Derbyshire Times Love Your Local feature - Chesterfield Arms, Newbold Road.
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00:00Pubs have been a cornerstone of our local communities for centuries, offering a place
00:11for people to meet together and socialise, as well as providing thousands of jobs and
00:16a cornerstone of the local economy. Here we go behind the bar to meet the people who run
00:21our pubs and say why it's important for you to love your local. My name's Josh and this
00:25is my wife Emma and we run the Chesterfield Arms on Newbold Road. We've been here since
00:30November 2017, so we're just coming up to our seven year anniversary. So we are a community
00:37space pub but we also attract people from all over Chesterfield, Derbyshire and beyond.
00:44We try to offer a really good service but also we try and offer something new with having
00:50our own in-house brewery. We now do food Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. We introduced
00:57the brewery after the pandemic. That brought something unique to the area. We're also the
01:04smallest brewery in Chesterfield. The majority of the products that we brew on site do go
01:10through the pub but we also sell our own bottles through the pub and through some local shops
01:18and farmers markets, things like that. How many staff do you have? Currently we have 16 staff on
01:26the books. That's from cleaners to glass collectors, bar staff, food runners. The longest
01:35serving members of staff are Chris and Holly and then we've got some of the younger ones that are
01:43heading off to university in the next few weeks, so they'll be leaving us. What would be your most
01:49popular drink yourself? Being a Cascale pub, it's hard to call between, we serve Bass Bitter,
01:58Timothy Taylor Landlord and our own Twisted Pale, so they're always in level pegging. It is mainly
02:04a Cascale pub, so a traditional pub, but we do everything. We pride ourselves on a good wine
02:11selection, spirit selection, to back up the large beer selection that we have, because we have 12
02:17handfuls and then your full range of lager, ciders and other draft beers. You say you've just started
02:25introducing food, can you tell me a bit about it? So after the pandemic we tried the idea of serving
02:32pizzas and much to our surprise it's taken off. We now serve pizzas Thursday, Friday and Saturdays
02:42at tea time. Then we also serve hot roast pork hobs on a Sunday. It's gone from being quite a wet
02:55leg pub to having quite a decent trade in the food side as well now. Do we do occasion on
03:02events? Usually with the weekends being busy and the food service the way it is, we tend to just
03:09do a couple of special things throughout the year. In fact, we have our Americana weekend coming on
03:15the 6th, 7th and 8th of September, where we've got three amazing American-influenced bands and
03:24alongside that we'll be extending our menu for American-themed food and the music that's on in
03:30the background and even some of the beers that we've put on the bar will all be American-themed.
03:35So the pub itself won camera pub of the year three years consecutively from 2020 up until
03:45the beginning of this year. The brewery itself got food producer of the year at the
03:52Love Chesterfield Awards back in, what was it, 2022? Yep. The brewery's picked up a couple of
04:00awards for its bottled beers through an organisation called Seba and we are entering
04:08more of our cask beers into this year's competition, so we'll see how they go.