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Continues to serve Broadoak perry.
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A traditional unspoilt heritage pub with small rooms, featured in CAMRA's Best Heritage Pubs guide. 6 cask ales plus a couple of cask perry/ciders. Well worth a visit.
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Whilst the Swan is a little off the beaten track, it's still a must visit in York. This is not only for the good selection of ales, ciders and perries, but also for the fabulous unspoiled traditional interior with its bar in the wide corridor. The selection on Sunday evening was Pennine Winter Warmer, Tetleys Cask, Sonnet 43 Steam Beer Amber Ale, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Bridgehouse Blonde, Treboom Swan Special Blonde, Broadoak Perry & Thistly Cross Whisky Cask cider. Staff are friendly. The back room was packed out. So I chose the front room, where I was the only person. But I'd recommend a visit here.
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An old style front and back room and a drinkers corridor make up this Victorian pub. I made the mistake of going for Taylors Landlord which either doesn't travel well beyond a 2 mile radius of Keighley or is no longer the top ale it used to be. Worth a re-visit but will go for a different ale.
anonymous - 16 Feb 2015 20:57 |
Stunning corner plot pub that is a real throw back to the 50's. Split rooms with the old bell for service still on the wooden panelling.
Old fashioned lights hang from the ceiling's, wooden benches with red covering, old wooden stools etc this place has bags of character, no wonder it's one of Britain's real heritage pubs.
5 ales of which 2 of these are guests. I had a pint of Tetley cask, the wife had a real cider.
We sat in the public bar area with the others that were in, no music but a good mix of chatter.
I have learnt that the lobby is of West Riding style and it certainly is stunning, the pub really does have oodles of character and is worth the trip from town.
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Another pub just on the outside of the City Wall where most of the best pubs seem to be. Fantastic interior from the heritage point of view. Worth going just to see that but the ale is very good although could have done with a few more local micros on.
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Locals pub with TV in front room. Stood 1 minute at the bar before another customer pointed out to girl behind bar someone was thirsty. She was all over her 'smartphone'. Pint of Landlord @ 3.30�. Watching the football in the front room got kicked out at half time for the weekly darts players. Was told The Slip Inn had a tv as well...
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Excellent pub, with good beers - the Slip just up the road is good too. Slightly out of town, but well worth the trip
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We planned a visit here beforehand ,it was well worth it,a nice pub,a classic old boozer,good friendly atmosphere,and a good selection of ales on.And some strong real ciders as well to cater for all. I can see why it was popular. A pub you could sit in all night..but York is a great real ale mecca and other pubs had to be found.
Will visit again the next time i visit York.
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I am not a friend of the owner nor had I been to this pub before but I did have a pen in my pocket so I could keep notes as I wandered round some of the 84 real ale pubs in York!!
This is a another super classic pub with one single central bar servery and rooms and a corridor/lobby off. You can order your beer at the main bar in the corridor or through the hatch in the "Public bar" The "Lounge" is at the back and there is a garden/smoking area at the rear. Traditonal furnishings and a very relaxing and enjoyable experience. Combined with a visit to the Slip down the road this is a "must visit" pub. Highly recommended.
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Just wondering how many of the greatly explained review's below are by the owner or owner's friend ,they are very big reviews,who takes a pen into a boozer ?
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One of Tetley's �Heritage Inns�, admirably described by John Bonser in a previous review, which is also on CAMRA�s National Inventory and Grade II listed.
On offer were Dark Tribe Brewery badged as Dixies Marine Ales �Full Ahead� at �3.00 a pint, Tetley�s, Timothy Taylor �Landlord�, Saltaire � Blonde� also at �3.00 a pint, Bradfield Brewery �Farmer�s Stout� plus real cider and perry. 7/10.
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Doesn't look particulary special from the outside but it's worth going in for the good beer selection and interesting interior design.
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Friendly, spelt correct and yes Dog friendly
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One of the best pubs in York. Clean, good beer and very freindly.
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Situated in the residential Bishophill area of the City, in close proximity to The Golden Ball, just outside the city walls, ( indeed you can see the pub as you're doing your tourist bit and walking the walls ) is The Swan, a splendidly traditional street corner pub that is included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
It's a multi roomed pub with a large central drinking lobby and bar counter, off which are a number of rooms each serviced by a hatch from the main bar. Note the glazed screen above the counter, the old bell pushes in the lounge and the tiling in the gents toilets.
