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Evening all.
I’m off to York later this week with the Mrs and a couple of friends. We’ve evening food booked at Dough Eye Pizza so food sorted.
With that where is good for cocktails, gin, beers and bar snacks. We’re staying at the Novotel but given York isn’t very big then it won’t matter.
So go…
Anyone else disappointed this isn't about lifting weights?
Or chunky chocotlate of the 1970s?
The Maltings
House of Trembling Madness
Evil Eye
Lendal Cellars
House of Trembling Madness was pretty awesome when I went there for a work training day a couple of years ago.
Best mixed grill I ever had was in the three tuns...and the beer was marvellous too. But that was 25 years ago (yikes I've just worked that out) and I've no idea now. So absolutely no bloody help to you whatsoever. Soz
Trembling Madness
or the Blue Bell
The Maltings
House of Trembling Madness
Evil Eye
Lendal Cellars
+1 for these. Evil Eye has some outstanding beers (apart from the 50%+ one which is more like Grappa!). Also, Kings Arms for olde school pub by the river as long as it’s not flooded (I’ve not been there for a few years so may have gone downhill).
Cheers so far guys.
Yeah I’m no weight lifter.
Fossgate Tap has 2for1 cocktails on Thursday (though maybe not with Easter?) and some decent beer on (and nice food). It's virtually next door to the Blue bell mentioned above (which is more a CAMRA type place). There's a few other gin/cocktail type places down Fossgate too, all under 10 minutes walk from your Hotel and en route to the pizza place
Both house of trembling madness's are excellent though the newer one is much more spacious. Evil Eye is great for cocktails and Pivni usually has a good selection of beer.
Edit - double post weirdness
The wslmgate
Fossgate Tap.
The Fossgate Social
The Market Cat
Pivni
Grays hotel
Spark
House of Trembling Madness
One to avoid imo even though it get quite a few recommendations is Brew York. Average food and crap beer imo, it's got a real 'hipster a few years after the fact' vibe too.
Cool!
Places to avoid yeah that wouldn’t go amiss.
+1 for Pivni. And Lendal Cellars is great with a more mainstream vibe.
Brew York Tap Room is great.
The food is great too.
Spark looks spot on.
Think we are going to Manahatta too.
Should have been clear. The wives like cocktails and the husbands are quote partial too.
Sotano does great cocktails
Should have been clear. The wives like cocktails and the husbands are quote partial too.
Go to Evil Eye as soon as it opens then. It's easily the best place in York for cocktails and it's very chilled in the afternoon. It gets very busy in the evening so service can be understandably slow.
Cheers for the tip. It looks great a nice small independent place.
House of the trembling madness
Pivni
Guy Faulks
Go to Evil Eye as soon as it opens then. It’s easily the best place in York for cocktails and it’s very chilled in the afternoon. It gets very busy in the evening so service can be understandably slow.
^ This. It's great but can be very busy. The Espresso Martini is the best I have ever had.
Guy Fawkes looks good.
Cheers JohnDoh, I may do a taste test as Newcastle have some amazing cocktail bars now. My local also does a cracking Espresso Martini made with local roasted coffee.
Anyone else disappointed this isn’t about lifting weights?
Yes
If it's a nice day. Sit in the garden of Grays Lodge Hotel.
https://www.grayscourtyork.com/gardenbar/
Surrounded by the city wall, hotel and Minster looming over.
There are a lot of suggestions for great beer places here that would be a bit crap for cocktails etc.
Would you prefer a proper ale house or a cocktail bar?
If its ale then Pivni without a shadow of a doubt.
Well spotted Blackflag, Cocktail presence but beer too as long as there is gin or Prosecco.
We went to Tembing Madness, and the Mrs wasn't too keen on all the dead animal heads ! Some nice beers. Only spoilt as we went during covid, and had to order via a really crap app, yet we were sat next to the bar.
The Churchill Hotel has a nice garden out front if nice - we stayed at it - just outside town. Be aware the bars next to the river will be rammed if the weather is nice.
Supposedly going to be nice, it’s tomorrow we head down. I’m expecting it to be rammed, it’s York and School holidays.
I’m expecting it to be rammed, it’s York and School holidays.
TBF it's the same pretty much all the time – plenty of overseas tourists year round and when it is term-time its rammed with school trips anyway. In fact it's probably easier to get around when you aren't negotiating multiple crocodiles of 30+ 8 year-olds and their teachers...
Good point.
Well, 40 years ago I'd have recommended the grobs, Richard IIIrd for the younger generation.
As a York dweller I can't disagree with any of the above suggestions.
Spark is a good shout IMO.
Micklegate is very good for independent food/drink places and is close to the station. Micklegate social is run by the same folks and the Fossgate one.
Lamb & Lion has a good beer garden, well worth giving their barbecue food a go if you're hungry.
Generally the area towards Fossgate/Spark tends (IME) to have slightly fewer stag/hen dos as its further from the station.
Lamb & Lion has a good beer garden, well worth giving their barbecue food a go if you’re hungry.
Always.
I used to have my history lectures in the garden of Grey's Court hotel 25 odd years ago when St John's owned it!