Bar & Beyond Norwich in Norwich

Attended the fresher’s event, Bouncer knocking on toilet door and putting his foot inside. He left immediately after I’ve opened the door. Weirdest encounter I’ve experienced in a club 🫣

Horrible door staff ..I've also read the same reviews elsewhere...

I was with a group of friends and I was in smoking area and the I went to come back inside I was manhandled out by security who are absolutely disgusting. NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN!!!!!!!!

Belated birthday night out for my mate’s 24th thought we would give bar & beyond ago. Good music ted was beyond amazing as always. Shot girl was fantastic she has this dice game which me and my mates could not stop playing Think her name was Shauna she was truly lovely. Would definitely be back next month for my girlfriends birthday 🎂

So Enjoying 😉, I 'very golden memory I this pub

Felt my girlfriend up whilst she was passing, she wasn't evening trying to get in the club. I don't know what cowboys you have on the door but this is disgusting behaviour and not acceptable at all. Avoid at all costs

Good atmosphere, great cocktails

Bouncers are rude! It’s not safe for women! agressive and just disrespectful! do not go here

Silly women staff touching up other girls men’s when she tried to scam us with 3 for £15 shots. not happy at all!!!!!!!!!!

Horrible bouncer! Bouncer kicked me out the clu bc and claimed i was vomiting and when i asked them to show me where i supposedly vomited - floor was clean ! They had mistaken me for someone else! I asked them to check camera and they said they couldn’t be asked! I got kicked out and banned and when my friend questioned them he got banned for an additional 3 months! and i got banned for 1 month! Next time I went three weeks later, bouncer banned my friend for life! for attempting to come back and banned me!

Absolutely disgusting behaviour by doormen there friend had a seizure and was promptly man handled out of the door leaving one with bruising on her upper arm and a large bruise on her chest after which her along with one other friend was then assaulted by friends of the doorman who ejected us leaving one with a black eye and another with bruising under her chin, if it wasn’t for a security guard on the near by shop door intervening the situation could have well got out of hand as one friend was getting kicked in the head, police did nothing to intervene until the security guard at the shop alerted them to the situation… all this could have been prevented had the doormen at bar and beyond actually took the time to deal with the friend who had the seizure with a little compassion and understanding.

It was very good fun. The music was great. The smoking area js nice and quite big. The atmosphere was fun. The entree was not too expensive. The inside was quite big and there was an more space downstairs.

My girlfriends and I love a bottomless brunch, tried here for the first time, well..........there was no female toilets working so all ladies was given 1 disabled toilet to use (how this is legal in a club that holds 100's of people). There was 1 sever so drinks took ages, then was told that the toilets have damaged the kitchen and we won't be getting any food........! £25pp for pizzas and cocktails. We got 4 drinks. The only saving grace was the music/dj.

Beware.... If you are female avoid this place as you will be bullied by the doorstaff. Don't have ANY facial expressions that the doorstaff don't like .... eg rolling your eyes as you get barred. The doorstaff were extremely rude and aggressive to my Daughter and myself all because my Daughter rolled her eyes at her Sister. I questioned his threatening unjust behaviour towards her and he dragged me out of the club and barred me Other women have left reviews stating that the doormen have treated other women badly by bullying and disrespectful behaviour. Spend your money somewhere else where. No wonder this place has terrible reviews.

Beware.... If you are female avoid this place as you will be bullied by the doorstaff. Don't have ANY facial expressions that the doorstaff don't like .... eg rolling your eyes as you get barred. The doorstaff were extremely rude and aggressive to my Daughter and myself all because my Daughter rolled her eyes at her Sister. I questioned his threatening unjust behaviour towards her and he dragged me out of the club and barred me Other women have left reviews stating that the doormen have treated other women badly by bullying and disrespectful behaviour. Spend your money somewhere else where. No wonder this place has terrible reviews.

its not great, the staff are very rude and sassy. the music is also very repetitive, if you go each night, youll notice the music is the exact same.

