Formerly the Bakers Yard (and before that the Bakers Arms), the Bakers (post-modernistically Yardless and Armless) has been given a complete refit and is now back in service with some comfy leather sofas and decently-kept beer. Try the chilled St Edmund's for a refreshing, citrussy and very quaffable pint.

Ok, so it's not the best music pub in Cambridge - that's over the road at the Barfly/Graduate - but it has a wider roster of local and national talent and has live music more often than it's bigger neighbour. Drinks are similarly cheaply priced, foods a little dull (unless you are the Fort St. George EVERY pub in Cambridge has boring fayre), but there is always a busy atmosphere and it makes for an excellent midweek haunt. Whilst be very much an indie pub, It probably caters for a slightly more mature crowd than the Graduate and it whilst it can get really busy at weekends. You find that you don't have to spend half the night queuing for drinks like at its yellow competitor. There's a pool table in it's adjoining bar, should you feel the need, and the pub also boasts a rehearsal space which can sometimes be VERY LOUD INDEED.

Initially The Bun Shop appears to have little in its favour. It's on the end of a row of crap shops. From the outside it looks like a mid-nineties 'Saloon-styled' bar at a busy train station. It has conference facilities upstairs. However, If like me you enjoy a reasonable drink in the company of attractive and suspiciously single looking women then this place is perfect for a fairly quiet Sunday night of long drinking. Immediately then, the pubs' positive qualities gain ground:It has some nice original features in stained glass. There's oak beams. A retrieved sunken boat. The music is unobtrusive. It has a high diversity of comfortable seating arrangements for groups and pairs. The drinks are predictably middle of the road, with two guest ales, and the pub offers a membership system where you can save 10% on their very average food. The Bun Shop is a warm and friendly pub, and I would recommend it for the above qualities.

... not that exciting, and the food is crap. And overpriced. Chips were cold, "homemade steak and ale pie" was some rather indifferent beef (not steak) stew topped with a piece of puff pastry which had been cooked (allegedely) separately. If you're going to do that, there's no excuse for the pastry being badly cooked...

The Bull has recently reopened having been taken over and fully refurbished. There's a good range of beers, and a good menu (mostly pizza and pasta, and excellent pizza it is, too). There was a really great atmosphere.