The BitterSuite in Lichfield

Went to the opening night. The place was full, but service was quick and friendly and the beer was excellent. We've been regulars ever since - Monday quiz nights are fun!

Good selection of beers. Good table service.

Couple of minutes walk from the city centre. Real/cask ale mecca with friendly table service. Other beers and ciders, too! Occasional food for special events, not been to one yet, though. They're are happy for you to take your own food in at other times and will even supply cutlets and napkins! Usual snacks available.

What’s a fabulous bar , first visit to see poet Andy Gilbert , but have to say the staff are fabulous so helpful atomosphere is great a must visit

Great little cask ale micropub. Friendly staff who serve you at your table.

Excellent ale and ambiance. No food eaten.

Good quality beer. Quiet. Friendly staff.

This is an absolute gem of a pub! The beer choice is great and invariably very well kept, but it is the staff that make this place truly exceptional. The friendly welcome and caring engagement make for a wonderful atmosphere. Be aware that you are able to take in your own food - fish&chips from Seftons, curry from Two Chefs.

Fantastic pub. My favourite in Lichfield. Amazing selection of real ale and cider, table service, dog friendly. What more could you ask for!

Great atmosphere choice of beers. Good choice of spaces. Staff service very attentive

Great bar to visit if you are in Litchfield. The bar staff are pleasant and very knowledgeable.

Great range of beers, cracking service and always a lovely friendly atmosphere

Very different place. They have a great variety of beers.

Real ales and beers, fab ciders +++ No TV, no music (occasionally live music). Kid, dog and cycle friendly. Excellent beer garden. Superb staff! Keep up the good work.

This really is my favourite 'local', family-owned and a real effort is made to make everyone welcome. Two bars, you can take in your own food even (chippy over the road) and they will supply cutlery/plates. Spot on! Good choice of artisan beers and ciders from the cask, wine for wine-drinkers. Beers and ciders change regularly, there is also a quiz night, music nights and dogs are welcomed. When I go back to Lichfield this is my first stop off point, great group of 'locals' too.

Great service and selection of alcohol

Great place. Amazing beer and you can bring fish and chips from the brilliant chippie opposite

I really like the nontraditional style of this pub/bar, with table service and a grungy outdoor style. I didn't eat there, but went for a drink with friends. Good selection of beers, live music and very warm welcome from the owner.

Cosy friendly little bar, usually 5 real ales on and 5 ciders plus Gin cocktails selection. Note opening hours, not open midday in the week. Worth a visit especially for those looking for a real ale selection or real cider from the barrel. No bar as such, table service at all times. Special evening events once week, Quiz nights, Games nights and others worth attending! Good outdoor seating in an open and stables area at rear in good weather. Beer Festivals twice a year. Special events, live music etc as regular events. June 2024 now have a genuine Czech lager on tap (NOT brewed in UK!) Highly recommended.

Drinks are awesome, staff are awesome, the whole place is just awesome well worth a visit

Big up the landlord ❤️ Reid you are Amazing for what you done ❤️ 👏🏼

Has a certain character of its own, with live music - Three's Company, good beers and loads of atmosphere - well worth a visit. Parking is available around the corner at the railway station. 🎹🎤🤓👍

It's a bit off the wall, but still good fun.

Nice place for summer drinks most of the seating is outdoors. Dog friendly.

A group of us filled a small section of the pub so a generally great atmosphere. A large range of real ales. Initially felt as though my invisibility cloak was in place as one staff member was concentrating on doing other tasks. This however soon changed, with table service offer for second round of drinks.

The old Bridge reinvented as a great venue for fine ale, table service too

Popped in today and it was a perfect blend of old school pub meets new school craft ale micropub. Absolutely loved it. The atmosphere was great, and the staff and regulars were very welcoming. Highly recommend if you haven't been in, you won't be disappointed

Good selection of cask ales and a couple of still ciders, spent the day in there watching the rugby, can bring your own food in, good chippy across the road

top pub but avoid pub quiz nights - almost as bad a karaoke

First visit, but it won't be the last. Fantastic place, great beer, wonderful staff. Highly recommended!

