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Marvellous beer and delicious food. Been here several times when visiting York and the food has always been excellent. Also has a good choice of foreign bottled beers. A mixture of groups, couples and singles so anyone should feel relaxed due to the friendly atmos.
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Another fantastic York pub. More like a brasserie than the classic pub but with expertly kept beer. An oasis of civilisation on the lager swamp known as Micklegate. Service can be a bit slow but only because they take care when pulling a pint. The food was excellent as well. Quite possibly the BEST steak & ale pie I've ever had. I take that back. It was the best steak & ale pie I've ever had.
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Lost a couple of hours of my life yesterday awaiting the train choas to subside (it didn't!) enjoying several pints of superbly kept real ale and a nice sunday lunch. Lovely.
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Popped in here on my own for a swift one when visiting York on business trip. Felt comfortable despite being on my jack jones. 7 ales on as I recall including Leeds Best, a Castle Rock ale, York Terrier. I enjoyed a pint of Kelham Island Easy rider that was tip top. Intend to visit again at some point.
Slake - 13 Jun 2008 21:59 |
Excellent range of real ales, cider and bottled beers, however this pub is trying too hard - little atmosphere, sirly staff.
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I picked up a Christmas menu for this pub in my local in Birmingham, and as we were going for Christmas called in for a meal on 23rd. We were not disappointed by either the excellent food or the choice of real ales on offer, and enjoyed particularly the Leeds Midnight Bell. Excellent.
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You know you're onto a winner when the first thing you see on the door is a sign saying that hen/stag parties are not admitted - deserves 10/10 just for that. Even better is the looks on the faces of the knuckleheaded yahoos who discover that the place doesn't serve Becks or similar fizzy bottled crap. They even have a beer menu ... truly heaven on earth.
What the place *does* serve is a fantastic range of German and Belgian beers along with a good selection of hand-pulled real ales. No smoking throughout (although that doesn't really matter now) but clean, civilised and quiet, in stark contrast to the other hell-holes on Micklegate.
Serves food which is apparently very good - haven't tried it myself as I was rather preoccupied with the beers. Neither York or (especially) Micklegate deserve an establishment like this, but it truly deserves to succeed and I hope it does.
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Excellent range of well-kept beer, a taster of things to come when the smoking ban hits in July. Such a pleasure to walk in a place that smells clean - not disinfected clean, either, just CLEAN. Relaxed atmosphere on a Sunday lunchtime, just hope it can keep itself above the circuit grot-holes that surround it...
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Staff helpful & friendly. Food good quality and well presented, but a bit pricey. Would go again
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Love it! Beer in good nick. No smoking. Not tried the food yet but heard good reports. Not yer typical Micklegate pub thank goodness!
alanl - 28 Jan 2007 01:45 |
I look forward to all pubs having such a clean atmosphere. No smoking throughout-great. It's quite a busy pub so we reserved a table for 6 to have an evening meal a couple of nights after Christmas and we were not disappointed. The food was excellent. It serves a good range of changing ales and Belgium beers.
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A great selection of both home grown beers and Euro wheat beers. Nice atmosphere on the crappest of drinking streets in town.
My only concern, every business that has had the premises for the last 10 years has failed shortly after opening. Hopefully this place will last.
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Great pub. Helpfull staff, huge selection of beers and lagers and is totally non-smoking. Really nice place that's always kept clean.
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Slight correction, it's a Market Town Tavern. Market Taverns pubs are in London and Surrey.
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My only gripe about this pub is that it pretends not to be a pub at all, but a "bar and brasserie", like all the others in the Market Tavern chain. It's a pub!!
And what a pub. Clean air, a great range of beers, and reasonable (for York) prices. The helpful staff know what they're doing, too, which always helps. For choice alone this pub goes straight into York's top ten. Unmissable.
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A new bar / pub that is aimed at the real ale market. 6+ hand pulled on tap. Beers were nice, and surroundsings fairly pleasant. It had the feeling of an irish theme bar, because of dark wooden flooring, and chairs, tables etc. But nice. Decorated with beer labels all over the walls.
One to visit for the beers for sure, will be interesting to see how it stands test-of-time.
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