Dave; do tell - if you can remember!
Which hostelries of note - and they are Legion in that fair city - did you visit.
It can be just a matter of time before we try and organise a TT Tour to York - our very own weekender
Dave's probably been busy with Auditing types, so I'll give you a few basics.
1/1) York is FANTASTIC!!! The best drinking venue I think I've ever been to, where the beer is almost universally superb, and even the tea is exceptional. Great Minster. Amazing hospitality. Wonderful free Rail Museum too. Almost all tidily packaged within clearly demarcated Medieval walls so you can't get lost, no matter how much 'tea' you have consumed!
Their fans were all Grade A people, even in spite of suffering their worst season in 40 years or so. And the Club too were all interested in us, hospitable and helpful.
[N.B. Sorry if the theme is getting dull, but, as you may have noticed, we rather liked the Eboracans....]
Pubs from my alphabetical list of 58 [within/beside the walls] are these, though Dave may add one or two visited when I lost interest:
- Artful Dodger - Micklegate: Dull except for the quiz machine and the highly seductive leather sofas. Timothy Taylor's.
- Blue Bell - Fossgate: Well-preserved interior. Loads of guest beers.
- Brigantes - Micklegate: Only visited as a rendezvous for about 20 SCFC travellers, but the Barman kicks the sh*t out of most I've ever met, and I'm not talking violence... Also had my favourite beer there, Red Rooster's Yankee, which rarely disappoints.
- The Exhibition - Bootham Bar: Gorgeously warm, cozy bar with a Barmaid to suit. Black Sheep was well kept. (Our first Pub on day one... "Welcome to Yorkshire!"
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- Hole in the Wall - High Petergate: A happy meeting place for many of us. Was told later this was a gay Pub. Couldn't discern that, (which is a sign of a healthy, balanced establishment,) but there was certainly a gay time had by all. Decent selection of guest beers.
- Lendal cellars - Lendal: Very swift half en route elsewhere. Chances are it was Tim Taylor and/or Black Sheep.
- Maltings - Tanners Moat: Oddly dark, damp, big place by the River. Adequate beerage, but not massively welcoming and slightly disappointing after what I'd been told. Attracts bikers by the coven.
- Olde Starre - Stonegate - the one with the gallows fixtures in the street: Good warm atmosphere. Very sociable place. Decent selection of the usual Yorkshire beers, plus a few oddities.
- Priory - Micklegate: Sky TV Pub with Pool table, prevalent Juke Box and outdoor gas-guzzling burners, basically. Only had Tim Taylor's I think, so on the CAMRA front it had tenuous links.
- Punch Bowl - Stonegate: Worst wetherspoons I've ever been to, in spite of the adequate pint of Yankee. A disproportionately long wait (typical) for 4 pints, which made me glad I'd managed to get down for Breakfast at our B&B. Toilets were vile, which is surreal at a Wetherspoons.
- Snickleway Inn - Goodramgate: Supposed to be haunted, and with the smallest Beer Garden in the world. I don't care - was distracted by Barmaid + decent Black Sheep. (Though nothing went any further, on either account.)
- Tap & Spile - Monkgate: Poor Pub in a way, as it only opens at Midday on a Saturday! Okay surroundings, and books, chess boards and an open fire, but something was lacking. Maybe it was simply due to the fact we barged our way in at 1 minute to midday... Great pint of Roosters Yankee, even though the first out of the pipe.
- Three Legged Mare [a.k.a. The Wonky Donkey] - High Petergate: The friendliest, warmest Pub I went to, and with Staff who are passionate about beer. Curious toilets and stuff, even though the place is basically modern. Was one of York Brewery's first Pubs, but those guys ain't jealous, and there were a shed load of Guest Beers. Oddly enough, perhaps my favourite Pub, even without the
genius loci I usually demand from an old hostelry.
- York Arms - High Petergate: Sam Smiths Pub which was fine, but typically bargain basement and never spectacular. The nearest Pub to York Minster though.
York's not as pretty or aesthetically pleasing as Bath, but beats every other City in these isles.
Also 'nearly' enjoyed the best Doner Kebab [an experience I was deluded enough to repeat after the last time my delusions got the better of my judgment
] in 20 years.
Q:
Friendliest Clubs played in the Conf National so far? All the Northern ones...... Fact.
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] in 20 years.
;D Hic!!!! 
