Bury St Edmunds Rising Sun
opening hours
- Mon-Sun: 1200-2300
food times
- Mon-Sun: closed
guest beers
This pub serves 8 guest ales.
source: National
listed building grade II*
Local licensing authority for Bury St Edmunds is West Suffolk
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Dec 2nd, 2025.
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Bury St Edmunds Rising Sun
formerly Casa, St Edmund's Tavern, Casa del Mar
South, 52.24742,0.70941
Cask Ale is sold here.
98 Risbygate St, IP33 3AA
grid reference TL 850 644
opened 16th century
An historic 15th-century coaching inn on Risbygate Street, restored back to a traditional pub in 2024. Main bar plus conservatory. Large function room at back. Bar snacks only. Eight changing cask ales, plus craft keg beers, Belgian beers, and traditional ciders.
Online beer list available at Real Ale Finder.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers: There is step free access through a door to the left of the conservatory. There are steps throughout the rest of the pub. There is an accessible toilet (by means of the access door to the outside and then reentering the pub through the door next to the toilet).
Beer festivals
Beer garden or other outside drinking area: Yard
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Cider (real draught, not keg) available
Dogs welcome
Function room available to hire
Live music
Parking: Small car park
Real fire
Special events: Meet the brewer, whisky tasting
Sport TV: Sky
WiFi available
Railway station about 0.6 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Bury St Edmunds: 0.6 miles (1.0km)
BAR Twenty One 0.07 mile
Grapes 0.09 mile
Nightjars 0.09 mile
Hopsters 0.13 mile
Bushel 0.14 mile
Nethergate Bury St. Edmunds 0.21 mileHistorical interest
The Rising Sun is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
[Rising Sun]
Owner/operator: Greene King
C16th with a single bar and separated off dining area. No food Sun. Good quality beer.
Beer: Greene King XX Mild, IPA, Seasonal Ale, Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Renamed from the Rising Sun to St Edmund's Tavern April 2010.
Closed mid-January 2012, but reported in the local press to have re-opened with new management some time about May.
Closed again in January 2014, when it was taken over by an Peatlings who reopened it in 2016 as a restaurant and wine bar.
Listed at 92 Risbygate St. until c1861, at 73 by 1871 and 98 by 1881. (Street renumbering)…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