An unusual yet a hidden gem of a pub near the station. Table service here was attentive and is made by the very knowledgable and welcoming staff who will guide you though a wide range of quality barrel beers from a variety of breweries, which are constantly changing… even during the course your visit! Good value for money too and the paddle board of 3 third pints allow you to taste a selection of beers. Just found the place a little stark and cold in the daytime, but staying until after dark with the heating now on and nice lighting the atmosphere changed to a cosy and intimate venue.

Great real ale pub and nice beer garden, ladles loved the gin selection. Again a great selection of fine ale and they accomdated all 25 of us to fine drinks.

Now fully open for delicious Real Ales and ciders. Possibly the best pub in Lichfield and that's a big accolade

Probably the best pub in Lichfield amazing staff can't recommend enough

Great pub and having table service was fantastic. The selection of beer larger and ciders was great.

Great sized Micro,and good beers.will return.Brian an Mick.

Warm welcome, and quality beer. Nuff said.

An unusual bar with table service only. I asked for a good IPA and had a pint of Symphony. Not too bad, but it certainly had a kick. Pub quiz on whilst I arrived, something that I enjoy, but too late to enter. Very popular with the locals and one can easily see why. Locals enjoying fish and chips delivered by...I'm not sure. Give this one a try.

Great place small interior with beer garden at back. I do not think they serve food.

Great place. Great people will be coming again. 👍🏻

Great experience. Craft beers, attentive service from the staff. Also able to take your own food there. So great real ales, chipshop fish and chips, and great friendly service by the bartenders. What is not to like. 👍👍👍.

Cracking quiz nite, fish and chip supper. Grand friendly atmosphere. Attentive knowledgeable staff. Host Martin to be congratulated on a smashing quiz 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Take your own food. Great craft beer, no frills with a lovely quiet space for chatting and catching up.

A very friendly local pub, serving a good variety of real ales from the barrel. The Knife Angel statue is just over the road, until the end of July.

Went here as a band were playing. A really nice set up outside, lots of tables and a little area for the band to perform in. Great selection of cask beers. The atmosphere was good. Service to the table was fast. I'd definitely go again.

Lovely atmosphere and even better drinks.

Great selection of regularly changing local and international beers and ciders. Huge outdoor space and table service make it perfect for the summer evenings.

Nice set up, friendly staff and easy parking at railway station car park

Nice place. Good beer. Friendly staff. Close to the train station for a nice pint before the travelling.

Good beer. Good service. Didn't eat. Would definitely go there again.

Popular pub, a bit different from the rest. The staff are so friendly, good outside area on a sunny day. The pineapple cider was refreshing. Within a short stagger from the station, just around the corner.

Not a classic pub you sit and people come take your orders for Alcohol fantastic, great selection of beer and cider straight out of the barrel, no food although you can buy fish and chips from across the road and eat it with your pint or whatever. Sefton fish bar excellent fish and chips. Would definately be going back for the fantastic beer and very friendly staff. 5*

If you're a real ale fan go here!

Super friendly and welcoming. Lovely setting and lots of delicious ciders to sample at very good prices

Fantastic unique ale pub on edge of Lichfield. Always good service and good range of ales. Heads up, it's table service only so can be a little confusing on first visit.

Great beer and great beer and great beer, nice staff too 🤣🤣

Great pub with range of real ales

Super friendly staff. Great atmosphere, and a good addition to Lichfield pubs. Drink and snack selection very good. Dog friendly.

Great beer and staff are so friendly They even fetch the drink for you On the last Friday of every month there are free drinks for everyone over 80 if accompanied by both parents

Knowledgeable, friendly staff and a great selection of beers and ciders

Located just outside Lichfield City railway station. Good selection of real ale and ciders at a reasonable price. Looks small from the outside but inside there are several rooms so plenty of space for the level of custom. The staff were great and eager to please.

Lovely friendly staff and great service and great range of beers, check out the crisps the range of different flavours is good.

Really unusual little pub. Threw me initially as no bar, table service. Great selection of real ales served by enthusiastic staff with good knowledge of products

Great friendly old style pub great selection of ciders beers and spirits, table service and plenty of space cannot recommend enough all the staff are friendly and chatty making it a great experience

Great pub with great beer. One of the top places to visit in Lichfield for a beer.

What a lovely friendly pub, tried the beer and loved it! I will be back. Thank you!

Lovely place. Cost, friendly and full of character.