Music isn’t great and very repetitive

The staff there were very friendly, beautiful outlay on the dance floor, and it’s decently priced! I would recommend if in Norwich and on a night out!

always feel welcomed when I go b&b, anderrsen always makes sure we get our drinks super quickly with a big smile:)x

My favourite and only place I go, cheap drinks and good atmosphere

my favourite place on prince of wales!! all staff who work here are lovely and look out for you! bouncers are friendly and fair! great music and drinks- great safe place to go :)

Best club in Norwich!! Favourite place to go

Great and cheap place to go to for a spontaneous night out, brunch’s are great quality and bar staff are excellent. Would recommend

Lovely staff, great vibes in the bar, love the Saturday brunches ( great value for money and great atmosphere)

Perfect atmosphere for a night out, staff really friendly and was able to get help from managers when there was an issue. Also later in the night the bouncers made me feel really safe and protected so no issues were caused. I only got two of the staffs names but they were very helpful Anderson and Brandon.

Favourite place to go on a saturday night!!

Good night out here. Anyone saying it’s dangerous should try going mantra instead. Staff are calm drinks are cheap 5/5

Seen door staff beaten up customers lately and report this to licensing today My solicitor seeking damages for me and other customers the venue need closing down this week

Good atmosphere, happy hour option fairly late in evening, mixed crowd

Don't go here unless you want to be violently attacked by bouncers or have your drink spiked by predators! So many women coming forward about this disgraceful place needs shutting down and the bouncers need arresting

Disgusting horrible place, security guards can’t do their job properly abuse the power they have and assault multiple individuals on multiple occasions clearly this club cares more about money then the saftey of their clients

I payed twice to get in!!??? Unfair losf so much money should pay me back for paying twice and robbing my money!!! Terrible awful bouncers??

This bar should be closed down! MULTIPLE people has had their drinks spiked, MULTIPLE people attacked by security staff who should be there to take care off their customers. Do you care to comment on several people having their drink spiked in your club? or being attacked by your security staff? AVOID AVOID AVOID!! Do not spend your money here & support a club that condones this behaviour… rotten to the core. Vulnerable women thrown out of the club by security whilst paralytic drunk (from being spiked) and not taken care off or made sure they’re safe! Ask the SOS bus yourselves, they’ll tell you that majority of their casualties come from Bar & beyond… what does that tell you about this establishment… disgusting!

To be quite frank, I didn’t even want to give the one star to this place. I truly believe that no female is safe in this bar and the staff/management choose to continue to support and turn a blind eye to the predatory behaviour of their male customers and allow the ongoing spiking within their bar. Myself and 6 friends visited this venue only to be verbally abused by a male customer within 5 minutes of arriving, undoing his belt and zip, walking towards us and asking us which one wants it first. This same male customer continued to harass us at our allocated table, knocking into us and trying to intimidate us, also going to our food and drinks when he thought none of us where watching. One of my friends finally called him out when he was caught at our table with our drinks again only for him to become verbally and physically abusive towards her. 3 of the girls where then removed while another found me and the rest of the group to inform us of what happened and that we were all being removed. One of the bouncers became frustrated at all of us for continuing to call out the male customer for being a predator and we knew what he had done, so the bouncer squared up to one of my friends and because she didn’t back down he launched at her dragging her back into the entrance and throwing her to the floor. His colleague then told him to get off her. We were then informed that the police had been called to come and deal with us. By this point the ‘predator’ had been allowed back into the bar to carry on his night while we were outside, not being supported or listened to and being told to leave or we would be arrested. So we waited for the police so that we could finally be heard…. This did not happen. They arrived and your bouncer claimed that my friend had attacked him and that’s why he assaulted her. All our statements were taken and the ‘predator’ was brought out by police and questioned. He laughed and joked with them. he then came and stood in the street right near all of us laughing with his mates not taking his eye off one girl in particular (the one who called him out) he then went back into the bar and we were told by police to leave prince of wales. We went to get food and a taxi, but by this point my friend who called out the ‘predator’ began to take a turn for the worse, unable to walk or talk, eyes rolling, body shaking, and in and out of consciousness…. She had been spiked. I came back to bar and beyond while the others stayed together keeping our friend awake and safe waiting for the ambulance. I wanted to make your bouncers aware of what had happened and not one of them apologised for not protecting her or for not believing us. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that had my friend been someone else on their own something so much worse would have happened to them and your establishment would have allowed it. You truly failed your female customers. 7 women telling your staff one of your male customers is not right and they chose to remove us and protect him. If all you care about is the money your establishment makes and not the safety of your customers who keep your business alive then you should not be running. We have always enjoyed coming to you on our nights out, but after this and now reading endless reviews, articles and Facebook comments about spiking and predatory behaviour, I can see that yours is not a safe place to be. As a group we have always stayed vigilant and always stayed in pairs if leaving the group for one reason or another and thank god for this. We all intend to take this as far as we can, and I hope you can understand why. Maybe it is time for you to see past the money and see the human beings behind it that you have failed and put in clear danger. Shape up or shut down.

NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN in this venue. A family member had her drink spiked and A&E advised they have had numerous girls with the same issue from this bar. It sounds like the bouncers and management are making this place a safe haven for predators and abusers. I would urge anyone who has had this problem or worse at this bar to please report it to the police, the licencing dept at Norwich City Council and local media. It needs to be shut down.

Think I lost my ID so if anyone finds it, let me know...that's my review!

The bouncers would not allow me to see my girlfriend, despite her being assaulted (punched in the face, and given a black eye) as they were/are too self obsessed

B&b used to be my safe social place for me and my friends but now it makes me uncomfortable, the new staff (security) will try pull you aside for a “quick chat” and sometimes find an excuse to knock on your bathroom toilet door to ask for your snap, i miss the old staff and security i made friends and had fun with the old staff of bar and beyond but now it’s not a place I want to return to for fun or to make friends, was a great experience before but it’s just a shag shack now

Didn't have any food there, but drinks were great. Served within 2 mins even when it's busy, and it's a great place to let loose and hang out with friends

Please be careful of your drinks. Spent part of my evening in the SOS bus then blue light to A&E. Was fine one minute, then unconscious. I was lucky to be looked after as was with my husband and friends. Am only putting this post on so this doesn't happen to youngsters who might end in a far worse situation. Please be careful.

Tried to go on a Halloween night out and waited almost 50 mins in pouring rain to get be told by a bouncer that we are unlikely to get in. Tried to contact bar and beyond and got no response. Awful service.

Got thrown out due to being ‘drunk’ I literally sat down at a table after dancing then got told to leave. They had a massive queue outside and in my view they wanted space as I was being sensible and no longer drinking! Money grabbing idiots!

The service here has been awful as we were in a group of 3 and yet the waiter only served 2 of us, when the food eventually arrived it was cold and soggy, there is also barely any variety. The portion sizes are tiny as we only got 2 pizzas for the 3 of us. The glasses we were given also appeared to be dirty. The waiters were seen touching costumers throughout the night and also dancing instead of serving people. The music was also way too loud for a place to eat, we could not hear eachother or the waiter at all throughout the night. The waiter also completely disregarded my friends allergies and refused to check the ingredients in a drink despite her asking numerous times. It was way too overpriced, loud and disgusting.

Very disappointed. We booked tickets for a Halloween event. But unfortunately we can't get in . We was waiting outside nearly 2 hours in rain but quee even doesn't go forward. And no money back .

Great party venue, fantastic atmosphere

Nice bar, no trouble, staff and doorstaff very nice people.

Had poor night here, bouncers chuck you out because they have lots people outside waiting, they approach u saying want a word outside walk to door and don’t let u in again, waste of money

Got threatened to be stabbed and bouncers did essentially nothing about it , I will never go back and hope others choose not too.

Unfortunately a scuffle occurred, but instead of the bouncers trying to resolve and calm the situation down, they were doing the best they could to hurt people, I saw one bouncer hit a guy and then stand over him while on the floor stating 'that's what you deserve'. I wouldn't go back here as I wouldn't feel safe with this sort of practice.

Special mention to Anderrsen for being a cheerful Bar man and making lovely drinks.

Anderrsen is a very joyful bartender and is very quick in serving drinks

Clubbing's not my thing - but to be fair it was pretty lively for like 8pm when we went there. We stayed for a long while, and the DJs did a decent enough job. Odd choices in music sometimes but.. fine

Great atmosphere, just wish they would play a mixture of music. Ie some older songs

Brilliant place to go if you want the bouncers with little man syndrome to grab you and put your arms behind your back and escort you out for no reason what so ever! When asked reason they say nothing!! If your gonna man handle someone who is standing there doing nothing at least give a reason! Just jobs worths who don't like the look of someone so act like they are in a higher job position then what they are....

