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A very warm welcome to thepubsofyork.com, York’s most up-to-date online companion for drinking in pubs, in and around the fair city of York.
Navigate around the site by using the A-Z guide, the pub map or simply the good, old fashioned search function.
All of the pubs and bars within the city walls are now reviewed and [...]

Trafalgar Bay

The Trafalgar Bay is, apparently, the only pub that bears this name in Britain, which we think is quite nifty.
The inquisitive fellow who might think about how this boozer got such a unique name would probably link it to Nelson’s famous victory over the Spanish and French fleets off the Cape of Trafalgar in 1805. [...]

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 [...]

1331

1331 is York’s only bar with actual digits in its name (apart from pubs such as the Three Cranes and Three Tuns etc who are refered to in the more traditional alphabetical way).
So why this numerical moniker thepubsofyork.com hear you shout?
Surely it can’t be in honour of the battle of Plowce which was fought on [...]