It's badged as a Tetley's pub and is one of their Heritage Inns.
On my recent evening visit, beers on included Copper Dragon Golden Pippin and beers from Stonehenge, Saltaire and Nook. The Golden Pippin was in good form. The pub is another CAMRA Good Beer Guide regular.
Several flyers in the pub were advertising quiz night at The Slip Inn, a pub which is nearby and, according to the friendly locals, is "worth dropping in on sometime".
This is one of my favourite York pubs, but, as with The Golden Ball down the road, it doesn't do lunchtime opening during the week.
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Great pub, friendly welcome from both locals and staff with good ales to boot, dogs allowed too, What else can i say? Great.
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Historic street-corner boozer just outside the city walls, and on CAMRA's National Inventory. The pub has a 'West Riding' layout, with a large lobby with two rooms to the front left and the rear left, and a bar to the central left which can only be accessed from the lobby. Standing room only in the lobby. The rear room is the lounge and is the more plush of the two rooms, with red furnishings, a real fire and plenty beer-related literature. The front room, the tap room, is more spartan and traditional, but still characterful.
The beer range has improved here, with fewer big names and more locally microbrewed beers, usually about 6 regularly changing guests, always well kept. A dog was roaming on my visit, always pleasant.
Definitely one to head to in York for the discerning drinker.
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Went here last summer and had a good couple of hours or so. A very historic building. A Tetleys pub but sold other brews as well including Landlord and Golden Pippin. A friendly place. I would definately return.
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There's hardly anything I can usefully add to the justifiably enthusiastic reviews for one of the most cheerful and charming alehouse I've ever had the pleasure. A stunning contrast to the gloom of seeing that nearly every other near-by pub was either for sale or boarded up, and then coming across this visually arresting, vibrant, popular and so obviously valued local. The quality starts as soon as you enter the corridor which in itself is as much a place of repose as the two bars - a great feature. It's also a joy to be able to drink some class act ales in a place where the staff seem to actually enjoy their work, of course they may be accomplished actors, but I thought the service they gave was excellent. One of York's very best and that's truly saying something.
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Love this pub so much I called in at the start of my real ale crawl yesterday, and finished there too, and some guest ales had changed. All beers in first class condition and a great atmosphere. Football on the telly but conversation still flowed without the sport taking over the room. Love the corridor bar too. Enjoyed Salamander Crimbo Bimbo and Moorhouses Lap Prancer on the first visit, and had them again with Yorkshire Dales Holly Bush and Brass Monkey 3 Wise Monkeys on the second visit.
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Best PUB! in York, your'e made to feel really welcome , great choice of ales & ciders,dog friendly,footie if you want it! the perfect local!
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When I used to work in York, we would go in after walking into town from Terry's. It was a bit of an undiscovered gem in those days and in many ways, although much busier, it retains its character. Really good beer, the best we had all week I reckon, the downside would be fighting your way to the bar when the TV is showing the football. I love the patio area, although now it seems to be very smoky out there, still a cracking pub though.
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As other reviewers have noted, you could easily walk past this place, as it doesn't look that interesting from the outside. But once you get inside, you find a wonderfully unusual interior. The main bar is in the wide corridor - or 'drinking lobby', with two bars on either side. The larger of the two, the lounge, has a fireplace and bell pushes.
Seven pumps - on my visit they had Copper Dragon, Tetleys, Landlord and Rugby Brewing Co's Union, as well as Broadoak Perry on draught. I tried the Lower Laithe from the Goose Eye Brewery, which was a good, refreshing pint.
Less than five minutes from Skeldergate Bridge, this is another pub that must be visited when in York. And you must check out the men's urinals before you leave!
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You could easily walk past without really noticing it. If you like traditional pubs this would be a big pity. Welcoming place with a great beer range and unusual main bar serving space to the corridor. Only five minutes walk from the castle area. Mixed bunch of customers but a friendly atmosphere. Keep this pub just as it is.
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Looking from the outside like a fairly ordinary back street pub, the charm of the Swan is in the range and quality of its cask beers and the well preserved 1930s interior. I found the service and the punters however to be fairly unappealing.