Great place for a night out, great vibe and choice of music

I've been to Bar & Beyond a few times recently but the vibe in there last night was amazing. Load of people in there, all singing and dancing - it was everything! Thank you!

Always a good laugh, wasn't too hot or cold either. I would recommend the Frozés as they are a nice unusual drink. Good to get in on happy hour so it keeps the price down. Would always come back

Brilliant places, and atmosphere amazing, bar staff are brilliant and very cheeky, music bit old school could do with updating, other than that wouldn't fault it

Me and my sister went out on a Saturday and it's was a great experience! Busy af!! Drunk guys broke into a fight and the staff ran straight to sort it and was over and the people were out, after that the dj brought the vibe back straight away! The Dj also needs a raise, join the crowd and if was fun from when we got there at 10:30 till close. Drink expensive but its a club, you'd expect it. Keep it up :3

Great prices, atmosphere and feel

Amazing night out here ..need to update happy hour details though as we were confused by this ...staff are energetic and fun ..love it here ☺️

was having a great night until blonde lady bouncer picked on my friend and couldn’t handle her good vibes.

Lively club. Nice flowing music! Never a dull moment. Massive smoking area with large sitting.... The club has got it all....

Great experience from going here for the first time xx planning another night in February

Nice bar plenty of space to move about drinks reasonably priced

Awful empty place! Smelt of sick

Not bad. But the bar staff were so unnecessarily rude. Asking for ice and some lime I felt like I’d just paid for my drinks with a bag of pennies

Sing outside on the night of the football advertising half price drinks till 10pm, but once you were inside, they put small poster on the bar saying half price drinks till 7pm. Absolutely disgusting to draw you in like that and then up the price. Also paid £5.50 for the fan zone for the foot ball but screen in rubbish place, and had to watch from the back of the screen. Won't use this place again 😞

Amazing night club. Loved the dj

Had a Halloween party spent here. Got VIP table with my friends, paid for it and had random people coming to have a drink from my table and nobody told anything for that. At the end my boyfriend just got kicked out for no reason what so ever.... Security and staff is ridiculous and definitely not gonna go back. Avoid as much as possible 😀

Lovely place! Absolutely would recommend it to anyone.

The venue is nice with a great layout and a some fun extras for a night out. The staff were friendly and up for a laugh. Unfortunately the Bottomless Brunch was a bad experience. Our slot was 6-7.30pm and our server didn't come over between 6.50-7.32pm (despite our attempts to attract attention and even asking if a glass collector could let him know we were waiting) but then our slot time was obviously up. Hiding from us for 40mins was in our opinion seriously out of order.

I went to bat and beyond for one of my first bottomless lunches and OMG…I can not fault it the staff were amazing and as we went to the 3pm till half 4 sitting drinks were constantly coming out when asking for another drink they would make and bring straight away and the staff were very helpful as none of me and my friends had been before but we are definitely planning to go again and can not wait x

Cool venue and bar staff are great, but the DJ are defo stuck in the past with the music. Such as shame as could be very cool and more current with students if they didn't keep playing the same playlists. Maybe theme nights would go down well? Like if you're hiring a DJ you should expect them to work, no? Just playing the same playlists they always do, anyone can do that borrringgg

Came for my friends birthday, absolute waste of time booking this brunch deal, got given 4 glasses of cocktails out of the whole 2 hours ( even though your time slot is 1 1/2 hours) this is how slow the service was! When we was there.. and for a group of six you can imagine the drinks we got wasn’t lasting long.. bar staff just didnt care, the young waiter was the only decent bloke ( who brought us our food).. not worth the £27 odd at all, the pizza was Chicago town frozen special pizza! Not even offered the vegetarian option! we only ate them as we had all waited all day to eat at the brunch, drink had a fly in it which is an easy issue to fix, we left disappointed because of how long we was having to wait and not even being acknowledge by the staff or looked after was a real shame.. really wouldn’t recommend wasting time or money coming here!! Do not book brunch at bar and beyond!

I visited a few years ago and it took around 25 minutes to be served and the staff were very rude. Decided to visit today to try again as thought my past experience might have been a one off. Waited another 15-20 minutes at the bar to order 2 pink gin crushes. The girl at the bar told us she didn’t know how to make them, so we were better off going to the other end of the bar to try with a different bar tender. Didn’t want to wait another 15-20 minutes to order our first drink so left to go elsewhere. Won’t try again.

