The Champion of The Thames

Y (££) **** The Champion of the Thames (King Street), is a cosy place, favoured by college porters and immortalised in various novels about Cambridge (most famously, in Porterhouse Blue). Although the selection of beers is uninspired, visitors will be entertained by a plethora of local characters that have become fixtures here. Like many Cambridge pubs, this one has a rowing theme, and is inviting in the winter, with old wooden alcoves and a real coal fire.