Our Bars
Enjoy our wide selection of local beer and wine alongside hot drinks, snacks and soft drinks from our Company bar. It will be open from two hours before your show.
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If you gave us your mobile number when you booked your tickets, we will send an automated text message on the day of the show with your mobile tickets and the option to pre-order your interval drinks and avoid the queues. Check your mobile number is on your account.
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Both cash and cards are accepted at our bars. However, all other outlets, including interval ice cream sales are card only.
Our Bar Offers
Summer at Nottingham Playhouse
We will be opening our terrace bar and forecourt on the below dates from 5pm – 7pm so you can spend summer evenings sipping on seasonal spritzes, happy hour drinks, and cooling down with ice creams:
- Thu 13 August
- Fri 14 August
- Thu 20 August
- Fri 21 August
- Thu 27 August
- Fri 28 August
Summer Spritzes – Try our seasonal cocktails which include Aperol Spritz and Hugo Spritz
Buckets – Take your pick out of beer, cider or mocktail buckets
If the weather turns, our Company Bar offers a relaxed indoor space to enjoy the same drinks, offers and summer atmosphere.
Weekday Happy Hour
Enjoy 20% off select drinks (bottled beer and cider, any soft drink and a medium glass of any house wine) when arriving early. Not available on Saturdays.
Available from 4 – 7pm.
Hot Drink Offer
Get 25p off your hot drink when you bring your own reusable cup.
Exclusive Saturday Bar Offer
On Saturdays, purchase 2 large glasses of wine (house red or white, chardonnay and merlot) and get the rest of the bottle on us.
Sustainability with ice and a slice
Our Bars have been a focus for our latest sustainability efforts and we’re pleased to report great progress.
Since bringing our Bars back into our control in 2020, we have put in place various initiatives and investments aimed at minimising our environmental impact.
Over the last three years, we have invested over £6000 in polycarbonate glassware. This has enabled drinks to be taken into performances without transferring them to single-use plastic cups. In reducing the environmental impact of single use plastics, we’ve also promoted responsible waste management practices.
We have procured 75% of all drink stocks from regional producers and suppliers based within 10 miles of the theatre since 2022/23. This has meant fewer transport miles and therefore a reduced carbon impact, and also demonstrates our commitment to supporting the local economy.
We have sourced ice cream which comes in 100% recycled packaging and a minimum of 25% of this offer is now non-dairy, which serves our customer demand and also reduces carbon impact.
Trial and error
In striving to do our best, we live and learn by our mistakes. We invested £290 in a trial of reusable hot drinks cups – unfortunately they didn’t come back… but we learnt a valuable lesson, put it down to experience and are pleased that they promoting reuse … wherever they are.
We’ll continue looking for new sustainable opportunities. Our latest initiative including trialling more products in cans made from recycled aluminium and providing some wines via Wine in Box as we look to promote a more sustainable future.