The Definitive Guide to the History of
Pubs and Beerhouses in Coventry

Drinking in an Old English Town

Cask and Bottle, 21b Cross Cheaping

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1967	1985	Mercia
	1985		Oz
	1986	1992	Nobby's Place
	1993	1995	Cask and Bottle
	1999	2002	Bar Zest
After closing in 1992, the former Nobby's Place reopened on Thursday 26th August 1993 as the Cask and Bottle - the name being "chosen carefully as the special cask beers are complemented by a wide range of bottled beers and lagers form all round the world.". However, less than a year later it was boarded up with its future uncertain. It did reopen, but then was forced to close again when, in June 1995, it suffered an arson attack, destroying the entire interior. Four years later it reopened as Bar Zest.