please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
One of York's best pubs, TT Landlord was fantastic. The place is very small but you can be assured of a fine pint served the way it should be. My only wish is that they had a branch location in the USA.
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Really good real ale pub. Several good pulls on at any one time and all are well kept. Can get packed when it's busy, but it's worth a stop in!
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Made to feel very welcome by landlord and woman behind bar. Enjoyed a well kept pint of Titanic Captain Smith's. Very cosy place. I cannot imagine what it's like when very busy as it is so small. Only managed a fleeting visit but definitely intend to return and stay longer. Several hand pumps including Timothy Taylor landlord.
Sign on entrance that says no stag/hen parties, so guaranteed to keep the riff raff out.
Traditional boozer.
Slake - 13 Jun 2008 21:54 |
Best pib in town. great ales well kept. A pub for grown ups. No burberry in site.
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We found this pub recently and visited it on three nights running, it was that good. Don't expect flashing lights and loud music, screaming students or Saturday night scuffels. This is a traditional, quiet drinking house with just two rooms. The kind of place you can go for a quiet drink, or even better, take your dad for a pint, ("I remember when all pubs were like this"). As good a range of beers as you are going to find anywhere in town.
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It's all good. Have been visiting York to drink good beer for nearly thirty years, yet last week was my first visit to the Blue bell. I am disgusted with myself for missing it for so long. The visit was particularly welll punctuated by Dot the fine barmaid.
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Got in before the post 5pm 'rush' -cracking pint of Everards Stout (£2.65)..sat in the back room -very accomodating staff.
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Loved the staff, the patrons, and the Landlord/s (Jim and Sue Hardy). The atmosphere is brilliant. If you want that friendly feeling when you walk into a pub, here it is!
EricD - 23 Dec 2007 08:39 |
Called in here last Saturday as part of a real ale pub crawl. If you enjoy a friendly welcoming boozer serving a wide range of spot on ales then this is the place for you. Smashing time guaranteed.
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A newspaper cutting on the wall describes this as the "most accidentally perfect pub", which is a nice way of putting it. I only "explored" the tiny front bar which had wood floor, walls and ceiling, old fireplace, bench seating, lots of clutter, subdued lighting and crammed with atmosphere. Some 7 hand pulled ales available. A real Gem and by far the most original and charismatic little pub I could find in York.
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Without doubt the best pub in York, a huge achievement given the very stiff competition. Just been voted CAMRA York Pub of The Year for 2007 and richly deserved. Outstanding range of superbly kept - and served - beer, superb unaltered interior and very chatty, warm feeling from the clientele. Rammed full at 8.30pm on the Saturday, but miraculously emptied out a huge group of people all at once to allow us a comfortable couple of pints in the smoke room.
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not bad
cider fizzy but not strongbow ewww
saw a bloke wearing his jumper slung over his back with the arms draping
over and hanging down his chest, said vermin was telling golf jokes while others around table laughed inanely
nice pub mind
we would go back
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Thanks to Stu.search.4.mild for locating this only outlet for mild in York.
A cracking pint of Tetley's MILD. Why oh why do the herd proles drink tastless eurofizz when you can drink MILD (which by the way aint weak) and wake up without a headache and ready for more.
A greta landlord who as Stu says takes no messing from the chavs and lager head proles.
Will be back for more MILD in the BlueBell when next in York.
Remember the motto NO MILD WALK OUT.
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After years of drinking Sam Smiths keg MILD in the Hansom Cab it was a real pleasure to find Tetleys MILD here when we visited at Easter. As far as we know this is the only cask MILD in York. Landlord was very friendly and informative in our quest for MILD.
Mainly well behaved and sociable customers, unreasonable rowdiness was soon quashed, thankfully a landlord who stands for no messing.
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Never been before and how we got served I don't know very busy pub is an understatment, both rooms very full, I know there small how he puts a beer festival on I'm going to have to visit, ended up sitting in the corridor. This pub had 6 yes 6 real ales on Adnams Bitter, John Smiths Cask, Greene Kings Abbot, Timothy Taylors Landlord, Deuchars IPA and Camerons Strongarm Ruby Red, how do they do it. Terrific atmosphere for a pub thats like a Tardis. Next time I visit I will make sure I'm one of the first in, great place.
