The Ackhorne    10pts
St. Martins Lane; http://www.ackhorne.com
Last visit - 31st August 2002
A fine pub, hidden down a cobbled lane. Essentially just one long room with a few bits jutting off, and some moderate partitioning. There's a fire-place in the lounge section, and some information about Civil War General Thomas Fairfax adorns the walls. Entertainment includes darts and dominoes. The food is fairly good.
Drinks wise, it offers a variety of guests. Regulars include Deuchars IPA and Yankee Rooster. Also there's a selection of fruit wines, and a small number of Belgian lagers. 10.
For my money, probably the best all round pub in York. Deuchar's IPA and Rooster's Yankee appear to be the two unusual but very tasty regulars, and there are generally about three guests as well. It is just off Micklegate, which makes it easy to get to without falling under the average pub crawler's remit, the atmosphere is friendly, and there's nothing wrong with the food either. Seems they have a thing about Morris Dancing as well, but better to pass over that, I think. 10.

The Rook and Gaskill    9pts
Lawrence Street
Last visit - 31st August 2002
Formerly The Queen, and recently bought by York Brewery's Mildly Mad Pub Co. (cf. Last Drop Inn, Three Legged Mare). Like the other two in the chain, this pub takes its name from the gallows - in this case, two locally executed criminals. The pub has had a bit of a refit and now sells not just York brews but a modest assortment of guests that make this one of the better options for beer in York (almost up to the Sheffield standards). The pub itself is a split level L-shaped affair with fairly plush outside toilets connected by a pleasant enough covered beer-yard. The whole thing is reminiscent of one or two Sheffield pubs. The place was pretty quiet, early on Saturday evening, but then so are a lot of York pubs. One of the things I really liked, in a fairly perverse way, was seeing the three bar-staff playing dominoes between pulling drinks. Decorations are of a sporting nature (golf, cricket, and rugby were observed) with a sizable nod to the vintage. There's also an above-par range of whisky. 9.

The Golden Ball     9pts
Cromwell Road; http://www.goldenballyork.com/ (not the most browser friendly website in the world)
Last visit - 2000
Divided into several rooms ranging from lounge to WMC style. Outside lavs, always a nice touch. Domino night on Mondays. Regulars are, on the whole, local aging men. Beer includes Ruddles. 9.
A little further up the road from the Ackhorne, this feels very much like a local. The beer is good and very reasonably priced, you get old men playing dominoes in the bar, a blazing fire in one of the other rooms and outdoor toilets. It doesn't have the range of beer of the Ackhorne, and internally I find it a bit too sprawling to be as appealing, but this is still one of the best pubs in York. 8.
 

The Black Swan    8pts
Peasholme Green
Last visited 2000.
Three rooms, and a fat cat called Peewee (after his bladder problems). Nice and old-fashioned. Offers food and accomadation. Also hosts regular folk nights, and, in the summer, a beer festival. Has a good selection of guest ales. 8.
Cosy wooden pub, with two rooms around the bar, and a third off to the side. The atmosphere in the tap room is friendly, but in the detached room you feel a bit cut off and lonely (or maybe that's just me). The beer is decent, usually with one or two from York Brewery, and maybe something like London Pride as well. 8.

The Snickleway    8pts
Goodramgate
Last visited late 2001
One of the best pubs in York, but small. It has dancing flowers by the door. It is very old fashioned and lovely, and has award-winning toilets (the walls are adorned with a number of amusing prints). It is reputedly the most haunted pub in the world, or the UK, or England, or York or something, and the first floor fell away many years ago so the main pub area is quite tall and funny-looking. If you're going to go, go for about half seven so as to get a nice seat, because the place can get very full. Drinks on offer include John Smiths Magnet and Old Speckled Hen. Occasional impromptu entertainment has been known to be provided by passing male voice choirs. 8.
A pub which suffers from being so popular. In the late afternoon, or early evening, when it's quiet, there is nothing wrong with it. The atmosphere is pleasant, the ceiling in the main bar is twice as high as everywhere else, and the drinks (including Old Speckled Hen) are perfectly fine. But you can't have a pub without people, and later at night, this has them in droves. I once tried to leave my seat at the back of the pub to make a phone call at about half past ten, and it took me about five minutes just to get to the door. A perfectly decent pub, but generally far too busy for me to recommend it. If quiet: 7. Otherwise: 4.

