Rugby Tavern, Hullback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Reopened without notice, April 17th, 2019.
Nice to see the spruced-up carpet etc., but the ludicrous Sam Smiths (SS) latest ban, on phones tablets and iPads, might mean they struggle to get customers.
Only a matter of time before they ban drinking in their pubs.
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Closed without notice on December 16th, 2018.
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Typical Sam Smith house: no intrusive noise, just conversation. The OBB was in tip-top condition and priced at just £1.90 a pint. Well worth a visit. 9/10.
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Another new team behind the bar, but the place remains the same. Still get a decent pint for under �2! Taddy Lager, �1.95 when I went. Usual Sam's range, though not all of them. I like it anyway.
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A refurb was done here about 4 years ago. Had a lot of managers in the last 2 years some ok but apparently all got the sack. Seems strange, but the regulars go on as the other reviewer says forever! Beer usually good and pub is clean, you are always made to feel at home. A pub mostly for older drinkers, you can have a natter and the locals are friendly lots have a good yarn to tell you. Recommended.
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WYSIWYG. One of those full-all-day type pubs, serving the Sam Smith's range. No more Diat Pils - they've stopped making this haven't they? - but cheap enough to make a visit worthwhile. Landlords have come and gone in recent years but the down-to-earth clientele go on, seemingly forever.
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It used to be the case that if you went in there on most days, you could see Flash Flanagan, ex Hull and Rovers star of the sixties, in there supping, and have a beer with him.
The last time I went in here, they had Ayingebrau Pils on tap, which was 6.5%. Absolutely vicious brew for lunchtime drinking when I worked on George Street.
Marvellous.
Nice atmosphere. Plenty of black and white photos (and some of the other team as well - ha) for a nice history of rugby in Hull.
And anyone that knows anything about drinking and visits Hull usually pays a visit to the Rugby Tavern.
I found a Rugby Tavern in London recently, in Holborn, but it wasnt really the same. They play Union down there you know.
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I used to frequent the Rugby in the early 90s, because i worked at the casino down the street. It was always a decent place and we had staff parties there too!
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A legendary old pub, once on the Queens Dock where whalers would tie up outside - I think the poub had an associated name. Anyway, many decades ago it became The Rugby when it was taken ovcer by a well known Rugby player (Hull has had hundreds of them - and it was once Bass and Hull Brewery's policy to give them pubs to manage when their playing career is over!) .
I used this pub a lot in the early 70s, in the days when it was run by Val and Trevor Eland, who alkso had a folk club upstairs - I remember Billy Connolly showing up one night. I digress.
The Rugby has been much expanded since and is now a well run food oriented pub, lots of office types using it, especially the BBC staff from the new BBC TV and radio studio opposite. Its priuces reflect that. Food is good and wholesome, health conscious too. Not a lot of atmnosphere in the evenings, but a ssafe well run pub.
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