The Southbank Bar - Nottingham City in Nottingham

I really like this bar and my wife and I go there quite frequently. The bar has a very wide range of age groups and is welcoming to all. We are both ‘pensioners’ but always feel very welcome, unlike at some places where we’ve been turned away for being too old !! I was in there last night with my wife. It was late and the staff called last orders so we drank up and I ordered an Uber. One of the staff came over and told us they were closing. As it was a very cold night, I asked if we could wait for the Uber inside and I showed him on my phone that it was 2 minutes away. He said that we had to wait outside in the cold. I’ve given the bar four stars because our previous experiences have been very good but this was an example of really thoughtless customer service.

Great place, there was a brilliant band playing while we were there.

Love this bar its genuinely great in so many ways, but the toilets are absolutely disgusting, absolutely stinks of black mould and stale urine. Its not customers being unclean, it's a lack of upkeep and care on the staff and management's parts. Really needs sorting.

Great location band play that night enjoy the atmosphere

Absolutely no complaints, have frequented for many Euros games and the team here have been so welcoming to all nations. Great food, Great service, Great bar

I visited south bank and the bouncers are so inappropriate. They made rude comments and asked me me to give them cash on entry. I’ve been a customer here for about 6/7 years and never been approach in this way. I asked on the door if it was tickets only and they said no, so I asked what the cash was needed for and he implied that it was for himself. This is so out of order and needs to be sorted and I will take this higher if I need to.

📣NOT RECOMMENDED I don’t prefer leaving negative reviews but had to for this one. This is the worst racism I’ve felt in the last 3 years of me being in England. I had visited this bar to watch the T20 Cricket World Cup Finals (India Vs South Africa) and like any other sport fan, we were cheering for our team. In the last over, a member of staff visited us to say ‘we understand your excitement but please keep it low’ to which we agreed but the other member of staff just went and switched off our screens just in the last ball so that we are unable to watch the match. This is not what you expect in a Sports Bar. It’s a sports bar for a reason, and I am very sure that just a few people are not as loud.

Came to watch the England match yesterday - excellent experience. Really well organised, lots of screens and a big screen, good selection of beers and fantastic and friendly table service. Well done!

Once again absolutely 1st class from the team here . Did VIP at recent event & worth every penny Great food great staff & great entertainment as always.

Brilliant service, food, beer and music…. A1 bar! Great value, friendly staff, loads of sports screens and unbelievably good indie vibes !! Every town and city should have a Southbank bar

Nice sports bar! If you want to watch a game the atmosphere is great.

Paige and Co are an absolute dream, I couldn't imagine going anywhere else for an after work pint💕xxx

Great happy hour promotion good competent staff 😀

Kicked out for sheltering from the cold when the bar was empty, zero customer service despite the fact I’ve been here nd spent hundreds before on food and drinks previously. Poor customer service, zero empathy. You get what you reap. Train your staff to be decent people not just NPCs looking for sales when the bar is empty. “You’re costing us heating” - you’re just an NPC mate.

Reserved a table for the Rugby match. Was seated downstairs (an area we never knew existed) didn't eat, hence no score. Staff were friendly and service was excellent, especially considering how busy it was

Watched the Six Nation 3 games, and didn't have to leave my seat.. brilliant day 😀

Top Notch Service on Saint Patrick's Day......plenty of staff on the day......served within seconds every time.....great atmosphere as well ...... Excellent

Not been in for few months wish I never did smell of the mens toilets was discusting, even standing at the bar the smell was over whelming gone down hill not be going again don't know how anyone could consider eating in such a dump 😝

Same happy faces on both sides of the bar with a few new ones too. Nice to see some new staff though... Always my happy place in Nottingham

Good sports bar, great food and beer selection! All the sports and lots of booths with TV screens.

