Bars and pubs in York

205 bars, pubs, wine bars and breweries in York.

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The Kings Arms
The king in question is Richard III, and his house is right on the river bank, meaning one of its annual traditions is becoming part of the river, a fact which is cheerfully recorded on its flood level gauge on the wall inside. Some of the bar rules ('no swearing', 'no drunkenness') are a bit suspect for a pub, and it exclusively serves beers from local brewery Samuel Smith's.
Mon-Sat 11AM-11PM, Sun noon-10:30PMLimited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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The Blue Bell
The smallest pub in York really is tiny, but the Edwardian interior (grade II* listed), conversational atmosphere and real ales mostly from around Yorkshire make this a firm locals' favourite. As there is nowhere to go but the bar area, children are not allowed.
Mon-Thu 11AM-11PM, Fri Sat 11AM-midnight, Sun noon-10:30PMOutdoor seating
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The Minster Inn
Not actually by the Minster and off the beaten track, most of the inn's clientele are regulars. Full of local charm, serving a wide range of traditional ales and, as a bonus from 4PM, pizzas stone-baked to order.
Wed Thu 4PM-10PM, Fri 3PM-10:30PM, Sat noon-10:30PM, Sun noon-8PMOutdoor seating
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The Priory
Part of the Wear Inns chain, this pub has a pool table, jukebox and live sport on the telly. There is better beer to be had in York, and frankly better places to drink it, but the late-night opening makes The Priory stand out from the crowd.
Mon-Thu 3PM-midnight, Fri Sat 11AM-1AM Sun 11AM-midnightOutdoor seating
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Brew York
This craft brewery's 200-seater beer hall and tap room are right alongside the brewing machinery; the beer couldn't be fresher! They also have a nice small open-air seating area in the back facing the River Foss. Burgers and Korean sides will help soak up the alcohol.
Beer hall: Tue-Sat noon-11PM, Sun noon-9PM. Tap room: Wed, Thu 6PM-11PM, Fri 4PM-11PM, Sat noon-11PM, Sun noon-9PM. Brewery tours (duration 45-60 min): Fri 5:30PM, Sat 1:30PM, 3:30PMVegan options · Wi-Fi · Limited wheelchair access
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The York Tap
Housed in a smartly converted Edwardian tea room, this is the place for a decent (if not cheap) pint while waiting for a train. True to its former life, you can still get hot drinks, pies, and homemade cakes here too.
Mon-Thu 10AM-11PM, Fri Sat 10AM-11:40PM, Sun 11AM-11PMWi-Fi · Outdoor seating · Dog friendly
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Evil Eye
Colourful cocktail bar tucked behind a gin shop owned by the same people. You may have to queue to enter, as the place is very small.
Wed Thu 4PM-midnight, Fri 4PM-1AM, Sat noon-1AM, Sun noon-midnightWi-Fi · Wheelchair accessible
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The Ackhorne
Cosy locals' haunt that is too well hidden to be a major tourist trap. Think pub quiz, pork pies and Yorkshire ales and ciders.
Mon-Fri noon-9PM, Sat Sun 11AM-9PMLimited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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The Fulford Arms
Real ale pub with a relaxed 'suburban local' atmosphere by day, but with live music and other events such as charity fundraisers nearly every night.
Mon-Thu 4PM-midnight, Fri Sat 11:30AM-1AM, Sun 11:30AM-midnightWheelchair accessible · Live music
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The Three Legged Mare
The Wonky Donkey
Black Sheep Brewery pub which serves their ales and bar snacks, it has quite an active social week, with a Monday quiz, Thursday open mic night, Friday live folk music and various live music acts on Saturday nights. Dogs welcome.
Wed–Sat noon–midnight, Sun noon–10:30PM, Mon–Tue noon–11PMLimited wheelchair access · Live music
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Valhalla
Anyone versed in Norse mythology will love this bar, which offers proof if it were needed that the Viking spirit is alive and well in York. A place for loudly drinking mead, cider and ale from a big horn, and feasting from platters stuffed to bursting with quality Yorkshire and Scandi produce.
Sun-Thu noon-11:30PM, Fri-Sat 11:30AM-12:30AMWi-Fi · Outdoor seating
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The Micklegate
Good for a noisy couple of hours. If there's no live football with eager fans staring at the multitude of screens, then the music will be playing loud.
