Great pub- choice of ales, real fires, great staff, choice of other drinks, music audible but not loud.Great pub with a large choice of ales. Wish i could have spent more time there.Listen folks; this is the best pub in Whitby haven't been been for a month!! but missing it already - can't wait to get back and select the great beers!! + good music!

Marvellous pub: great atmosphere, good choice of beer/wine/snacks, great staff.Cracking pint of Rhatas (�3.20) in this lovely two-roomed pub. Customers and staff very friendly. The best Whitby pub. Had two other guests on.Love this pub! After visiting Whitby for the first time with my partner, we stumbled upon this little gem on a baking hot July day. After noticing that they sold a great range of bottled ciders and ordering an ice-cold bottle of Katy cider, I was in heaven! The regulars were really friendly, as were other holidaymakers and the bar staff were also lovely - they treated us as regulars from our second visit. As a dog lover, I also appreciated the fact that well-behaved animals were allowed into the pub, which makes a refreshing change these days. The Black Horse was easily our favourite pub in Whitby, and we can't wait to visit again.

The Theakstons was ok. Food was ok for quality but a bit lacking in quantity. Atmosphere was good tho.fantastic food but the booze is foul. the coke, the lager, the guinness and the john smith's bitter were all rank. what a shame.Average pub in a nice spot that struggles to cope with the numbers of visitors. Still probably the best in the area, but Fylingdale Arms up the road is a better bet!

This pub always gets a visit from us when in the area. A great spot! The bar is the smallest in England I beleave! Very welcoming and very unusual to say the least. Just sit out and enjoy and get away from Sky sports, piped music and all that. Colin always has time for a chat and you are made to feel at home.
Real ales change, some of the local brews are very good, check out the beer garden during summer its lovely. Very close to the river! Go in the lounge and get a suprise!
Highly recommended! Limited opening hours in winter. This must be among the most unusual pubs i have been in. Stumbled upon it quite by accident on a walk from Gothland back to our b&b in Egton bridge. You enter into a tiny bar where i thought was just a serving hatch was actually the bar. Ordered a pint of Copper Dragon and a cheese sarnie. It was a nice day so i headed off to the beer garden as the bar was full with around 8 people in.
The garden is very good too with a river flowing through it.
Any way the beer went down very well the sandwich was thick crusty bread and very reasonable at i think �2.80.
Would definitely visit this unusual pub again but it would be very hard to find as it is tucked away and one would need an ordnance survey map to find Beck Hole.
Wish i could have had several pints here but did not have time.If you fancy getting away from those environmentally unfriendly steam trains on the moors for a while then walk from Goathland to Grosmont and call in at this wonderful little pub. Always does good beer and a nice pie. Open all day during the Summer

Agree with most of the other reviews - Black Sheep, Strongarm and Greene King IPA (why?) this weekend. The first 2 were is great condition although a little expensive for the area at �2.90.

Service can be a little slow when a crowd suddenly pour in from a train not least because of the very tight sparklers used!

Well wort a visit though.Good local boozer. Friendly staff, good food and a mix of locals and walkers and train enthusiasts. Front bar can be a bit crowded when busy but good mix of friendly locals and tourists.A sturdy Yorkshire local. This is right by Grosmont railway station, It's an OK place - a local's pub, but also welcoming to the tourists travelling on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and the walkers on Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk. We drank here in 2005 when I had a nice pint of Camerons Strongarm. The pub wasn't listed on BITE back then, so I sent in details, and it took so long to get the pub on the site that I had forgotten all about it, until looking at my rating of Strongarm on RateBeer.

ive spent a few quid in this pub in the past but they last had my money last year because on my visit this week i became the invisible man at the bar,after checking a group of youthes id i waited waited and was then ignored by the two bar staff,who served at least two people that walked in well after me..Not a pub that would make you want to stay all night as it a bit souless. But to have a pint and sit outside on a sunny day it is fine. The ale was in good nick and staff were friendly.Great pub in whitby which is nice to sit out and watch the world go by in the summer.