Excellent food and drink, very affordable, great student discounts and deals, lovely staff and great atmosphere. Highly recommend! 😊

Fantástico lugar para ver fútbol

Staff are so nice, service is super fast, lovely cocktails, student prices, great fries, great atmosphere, clean and comfortable 😃

Just went for a drink, 30 %off drinks Good value

Went to southbank for Christmas eve .had a fab nite Thank you to our waiter and and a special mention to Cameron..

Came here for a birthday, great night out

Beer, Food & footie, with other sports going on, screens all around. Live bands too.

We use this place 4 to 5 times a year to watch F1. The staff and management are fantastic. Great hospitality and can accommodate any sized party. We also have our annual Christmas F1 dinner here and this year it was the best we've ever had. The food was delicious and well portioned. We'll do guys and see you soon.

Visited Saturday 25/11/23 circa 5pm. Was incredibly busy in there. The place had changed significantly since last visited. Not the cosmetics or the bar etc, more the vibe and the people in there. Felt off and we couldn’t wait to get out, felt like it was about to “kick off” The bar staff very efficient and quick service, the toilets are an area for improvement - ie refill toilet roll and clean more regularly

Good bar located in city centre, good for sports with lots of screens throughout. Table service which was a nice touch, friendly staff, nice food with reasonably priced drinks.

Never been here before and I'm fairly certain I won't be going back

Great place for food sports and beer

Great music live band, Brilliant atmosphere. Still brilliant bar. All ages. Will be visiting again soon.

Football was on, good vibe. Service was good and beer was cold. Plenty of choice

Went to see a live band. The sound was great. Everyone was having a great time. The toilets were clean. A better selection of real ale would've been great.

Great atmosphere and much better in here than expected. Arrived around 10pm and there was a band on who were great. This place is a hidden gem to me!

Too noisy, different sports on different TV,s blaring out and having to shout to one another over it.Have 1 sport on at a reasonable sound level is my opinion.

Great night with Lee Wood. Great service with good food. This place is so well run and the staff are amazing

Lovely bar good service good selection of beers and spirits and very spacious and happy hour 5 till 7 made us very happy 😊

Happy friendly staff, very appreciated of their service.

Excellent going out, good music and nice singers

Great Staff. Good food. Nice selection of Beers.

Good service. Large projector screen for football lovers as well as two other television screens.

So friendly and an amazing atmosphere 🤩 I'm from Birmingham and was a random night out with a friend who lives in Nottingham, will definitely be back soon 🙌🏻💃🏻

Fantastic atmosphere for sports fans, but pleasant enough for non sport related nights. The beer isn’t lavishly expensive (though it would be a lie to say it’s cheap), but the biggest pleasant surprise one might find is just how wonderful their cocktails are. Their food is also top notch by pub standards.

Went there on st. Patrick's Day it was packed solid managed to get a table

Brilliant customer service and delicious food. Thank you so much Brendon for your amazing service and for taking care of us and thank you to the chefs, too!

Had a great St Patrick’s day, Thanks to all the staff.

Live music on St Patrick's day was cool. Check out the Live stream in YouTube. The channel is @thewaterboyuk

Great for watching sports. Excellent staff. Good atmosphere

Travelled to Nottingham for the Superbowl and was really impressed by the event, the table had a great view of multiple screens and the service supplied for food and drink was excellent and the food was of good quality. Definitely met all expectations and would look to go back next year.

Came here for the Wales V England game and the service was very good and very attentive. However, we ordered food and whilst the rest of it was very tasty, the 'hot one' burger was disastrous. I have hot things before but this burger was inedible... I did ask the waitress if we could change it to which she said no as we'd have to pay for another meal... Upon hearing this I then asked if there is anything they could do and she said "there isn't im afraid but these burgers always get taken back because of how hot they are". No warning of the extreme heat of the burger, and it led to quite a dissapinting experience. Even the staff know it isn't right and yet they couldn't do anything about it... Good experience for our group dampened by the hot one experience 🙃

Great for football. Beer & Food such good value and tasty, especially the burgers, loaded fries and pizza 😋

Bustling and busy but with plenty of things to do - live music and bar games etc.

