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Going to York-recommendations?

the button said:
The pub with the white Alsatian (and a cracking selection of beers) was called the Corner something-or-other (probably Corner House). Out the train station and left, down the road a bit, cross the busy road, past the bus-stops a bit and up a side road on your left. They had a decent outside seating area for the smokers also. (See? A proper recommendation).
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I am a born & bred Yorkie who still goes back a lot.

I think you may mean the Maltings, in Tanner's Moat, which fits the description & is nice tho' can get crowded - or perhaps the Corner Pin tho' I'm not too familiar with that one.

Pleas cyberfairy don't look up & go to the Corner House (on Burton Stone Lane). :D When I was about 17 me and the erstwhile boyfriend would go in there and play 'spot who's on the game'. I think it may have recently suffered closure, perhaps temporary, due to alkie-induced fighting or similar. It's rough as a badger's arse (and I quite like rough pubs:D).

I'm pushed to think of a nice place to drink that isn't a real ale/traditional pub - can recommend plenty of those if you want.

As well as the other recommendations the Museum Gardens (right in the town centre) are lovely if it's a nice day. York is a compact city and good to just wander around.
 
fogbat said:
This thread has reminded me that I want to go to York again :cool:

Not been back since graduating in 2001 :(
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Heh, I graduated there in 1982, and I've been back a couple of times.

My suggestion, if it's still open would be the 'Golden Slipper' and 'Minster Arms' pubs. Last time I was there you could still get Worthington White Shield in either. Failing that, the two classic York pubs are probably the 'York Arms' next to the Minster (I wee'd on Mick Hucknall's shoes in the bogs there) and the 'Spread Eagle' on Walmgate.
 
oryx said:
I am a born & bred Yorkie who still goes back a lot.

I think you may mean the Maltings, in Tanner's Moat, which fits the description & is nice tho' can get crowded - or perhaps the Corner Pin tho' I'm not too familiar with that one.

Pleas cyberfairy don't look up & go to the Corner House (on Burton Stone Lane). :D When I was about 17 me and the erstwhile boyfriend would go in there and play 'spot who's on the game'. I think it may have recently suffered closure, perhaps temporary, due to alkie-induced fighting or similar. It's rough as a badger's arse (and I quite like rough pubs:D).

I'm pushed to think of a nice place to drink that isn't a real ale/traditional pub - can recommend plenty of those if you want.

As well as the other recommendations the Museum Gardens (right in the town centre) are lovely if it's a nice day. York is a compact city and good to just wander around.
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Thankyou-and I like traditional pubs-just don't drink the ale so suggestions welcome:cool: I want to go to the Corner House now:oops:
 
El Piano looks good as do other suggestions-thankyou muchly-will print out this page to take with me when I go...or just bimble around and forget to go anywhere/do anything...
 
oryx said:
I am a born & bred Yorkie who still goes back a lot.

I think you may mean the Maltings, in Tanner's Moat, which fits the description & is nice tho' can get crowded - or perhaps the Corner Pin tho' I'm not too familiar with that one.
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I've had a quick google, and it was definitely The Corner Pin

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/18/18961/Corner_Pin/York

Nice stopping off point if you're on your way to/from the station, I reckon. :cool:
 
cyberfairy said:
Thankyou-and I like traditional pubs-just don't drink the ale so suggestions welcome:cool: I want to go to the Corner House now:oops:
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Save yourself the walk (& the flying bar stools :D) & go to the Three Cranes (right in the town centre) instead.

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/18972/

My first ever boyfriend took me on our first ever date there. All I can say in his defence was he was from Liverpool & didn't really know York, & to this day I'm not quite sure how we ended up there.

I went to the ladies' & heard a terrible fight going on in one of the cubicle, with the sound of grappling and some choice language. :eek: I was a bit taken aback when two frail-looking, elderly women emerged, still cursing & shrieking at each other. :D

Beer in the Evening makes it sound quite nice, which it could well be these days.

Bernie Gunther's pub recommendations are spot-on, & the Blue Bell, also on Walmgate, is a lovely cosy traditional pub.
 
There's lots of ghost walks you can go on in York. We went on a pretty good one that started off at the Shambles (forget the time but perhaps around 7:30?). That was good fun!
 
York was awarded the Hocus Eye seal of approval some years ago. It is a fabulous place for architecture, history, pubs and also a camp site a short bus ride from the city centre. Hotels are very expensive though because it is one of the favourite places for American tourists. Take your camera.

The city wall, Yorvick, the Minster (not forgetting to creep into the crypt) and the Railway Museum are all worth a visit. I think it is even better than my beloved Exeter. Did I really write that? :eek:
 
Hocus Eye. said:
York was awarded the Hocus Eye seal of approval some years ago. It is a fabulous place for architecture, history, pubs and also a camp site a short bus ride from the city centre. Hotels are very expensive though because it is one of the favourite places for American tourists. Take your camera.

