You know you're in Cambridge when you see the adverts to view University Challenge here. The ales from Greene King and its guest list are very well kept. Pub snacks, including pork pies and scotch eggs, available. Cheese & crackers on Sunday at 5.
There is step-free access to the bar but no accessible WC.
Greene King Beer Pub of the Year 2022.
Awards
- Cambridge & District CAMRA Pub of the Year 2024
- Cambridgeshire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2024
Late Night Venue – Joint Winner of the Year 2024
Mystery Shop Awards 2024
The Cambridge BID Awards are an annual initiative which recognise and reward those businesses that are delivering outstanding customer service. Cambridge BID works with mystery shop experts Storecheckers, to deliver an annual mystery shop project, offering participating businesses the opportunity to receive feedback on the experience customers have with them. The project delivers detailed mystery shop feedback for nearly 100 businesses across a range of sectors.
Cambridge BID Award winners are decided based on the results of the mystery shop visits - winners have all achieved the highest mystery shop scores across a number of different categories.
Our Mystery Shopper said: “I would be more than happy to return to the pub as I felt welcomed and well served at all times. I was left feeling that I would be happy to become a regular visitor and that I could be part of a community by doing so.”
Awards. This is where we show off how freakin' cool we are.
Greene King Beer Pub of the Year 2022
Pub of the Year 2022
At the Champ we pride ourselves on the quality of our beer and we can confidently say that you won't find better kept beer in Cambridge.
Want more proof, though? We're the Greene King Beer Pub of the Year, 2022, beating out over 3,100 other Greene King pubs!
We're also listed in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2022. Out of more than 50,000 pubs in Britain, only 4,500 (just 9%) of the finest outlets for real ale are chosen for inclusion in the Good Beer Guide. Pubs in the Guide are chosen by local CAMRA members who go through a rigorous process to ensure only the best pubs are selected.
But the proof is in the pudding, so if you want to know quite how good our beer is then you'll just have to come in and taste it! In the meantime, you can find the full selection below.