The Branch organises a Pub of the Year competition every year, with the selection process happening between roughly October and March.
The winner goes through to the Norfolk Pub of the Year competition, and further rounds of the national CAMRA Pub of the Year contest if successful.
Current Pubs of the Year
Branch Pub of the Year 2025 – The Kings Head, Magdalen St, Norwich
District Pub of the Year 2025 – Peasant’s Tavern, North Walsham
Previous winners:
- 2024 White Lion, Oak St. District Ploughshare, Beeston
- 2023 White Lion, Oak St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year) District Cock, Dereham – more details here.
- 2022 Kings Head, Magdalen St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year, East Anglian Pub of the Year, and National Finalist) District: Red Lion Hotel, Cromer
- 2021 no award due to the pandemic
- 2020 Hop In, North Walsham. City: Fat Cat, West End St.
- 2019 Leopard, Bull Close Rd. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2018 Fat Cat Brewery Tap (now The Brewery Tap), Lawson Rd. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2017 Kings Head, Magdalen St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2016 Fat Cat Brewery Tap, Lawson Rd. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2015 Beehive, Leopold Rd. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2014 Fat Cat, West End St.
- 2013 Locks Inn, Geldeston (now in East Norfolk Branch)
- 2012 Fat Cat, West End St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2011 Windham Arms, Sheringham
- 2010 Mariners, Great Yarmouth (now in East Norfolk branch)
- 2009 Artichoke, Broome (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2008 Kings Head, Magdalen St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2007 Royal Oak, Poringland (now The Oak) (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2006 Kings Head, Magdalen St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2005 Trafford Arms, Norwich
- 2004 Fat Cat, West End St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year, Regional Pub of the Year, and CAMRA National Pub of the Year)
- 2003 Duke of Wellington, Norwich (also Norfolk Pub of the Year)
- 2002
- 2001 Ketts Tavern, Norwich (now closed)
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998 Fat Cat, West End St. (also Norfolk Pub of the Year, Regional Pub of the Year, and CAMRA National Pub of the Year)
If you know the winners in any of the missing years, please let us know, as we don’t have records going back that far! (Or at least we probably do, in back issues of Norfolk Nips, but as of now we haven’t had time to do the research!).