Sun-Thu 10AM-11PM, Fri Sat 10AM-midnightLimited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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Dusk
A great place for cocktails, that describes itself as a "laid-back café bar by day, den of iniquity by night." While it does indeed get busy of an evening, especially when there's a live music act, you can usually find some space upstairs.
Daily 10AM-2AM. 2-for-1 cocktails Mon-Thu all night, Fri-Sun until 10PMWi-Fi
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House of the Trembling Madness (Stonegate)
Email via online contact form. If the name doesn't put you off, then presumably neither will the taxidermied lion's head hanging over the bar, or the wax-encrusted candlesticks on the tables. Work your way through their encyclopedic collection of Belgian beers, and then soak up the booze with some maddeningly superior barsnacks. The same company has a much larger venue on Lendal.
Daily 10AM-midnightWi-Fi
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The Keystones
Popular with a younger crowd for its live sports on telly at the weekends, pool table, variety of board games and free Playstation 4. Beer garden at rear.
Daily noon-10PMOutdoor seating · Wheelchair accessible
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Vahe Bar
Lovely relaxed bar overlooking York Minster serving British ales and Belgian draughts, plus over 200 bottled continental beers and 300 spirits.
Wed Thu 5PM-11PM, Fri 10:30AM-midnight, Sat 12:30PM-midnight
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Lendal Cellars
A standard Greene King chain pub in all ways but one: the building. To access, the visitor must leave the street via a passageway, then descend into this arch-ceilinged underground bar, which was the Lord Mayor's personal wine cellar in the 18th century. An atmospheric venue for drinks, but avoid the food.
Sun-Thu noon-10PM, Fri Sat 11AM-10PM
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The Stone Roses
A 90s-themed rock/britpop bar which steadily morphs into a club as the night goes on. Decent atmosphere and bargain bevvies.
Mon-Fri noon-1AM, Sat Sun 11AM-1AMFree entry except for gigs
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Jalou
Email via online contact form. Geordie glam meets medieval York: lavish and pricey cocktails served to an RnB soundtrack in a grade II-listed Gothic church with an impressive 'neon chandelier' centrepiece.
Sun-Wed 4PM-1AM, Thu-Sat noon-2AM
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The Maltings
Absolutely cracking real-ale free house. The resident beer is Yorkshire's famous Black Sheep bitter, and there is a constant rotation of six other guest beers and four traditional ciders.
Daily 11AM-11PM
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The Lighthorseman
The Lighthorseman is a Grade II listed public house with guest accommodation on Fulford Road in the Fishergate area of York, England. Dating from around 1870, it was probably purpose‑built as a pub and small hotel, according to CAMRA, and The Press has attributed its design to Walter Green Penty, although the official listing does not name an architect. The site was added to the New Walk/Terry Avenue conservation area in 1975 and listed in 1994 as part of a CAMRA–English Heritage pilot study, with CAMRA regarding the interior as of "special national historic interest".
Open now · closes 11:30 pmWi-Fi · Outdoor seating · Vegetarian options
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Waggon and Horses
The Waggon and Horses is a Grade II listed public house and bed and breakfast on Lawrence Street in York, England. Built in 1773 as a house, now No. 17, it stands close to the city walls at Walmgate Bar.
Open now · closes 11 pmWi-Fi · Outdoor seating · Wheelchair accessible
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The Gillygate
The Gillygate, is a Grade II listed public house offering accommodation on Gillygate in York, England. The listing describes the building as mid‑19th‑century, while BBC News reports that the pub dates back to 1811. The site was included in the Central Historic Core conservation area in 1968.
Open now · closes 10:30 pmWi-Fi · Limited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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Charles XII
The Charles XII, commonly referred to as The Charles, is a pub in Heslington, York.
Open now · closes 11 pmOutdoor seating · Wheelchair accessible
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Eagle & Child
The Eagle & Child is a pub on High Petergate, in the city centre of York, in England. The building was constructed in the early 17th century, as a three-storey timber-framed building, with attics and a jettied front. In the 18th century, the building was altered internally, and a brick extension was added at the rear, shared with the neighbouring Petergate House.
Limited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating · Live music
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Old Grey Mare
The Old Grey Mare is a Grade II listed public house on Clifton Green in Clifton, a suburb of York, England. Dating from the late 17th century, it is thought to stand on the site of an earlier inn, The Maypole, which was reportedly destroyed by fire in 1648. Known as the Grey Horse by 1820, the building was altered and extended over time, including late-19th‑century work by architect Walter Green Penty that added a gabled cross‑wing on the north side.
