The Maltings, York - pub details
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Address: Tanners Moat, York, North Yorkshire, YO1 6HU [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 1635)
York (0.2 miles), Poppleton (2.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Fruit machines
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 7.1/10 (rated by 144 users)
> Local guides: York pub guide, North Yorkshire pub guide
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user reviews of the Maltings, York
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| Situated close by the end of Lendal Bridge over the River Ouse, the Maltings is a long established real ale orientated pub that really should not be missed on any York crawl. It's the first pub that you come to when you leave the railway station, a 5 minute walk away in the direction of the City Centre. Don't let the rather forbidding black painted exterior discourage you. It's a bare boarded single bar pub with the atmosphere and décor of an ale house, notably decorated with old enamel signs ( eg Rowntrees, Wills, Gold Flake ) and, unusually, a ceiling that is covered with old wooden doors. A blackboard outside tells us that the Maltings was the "Cask Ale Pub of Britain 1998". It's been a CAMRA Good Beer Guide regular in recent years. The pub is advertising its 18th Anniversary as The Maltings and is having a "Coming of Age" Beer Festival for three days this coming October. The pub normally has 7 real ales and 4 ciders on. On my recent visit, beers on included Black Sheep and Roosters YPA ( and a few others which I forgot to note ). With the exception of a beer called Chockwork Orange ( ABV 6.5% - £ 3.50p ) , beers were priced between £ 2.80p and £ 3.10p. The Roosters YPA - £ 2.90p - was in good form. Drinkers of foreign and bottled beers are unlikely to be disappointed by the selection available. This is an excellent pub to start or finish a crawl of York's many fine pubs and should not be missed JohnBonser - 13 Jul 2010 13:32 |
| As a frequent visitor to York, I used to make a point of visiting this pub. It used to have the best selection of ales in York and friendly staff. No longer! The owner looks at his customers as if they were a pain and the staff are'nt much better. The days are long gone when a publican could treat his customers with contempt and this is evident by dwindling clientele of this establishment. jimg - 26 Jun 2010 18:47 |
| We tend to avoid the Maltings these days. The landlord is aggressive and rude. He seems to forget that customers make paydays possible! The beer is passable, if a little uninspiring, and with a pint of Roosters nudging the £3 mark, its expensive, even for York. For those coming to York by train, a suggestion; rather than doing the main tourist drag towards the York Minster over Lendal Bridge, turn right out of the station and follow the walls round to Micklegate Bar. You'll avoid the Maltings and come across such gems as the Brigantes and the Ackhorn. arihall - 6 Jun 2010 08:34 |
| From the BBC website 26//03/10: "Next month, pubs and licensed clubs in England and Wales will have to make free tap water available to their drinking customers.This requirement is being imposed by the Home Office on 6 April in a new code of practice on alcohol retailing". If they are not going to make it available free of charge, with or without good grace, then they are failing miserably. Had Greshon and his mates walked in and just ordered 4 glasses of water, the staff could have been justified in asking them to back that up with actual purchases, but the attitude described above, if accurate, is very, very poor and disappointing from one of my very favourite pubs. We visited for the first time in three years just two days after this sorry episode and enjoyed two rounds of excellent beers. Gristy - 3 Jun 2010 16:34 |
| Had heard great things about this pub and was really looking forward to going. Got in and saw the great range of drinks, and it seemed a friendly enough place. Ordered a round of pints for me and my two friends, after which I asked for half a pint of tap water, no ice. The landlady plonked the water down on the counter in front of me, looked me in the face and said "70p" in quite a defiant tone, which took me back. I genuinely thought she was joking, and asked her if she was. "No, she said, "that's 70p." "We don't get it for free, you know," chirped in the enourmous landlord. Her turn again next: "You can't just come in here for water." At this I had to answer back. "Just come in here for water? We've just spent over £10 on a round and were going to have a couple more. That's not 'just' water, is it?" I couldn't believe it when the landlord then told me to "Shut up". The whole pub was silenced in listening to this little conflict, and the customers then preceded to whisper to each other - the incident seemed to spark off somehting of a debate. Needless to say, we didn't stay any longer after our round (the quality of the drinks was excellent, I might add) and none of us will ever be coming here ever again - and I doubt if the owners care less ("See you lads" said Enourmous, sarcastically, as we left. But isn't this just completely out of order? If we had just wandered in and orrdered a round of waters, then fare enough. Or if one of us was only expecting free tapwater. But we ALL ordered premium priced drinks and, as it was a very hot day outisde and we were lugging heavvy bags, also wanted a glass of water - and didn't expect to pay through the nose for it (70p! Does that mean a pint of water would be... £1.40?). And she didn't listen to me, surly woman: I said NO ICE! Greshon - 28 May 2010 11:38 |
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