The Blue Moon

Walk past the market square bustle and you'll find yourself on Norfolk Street, where The Blue Moon sits doing what it does best: being a proper pub. This is the kind of place where you'll recognise faces, where the regulars have their spots, and where the bar staff know what you're after before you order. The kind of pub Cambridge needs more of, honestly. You get solid real ales on rotation, the sort of food that doesn't try too hard but lands every time, and a genuinely unpretentious atmosphere that's becoming rarer in the city centre. It's neither trying to be gastropub-fancy nor dive-bar edgy—it's just doing the pub thing properly, which somehow feels radical these days.