Pub reviews

I’m pretty chuffed to find one of my old haunts thriving once again. The Three Hares at Bilbrough was, back then, an award-winning dining pub but still with its eye firmly on the drinker.

The rapid increase in new-build housing in Brough over the past decade or so has left the town lacking in drinking dens and so the recent appearance of micropub the Centurion Arms has proven a much-needed fillip for local sensation seekers.

The Cook, as it’s known locally, sits solidly at the top of the vertiginous bank that drops down into the historic, quirky fishing village of Staithes; once it was the Station Hotel which serviced the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. The trains ran over the now dismantled Staithes Viaduct.

Anyone visiting Hebden Bridge will, at some point, find themselves in St George’s Square. There are so many tempting retail possibilities you’ll need a sit down, and the Shoulder, or Bottom Shoulder, as local folk have it, is the perfect place to recharge your batteries.

It’s a curious little place, half-tucked away with a snicket that heads toward the cathedral on one side, and a shopping precinct on t’other. In a fairly recent refurbishment, the interior has been given...

What do you get when three young, visionary types put their collective minds to injecting some zing into Halifax’s burgeoning drinking and music scene? The Alexandra Beer House and Lantern, that’s what.

There are few sights that are more inviting, on a bracingly raw, rain-spotted day, than the open door of a well-kept pub like The British Oak

I have often wondered why the Fauconberg Arms, a textbook, 17th-century country inn, in arguably one of the prettiest villages in North Yorkshire could have such a roller-coaster of a reputation.

Once upon a time, it was a shop dedicated to cake decorating. Now, it is the latest addition to the celebration of real ales and ciders in these parts, and it is fair to say that the Arcade Alehouse has been garlanded with praise by those in the know

All together now: On Ilkla Moor baht ’at ...