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Mid afternoon visit to Bronte's village, lunch was needed so we combined that with a beer at this Timothy Taylor pub half way up Main St, The Fleece also appears in the 2016 GBG so it was the right place to stop.
4 Taylors ale on the handpumps, Landlord, Golden Best, Boltmaker & Ram Tam, they also had Mr Grundy's Sniper on as a guest ale. My pint of Golden Best was excellent and so was the Cajan Chicken ciabata I had for lunch.
Stone flooring through to the bar, with the carpets and comfy sofas in the lounge to the left of the bar, a small dining room is further on through the lounge area.
Nicely decorated, a nice attractive wooden bar and friendly service. This was the only pub in the village we tried but its very nice and worth a visit.
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Very much your tourist haunt with emphasis on food. The Taylors Boltmaker and Ram Tam were okay. Nice view out the window - that's about it.
anonymous - 13 Jun 2016 16:57 |
Probably as good as Timothy Taylors gets. Ram Tam the best of an average set of beers. Busy on Saturday night but quieter on Sunday night.
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Beer was ok but nothing to write home about. Sadly we just missed the guest ale from Saltaire and the next night the guest was from Taylors which perhaps misses the point a little. It was really crowded and very noisy but we found refuge in a side room.
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Lively pub with both locals and tourists, friendly service and good ales from Timmy Taylor. Live music and a great guest ale at the moment of our visit.
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Good pub. Busy young lady behind the bar did very well with good and drink orders coming from all angles, TT beer as good as ever and food excellent.
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Stayed 4 nights - bed tiny, but great view over valley (not all rooms have a view though). Staff rated very helpful to efficient, breakfast standard quality, evening meals good (lots of competition in this street) but choices limited. Beer excellent (4 Taylor's brews, lots of interesting bottles lagers), seats outside for view, beer garden round back. Very popular with locals who didn't bother me as I didn't bother them. Never felt anything more than a tourist in any pub in town, but enjoyed the beer.
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In a time of recession when you'd think with so many hundred pubs closing a week across the UK that customer service would be paramount, it was such a shame to venture into this pub and be served by a sour face arrogant hostess. I'd guess she was a manager or assistant manager, very rude, inattentive, and not concentrating on the customer in front of her. After being served in somewhat of a fashion, I continued to remain at the bar and observe further rudeness that I frankly found unacceptable even if she was familiar with the customer she was serving. I read previous comments before posting, and would have agreed with many points, but on the night the rudeness of this young female left me happy to go elsewhere and be unlikely to return.
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Tall narrow terraced stone building in what I believe is the main street in Haworth (though it took us long enough to find it coming from the station !). Inside it is divided up into smaller drinking areas, each big enough for 2 or 3 tables, plus a larger area around the bar. If you sit at a table by the correct window, there are great views across the valley. Toilets are upstairs, as is the accommodation. I believe the beer garden is even further up (sign pointed that way), but I couldn�t work out how to get there !
Pub appeared to be frequented by genuine customers rather than tourists, but that could be because it was out of season.
The pub is a Timothy Taylors tied house, and serves their complete range. I had the Ram Tam, as I had never triedit before, and very nice it was too. There was also a guest, thich was Saltaire �South Island� (made from New Zealand hops apparently). Also, has a range of continental bottled beers, but many of them are such staples as Peroni and Budweiser. NOTE : the beer isn�t cheap, as 3 pints came to �9.
There was a substantial menu, concentrasting on �good solid home-cooked food�. A cut above the normal �pub grub� but not into gourmet or gastro territory. I had the Aberdeen Angus burger, and my colleagues had lamb shank and beef and ale pie, all of which were entirely reasonable. There is also a specials board which contains items a bit more exotic. Prices were on the igh side, but not ridiculous.
I nice feature on the menu was the listing by each dish saying which beer(s) it would go with. Having already bought our drinks, we attemped to use that in reverse !
Where the place fell down was in the servicing of food orders. Dishes seemed to appear at random, and not all of a group together. And we only ever got two lots of vegetables to go with our three dishes. Five minutes after our first dish arrived (before anything else) we were offered a Rabbit Casserole !
NB to reach the pub from the station. Take the footbridge over the line, cross the road and take the cobbled �street� directly up the hill. When you cross a �proper� road, there are some steps, go up these and at the top the pub is almost immediately in front of you.
7/10 � needs to tighten up its act a bit.
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visited this pub on 2 occassions the first being spring and the second being 1940's weekend
The pub itself is split into separate areas with the bar straight ahead, so you can find a quiet area if you want
spring we entered the pub which was warm and seemed nice a cosey there were around 15-20 people in at the time and all seemed in a happy mood. i ordered a pint of landlord and a wine for the mrs it was quite pricey, however the beer was good.