Wi-Fi · Limited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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The Black Swan
The Black Swan is a public house in the city centre of York, England. The building lies on Peasholme Green, on the site of an important medieval house which had been occupied by various Lord Mayors of York and Members of Parliament. In 1560, Martin Bowes rebuilt the property, and in 1670 Henry Thompson made substantial alterations, rebuilding parts in brick, and altering the interior.
Wi-Fi · Outdoor seating · Live music
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The Golden Ball
The Golden Ball is a public house in the Bishophill area of central York, England. The first record of the pub was in 1773. The core part of the building was constructed in the early 19th century.
Open now · closes 11 pmWheelchair accessible
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The Phoenix
The Phoenix Inn is a Grade II listed public house on George Street in York, England, standing just inside the city walls. The building is variously dated to the late 18th or early 19th century and was remodelled in 1897 for John Smith's Brewery to designs by Bromet & Thorman of Tadcaster. It later passed to Marston's, under whose ownership it experienced several closures in the 2000s before being sold at auction in 2008 to private owners.
Wi-Fi · Limited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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Museum Street Tavern
The Museum Street Tavern, formerly Thomas's of York (and officially listed as 3 Museum Street), is a historic public house in the city centre of York, England. The building was first constructed in about 1700. Around 1800 it became part of Ettridge's Royal Hotel, and in the 1820s it was heightened from two to three storeys.
Limited wheelchair access · Live music
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The Burton Stone
The Burton Stone Inn is a Grade II listed public house and bed-and-breakfast on Clifton, in the suburb of Clifton in York, England. An inn on the site is first recorded in 1828, originally named The Plough before later taking the name the Burton Stone, after the medieval cross base that stands beside the building. The present inn was built in 1896 to designs by Walter Brierley.
Closed · opens 4 pm tomorrow
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The Mount
The Mount is a Grade II listed public house on The Mount in York, England. The present building is dated to around 1870, with its frontage described in the listing as later 19th century. In 1892 the property was purchased by John Smith's.
Limited wheelchair access · Outdoor seating
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The Snickleway Inn
The Snickleway Inn is a Grade II* listed pub in the city centre of York, England. The pub lies on Goodramgate, next to the Wealden Hall. The oldest part is the front section of the building, constructed about 1500, at the same time as the neighbouring hall.
Wi-Fi · Outdoor seating
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The Falcon
The Falcon is a historic pub on Micklegate in the city centre of York, England. The establishment originated as an inn named The Falcon in the 18th century. It was first recorded in 1715, and in 1736, Francis Drake named it one of two notable inns on the street.
Outdoor seating · Live music
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The Rose and Crown
The Rose and Crown is a Grade II listed public house, restaurant, and bed-and-breakfast on Lawrence Street in York, England. It occupies two early‑18th‑century houses later altered in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the earliest known reference to the pub dates from 1786.
Outdoor seating · Wheelchair accessible
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The Red Lion
The Red Lion is a Grade II listed pub on Walmgate in the city centre of York, England. It is claimed that it is the oldest building in the city used as a pub, however it has only been licensed since the 19th century. A legend claims that Dick Turpin once escaped through the pub's window.
Outdoor seating
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The Swan
The Swan is a Grade II listed historic pub on Bishopgate Street in the suburb of Clementhorpe, immediately south-west of the city centre of York, England. It was built as a beerhouse and grocery in 1861, at the end of a terrace on the northern extension of Bishopthorpe Road. In 1899, it was purchased by the brewery Joshua Tetley's & Son, which in 1936 decided to remodel it.
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Three Cranes
The Three Cranes is a Grade II listed public house on St Sampson's Square in York, England. Built in the mid‑18th century, it was altered in the late 19th century, and refurbished in 1933. The site was incorporated into the Central Historic Core conservation area in 1968.
Wi-Fi
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Watergate Inn
The Watergate Inn is a historic public house in the city centre of York, England. The pub lies on Walmgate, a street which had 20 pubs in 1901, of which The Watergate is the last survivor. The first record of a pub on the site was of the City Arms, in 1702.
Limited wheelchair access
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The Golden Slipper
The Golden Slipper is a Grade II listed public house on Goodramgate in the city centre of York, England. It was originally constructed about 1500 as a house, with the north-eastern half the building dating from this period. This section has three storeys and is timber-framed.
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