The Tap and Spile    7pts
Monkgate
Last visit 31st August 2002
The building seems a compromise of all pub styles. There is an old, booky section, a bar section, a pokey corner and another bit. It has to be seen to be understood. There are better pubs in York, but not many, and this has a good little range of guest beers, though it seemed less impressive on our last visit - not much different to the Ackhorne in its approach. 7.
Rather out of the way, this Camra favourite is still popular on account of the beer, which is plentiful and in good condition. We hear they're making their own now, as well. The pub itself has a split personality; one half is trying to be a guest house bar, with a carpet and porcelain dogs on the mantlepiece, the other half is trying to be an even worse version of the Golden Lion, with pale wood floors and partitions, and bright lights. Come for the beer, stay for the beer, you might say. 7.

The Deramore Arms    7pts
Main Street, Heslington
Last visited 6th May 1999.
Better than The Charles though the same term-time rules apply: this is a pub in the heart of Studentland, and gets really busy at the beginning and end of terms. Also, no beer garden of any size and food quality is variable, but it has a decent range of guest beers.7.
In Heslington, which means it mainly serves students and staff at the university, and so can get busy at certain times of the year. They get some really interesting beers in here, though, and it does feel like a real pub (unlike the Charles, which only feels like it's pretending to be a real pub). Unfortunately, far too far away from town to be able to take it in on a normal trip. 7.

The Golden Lion    7pts
Church Street
Last visited 31st August 2002
If you ever need food and the chippies are shut, this is probably the place to come. It is serving food when most pubs aren't, including Sunday. We only missed food once here. The place is nice but sitting next to the fire can get you very very warm. Be warned also that, given it's foody status, the place can get rather busy. Has a recently expanded range of guests which usually always includes Old Peculier. 7.
In the middle of tourist land, this is a fairly cavernous, wooden, and more or less soulless pub. It's handy for food in the middle of the day (though it isn't cheap), and the beer is not bad, though certainly not great by York standards. 4.
 

The Red Lion    7pts and falling
Merchantgate
Last visit - 22nd June 2002.
Was (arguably) the best pub in York when under the management of Alan & Judy Williams, but currently under new ownership, which when they took it on, was not up to the same class. Recent re-visit shows no change to the rather poor (and apparently pricey) drinks selecetion (Magnet being the closest thing to a real ale for this John Smiths standard house) or to much else for that matter. Formerly rated at 10pts despite lack of decent beer, but now given a Good Beer Guide style benefit of the doubt given the new management. The following text is from the old review:
Much confusion arises over its age. The sign outside has been frequently amended. The place claims that Dick Turpin hid there in a priest-hole. Said priest-hole leads from the tap-room, up the chimney to landlord & landlady Alan & Judy's bedroom. Bar staff include John the Ageing Rockstar whose band The Mood had three chart hits in the early eighties. John is renound for his snowball sheet team names and his catchphrase "Can you shave your beards off now please" second only to "Thankyou, duck. Ta.", the utterence of Karen from Karen's Minimart, Fulford. Alan claims to be a simple man. He has recently added a trophy cabinet to the pub and bought several golf trophies to put in it. The Red Lion is most famed for its Enchanting Red Flowered Beer Garden. It has three fire-places inside. It also boasts the only quiz in Merchantgate (Wednesdays). 7.
The days when the Lion was run by a drunk Welshman and his dominatrix wife are long gone, but the Red Lion still has an interesting (and friendly enough) atmosphere thanks to its unusual architecture. Three small drinking areas surround a central bar, which offered nothing more appealing than John Smith's last time I was there. But it's nicely located on the edge of the city centre, near enough to nip into for a drink while shopping, far enough away to avoid the tourists. 5.
 

The Rose & Crown    7pts
Lawrence Street.
Last visited 2000.
A rather good pub. Now under new ownership. Guests are becoming more infrequent which is bad. Pool table is expensive. Not a lot of places to sit if it's busy. Can get very loud, especcially on a quiz night. But worth it for the dart board more than owt else.
 

