Review from Utrecht Pub GuideL

http://www.xs4all.nl/~patto1ro/utrepubs.htm

If you head straight West along the number 2 bus route, you'll find the Stadscafé diagonally opposite the Stadsschouwburg (theatre). A detached building, it must have started life as an elegant villa (there are plenty more further out towards the railway museum).

Inside, despite my fairly unrepresentative photo (sorry about that), there appears to have been an effort to make this something like an English pub. I don't know how else to explain the English pubs signs - I loved the one "The Exchange Vaults - Banks's". The wooden panelling in parts of the room extend this theme to at least some degree.

There is an island bar with to one side a raised area of partitioned booths and to the other the more informal seating that you can see pictured to the left. A bit schizophrenic, but a bloke as deeply distuburbed as myself can live with that easily enough.

I'm sure that my visit, very soon after opening time, found it in a quite atypical mood (it seeems more of a night-time place). My impression was of a slightly trendy, vaguely studenty, type of place. But the natives were friendly and the price of Chouffe even more accommodating. Those of us with the good fortune to live in the nation's capital, are unused to anything under 3 euros.

There is a seating area outside on the canalside.