Absolutely disgustingly rude bouncers - I was out with a few friends and we normally stick to tombland bars (well we will in future and I recommend you do too). The queue was really long so me and another friend left to see how big other queues were as one of us has a disability which means it’s difficult to stand for long periods of time. Upon returning to rejoin our friends we were told we had to get to the back even though we were with two others In the queue. The bouncer then was extremely rude and forced my friends to leave the queue also and muttered ‘spoilt f***ing brats’. He then proceeded to get up in my face swearing at me after I called him out for being rude. I wasn’t even drinking and felt threatened by his aggressive behaviour. 0/10 do not go to this bar unless you want to be treated like you’re worthless.

Great night with friends. The seating area outside was nice and the music was good.

Like the poster below. Went to bottomless brunch on Saturday. Was absolutely shockingly organised and understaffed. Having spend over £300 on tickets feel it is a complete disgrace 3 drinks in the whole hour, one of which we didn't even want just given a random drink. Food was disgusting and inedible. Waitress was extremely rude to customers. Will not be returning.

Went here for a lady gaga themed “bottomless”brunch. The word bottomless should certainly not be included in the advertising of this event; whilst it was meant to be bottomless for an hour, I didn’t receive my first drink til 12:15 (and this was one I hadn’t even ordered). I was then told at 1pm the hour had finished. Having tried to go to the bar, I was told it was table service only. At no point within the hour was I asked what drink I’d like or to choose one from their bottomless brunch menu; I was simply handed 2 random cocktails. At 12:45 I asked for another drink as had been without one for a while; it wasn’t until 1:10pm when I had to go to the bar and inform them that I still hadn’t got one, before being handed a bottle of WKD with no apology. 3 drinks (at a push), and no choice from the ‘menu’, is definitely not what I would class as a bottomless brunch, and should no way be advertised as one.

Cocktails are great, and good air con 👌

Great race if you want dance and cheap drinks to

Spike Chapman. Do the electro shuffle

Great spot for cheesy tunes and getting a few drinks in you before heading to the main motive. Good variety, good sizes, and very tasty too! Service wasn't so long considering how popular (at 50%, what else can you expect!). Glad I made a stop to fuel up on a night out

Nice place for afternoon cocktails during happy hour but I don't want to be there during the night, way to big for me.

Such a vibe and really good music

Very nice place and tasty coctails

Nice atmosphere and very good layout. With the dance area at the back with the bar in the middle, it separates the club into almost two rooms which I thought was very well laid out. Also the drink prices were reasonable in my opinion which is also a bonus. Friendly staff too which is always a win in my eyes. Will no doubt be coming again.

Actually pretty good. Not been in there since it was Chicagos.

The music was the only positive, the cocktails were not very nice and the bar staff could have been friendlier. The manager clearly wasn’t very well, kept coughing in her hand then served my drink. Not happy when I asked for a new one - especially considering we are post covid?! Asked for and paid for a Bacardi rum and the bar staff became very argumentative when they served me a different rum and I complained, advising me they don’t have Bacardi but was happy to charge me for one! Seemed like a nice bar and with good music, shame the staff were miserable! Won’t be back…

Not best club in town, decent drinks

Expensive for a bar with dirty sofas and pizza crusts on tables

When I enter this place firstly, I was thinking that was a bar only. However, it impressed me that I found that it is a club if you walk inside. Nice place with music for people to drink and dance.

Always dead, more staff than customers. If it does get busy its the usual chavs of POW road.

Great staff drinks abit expensive but I guess every where prices are going up alot off fun and spacious place to dance around

Not the best club in Norwich but its always a good night and felt safe which is good!

Lucky I didn't end up a Jane Doe. Only place I've ever been escorted out from. With no explanation from the bouncer... All this without a coat, in winter and without my other belongings (such as wallet or phone as left it with one of my friends inside for safety- no pockets). Nice way to treat a young woman, out into the street without anything to keep them warm in the middle of winter and no means to get home or contact their friends.

From what I remember it was a great night!

It's a good bar and lovely people just dont like the fact that I cant wear cargo trousers due to it being smart casual but they were smart cargo trousers.

Had a great time! Brianna (i think was her name!) was so nice on the door! I lost my phone and she was super helpful and nice! People on the bar were also really nice and friendly!