Last Drop Inn    7pts
Colliergate; http://www.thelastdropinn.co.uk/
Last visited 22nd June 2002
A fairly new addition to the pubs of York, owned by the York Brewery, and full of their brews. Boasts the smallest beer garden in the country, which may or may not be true. But given the position of this pub in the town centre, it can get rather full. Looks like the type of place where people would sing round the piano and know each others' families if it weren't for it being in the town centre. There's a bit of a stylistic implosion too, with quotes by the likes of Jenny Eclair (dead funny) written on the walls, and the obligatory nooses etc (Last Drop being a pun from the seemingly Tyburn obsessed York Brewery), alongside stone walls and sparingly upholstered stools. For somewhere to drink copious amounts of York brews, this is probably the place to come, and is clearly better than its sister pub, the Three Legged Mare. But it's not up there with the likes of the Ackhorne. 7.
Not your usual brewery-tied pub, this is owned by the York Brewery, whose international empire consists of this place, and the more bar-ish Three Legged Mare. Their fine brews are on sale here, and taste better than anywhere else I've had them. Inside, this is like one of the more traditional Hogshead pubs. There's nothing obviously weird about it, but it's got a funny artificial and plastic feel to it, because it's virtually brand new, I guess. Being in the town centre, it does get busy, but wasn't too bad when we went around midday on a Saturday at the height of tourist season. 7.
 

The Maltings    7pts
Tanner's Moat; http://www.maltings.co.uk/
Last visited 22nd June 2002
Small, rustic and handy for the Station. The ceiling is covered in doors, the walls are covered in classic advertising (Craven "A" et al), and the whole place is smaller than it seems. Sells Black Sheep, and a decent array of guests. Also does food. But being small and near the Station, it gets quite busy. 7.
Smaller than it seems from the outside, rather dark and conspiratorial and with a large number of old adverts and signs crammed in and variously stuck to the walls and ceiling. These factors add up to a pub which seems to be in the middle of a much lager city than York. Home to a large selection of good guests, with Black Sheep a regular. Certainly a fine pub beer wise, but the decor is probably a matter of taste. 7.
 

The Bay Horse    6pts
Marygate.
Last visit - 2000.
Patronised by C4's Time Team. Quiz night on Mondays (though it is a difficult one) with free sandwiches. Offers a few guests including Old Peculier. Mainly patronised by married couples.
The Museum Gardens gets locked up at nights, so when walking back home bare this in mind. I was once stood by the gates at the museum end when caught mid lock-up, and had to wait to be released by the man with the keys.
In summer, it is nice to sit outside the pub on the benches, playing with inch-worms, and watching the disco-boats sail up and down the river. There aren't many pubs in York from where the river is in view. Asside from the Masons, this is the cosest thing to a riverside beer garden on the York stretch of the Ouse.
 

Fibbers    6pts
The Stonebow
Last visited 2000.
By day a cafe, by night something approximating a venue. The best place to see live music in York. Beer choice is limited - lagers on the whole. But you don't come here to drink. You come here to see Half Man Half Biscuit. Or whoever.
Not a pub at all, don't really know what it's doing in this list. There is no beer to speak of, it feels like what it says it is (a cafe-bar), there are plenty of better palces to have a drink. But that's not what it's for, it's for seeing bands.

The Flying Legends    6pts
Stirling Road, Clifton Moor
Last visited 1999.
Situated in the heart of an out of town retail estate. Be you here for Tescos, bowling, Toys R Us or cinema, there is no decent excuse for not visiting this bog-standard Beefeater / Brewer's Fayre Clone pub. Meals are good too. Beer range is Tetleys with the occasional guest.

The Golden Slipper    6pts
Goodramgate.
Last visited 18th June 1999.
A good pub, with a curious T-shaped bar, and a nice lounge with a fireplace. Old Speckled Hen is sold here. Students be warned though that they're moderately big on ID-ing.

Lendal Cellars    6pts
Lendal
Last visit 2000.
Part of the Hogshead chain. I used to like this place a lot but I am now going off it. It attracts a yuppie element and tends to get rather full. However, it has a typically Hogshead range of beers, which is good (or at least it is as I write). In addition to the drink, there is the novelty value of the architecture. It's like drinking in a tunnel. 6.
Big, noisy, cavernous, soul destroying. Hogshead, therefore decent beers, but just writing about it makes me want to go somewhere else. 2.
 