Fantastic experience. Came in before the Forest game, had a lovely breakfast and many beers. I think our server was Allison? She was excellent! Lovely, really friendly and very attentive. Quite a large group of us and she constantly kept on top of our orders. Can’t wait to return!

for price of drinks i was expecting so much more than i get. in really nice cocktail places You will pay same and definitely will get better quality of drinks, customer service with same price. only reason we might be back is many TV screens for sports events.

Without doubt the best sports bar in the city, TV and screen coverage upstairs and downstairs is exceptional. The staff are always welcoming, definitely know their stuff and that includes the door staff who make the place feel secure. There is a massive selection of beers, real ales and top shelf shorts. The food is very good and the menu is wide spread to accommodate all tastes I’ve been here on a few occasions and would recommend this over and over again

Sunday afternoon 5/6 Nottingham City Centre was surprisingly empty, dropped in to watch the Wales v Ukraine match, Blue Moon & fruit cider, used my Nottingham Forest Season Ticket to obtain a 40% discount off food, classic burger/sweet potato fries & loaded chicken tenders/fries food was very good & well presented, total bill with two rounds of drinks £36.

One of my favourite nottingham bars, sometimes travel here from derby to watch the football as its got a great atmosphere which didn't disappoint on new years eve. Plenty of room despite being fairly busy served pretty quick staff friendly as usual decent music look forward to my next visit

It's been 2 years since dining here, due to my location and also Covid. So it was a great delight to lunch here with my Daughter and my son-in-law. They both had wraps, I had, for the second time, the HOT HOT HOT Burger, which to be fair was hit but not painfully so. We watched football on the TV and had a memorable lunch. Everyone enjoyed the food, service and atmosphere. So much so that I forgot to take pics of the food. But it was lovely. Had the pleasure of meeting the best pub manager in Nottingham yesterday.

Their Buffalo wings are apparently a ‘home recipe’ I’m not sure how cheese sauce is a home buffalo sauce. I’ve eaten buffalo sauce all I’ve the world and this was the absolute worst. Horrendous.

What a terrible experience!!! We went her today watch the England game on Saturday and the whole experience was appalling. The burgers were cremated, one person didn’t even eat there’s at all because it was that bad and the others only had a few bites and couldn’t have anymore because of how burnt it was. Worst food we’ve ever had and when we raised this with the staff on multiple occasions we was ignored. Eventually One staff member when taking the food away at the end of the match asked why we left the meal and when explained she said she would get the manager but again nothing was done and it was just ignored. This was poor service and will definitely not be returning. I understand the pub was busy because of the game but for £20 you would expect more than a cremated burger that wasn’t even edible and then go be ignored by staff members is just unacceptable.

We booked a table for 6 on a Tuesday evening and were allowed to keep the table as long as we liked. We all had food and drinks and were ordering at different times (some arrived late) however nothing was too much trouble for our servers, the food was fantastic and the service was great, prices were all also very reasonable, There was a good selection of beers and wine and cocktails. will definitely return soon.

Rude staff that avoided eye contact with you if they couldn’t be bothered to serve you. Nice atmosphere and covering but really poor service wouldn’t come again

Sunday 1st November, covid friendly, took table for two, Navigation American IPA was excellent & old mout pineapple bottled cider, due to tier 3 restrictions meal ordered, bourbon melt burger & SBFC chicken burger with fries & slaw food served hot & surprisingly good, football was on the big screens, good atmosphere, food with 3 rounds of drinks £48.

Went here Saturday before a match and everything was just fantastic. Staff, atmosphere and pints were all top class. TVs everywhere and just perfect. Can't wait to go back again.

Not a lover of big menus as a rule. Less is more for me. The GNI group have several outlets that are more refined than here. Its saving grace is that it does a really good all-day breakfast. And of course, superb GNI ales. Always call in when were in the City.

Thank you to the bar staff at Southbank. They went out of their way to look after myself and my son - he is at Loughborough Uni but we decided to meet up for a few hours to watch the football. Great hospitality and service thank you.