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Late comment from our November stay at the nearby caravan site, and again made very welcome in this pub whether is for a session or a nighcap on our way back to site. Always a good choice of beers on. Lovely interior and had a chat with locals and American students at the bar area in the entrance lobby seating area as the rooms either side are often full.
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Great interior. Beers included Oldershaw High Dyke, Mordue Wallsend Brown and Marston Moor Cromwell Pale. The cider was Broadoak Dry. Well worth the trip from the City centre.
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A proper pub.Great to visit somewhere that isnt an indentikit chain pub.
anonymous - 2 Oct 2008 10:39 |
I wandered in here to check out the interior (another one listed by CAMRA for historic interiors etc). Very unusual, with the serving area being in the main "hallway" as you walk into the pub. A public bar and smoke room are off to the sides and accessed by serving hatches:-the smoke room has a fireplace and is delightful. Only the seat furnishings ( and the dreaded carpet) detract a little from what is otherwise a great pub. Friendly service, appears to welcome locals, students and visitors alike. I really liked this pub.
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Tried a pint of Landlord (�2.50),,,.Don't know if this a general Landlord fault -but it was flat as a southern 'beer of the month' within 5 minutes!...Good local with a friendly atmosphere in a very welcoming traditonal (1930's) pub.
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This is always a must as we are always made welcome. Handy for caravanning visitors to pop into when going out in the town, and calling back in for a nightcap. Good choice of real ales. Like the layout. Enjoyed a seasonal Salamander and a Rudgate stout on my last visit this time.
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This is a fine drinkers� pub, often in the CAMRA guide. The layout is unusual: a tiled corridor leads past one room, to the central bar and then to a further room beyond. It is a pub which has been much improved by the smoking ban and serves excellent beer (on my visit there were 4 including Taylors Landlord, Rudgate Good Elf, and a Salamander seasonal beer and a real cider).
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Without any food, this is a proper drinkers pub. And the best one in York at that. First rate bar staff made my year living in York just so much better. Apparently one of Salamander Brewery's biggest outlets, anything of theirs usually sells out in an evening.
Pete and Rachel are gone, but it's passed into very good hands.
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Usual top quality ale on offer whilst visiting this weekend. BUT!! Pete & Rachel have sold up and are on their way. Tragic. We get to visit York about 4-5 times a year and they have never failed to welcome us warmly, like we are next door regulars. We will miss you and thankyou for such great service. Good luck.
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Looking forward to visiting here again now the fag ban is in. Breath easy now...
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Real ale drinkers fantasy!!
Small pub, slightly smokey but the beers beers are well kept and plenty of choice.
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Good Beer Guide pub having a great range of beers all served in top condition. Very crowded when I first visited (full of young smokers). I felt then it was worth visiting after the smoking ban comes into operation. However I did go back a couple of days later with the York CAMRA pub crawl. Glad I did, it was a much better atmosphere- proper drinkers with money to spend-us wrinkles and hardly any smokers. Certainly a pub to go and look up when visiting the city.
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The pub sign declares "Tetley" but you'll find much more than that in here with a selection of 6 well-kept ales in peak condition. A fair walk from the city centre but with an entry in CAMRA's list of outstanding pub interiors, who could resist it?
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What to say, I pass two others to get to my local, good beer, traditional service polite and unfussy. Newspapers and space to read them in. I agree with the comment about lunchtimes, on an odd day off, with the sun over the yard arm...
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One of the best in York-TT Landlord is always superb here. Disappointed that it was closed at lunchtime on the first day of the Ebor meeting, did not open til 4.
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Cracking Pub, Always a friendly welcome and the beer is without doubt the best in york.
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Good selection of well kept beers. Friendly staff. Extremely long sofa in one of the rooms. Impressing gents' loos.
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Fantastic little local pub, but with open arms for visitors too. Great ale, no food but a good variety of crisps! The staff are great, very happy and friendly and Jetta the dog is gorgeous. Has a small to medium sized yard which creates a great atmosphere in the summer. Prices are average, can get very busy on a Wednesday when it is Quiz night, and as it is on the way into town from the Races you can expect it to be packed on race days. My fav pub in York without a doubt - keep up the good work Pete and Rachel (owners).
Bex - 3 Jul 2004 12:09 |