Scruffy Murphy's (now The Micklegate)    6pts
Micklegate
Last visited, 1999 (before the name change)
The Mucky Irishman is deceptively good. Avoid on Fridays and Saturdays of course (when the Micklegate run is in full swing), and get in one of the cubicles. Put your coat over the speaker if necesary, as the loud "Irish" music (U2 through to Riverdance) grates. The drinks make the pub worthwhile however, with Kilkenny, the usual Irish whiskys and the hard to find poitin/putchine/pucheen set alongside that black, over-commercialised stout thing that has the tie-in record books. Forgive this pub its tacky gimmickyness and savour the poitin. Incidentally, the toilets are upstairs, so you know when you've drunk too much.
May have been rebranded now.
When it was Scruffy Murphy's, it had the usual range of drinks for that chain (various Irish things, Guiness, Kilkenny, Murphys), with the bonus of a couple of small snugs where you could escape those doing the Micklegate run (for those not in the know, the Micklegate run is where you go in most or all of the pubs on and maybe around Micklegate, becoming louder, drunker, and miserabler as you go). I used to find it strangely attractive, but it may have changed.

The Charles (Charles XII)   5pts
Main Street, Heslington
Last visit 25th June 1999.
Never go in at the start or end of the university term. The place comes into its own during summer as it has a sizable beer garden. They tend to have barbeques too. But don't be surprised if it gets a little full here. The drink tends not to be very inspirational, and this is not the place to come if you don't like your pubs full of students. 5.
Like the Derramore Arms, this is in Heslington, by the university, and is more popular than the Derry, probably because it's about fifty yards closer to campus. The drinks are not as good, it is usually far busier, and it feels a bit fake, somehow (all the It's A Scream signs hardly help), but it's not bad for a quick one in the afternoon (as they say). 4.

The First Hussar    5pts
North Street
Visited 4th March 1998
The snug is quite nice. And there's one or two guests. But it was quite busy when we went and the beer wasn't much to write home about. Popular partitioned pub full of old men. Occasional folk night.

The Golden Fleece    5pts
Pavement.
Last visited 1999.
An unusual pub set around a corridor. There are quotes around the bottom bar which is clearly more geared for the younger drinker than the tap-room is. Sells Old Peculier. The pub is very very old. Maybe older than the Olde Starre Inne. All depends on what criteria you go with.

The Old Ebor    5pts
Drake Street
Visited 1999/2000
A stereotypical "local" pub really, with green upholstery and tobacco stained walls. Nice. Has a dart board as I recall. Drink isn't up to much though.

Ye Olde Starre Inne    5pts
Stonegate
Last visited 1999/2000.
It lives down a snicket because someone built a house in front of it. There is a courtyard, and the interior is sectioned off into a seemingly infinite number of cosy little rooms. But the architecture is not enough to make it worth your while trying to get a drink. The bouncers seem inclined to let in every seventh person if there is an "r" in the month. And the bar-staff are keen on ID-ing - there's various stories of ID-ing for lemonades etc... The music is quite loud too. 5.
Easy to hate, because there are bouncers at the top of the snicket which leads to the pub who won't let you in if there are too many people inside (which there often are), or if you look like you might once have been too young, or if they don't like your trousers etc. The drinks are acceptable (Theakstones), and there are a couple of small rooms off the main bar where you can try to retreat from the hordes, but it does tend to get very full and noisy. 3.

The Plough    5pts
Main Street, Fulford
Last visited 1999.
Arguably the best pub in Fulford. Certainly most welcoming. Does food. Has a beer garden. Drinks are a bit of a let down though - Stones and Worthingtons. And perhaps it is a bit too bright and open for some people. Quiz night is Monday, with chip butties at half time. 5
Certainly the friendliest pub in Fulford, they used to do free chip butties on quiz night (maybe they still do). Suffers badly from a lack of decent beer (Worthingtons Smoothy-Creamy Flow, or whatever it's called, and Stones), but if you don't like beer anyway, what does it matter? 5.

Quaker Wood    5pts
Acomb Wood Drive, Acomb
Visited 1999/2000
Big Steak so people come in their cars for a meal. It is near the Askham Bogs Nature Reserve, and also near the only woodland in York. It is a fairly typical foody pub inside. Almost identical to its sister pub the Flying Legends, but with less good beer (Tetleys).

The Trafalgar Bay    5pts
Nunnery Lane
Pleasant enough traditional interior with similar locals. Good juke box. Folk night on Fridays. Connect 4 if you're ever short of something to do. If it weren't for the drink (Sam Smiths) this pub would be quite nice.

