66 places
Pubs in Carlisle city centre
Every pub, bar and club in Carlisle city centre, with opening hours and what each one is actually like.
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Alien
Nightclub in Englishgate Plaza, in the unit that was Truth until the council revoked its licence in 2024.
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Apple Tree
Big, cheap and central.
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Arches
Lap dancing club in the basement at 4A Botchergate, door next to House of Vodka.
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Aretha's Lounge Bar
Lounge bar on Warwick Road, trading as Aretha's since 2024 and before that as LUX Lounge Bar, a live music bar.
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Ballers
Sports bar with pool tables in Englishgate Plaza.
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Bar Solo
Small bar at the top of Botchergate opposite the Citadel.
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Bees Knees
Bar on Botchergate in the former BrewDog, opened on 9 October 2026.
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Bocata
Lowther Street bar with live singers.
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Bordo Lounge
All-day cafe bar on English Street, part of the Loungers group, in the old Topshop.
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Box Arena
Eight-hundred-capacity events arena off Botchergate, licensed and running club nights, bare-knuckle boxing and touring shows since 2023.
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Brewed Awakenings
Cafe and restaurant with a licence, on the curved corner of Fisher Street and St Albans Row in a late-Georgian listed building.
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Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)
Fraternal club bar at 20 Fisher Street, in a Grade II listed Georgian house the Buffs bought in 1931.
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Carlisle South End Constitutional Club
Old-school working men's club off St Nicholas Street.
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Carlisle Station Hotel bar
Bar in the Station Hotel on Court Square, right outside the platforms.
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Carlisle Subscription Bowling Club
The oldest bowling club in Carlisle, founded 1865, with a Swiss-style bower of 1897 behind Myddleton Street.
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Club Britannia
Lowther Street pub with pool, a dartboard and a jukebox, in the old Carlisle Liberal Club.
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Coco Mill
Bar and kitchen on Lowther Street styling itself a brewhouse, open all day every day.
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Connelly's Bar
Cocktail and wine bar on Devonshire Street, open since December 2023.
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County Hotel bar
The Portland Resident's Bar at the County Hotel, opposite the station, in the former Red Lion Hotel of 1894-96.
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Courtfield Bowling Club
Lawn bowls club founded in 1900, off Back River Street, with a members' bar.
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Crown & Mitre Hotel bar
Bar inside the Crown & Mitre on English Street.
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Crown Lane Cellar
Speakeasy-ish cellar bar off Fisher Street with a decent outdoor space and live music.
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Deja Vu
Sixties, seventies and eighties bar in Englishgate Plaza, registered as an Asset of Community Value.
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Felson's Cocktail Lounge & Stick Hall
Cocktail lounge and pool hall upstairs at the old Walkabout building.
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Footloose
Seventies, eighties and nineties bar at 34 Botchergate, with a rodeo bull on some nights, at the old Bronx Sports Bar's address.
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Gallaghers
Traditional pub at the St Nicholas Street end of town, formerly the Golden Lion.
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Gibby's
Charcuterie, cheese and sharing plates with wine, in the shop unit that was House of Malt.
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Headquarters
Big late bar on Botchergate, under Felson's.
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House of Vodka
Late bar and bistro at the top of Botchergate, describing itself as big beats and food and vodka.
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Howard Arms (closed for now)
Grade II listed pub on Lowther Street with a Doulton tiled frontage the State Management Scheme boarded over for sixty-three years.
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Le Gall
Café and wine bar in a Devonshire Street shop that was a First World War recruiting office.
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Open Mind
English Street bar, open till two most nights.
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Print Yard
Street food and drinks in a courtyard off the main drag, with a big graffitied outdoor area.
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Rouge
Adult entertainment club in Englishgate Plaza, open Thursday to Saturday until half four in the morning.
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Sketch and Sip
Art cafe and bar on Carlyle's Court, open since 2024.
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Smiley's
Late nightclub at the bottom of Botchergate, in the old Co-operative headquarters.
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Spencer Street Social Club
Social club on Spencer Street, the Carlisle Conservative Club until 2024.
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Stanleys Bar & Cafe
Bar and cafe doing cocktails, brunch and bottomless.
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The Andalusian
Redfern's most extravagant building, a Hispano-Moresque pub of 1932 in terracotta with a Moorish balcony, now a tapas bar and restaurant.
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The Arcade Morgan's Bar
Bar in the Lowther Arcade with live music.
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The Boardroom
Traditional boozer next to the Cathedral, and one of the cheaper pints in town.
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The Border Rambler
Late one on Botchergate, loud and lively at weekends.
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The Botanic Room
Small cocktail bar on the corner of Lowther Street and Warwick Road, with outside seating and a late licence.
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The Brickyard
Carlisle's main small live music venue, in Richmond Hall.
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The Caledonian
Big old-fashioned boozer near the station, part of Amber Taverns.
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The Crescent Bar
Small independent speakeasy-styled bar at 1 The Crescent, in a listed 1820s terrace facing the Citadel.
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The Cumberland Inn
Botchergate local with a good draught range at low prices and live sport on.
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The Griffin
First pub you hit coming out of the Citadel station, on the right.
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The Halston
Cocktail bar in the Halston on Warwick Road.
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The Kings Head
A proper real ale pub on Fisher Street with a rotating range of cask beers at a spread of strengths.
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The Last Zebra
The old post office that became the Gretna Tavern, the state's first pub, in 1916.
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The Market Hall Bar
New bar inside the Victorian Market Hall off Scotch Street, licensed in February 2026 and putting on live music.
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The Old Bank
Chef-run gastropub in a Georgian former bank, and Cumbria Guide's Gastro Pub of the Year 2025.
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The Scott & Brassey
One of the Guardian's ten best station pubs in the UK, in the old first-class waiting room on platform 4 of the Citadel station.
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The Sportsman Inn
Tucked down Heads Lane behind the Marks & Spencer, and easy to walk past.
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The Underground
Nightclub in the old Concrete cellars under Lowther Street, open since 2021.
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The Unit
Bar in Englishgate Plaza, under this name only since 2026 though the premises have been licensed since 2005.
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The William Rufus
The other Botchergate Wetherspoons, two minutes from the station.
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Thin White Duke
Craft beer and cocktails on Devonshire Street, with a kitchen that draws people in on its own.
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Thirty Two
Late bar on Botchergate with two pool tables, a jukebox and cheap cocktail deals.
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Tithe Barn
Not a pub, but a 1470s monastic tithe barn, Grade I listed, now St Cuthbert's church hall and licensed for functions.
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Turf Tavern
Big Hungry Horse pub on Newmarket Road near the racecourse end of town.
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Velvet Lounge Bar
Lounge bar on Devonshire Street with purple lighting and a CD mosaic behind the bar.
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West Walls Brewing Co.
Brewery and taproom in a converted building on the city walls, brewing on site.
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Woodrow Wilson
The Wetherspoons on Botchergate, named after the US president whose mother was born in Carlisle.
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Yellowjacket
Small cocktail bar on Warwick Road, strong drinks and a resident dog.