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A traditional pub, 3 cask ales, quite food orientated.
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Welcoming and friendly, good choice of real ales. I went for Northallerton dark which was very good. Must mention the interior, really well kept and real fires. tightest car park in the world though!!
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Visited York last week and the Mason's Arms was local to the hotel we stayed in. The staff were friendly, the beer excellent, especially the Golden Sheep and the food was superb & came in good portions. Ok for those with children as well.
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I like it in here; a decent selection of beers and an interesting interior which includes 'proper' gentlemens toilets! Very much food orientated but still serves good ale.
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If you like good pub food this is the place to come.
Good choice of menu plus a good selection of real ales.
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Popped in for a meal but were greeted by miserable and very unfriendly bar staff so we left promptly and went elswhere.
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Excellent pub with nice food and friendly staff.
Good beer range.
Look forward to next visit.
Be careful of the traffic outside!
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The food here is so tasty and such great value I ate here with a mate two days running. Huge portions. Bit of advice - if you are on a beer crawl go here earlyish, say 5.30, and eat, then go for a long walk before starting the beers again!
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Well-preserved 1930s mock Tudor pub just outside the city centre, and with a good reputation for food. The exterior has leaded windows and some fine Art Deco fittings. Superbly traditional- oak panelled throughout, it has one main bar room plus a side room to the right- the bar room has been slightly opened out. Real fires burn in each room, and ceramics cover all parts of the walls above the panelling.
The beer range has improved of late, with Hancocks Hb, York Yorkshire Terrier, Theakstons Best and Milestone Lion's Pride.
The food is indeed excellent, competitively priced, tasty and in large portions.
One minor niggle would be the piped music which is not in keeping with the atmosphere of this fine pub, however it is definitely worth a visit for any fan of the traditional boozer. Features in the York Historic Pub Guide.
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Best pub for food I've found in York.
Portions are on the large size and competitively priced.
Sometimes difficult to get a table and the food service is not always quick, but well worth waiting for
Good choice of beers and the bar staff friendly.
Well worth a visit.
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One of the best pubs for food - enormous and tasty portions of proper non-gastro pub grub. Can be difficult to get a table sometimes because of its popularity. Decent beers and a lovely 1930s-style interior.
Last time I was there a 'light' meal of nachos ordered by the table next to us would have fed a family for a week.
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Always had a great reputation for food. Deservedly so. My wife is Coeliac, and the staff were very helpful giving her advice about what she could/couldn't eat.
Service can be a little slow, but I haven't personally had the "tap water" experience other people mention. Think I would go ballistic as well if that happened to me!
Menu is extensive, portions are enormous, and the food is generally fantastic! I can't think of better pub food in York. Queues form at the door on a Sunday before the pub opens for lunch. Think that says it all.
Inside, it is pretty much unchanged from 15 years ago when I first went in. Nice pub, good beer, amazing food.
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Ales here okay, food nice and in huge portions but the bar-staff terribly unfriendly.
I was with a group of four who ordered �50 worth of food plus ales and were denied a glass of free tap water on the grounds that it wasn't pub policy to give free water as it encourages students to pay nothing towards the pub.
I was incredulous and pointed out that we'd spent �60 there, all to no avail. The bargirl even claimed that they 'didn't have tap water', to which I asked, "what, you haven't got a tap?!". I won't be back.
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I have been back, eaten, and stayed in their accommodation (curiously, bed only, you have to walk across the road to Wetherspoons for their 4.18 breakfast - 2.49 the sign says, but once you add a 1.69 pint...) I guess it's fine so long as you are a paying customer. Even has some parking.
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An excellent pub! I've been in both this evening and last.
The food is very good with generous portions.
Four real ales were available. I tried both the Deuchars IPA and the Everards Tiger; both were very well kept.
Being outside the walls, this pub is a bit off the normal city centre route, but it still gets a bit busy from about 7.30pm - get in earlier if you want a seat!
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Huge portions of hearty Yorkshire cooking. Very friendly staff. Highly recommended.
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I've always had 1st class service here. The food is 1st rate, massive portions & reasonably priced. The beer is well kept & the locals are friendly
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I think, portion size of the food is the best I have ever seen, enough on one plate for three meals, but i still ate it all cos im a fat bastard.
Would recommend if you are taking a sumo wrestler out for tea
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I had the same experience and left after being told I had to pay for water on a hot day this summer. I wrote an e-mail to the landlord expressing my dissatisfaction with this policy and he sent me a very rude reply saying that narrow minded people like me who expect something for nothing (I was about to buy dinner for two and a few drinks) don't understand that people run a business for profit. Zero for customer service and hospitality.
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I'd been advised the food was good here so wandered up to have a look. After the lady in front of me at the bar was told they wouldn't serve her tap water, she had to buy bottled, I left and haven't been back.
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Four real ales, John Smiths Cask, Everards Tiger, Fullers London Pride and Courage Directors Bitter, very nice the menu on the wall goes on forever lovely surroundings also very friendly, well worth a visit.
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Recently revisited (three times in a fortnight!!). Excellent place, choice of beers on hand pull, friendly, welcoming and traditional, and possibly the best pub food in York. Portions of wonderful size, home-cooked classics, and reasonably priced too.
Well worth a visit for drinks or food.
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Good traditional pub, full of lively characters.
Recommended
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I haven't been in for a while, but for a long time this pub had a reputation for huge portions of really great food. As I recall inside is split into rooms, and the serve some good beers...can't be bad.
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