Category Archives: Best Avoided

Pubs that due to either bad beer or poor surroundings are generally best avoided and offer nothing in terms of a good drinking experience.

Reflex

The eighties was a pretty momentous decade and so your favourite pub review website was quite looking forward to arriving at York’s branch of Reflex, one of the chains forty-one eighties themed bars in the UK. Perhaps it was expecting … Continue reading →

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Flares

The main entrance to Flares down a bit of a side street off Tanner Row which thepubsofyork.com greatly appreciated. It minimised the chances of being sighted by colleagues or friends entering this 70′s themed disco-bar. Like many of the other … Continue reading →

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Yates’s

There are 70+ of these godforsaken shitholes around the UK so you probably know exactly what you’re going to get when venturing over the threshold of a Yates’s establishment, but, if that hasn’t put you off or you are a … Continue reading →

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Rumours

thepubsofyork.com was last in this grade II listed building on a sunny Sunday evening in June. As it sat on the high level beer terrace and watched the sun slowly sink behind York’s Southerly skyline it couldn’t help feeling good … Continue reading →

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Nags Head

“Trebles 4 Singles” screams the advertising at the front of this building. Whether the word ‘singles’ refers to a singular shot of a spirit, or, one of the many young free and, er, single people who frequent this establishment, thepubsofyork.com … Continue reading →

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Brown Cow

When entering the Brown Cow for the very first time, thepubsofyork.com had a decision to make with regard to the Brown Cow that with hindsight, was as important to our lives as Russian linesman Tofik Bakhramov deciding that the ball … Continue reading →

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