Your Local: The Great Gatsby
The Reader: Darren Keep aka Daz ‘Landslide’, Marketing Manager & Music Promoter/DJ
Why is this ‘Your Local’? “Great selection of beers and live bands every Friday at club night Aye; Temples, DENS, High Hazels & Best Friends have all gigged here.”
Favourite tipple: Spanish bottled beer, Estrella Damm Lager 4.6% and American craft beer Brooklyn Lager 5.2%.
The Local: Starting life as a pop up drinking den The Great Gatsby opened its doors as a fully-fledged bar in May 2011. With a strong visual identity forged by artist Nick Deakin and musical guidance from co-owner James O’Hara alongside promoters such as Landslide DJs, the venue has carved its distinct musical stance firmly on Division Street. The Skeleton Key is the upstairs function venue available for private hire and on Friday nights you’ll often hear the up and coming sounds of Sheffield bands performing live in the intimate neo-gothic surroundings (then no doubt added to BBC6’s music playlist the week after!). With 20 plus bottled World Beers, 2 hand pulls of local ales, a premium focused spirits bar including more than 30 varieties of rum, loose leaf tea and a constantly evolving cocktail menu. The newly launched cocktail menu by budding mixologist Alan Brown includes the ‘best bloody Mary’ in Sheffield using their homemade tearjerker hot sauce and an ‘Epic Milkshake’ aka ‘Five Dollar Shake’ with more than a nod to Pulp Fiction it’ll get you all Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace. Then you’ll start dancing to Chuck Berry’s ‘You Never Can Tell’ in a Jack Rabbit Slim’s twist and shout style dance contest. The food menu changes seasonally with the current focus on pies, supplied from Pieminister and sharing boards which include Yorkshire made pork pies and Gatsby homemade chutneys.
Owners: James O’Hara & James Hill
Address: 73–75 Division Street, Sheffield, S1 4GE
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