The Wellington    5pts
Alma Terrace, Fulford.
Visited 5th July 1999.
In the middle of a housing estate. Pool table and beer garden. The beer, alas, is Sam Smiths. 4.
Two small rooms, one with a pool table, and another small beer garden. This is a Sam Smith's pub, but they have some decent whiskies also. It's either cosy or cramped, depending on your outlook on life. 5.

Three Legged Mare    5pts
High Petergate; http://www.thethreeleggedmare.co.uk/
Last visited 22nd June 2002
Another fairly recent addition courtesy of the York Brewery. In addition to the York drinks, it also boasts a modest selection of Belgian bottled beers. This pub is in a former goth shop, and the place downstairs that used to do ear-piercing is now the toilets. The whole place with its blue and silver stylish decor is very wine-barry, and not really my thing. I prefered the goth shop. And the Last Drop Inn for that matter. 5.
York Brewery's other pub, and it's hard to see a reason to go as the Last Drop Inn is better and not a million miles away. This is too much like a bar to appeal, long and thin, pine furnishings, it all seems a bit girly to me. Still, the York brews are in good condition here as well, and there were a couple of guests when we went which were lacking at the Last Drop. Not a bad pub if you just want a decent pint and don't mind drinking it in the Debenhams furniture department. 5.

The Blue Bell    4pts
Fossgate; http://www.bluebellyork.co.uk/
Last visited 2001.
Best to take a collapsable chair with you. This is the Good Beer Guide's favourite York Pub, and is much praised by the local CAMRA branch, but it is not the place to go if you suffer from even the slightest bit of claustrophobia - it's very small, and very full. And the drinks selection isn't really up to much either. 3.
Absolutely adored by Camra on account of selling real ale (albeit not really interesting real ale) and being old and apparently unrenovated. Certainly, the bright red brick makes this place stand out, but I doubt that the WMC style furniture inside is authentic. Apparently, the Blue Bell did a lot to make real ale a serious business in York, but it's been surpassed by several other pubs now, in my view. The beer is decent, but nothing special, but the real turn off is the size of the place. Its smallness may be a draw to some, but I go to a pub for a sit down and a natter, not to stand up in a corridor waiting for somebody to leave so I can make a lunge for a seat. Visit once, by all means (preferably in the day when it's quieter) and see what you think. I don't think much. 4.

The Frog Hall    4pts
Layerthorpe
Last visit 1999/2000
Like a function room or a club inside. Not wonderful. Affordable pool table though, and darts. And not a bad juke box either.

The Phalanx & Firkin / (Coach & Horses)    4pts
Micklegate
Last visited, 1999
Back in the days when the Firkin brewery existed, this had some rather pleasant drinks. But those days are gone, and the drinks range has suffered. This place is geared towards a younger market. It is full of chez-lounges, video-games and giant jengas. Unusual, but perhaps in the wrong way.

The Punch Bowl    4pts
Stonegate
Last visit - 5th March 1998.
Jazz acts often contend with the juke-box. Back in the seventeenth century this pub was the meeting place for just about every social or political group who ever existed in the walls of York. Now it is a fairly average and uninteresting place, apart from on jazz night.

The Roman Bath    4pts
St Sampsons Square
Last visit 7th February 1998.
Kind of a bit middle-class. The closest thing to a Roman theme-pub, with mosaics and a bath. Nothing special. Has it's own brew: bathwater.

The Royal Oak    4pts
Goodramgate; http://www.royal-oak-pub-york.co.uk/
Last visited late 1997.
Designed with the tourist in mind, but nice and old-fashioned. Lots of wood. The gents is outside. One or two guest ales. Does food too, I think.

The Saddle    4pts
Main Street, Fulford
Last visited 1998.
Camerons ale. Pub is small and full of old men and their dogs. Otherwise okay. Dart board, and benches outside (albeit on an A-road). 4.
Way out in Fulford, home to a few students and a fancy dress shop. A Camerons pub, which means decent, but not spectacular, beer. I found the atmosphere a bit intimidating (I speak as one who was quite clearly a student at the time), but it's probably the best pint in Fulford. 4.

The Slip    4pts
Clementhorpe
Visited 1999/2000
Looks a little small and daunting from outside. It has a kind of dock-side tavern aura about it, as if you might get pressganged or beaten up by bargees. Inside it is a red-upholstered stereotype local, with a plush tap-room at the back, and an outside gents toilet. It was empty when we went. It's the type of pub where the landlord knows the name of every local, and they probably have their own seat. But it's not nasty in any way. It's worth a browse if you're in the area.

