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Closed years ago. Now “luxury” flats.
No idea where richythemole went but it wasn’t Minerva.
4 Aug 2019 19:48
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.
21 Apr 2019 14:50
Closed, boarded-up. Homeless people sleeping in the doorways as the 2017 City of Culture returns to reality.
6 Apr 2019 21:00
Since it reopened. I’ve tried and tried to like this pub. However, it seems dirty and unorganised - frequently there’s half the pumps out of service - with bar staff that appear to have no concept of serving people in the order that they arrive at the bar.
Fine if you’re part of the clique.
6 Apr 2019 20:53
Usual Wetherspoons serving issues. Maybe customers should use the app and order stuff online from in the bar. Outside seating area (hotel upstairs now, too) from where you can watch drug raids at Divas next door or, across the road, observe the phalanx of smokers outside Ebemeezers and Moderation. Too big though, as are most ‘Spoons IMHO.
13 May 2018 21:34
A shadow of its former self. Only matter of time before it becomes luxury flats.
13 May 2018 21:29
Recently reopened, run by the same crew that owns gay bar Savile Row across the road. Interesting WW2 Italian POW ceiling. Rock nights and stuff. Tables outside. Grade 2 listed building.
13 May 2018 21:27
City centre pub. Could be anywhere. Interesting externally. Outside seating area on the main road, with a handy bus stop.
13 May 2018 21:19
Yates’s now. Popular with the breakfast boozers. You can sit in the window and attempt to stare out other 10am boozers in Lyrics
13 May 2018 21:15
Busy, ridiculously so at times. Decent if rowdy pub, suitably lairy on a Saturday afternoon. Keen barstaff, almost exclusively Latvian, though today I couldn’t get served despite there being no one else waiting. Toilets upstairs.
13 May 2018 21:10
8 years on, and fhe same issues persist. Any more than a handful at the bar and you’re waiting and waiting and waiting. Not the least of the problems is that the few bar staff are frequently occupied for long periods of time dealing with large food orders: a woman today spent at least 10 minutes ordering numerous meals, as the crowd waiting to be served grew & grew. Horribly uncomfortable high stools too and, of course, unsupervised children running about all over.
13 May 2018 21:05
Proper 3-room boozer, even retains vestiges of a serving hatch! New landlord tends to dress as if he's just about to do a hard stint in the garden but no-one seems to mind. Usual SS brews at usual SS prices.
11 Jan 2013 18:18
Went during last summer ['11]. Sat in the small bar - a slight hint of "There's a stranger in town", when I walked in but maybe that's just me. Friendly enough locals in the end. Staff OK. Forgotten what I had - bitter - but it was lovely.
5 Oct 2011 19:17
Went one teatime when waiting to meet somebody. A bit 'airport lounge' for me. Long narrow room, staff seemed OK. Handy for pizza and chip shops.
5 Oct 2011 19:15
Went there end of Sept '11 - a few 'Gothy'-looking regulars. Nice place, friendly locals & staff. 'Atmospheric', you could probably say.
5 Oct 2011 19:13
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.
5 Oct 2011 19:09
Never recovered from the refurb a few years ago, IMO, which destroyed a lot of the charm - serving hatch into the back room, for example.
Still, does what it says on the tin. Handy if the Mrs. wants to spend an hour in 'Primani' nearby.
5 Oct 2011 18:57
Lovely little pub, something of an anachronism though, along Trinity House Lane which is becoming a mini-strip of small bars. Can sit outside in decent weather.
26 Dec 2010 10:18
Yet another rebranding - now called 'Moderation', the garish yellow exterior replaced with a vivid red one.
26 Dec 2010 09:59
Loved this pub 30 years ago. Still do. Life in 3-D and surround sound.
23 Nov 2010 16:36
Spent a very long 30 minutes one afternoon there this summer. Just me and a hardened regular, who looked ready to evaporate into the atmosphere at any moment. 'Library' consisting of a couple of dozen books. Not my favourite place, sadly.
23 Nov 2010 16:32
Worth a train ride to Bridlington purely to go in this station bar. Wold Top on er...top form when I was last there. Walls hidden under loads of railway memorabilia, tables outside. Go.
23 Nov 2010 16:29
Now called "Leonardo's" - taken over a few years back by the bloke who ran a cafe of the same name in the nearby Princes Quay shopping centre. Nice. Very nice in summer.
23 Nov 2010 16:19
Now called 'Yello', I think. Never actually been in. Wouldn't want to, tbh. Some salty-looking dudes hang out in there. Suppose that you could sit and stare-out the smokers across the road outside Diva's bar. [Formerly Edward VII]
23 Nov 2010 16:13
Now called Sgt.Pepper's, open until 5am. Before that, was called Magma and was, according to the police during a 2008 court hearing, the source of more than 200 'incidents' in a year, ranging from drug-dealing in the bar to disturbances in nearby streets. Run by a local wheel-clamping magnate. Not too bad actually, under the circumstances.