Great atmosphere and beer was lush.Lively friendly staff who knew their beers and were able to advise

Great micro pub. Good beer, great company.

Best pub in lichfield for ale and staff,can't fault it😁

Brilliant cask ale selection Tom and Co always pick some great beers

Great atmosphere and friendly people. Probably my favourite Lichfield pub

Great local pub with table service and an excellent selection of real ales.

Great atmosphere great beer. Must go to the Mon night fish & chip quiz!!!

Lovely little establishment with good ales and very polite staff. Nice quiet atmosphere, so is great for a nice drink with friends.

Fantastic service, delicious pints. Even the toilets were beautiful.

Fantastic booze selection, big fan of the outdoor area.

Great beers, great staff. Always an amazing experience. The team that work here are genuinely passionate about the experience of beer drinking. An easy place to whittle the night away, with a multitude of beers. The ultimate in beer drinking spot in a ‘city’ which isn’t short of pubs.

Different but nice great staff very helpful

Beer/ales not the greatest but pilsner ok. Also strange no bar 🤷‍♀️

Love it here. The outside space has such a great atmosphere, service is always quick and wide range of drinks. Table service is a nice touch. Love the live music and beer festivals and very reasonably priced. We go time and time again and will continue to!

Great boozer one of the last Lichfield strongholds of a really good pint and great atmosphere

Wonderful place to have a good beer everyone really pleasant very welcoming beers spot on.thanks again for your lovely time in looking after me see you soon David. Just letting you know that I'm still using the Bitter Suite and the staff are just as friendly as they first opened. Also I meet with old and lots of new friends.

Fabulous staff, choice of drinks and wonderful atmosphere 😀 👌 👍 👏

Poorly kept beer unfortunately compared to when I have been a couple of four years ago. Shame it has lost its charm.

Great selection of beers, pleasant environment. Friendly

Great little hidden treasure of Lichfield with great beer and outside space!

Good selection of ales served at seat by friendly staff. Nice outdoor seating area. Very handy for train station and chippy over the road.

I visited The Bitter Suite at Lichfield for the first time on Friday 17 June 2022 whilst the Beer festival was on. The Bitter Suite was not operating as it normally would as I think the place operates table service . There is no easy place to park by The Bitter Suite and I parked in the Greenhill Pay and display car park . It was about a 10 minute walk to The Bitter Suite but there is closer , but more expensive , car park at the railway station. It is a flat walk with pelican crossing points to cross the busy Birmingham Road. The Bitter Suite has a main door at the front of the building with a side lane on the right hand side into a large rear seated drinking outside space. For the Beer festival they had set up a second bar in an outside building and were serving real ales from there plus the bar inside was operating with its normal real ales . The plan was for additional real ales would be added from the inside racks once the ones from the outside bar started to run out. So only part of the Beer list was available at the time of visiting. A small stage was set up in the garden for a programme of musical entertainments during the festival. The staff were nice and helpful, changing a Beer that was not on top form when I pointed it out. It will be interesting to revisit when The Bitter Suite is operating 'normally' .

Fabulous place with good ales in a conviviable atmosphere , and ..... friendly

Friendly, quirky and good atmosphere

Different beers always on tap.

What a brilliant place. Table service, very friendly, super efficient staff. Fully recommend.

Nice pub with large beer garden and good selection of drinks. Even Bavarian beer! Friendly staff.

Great place, friendly atmosphere, lovely helpful staff. It is like a proper local, everyone takes to each other. They constantly change their drinks.

Great beer, best in Lichfield. Fab staff, caring and chatty. Loads of space and big outdoor area. Spot on.

Lovely place! Staff are friendly and helpful...if you like cozy place that's the one ! Prices are good . Update- the place has changed so much from my first visit. Definitely a lot of great changes specially in the outdoor area.

If I could give the pub 10 stars I would! It’s an amazing pub, table service, a variety of seating arrangements, staff so incredibly friendly. Wonderful selection of beers, ciders & gins. All of which change weekly. No tv nor music it’s a pub for those who wish to talk & enjoy a drink. You can also bring in your own food if you want- there’s a great chippy across the road! I recommend you try this pub.

Great choice of beers and friendly staff; we were "forced" to miss our train 😊

A Great evening celebrating a birthday. The team there couldn't do enough for you. Superb hosts with excellent table service.