The Spread Eagle   4pts
Walmgate
Visited 8th May 1998
Went in once. They cocked up the food order, and the food we got was crap. But there's a fairly decent range of guests.

Stockton on the Forest Inn    4pts
Malton Road
Visited 1999/2000.
It is an Innkeeper's Fayre, which means that it is a Brewer's Fayre, which is all you need to know really. Foody Beefeater clone on an A-Road.

The Swan    4pts
Clementhorpe
Visited 1999/2000
Timber-built, like the Black Swan and the Red Lion. Like an above-average student bar inside. Gets in Good Beer Guide, selling, as it does, one or two guests.

The Three Tuns    4pts
Coppergate
Last visited 7th November 1998.
Nothing special. Mansfield ales. Big on sport - especcially Rugby. 4
A pretty basic Mansfield pub without a lot going for it, but with nothing really unpleasant about it either. 4.

The Victoria    4pts
Heslington Road
Last visited 2000.
Okay. Nothing too special. Nothing bad about it. Old Mill brewery. Bookshelves contain some real gems, including a German edition of The Satanic Verses. Tends to be frequented by students waiting for the bus to the Clifton Moor night-clubs.

The Victoria    4pts
Nunnery Lane
Visited 7th November 1998
I went once but I was quite drubnk. Seemed alright though. Fairly average pub. Old photos on the wall, that sort of thing.

The Waggon & Horses    4pts
Gillygate
Last visited 13th August 1999.
You could do a lot worse. This is a nice little pub with horse-brasses and things. There might be a pool table round the back. A Bass pub though, so the drink isn't up to much.

The Bay Horse    3pts
Blossom Street
Visited 21st April 1998.
The best reason for going in is to see the fake bookshelves. They are rather bad - painted spines on the wall... Other than that curio, this pub is rather poor.
 

The Bonding Warehouse    3pts
Skeldergate
Visited 26th January 1998.
Very bar-y. Bit pretentious and yuppie. Has a riverside patio affair. Occasional live acts. Has a cellar that floods (don't they all...).

The Cross Keys     3pts
Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses
Visited 1999/2000.
By no means a terrific pub. But alright. All-electric at the bar, with the best option being Brewery Conditioned Theakstons.

The Gimcrack    3pts
Fulford Road
Visited 28th February 1999.
Nasty, shiney, yuppie pub. Nasty. But it has a pool table. Drink isn't up to much. There might be Theakstons. 3.
Awful shiny, mirrored pub, good for narcissists, I suppose. It is in an area not exactly teeming with drinking houses, so you may find it convenient for something, but there are far nicer pubs elsewhere. 3.

The Hansom Cab    3pts
Market Street
Visited 27th February 1998.
Another Yuppie pub. Not so much a pub as a train carriage (though not an actual train carriage, cos that would be quite novel and good). It is quite horrible. To make matters worse, it is Sam Smiths. 3.
Quite long, quite narrow, quite bright and shiny, quite poor. Being a Sam Smith's pub, there is very cheap beer, but being a Sam Smith's pub, the beer is not too great. 3.
 

The Kings Arms    3pts
Kings Staith
Last visited 4th March 1998.
Stone built and famous for having its cellar upstairs because of flood problems. One of the most famous pubs in Britain becuase it submerges every year. This is a tourist's pub. Sam Smiths.
 

The Lowther    3pts
Kings Staith
Last visited Spring 2002.
A wooden, empty shell with no drinks to speak of (and no real ale at all). The most attractive feature are the two spiral staircases (whoever thought of putting such things in a pub surely deserves a prize), one of which feels like it could disintegrate at any moment. 3.
 

Puss in Boots    3pts
 Hamilton Drive
Visited 1999/2000
A housey pub in the middle of a housing estate. Bar caters for the young, tap room for the old. Not bad for what it is. But not a great pub.

Keystones    0pts
Goodramgate
Visited - 1998 or 99. I forget.
The worst pub in York. Yet strangely full. The only drink available seems to be bottled lager. Part of the It's a Scream chain.
This is a student pub unfortunately located on the opposite side of town from the university. It therefore attracts lecherous old men who fancy pulling a bit of young totty, but who, in fact, end up only talking to themselves. It is a sad place, and should be shut down for the good of the city. 0.
 

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