The city wall, Yorvick, the Minster (not forgetting to creep into the crypt) and the Railway Museum are all worth a visit. I think it is even better than my beloved Exeter. Did I really write that? :eek:
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having lived in Exeter for my formative years, I am not enamoured with the place at all:(

hotels were expensive but found a cheapish one in the city wall :cool:

And might have to go on a ghost tour:oops:
 
oryx said:
Save yourself the walk (& the flying bar stools :D) & go to the Three Cranes (right in the town centre) instead.

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/18972/

My first ever boyfriend took me on our first ever date there. All I can say in his defence was he was from Liverpool & didn't really know York, & to this day I'm not quite sure how we ended up there.

I went to the ladies' & heard a terrible fight going on in one of the cubicle, with the sound of grappling and some choice language. :eek: I was a bit taken aback when two frail-looking, elderly women emerged, still cursing & shrieking at each other. :D

Beer in the Evening makes it sound quite nice, which it could well be these days.

Bernie Gunther's pub recommendations are spot-on, & the Blue Bell, also on Walmgate, is a lovely cosy traditional pub.
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Hmmm....you've shattered my illusions now ! I thought York was all refined and genteel. Screaming hags and flying bar stools eh ?? Sounds more like the wild west ! :eek:;)
 
Jayen4 said:
Hmmm....you've shattered my illusions now ! I thought York was all refined and genteel. Screaming hags and flying bar stools eh ?? Sounds more like the wild west ! :eek:;)
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:D:D:D

Don't know where to begin really. Even the most sheltered and upmarket of weekend visitors would find it hard to avoid the sights of York at closing time on a Friday night, when it resembles one of those clips you see on a TV piece about binge-drinking.......

The place has character though - you wouldn't want it to be a medieval theme-park!
 
derf said:
My mate has emailed me back. I should add that he's not a real Yorkshire lad and his attempt at a Yorkshire accent is crap. He has a shitty uni accent but I'll give him his due, he tries.



However he does know good snap when he sees it so I would trust his suggestion.
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Thankyou-went there and was pretty nice although the gluten free bread was worst thing ever:mad:

The Blakeshead veggie place was good too-forgot to print out this so forgot the names of pubs recommended:oops:
Loved The three Legged Mare and the Evil Eye for drinks and was a lovely place all in all:)
 
cyberfairy said:
Thankyou-went there and was pretty nice although the gluten free bread was worst thing ever:mad:

The Blakeshead veggie place was good too-forgot to print out this so forgot the names of pubs recommended:oops:
Loved The three Legged Mare and the Evil Eye for drinks and was a lovely place all in all:)
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My mate is gluten intolerant. I know he eats the stuff.
Hope you had a good time up there. How about posting some details and the odd photo. :)
 
cyberfairy said:
Loved The three Legged Mare and the Evil Eye for drinks and was a lovely place all in all:)
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You mean you weren't tempted to try the Corner House & the Three Cranes? :eek:;)

Three Legged Mare is nice - lots of people rave about the Evil Eye Lounge but never made it there myself.
 
oryx said:
You mean you weren't tempted to try the Corner House & the Three Cranes?

Three Legged Mare is nice - lots of people rave about the Evil Eye Lounge but never made it there myself.
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Never saw the Corner House and had no chance to go in Three cranes:(
Evil Eye was good but dead poncey-everyone was gorgeous and the bar girls were all admiring each other's Vivien Westwood clothing but the cocktails were dead good and strong:cool:
Three Legged mare perfect pub-friendly, cheap and not too pretentious.
Went to one in centre which was meant to be oldest in York but just meant expensive and touristy.
Loved the castle museum especially the Victorian spiritualist machine:cool:
But never seen so many gollies in my life! Every shop seemed to sell them:confused:
 
cyberfairy said:
everyone was gorgeous and the bar girls were all admiring each other's Vivien Westwood clothing
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:eek: York's changed from the place I grew up in.

I used to work in a bar in York when I was about 19 and my idea of designer clothes was probably Miss Selfridge! That was about the same time Vivien Westwood was designing her first bondage trousers. Anybody who had worn those would have been pointed at in the street and roundly abused for being a 'fookin' freak'.:D
 
I've only just seen this thread but for future ref if anyone wants any York based help/advice/guided tour feel free to contact me. I live in York and was born and brought up here, knows it like the back of me hand :)

A finer city to live in you'd be hard pressed to find :cool:
 
redsnapper said:
I've only just seen this thread but for future ref if anyone wants any York based help/advice/guided tour feel free to contact me. I live in York and was born and brought up here, knows it like the back of me hand :)

A finer city to live in you'd be hard pressed to find
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I can imagine it being a lovely place to live-was very friendly unlike a lot of tourist filled places-and late night pasty and cake shop:):):cool::cool:
 
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