Opening Hours

Monday to Saturday :
12 noon to 12 midnight Sunday 12 noon to 11 pm
Discounts
Future Events


As a Free House, we are very keen to promote Real Ales, we hosted beer festivals four times in the last year, most recently 'Bob's Bash and Beer Fest'.

The Phoenix hosts live music every Friday night from 8.30pm, check for regular updates on the forthcoming acts.



MENU
Scampi, chips & peas  £5.50
Hot Dog & chips         £4.50
Cheeseburger & chips £4.50
All day breakfast       £4.50
Egg, chips & beans     £4.50
Potato skins with either :     
Cheese & ham            £3.00
Cheese & onion          £3.00
typical day's menu shown, items subject to availability

Free Wi-Fi
FREE Wi-Fi at the Phoenix with a drink
Phoenix sign

WHAT'S ON ?

Live Music
from 8.30pm 'til late
Friday 27th January - Blissful Mop

The Blissful Mop is a fresh rock act performing a blend of their own originals & great covers, a heady mix of heavy riffs and gentle melodies.

Friday 3rd February
- KDB

Balti Thursday
Every Thursday,
The Phoenix hosts 'Balti Thursday' with a choice of Balti Beef, Lamb, Chicken or Veg. Bindi (Lady's Fingers) in a Balti Dish with Nan Bread all £4.00 each (Medium Hot)
Wednesday Night is
Quiz Night
at The Phoenix !
Starts 8.30 pm (£1.50 entrance, 3 chances, no win rollover ‘til next week, snacks served at half time)
Sunday Roast
Beef, Lamb or Chicken plus a selection of seasonal vegetables, served between 1 & 4 pm £7.50
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Welcome to The Phoenix

The Phoenix is situated on the corner of Old Dover Road and Cossington Road, between the County Cricket Ground and Canterbury city centre. A Free House, The Phoenix always endevours to stock eight real ales, including one mild. Food is available lunchtimes and evenings, there is outdoor seating on our beer terrace, a covered smoking area and a patron's car park to the side.

Bob & Nilla Griffiths are now the licensees, having also been running the Rose & Crown in St.Dunstans for over three years and now transferring their attentions to The Phoenix. While both now are retired, Bob was previously in medical sales whilst Nilla ran two hairdressing salons. Last owning pubs thirty-four years ago in Rochester, including The Don Cossack, they now turn their attentions and fondness of real ale to one of Canterbury's best known hostelries, well loved amongst cricket fans, visitors to the city and locals alike.

Bob's family were in Pubs all his life and he learnt his cellar skills from his step father who apart from being a Licensee had also been a dray man for twenty-five years, and so there was nothing you could tell him about beer, (one quote being "there are no such thing as bad beers, just some better than others").


Featured ales this month - January

London PrideFuller's "London Pride" : (ABV 4.1%)
astonishly complex . . .

Fuller’s London Pride is an award-winning classic. A rich, smooth and wonderfully balanced beer, its distinctive malty base is complemented by well developed hop character, created by adding Target, Challenger and Northdown varieties to the brew. Described by leading beer writer Roger Protz as “an astonishingly complex ale for its strength”, its flavour has been likened by Stephen Cox, beer writer and former campaigns director at CAMRA, to “the sensation of angels dancing on the tongue” !

London Pride, Fuller's flagship beer, was crowned the Supreme Champion at the 2000 International Beer and Cider competition. London Pride was named Champion Best Bitter at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival in 1995, and in 1979 when it also achieved the ultimate accolade of Beer of the Year.

Dartmoor Dartmoor Best Bitter : (ABV 3.5%)
“ideal pint to enjoy with a crusty Ploughman’s lunch”

The St.Austell Brewery was founded in 1851 by Walter Hicks, who mortgaged his farm for £1,500 to set up his business in St Austell. In 2001, they celebrated their 150th Anniversary and from them comes their Dartmoor Best Bitter, an amber, chestnut coloured ale with an aroma of barleysugar and a taste apparently considered by some of being reminiscent of 'toffee apples and spicy hops'.

Described as : '... a beer with a strong regional heritage, Dartmoor, although now brewed in Cornwall still has its roots firmly in Devon. Dartmoor is a fine, easy drinking session ale with a touch of bitterness, complemented by a smooth malty finish. An Ideal pint to enjoy with a crusty Ploughman’s lunch'.

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