23 Nov 2010 16:06
Yes, a Proper Pub [not an pretend hotel lobby or airport lounge] a few seconds' walk from the Bus Station. Sam Smith's range - 'Taddy Lager' �1.70-odd - full of character and 'characters'. So 'realistic' that it's almost not real, if that makes any sense. Like a cartoon version of a real boozer, except that you're in it!
18 Nov 2010 18:11
Now called 'Legends', and featuring low-quality, music-related, entertainment-style experiences. Adjacent to Holy Trinity Church, and the declining indoor market.
7 Nov 2010 15:35
Seems to win endless awards from CAMRA, but most times I've visited, I've been the only customer. Been in a few times to find no-one serving, other times just me & the landlord looking at each other. Pity, because I love small, downstairs bars. Just seems a trifle lacking in atmosphere. Maybe I go at the wrong times.
Sun: closed
Mon: closed
Tue: 4pm-11pm
Wed-Thu: 11am-11pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-11:30pm
7 Nov 2010 15:25
Tends to close early if nobody much about. Been a few times on a Monday evening only to find the doors locked. Recent paintjob, inside & outside has brightened things up somewhat. Plenty of sport on the many TV screens. Good for food.
7 Nov 2010 15:20
Fantastic proper pub, with separate rooms 'n' everything. Snug bar at the front full of older locals: sit and get drunk amongst the artists & social workers in the middle room or risk the back bar and the younger element. Also has a real garden as er.....a beer garden.
13 Jun 2010 14:55
The Avenue, Kingston upon Hull
Unpretentious local on low-rent side of Boho-lite 'Avenues' area. If ti was s football team, it would be Bolton Wanderers.
13 Jun 2010 14:48
A local pub for local people. Been in a few times when the staff find it more important to have a natter with the regulars than to serve seemingly invisible thirsty 'consumer units'. Cheap bitter offers though - Black Sheep etc.
13 Jun 2010 14:43
From a purely beer point of view, this is easily the best pub in Hull. Slightly out of the way, being the 'wrong' side of Freetown Way but then the trek is well worth it. Even possible to engage in amusing conversation with strangers. Music on Thursdays, but don't let that put you off.
9 Jun 2010 11:21
Another 'vertical drinking' hangar, used to be a Midland Bank. Lunar atmosphere if sparsely populated, bangin' when rammed. but aren't they all?
9 Jun 2010 11:08
Unremarkable street corner pub. Recently taken over but a bit isolated despite old town location. No peanuts when I went.......
9 Jun 2010 11:05
Monumental TV screen. If you want to see footballers emptying their nostrils in 30ft-high close up, this is the place. Decent drinks though and possesses what a travel brochure would describe as a 'lively, youthful ambience'.
9 Jun 2010 11:03
Typical 'Spoons, as they say. Never quite enough staff if more than a handful in, but how else do they keep the prices down?. Had ham 'n' eggs the other week, v. nice as was the Guinness. Slight capacity for knobhead-element attraction, being at the northern end of 'Owld Town'. Spacious, light, bit of a hangar though,
9 Jun 2010 10:59
Now just called 'Nellys' and run by the same people who own Walters, up the street, with similar large selection of drinks.
9 Jun 2010 10:54
Nearest thing to a real 'bar' in Hull. 13 real ales to choose from, great selection of Euro-Lagers, friendly locals & staff. Wins CAMRA awards, also has 'the cleanest cellar in Hull'. Go. Now.
9 Jun 2010 10:51
Now called 'Lyrics' featuring some local karaoke singer most nights. Can get quite busy midweek due to overspill from other places. Sky sports and that.
9 Jun 2010 10:47
Completely refurbished in the modern open-plan cafe-style: food available. Completely unrecognisable as the place it used to be.
9 Jun 2010 10:43
"Shop-while-you-drink" in this converted cinema - used to be The Regent picture house, eventually a soft pornorama before it closed. If you're looking to buy er....'pre-owned' meat, electrical products, watches, phones etc, then this is the place. Friendly ladies too, providing you've got the money. Beer also available.
9 Jun 2010 10:41
A long narrow room, the sort of thing that Van Gogh would have painted, complete with angst-ridden locals.
9 Jun 2010 10:34
Difficult to get served sometimes, despite not many punters. Not somewhere you'd go on a first date but cheap & cheerful.
9 Jun 2010 10:31
The Old English Gentleman, Hull
Can get extremely packed if there's a popular show on at the theatre, but a top, 'proper' pub all the same. Friendly barmaids, a few eccentric regulars, top beer [ 2 or 3 changing cask ales] the unwitting cabaret of darts matches taking place amongst the post-Rocky Horror Show crowd will live in the memory for a while. Central but off the knobhead circuit.....what more do you want?
9 Jun 2010 10:24
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.
9 Jun 2010 10:19
Surely, the most unwelcoming pub in Hull city centre. Interesting ceiling though, the handiwork of WW2 Italian POW's.
9 Jun 2010 10:14
The Minerva Hotel, Hull
Ignore my previous comment. We all make mistakes.
4 Aug 2019 19:51