1940's weekend entering the pub it was warm and really really busy and when we managed to get to the bar we were greeted with a smile and asked what we would like i ordered a pint of landlord and again a wine for the mrs. i was shocked to find the price had risen when we had only been there abit before the 1940's weekend i paid.
i am shocked that with the beer being the same standard as last time and the wine being the same as last time the price gone up only to over hear a regular being charged slightly less when he ordered the same pint as me.
the bar staff need to remember who visits before they put you prices up next time and it was not a normal pub increase (visitors price increase and normal prices for the regulars)
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Still a good pub but suffered a loss of character a few years ago from an identikit pub refurbishment. As always with Taylors, good , well kept beer.
brisk - 15 Sep 2010 14:43 |
Just stayed there for two nights; loved it. Good breakfasts, food quality in the evening was more than adequate, beer range and condition excellent. Best thing about the place was the staff; down-to-earth, friendly, helpful.
As long as you appreciate that you are staying in a pub and not a 5-star hotel, I would recommend it unhesitatingly and would make it my first choice if staying in the area again.
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Beer always in good condition, decent selection of pub grub staples, plenty of visitors (unsurprisingly) - worth a visit. Despite the fact that I always seem to end up there when the place is crammed with day trippers (such as myself), I've only ever encountered prompt and pleasant service from the bar staff.
Ten minutes' uphill walk from the railway station.
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Pleasant but unspectacular pub with emphasis on food. Ram Tam in good condition and food OK.
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The Ram Tam was fine though not spectacular, the pub was a very typical small town pub covering all bases - OK
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This is my favourite pub in Haworth, if for no other reason than the excellent Ram Tam ale.
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Beer - all Timmy Taylors and all excellent. Could do with a guest or two just to round it off!
Food was excellent, good value and plenty of it.
Definitely one to visit!
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Just been awarded the Beautiful Beer Platinum Award.
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Decent local/tourist pub in the heart of touristy Haworth. Cosy, food looked simple but nice. Complete Taylor's range. We dashed in out of the rain and thought 'Yes, this is just right'.
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Very nice place in a superb location. Full range of Timothy Taylors finest - thoroughly recommended.
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The dear old Fleece was one of the first in Taylor's wave of recent makeovers. Until then it had a vernacular style, each landlord having put his or her stamp on it. There were lovely (to my eyes) basic etched glass 30's windows that simply said TIMOTHY TAYLOR on them, and old fixtures and fittings like deco-influenced door handles, doors and window latches. A serviceable, basic bar. Cottage-style furniture. In the name of progress, all this stuff has been shoved into a skip and no doubt is either at the Crossroads landfill site or at a LASSCO Architecural Salvage.
What you have now is still a very decent pub... but one imagined by Laura Ashley. The visitors love it, though, and the beer is great. I've heard good things about the food too... and you can stay in the new accomodation wing. But in my eyes, it's all a bit sterile.
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Stayed here a couple of nights and can't think of a better base camp from which to explore the area. Obliging publican rightly proud of his cellar. Damn fine pint of Landlord (nothing wrong with the others either). V comfortable bedrooms, if a little on the cold side (southern wussie!).
Agree with Alewhale re the train. Beer surprisingly good - why walk when you can view the whole valley with a decent pint in yer hand!
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Suffered a bit of a loss of character when it was refurbished a coupla years back � why did they pull those lovely old windows out? Still, this is a good pub and a great place to sit outside on a lovely still summers evening.
anonymous - 16 Oct 2005 00:15 |
Fantastic REAL pub well looked after range of Taylors Ales. For a day out get the steam train from Keighley as the buffet car serves real ale on route. I had to go all the way to oxenhope, the back to Haworth just to make the most of facility.
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Basic pub years ago....& I LOVED IT...stone floor,draughty pub,wotchaneedaseatfor? kind of place, with proper beer........I made special trips with this pub as the highlight.......The pubs been extended since,the amenites are more modern & its a little bit samey with the other village pubs re furnishings.....but THANKS GOD! -the beer is still top quality...Check out the Timmy Taylors range...you won`t get any better!
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Bit pricey for Taylors, though. But it is a tourist village. There's another pub of theirs (whose name I forget) at the top of the hill past the station, where the beer is cheaper and no one will Wuther you!
Vasili - 30 Jul 2004 16:39 |
A top top pub serving the full range of Timothy Tailors beers in a picturesque location. Good atmosphere, great food and probably the best kept pint of Landlord in the country - no it's not my pub - I'm just a big fan of the beer! If your in the area it's worth a detour just so you know what a good pint is supposed to taste like!
Thomas - 3 Feb 2004 13:56 |
