85% Pub of the week: The Station Inn, Silkstone Common Phil Penfold April 23, 2016 Beer & Cider, Drink, Pub reviews On an early spring afternoon in a light drizzle, the exterior doesn’t look as cheery as it does in high summer, when it is a riot of colour with hanging baskets, but it’s what’s inside that...
Pub of the Week: The Victorian, Halifax Amanda Wragg April 12, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Nothing stays the same as my wise old dad would say. The Victorian, Halifax is such a place. Once an Italian restaurant, it’s a handsome building on the end of Powell Street opposite Somerset House. Owned...
70% Pub of the week: The People’s Republic, Hull Dave Lee April 8, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews The fingerprints of The Beautiful South are currently all over the northern pub trade. Singer Paul Heaton owns a fabulous boozer called the King’s Arms in Salford, drummer Dave Stead has a finger in several...
95% Pub of the week: The Keys, Hoyland Common Phil Penfold March 31, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews The Keys (once The Cross Keys) has been a fixture of Hoyland life for a good few generations. But, like so many other pubs in Yorkshire, it fell upon hard times and for a while was boarded up and looked almost ready for demolition. But those days are now behind it and, re-vamped and re-named The Keys, it is mercifully once again open and doing rather well.
100% Pub of the week: Hogs Head Brew House, Sowerby Bridge Amanda Wragg March 22, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Then there was the small matter of making the beer to sell – hopefully to customers. Smith has previous; he ran the Black Horse Brewery in Luddendenfoot 20 years ago.Horbury has learned quickly and together...
70% Pub of the Week: Old Scalby Mills, Scarborough Dave Lee March 14, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews During the off-peak months there is much satisfaction to be had from sitting in the lounge at the Old Scalby Mills, Scarborough and staring through the huge picture window which overlooks the whole of the...
Five of the best: Pubs with fires SquidBeak March 10, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews The Pheasant Hotel, Harome The Star Inn gets all the glory, but the bar of the Pheasant across the road ticks every box for cosy: sofas, fires, cushions, piles of magazines and sausage and mash and...
95% The Riverside, Sheffield Phil Penfold March 7, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Sorry to disappoint, but Sheffield’s pub with that very same name is next to a very busy road and the side that abuts the water has a sheer drop into the fast-flowing and occasionally slightly murky River...
80% Pub of the week: Fox and Roman, York Elaine Lemm February 29, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Why? Well, firstly, it is always buzzing. I have yet to pop in when it is not heaving, and don’t even think about it on race days given the Fox and Roman’s proximity to the racecourse. Even on the most...
100% Pub of the week: White Lion, Cray Amanda Wragg February 22, 2016 Drink, Pub reviews Dennis Peacock and Amelia Johnson ran Masons in York and lived the good life in their favourite city. One day Dennis drove past an empty, desolate Dales pub and bought it. Then told Amelia. It’s perhaps best...