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All of the pubs and bars within the city walls are now reviewed and [...]
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NEWS: 08/03/10 – York 2010 Beer Festival confirmed
The York branch of the Campaign For Real Ale has confirmed that the festival will again be held on Knavesmire this year, from September 16 to 18. Full Story here.
NEWS: 03/03/10 – Lamb & Lion to close after bank wrangle
It seems the Lamb & Lion is the latest pub to close after a financial dispute with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Hopefully the next incarnation won’t try to claim to be over 200 years old.
Full story here.
Minster Inn
Recently, we at thepubsofyork.com finished reviewing all the pubs and bars inside the City Walls. Like a small boy who’s allowed to play outside his front garden for the first time, York’s premiere pub review website could not wait to spread it’s collective wings.
Old Ebor
The Old Ebor was built in the latter half of the 19th Century and used the ‘Old’ epithet to distinguish it from the various other houses in the city with ‘Ebor’ in their names. Nowadays, the only real characteristic that differentiates it from other similar pubs in the city are the mystifying opening hours it [...]
Bay Horse, Marygate
One of the finest pleasures York has to offer, especially on a fine summers day or a crisp winter morning, is a ramble through the Museum gardens.
As you wander merrily around the potted borders, you can cast your inquisitive eye over a Roman Tower, 1800 years old, clamber over the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey [...]
Oscar’s
Oscar’s used to be situated where Stonegate Yard now resides and after a bit of a fight over naming rights (see that review for brief details), Oscar’s set up shop next door to it’s alcohol purveying sister, the Biltmore.
It was always renowned for it’s food and this doesn’t seem to have changed in the new [...]
Vudu Lounge
Come on, be honest, you’re probably thinking that thepubsofyork.com must have looked as out of place in the Vudu Lounge as Delboy and Rodney did when they turned up at a wake dressed as Batman and Robin in the 1996 Christmas Special of Only Fools and Horses.
The bars name may well give away that it [...]
York Arms
This pub is managed by Sam Smiths and subsequently serves up the very affordable and tasty offerings from the Tadcaster based brewery. York’s most up-to-date pub review website quite likes Sam Smiths pubs, but like the Hansom Cab, one of it’s fellow city centre siblings, the York Arms has a bit of a seedy feel [...]