85% Pub of the Week: The Ball, Crookes Phil Penfold December 16, 2019 Drink, Pub reviews Phil Penfold pays a visit to The Ball in Crooks
95% Pub of the Week: The Three Cranes, Rotherham Phil Penfold November 16, 2019 Drink, Pub reviews The Three Cranes dates back almost certainly to the early 16th century, when there are records of it opening as a pub. Phil Penfold pays it a visit
95% Pub of the Week: The Crown Inn, Sheffield Phil Penfold October 21, 2019 Drink, Pub reviews Phil Penfold pays a visit to the Crown Inn, Sheffield
95% Pub of the Week: The Three Tuns Phil Penfold September 23, 2019 Drink, Pub reviews Whoever put pen to paper on the designs for the Three Tuns was hugely inventive. He turned out a Yorkshire version of New York’s celebrated Flatiron Building, in effect, a “wedge of Wensleydale”, triangular, with a point at one end and a flat back at the other
85% Pub of the Week: The Roebuck, Sheffield Phil Penfold May 11, 2019 Drink, Pub reviews The Roebuck has stood for well over a century. It has weathered the Blitz on Sheffield, which flattened much of the core of the city on one fateful night in 1940.
75% Pub of the Week: The Lockwood, Doncaster Phil Penfold June 5, 2018 Drink, Pub reviews The road that is Hallgate, in Doncaster (once the old A1), still has a number of rather beautiful Georgian and Regency buildings.
90% Pub of the Week: The Museum Phil Penfold January 30, 2018 Drink, Pub reviews 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...
70% Pub of the Week: The Arcade Alehouse Phil Penfold November 21, 2017 Drink, Pub reviews 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
85% Pub of the Week:The Harvey Arms Phil Penfold July 11, 2017 Drink, Pub reviews The setting of the Harvey Arms really couldn’t be more picturesque.
75% Pub of the Week: The Spread Eagle Phil Penfold July 4, 2017 Drink, Pub reviews There are probably more trendy places in this little corner of Yorkshire, but the Spread Eagle is an engaging little inn, which has served many a pint to those tackling the Pennine Way.