thepubsofyork.com aims to be a comprehensive guide to the pubs of York – the best AND the worst, and in order to do this, we have provided a rating system for users to grade the pubs on this site:

Being showered with free beer and pork scratchings wouldn’t persuade you to ever set foot in a place like this again.

Not the world’s worst pub, but something about it means you wouldn’t mind if you never went back.

Not bad at all, but not great….

A very good ale house, you could happily visit once a week.

Superb, if your partner didn’t mind you’d gladly marry the landlady, move into the room upstairs and spend every waking hour here.