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Cracking tradional boozer.Always had an excellent pint here,this time it was Abbott Ale.Its a cramped 2 room pub with a side passage to join them.Sat in the back room this time.On the food front,they appear to have gone back to the doorstep sandwiches-which fits in with the pubs image-rather than the tapas etc of a few years ago.
Best to avoid this pub if you're in a large group-as it IS small.My favourite York pub.
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This is a great pub with excellent beers. Beer festivals in the street in the summer were fantastic. Not sure if they still do them.
It's defiantly worth a visit. Full of character. And while your down that way carry on to the Black Swan, a little out of the way, but defiantly worth the walk to another traditional English pub full of history.
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A very intimate two roomed pub in the middle of York. You get the impression of visiting someone's private home. Panelling from the early 1900s. A must visit pub with well kept real ale. I had a nice pint of Jennings Cumberland Ale.
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A York institution. Tiny cramped Edwardian pub - at the weekend you'll probably end up standing in the corridor. Good beer, friendly staff, unique experience. Definitely worth visiting.
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Nice small pub!
Kerei - 18 Jul 2005 14:18 |
Very nice inside decor which features early 20th wood paneling and six real ale pulls to choose from. The staff was helpful, but this pub can get very crowded to say the least and you may have very little elbow room to enjoy your pint. Several locals recommended that we see the pub, not only for its history, but also for the way in which they treat the beer (very nice-lines well cleaned and cared for).
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Visited 11 Jun 05. This is certainly a tiny pub, which should exude charm and friendliness. Unfortunately I have to agree with the review left by Mark Blyth, it was not particularly pleasent. We were left in no doubt that we were largely in the way of both the staff and the locals.
The real ale, we had Moorhouse Blond Witch was in good condition, but surely a pub is more than just a beer dispensing emporium.
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An excellent little pub in the middle of town. I find it very difficult to fault this pub at all, the beers are great, nice hand-pulled range, the staff have alway been friendly, and the traditional setting is really pleasant. On some evenings it can get busy, and you might struggle to find a seat, but otherwise brilliant. Also they have an annual beer festival where they close the road outside, put out tents and seating, and have a BBQ. Great fun had.
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Visited this pub for the first time last weekend and enjoyed it. The beer was very good and the pub was quite atmospheric. It is a very small pub (described in the York Pub Conservation Group's book "Historic Pubs in and around York" as "compact and initimate") and on the Saturday evening that I went it was extremely busy and there was little room to move around. The interior is fantastic and I would recommend that anyone visiting York spends some time here.
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I visited the pub on the 7th February. The beers were well kept (although the selection not very exciting: Adnam's Broadside, Deuchar's, Abbot's and something else I don'y remember). The rear room is a relaxed great place for a chat.
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Probably the most unfriendly pub i've ever come across. Bar man very unpolite, and other 'locals' very intimedating. A woman in the pub known to us as Noddy Holder-a-like was also very rude. Barman then asked us to leave the pub for an undisclosed reason and confiscated our drink (3/4 full). Fair enough if we had actually done anything. After speaking to some local students we heard that this pub is always like this. WHAT A HOLE!!! p.s. I think their chess set is missing a rook!!
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After traveling for two weeks in
search of pubs and perfect pints,
I happened upon this small gem,
run by a couple, divided into a
small front wood-paneled non-smoking room with a fireplace; and a rear smoking room. The bar cleverly served both. Tapas were
offered as fare, and the people were cheery and socialable. One of
the most pleasurable pubs I experienced...
cybervulcha - 23 Dec 2004 02:50 |
Great, great boozer. This place has some fine ales and the interior is what I'd imagine a pub to look like. Snug, public and I think a saloon bar (don't shoot me if I'm wrong about one of those) so all the beery boxes have been ticked me hearties.
I would recommend to anyone, especially visitors to England wanting to know why we have pubs. This is the reason why.
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Traditional small old cosy pub in the center of York.Customers from all walks of life together with the occasional tourist.A CAMRA winner where you can sit and chat with anyone. Best sandwiches made daily with Tapas as an alternative! A jewel of a pub.
John Yates - 5 Nov 2004 12:29 |