Not been in for a while after a fall out over the non use of a sparkler on the hand pulled beers, asked the barman for a pint of today’s best selling cask ale, ended up with a crisp hoppy Fullers six nations beer Swing Low, nice pint & fruit cider, caught the first half of the Watford v Chelsea game on the big screens, I’m still blocked from their Twitter account ☹️

Cheap drinks and food, friendly staff and quick service. Good quality food as well. Great venue to watch sports too.

I’ve not eaten the non-Smiffy’s food here, but his BBQ is incredible. Awesome portion sizes and decent prices. Plus they also deliver. The baby back ribs are to die for. The meat just falls off the bone. Go there. Now.

Very attentive staff, great number of sport screens and tasty quality food. However the rancid wee smell from the gents was hideous!

Called in with a friend for lunch and a pint. Ale and lagers were nice. Food not so much. I had the dirty dog. Innovative name, but that was as good as it got. Quite tasteless, bland even. The sausage was burnt on one side. Obviously cooked without turning.Will visit again, but not for food.See photo.

IN the city centre you have a lot of choices were to spend your beer or shorts money and this fine establishment should be on your list, visited before Xmas for a drinks.

Six of us met up for a liquid tour of GNI inns around Nottingham. Not very busy. Enjoyed beer, company and great laughs.

Visited The Southbank to watch Forest v Derby, it was our first time to watch a game here and the atmosphere wad awesome. I can imagine for most big events especially boxing the place would be bouncing.

Only visited for a drink, food menu and what we saw delivered to some tables looked good, good choices of alcohol, great staff, reasonable well maintained, well worth a pint.

Piss all over the floor every time, complained everytime about having to stand in urine everytime i need the loo, but tjey just arnt bothered. Worse toilets in Nottingham!!!!

Sine smokers became popular in England so many places gave started doing smoked bbq food some great some fantastic some try to hard a day so e have no idea, this place is almost there staff friendly and helpful after meal manager /chef/owner came over to check on us food was so so close jalapeño cornbread nearly there burnt ends were as they should be onion rings need to be smaller with less batter and more onion. My friend said chilli was too hot but I found it just right just feel they are so close to being a proper smoked bbq place. Would visit again

Este sitio es un bar donde ponen partidos de fútbol mientras comes o tomas algo. El ambiente es muy agradable y el servicio excelente. La brownie lasagna es espectacular, hay que probar este postre tan increíble. Los precios son moderados. Muy céntrico.

Always a favourite place to hang at, authentic american smoke food bring your plenty of portions for your buck! Beers are great, cocktail deals all day and sports programmes on all around the restaurant / bar, what more do you need?!

Called in for lunch with a mate of mine. Place was virtually empty. No sport on tv.

Called in on a Saturday lunchtime for a couple of drinks, hadn't been in before. Really impressed with the layout of the place, tables not on top of each other and my other half was absolutely delighted at the mini screens showing Sky Sports in the eating booths.There were lots of large TV's showing different sports channels which was the main reason we went in. The guy behind the bar couldn't have been more friendly. I asked for a glass of water as well as our drinks so that I could take a tablet and he was more than willing to oblige.Plenty of staff available which we liked as there is nothing more annoying than a bar having one person serving. We didn't eat but looked at the menu with a view to doing this next time we visit. Will definitely be drinking (and possibly eating) here again next time we visit the city.

Great spot for watching big sports events (Euros/World Cup, etc.) with the big screen in the middle. Food is fine but nothing to write home about.

went last night.we had a few pints of doombar.very good and well kept.burgers not cooked well in middle of burger.chips ok coleslaw not nice. staff friendly.

We came to watch the FA cup final and even though it was very busy there was still a fantastic table service. Staff are very friendly. Very well layed out for sports with plenty of large screen tv's. I had a pizza which was really tasty. So was the brunette.

