146-148 Gibraltar Street
Kelham Island
Sheffield
S3 8UB
0114 275 5959
shakespearesorders@gmail.com
Traditional Town Pub
Shakespeare’s calls itself a premium craft beer specialist and you can’t really argue with that. As of November 2026 reckon they to have sold over 9000 different cask beers since 2011 and around 3000 different keg beers (the latest numbers are on a blackboard in the front bar). The house beer is Abbeydale Deception and there are six changing cask beers, mainly from northern breweries. There are 6 craft keg taps and the house lager is the excellent Tegernsee from Germany. And if that’s not enough there’s a huge selection of canned and bottled beers. The pub has frequent tap takeovers, sometimes combined with a Meet the Brewers event, and they hold other varied beer events throughout the year.
Shakespeare’s has been a top live music venue for many years and there are acts most nights with bands in the room upstairs, and it puts on its own mini music festival, Shakelines each July.
It was built as a coaching inn in 1821, and after a few refurbs it still has several rooms. It was owned by longstanding Sheffield brewery Wards for many years and their name can still be seen on the upper wall outside and in the nice stained glass window in the front right bar. There are lots of old brewery posters, trays and beermats on the walls, and antique items include a jukebox and old handpumps. In the old tap room at the front there is an elegant grandfather clock.
It’s almost compulsory for a Sheffield pubs to have a gable end mural and Shakespeares doesn’t disappoint. Theirs is by UK based French artist Florence Blanchard.
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