Farmhouse at Mackworth

Head out towards Mackworth and you'll find yourself in a proper rural pocket of Derby where the Farmhouse sits doing what it does best—being a genuinely good pub. You're getting proper cask ales, the kind of food that doesn't try too hard but gets it right, and an atmosphere that's refreshingly free of the usual city-centre faffing about. It's the sort of place locals actually go to, not just somewhere that's been done up to look like locals go there. With nearly 3,900 reviews backing it up, people clearly know the score here.