What the management at soutbaek seem to misunderstand is that if you are to raise your prices, then you also aspire to increase quality, of both food and service, which has clearly not been achieved. Whereas before you could leave Southbank a satisfied customer, after receiving low-medium quality food, you would be subsidised by the low prices, however, the recent price hike, leaves one wondering why anyone would wish to eat there, with the quality of food remaining low but the prices now much higher, a great shame, and I will not be returning

Ate like a pit boss tonight but regrettably, in Man v Food......food won!

The only reason I'll be back here is because I have 50% off from being at uni. If you're thinking about paying full price for food here, don't. Worst hot wings and mushy peas ever. The fish and chips otherwise was ok and the cocktails were good, had them at happy hour. Bartenders are incredibly nice though, makes my heart warm just thinking about them. I'll be back on live music night

Spent New Year’s Eve here with family. Really good atmosphere, nice staff , good live music and fun was had by all. Definitely would recommend it.

We attended last night to see Urban Intro perform their charity gig and had an amazing night. The service from the staff at Southbank was excellent very attentive and the food was great. The crowd really got into the spirit of the evening the music was fantastic and a great venue.

We visited here and ordered off the Christmas menu. The table was decorated and we had crackers which was great. We had our own private booth with TV. Food was great and loads of it. Staff were helpful and friendly

It probably won't be everybody's cup of tea....but I really like it. It's a proper town centre bar. I counted knocking on the door of a dozen large screens showing sport, and a nice touch is many of the table/booths had their own smaller screen. There's a pool table & a dart board (as long as nobody is munching at the adjacent table). Unlike a lot of similar establishments there's decent ale as well as the lagers. I didn't eat there, but watched the grub coming out to those who did.....and it looked yummalicious! Staff were friendly and it does what it does very well!

Sunday afternoon 3/12 dropped in to watch the Man City v West Ham match, plus the WIFI is very good so Mrs Red tells me? The Navigation traditional best bitter "PATRIOT" is also one of my favourites, we had no plans to eat here, but after getting settled & 2 & 3 rounds more of drinks we spontaneously decided to eat here, spicy chicken burger & fries & grilled chicken wrap served with veggie crips both served in a metal tray, happy to report the food was very very good for a pub. Food about £15. Not sure why but I've been blocked from their Twitter account?

I ve been here with my boyfriend to eat lunch.

Pleased to report that our second visit....was not a disappointment, good food, great range of wine & beers spot on for a family group with ages ranging from 17 to 70+ in a very relaxing atmosphere...Great...we were looked after by Hannah & Eleanor they were simply.... Fab-u-lous great friendly & helpful service.

Right next to bus stops on friar lane and market square south bank has a fantastic team of staff food is lovely there steaks are cooked to perfection,big TVs on the wall even have a stage for live music,great selection of drinks and great prices would highly recommend.great meal and great night.

This was our 1st visit. This bar is busy but has a great feel to it. Great prices. Food looked really nice and the portion sizes looked a good size. There's a games seating area to play not sure if it was Xbox or PlayStation. Can recommend and we will go back in.

As a family we all met at The Southbank Bar for drinks & food all six of us...young & old..from teenagers to pensioners. We had a smashing eating early all done by 7pm. it was great...excellent food served quickly, great range of drinks for all tastes & ages....along with great value for money. We were looked after by Tyler he was superb...friendly, polite & very professional and great fun, he made the evening for all of us, thank you Tyler.....as Arnie famously said...."Il be back"...... can't wait. Cheers from "The Millers & The Boaden's"

It's very rare to find a true sports bar in the UK. Most bars who offer sports show football and freak out if you ask for anything else. I am a huge tennis fan and was hoping to watch some of the US Open. When I walked in with my friends we went straight to the bar and the barmaid had no problem in changing some of the screens around the pub to the Eurosport channel. We sat in a booth and there was a small tv which was perfect to watch the tennis while we ate and drank. I can also say the food is absolutely amazing and the portion sizes are perfect. There seem to be great deals on all the time and I can honestly say it's one of the best bars in Nottingham!