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Yorkshire Pubs

Yorkshire pubs offer a fantastic choice, particularly country pubs in West Yorkshire and the South Pennine countryside and of course traditional Yorkshire Dales pubs. You won't need to go far to find a Yorkshire pub serving real ale and there are many local breweries to choose from. Particular hotspots for real ale pubs include Sheffield pubs where you can follow the Don Valley Real Ale Trail. Another popular pub crawl is that around the city of York pubs - the Micklegate Run and of course the Pubs in Leeds are so numerous that a pub crawl isn't too strenuous!

Outside the cities you'll often find gastro pubs in traditional inns offering a wide choice of wine and beers and excellent pub food that is more like restaurant quality. If it's more traditional pub grub you're after there is no shortage of choice ranging from pie and chips to local seafood at pubs in Whitby, Scarborough pubs and other Yorkshire coastal towns. Pub quizzes and games are always popular in Yorkshire pubs. Many pubs have pool tables and dartboards. There is a huge choice of pubs in Yorkshire that hold weekly pub quizzes and are usually a friendly way of meeting the locals.

Pubs York

York has a huge number of pubs - one for every day of the year so they say! There are certainly over a couple of hundred dotted around the city. Pubs in York city centre include some beautiful historic pubs like the Black Swan built in 1417 and whose interior is the original one dating from the seventeenth century. York pubs aren't always traditional real ale pubs though. In one of the traditional red brick fronted pubs in the old quarter of York is York's only Latin bar and restaurant, Bobo Lobo. Stonegate's historic streets are home to several traditional British pubs like real ale pub The Yorkshire Terrier serving up ale from The York Brewery with a real ale shop in the front. Ye Olde Starre Inne is down an alley off Stonegate and The Punch Bowl is a magnificent black and white medieval looking traditional English pub. 

A popular pub crawl around many of the pubs York has available on race nights and for stag and hen nights is the Micklegate Run pub crawl. It starts at Micklegate Bar, the western entrance in York's walled city and runs down to the River Ouse.

Being such a popular tourist destination there is a good choice of York pub accommodation. Try The Golden Fleece near The Shambles, York's most haunted pub - a friendly pub with four poster beds that makes a comfortable and mysterious pub to stay in York. Or the Victoria Vaults with luxury pub accommodation near York's historic bar walls. The Lighthorseman offers pub accommodation in York in a traditional Victorian pub, or for a country pub near York with a friendly welcome try the Red Lion Inn at Poppleton.

Pubs Leeds

Pubs in Leeds cater for all ages, tastes and pockets. Being a university town there's plenty of student bar choices particularly in Headingley - location of the famous Otley Run - a pub crawl taking in around 17 pubs!

Leeds city centre pubs are scattered all around the city with a concentration of pubs at the Exchange quarter, Boar Lane, Lower Briggate and North Street for alternative and bohemian pubs, Merrion Street and Call Lane where you'll find the oldest gay pub in Leeds, The New Penny. The Millennium Square and the Northern Quarter are where you'll find the main entertainment area where a range of Leeds bars and pubs sit alongside restaurants and clubs.

Pubs Leeds offers you the choice of traditional real ale pubs, historic and friendly pubs and stylish city centre pubs. Many pubs offer good food and pub lunches to help break up those hectic shopping trips. The Faversham pub in Leeds city centre is renowned for its live music and showcasing acts like Lilly Allen and The Klaxons. The Adelphi on Hunslet Road is not only a historic pub but hosts open mike comedy nights and live music while serving up real ales and wine. Weekly pub quizzes are very popular and can be found in many pubs in and near Leeds (like the Gardeners Arms in Morley). Many Leeds pubs with entertainment have pool tables and darts to help you while away the hours.

Pubs Sheffield

Sheffield is well known for its array of friendly pubs from traditional real ale pubs to modern fashionable bars. Sheffield city centre pubs are often geared toward the trendy and student oriented end of the market with a great choice of drinks and regular promotional offers. Amongst all the modern pubs and bars there is a good choice of old Sheffield pubs like The Frog & Parrot that serves up the strongest legal ale in the country or The Old Queen's Head that is housed in a Tudor timber framed building dating from the fifteenth century.

Real ale pub aficionados frequently make the pilgrimage to Sheffield to pick up the Upper Don Valley Real Ale Trail. It stretches from the city centre out towards Hillsborough near Sheffield and is ideal as a Sheffield pub crawl as it runs alongside the tram. There are a string of real ale pubs along the route such as the Fat Cat ale pub that always offers a wide range of traditional draught real ales including several of their own brewed beers from the Kelham Island Brewery and beers from micro breweries around the country.

There is always something going on at pubs in Sheffield whether it is live music for all tastes including folk music in Irish pubs, a pub quiz or a great choice of Sheffield pub food. Sheffield has its share of gastro pubs like the Three Merry Fellows near Sheffield on the western outskirts of the city centre and The Gallows at Dinnington to the east.

Pubs Whitby

This coastal town in North Yorkshire has a great choice of traditional pubs in many Whitby historic buildings. There's a good selection of pubs and bars with harbour views overlooking the River Esk - always popular with visitors especially on sunny days when you can sit out in the beer garden. Being used to families on holidays you'll find many of Whitby's pubs child friendly and sometimes even dog friendly. Whitby pubs cater for all tastes on the tourist trail or off it. Being in Yorkshire there's no shortage of real ale pubs serving Yorkshire bitters and local brews like Tetley and Theakstons. Many pubs have big screen TVs for big sporting events and pub games like darts and pool. A regular feature of pub entertainment in Whitby are the pub quizzes held regularly throughout the week as well as live music nights.     

For pub food you'll find plenty of pubs in Whitby serving bar meals and pub lunches which make a handy refreshment stop when visiting Whitby's tourist attractions. Also in Whitby you'll find pubs in hotels, and more formal pub restaurants where you can get a three course meal along with your favourite tipple. Some of the best pub grub in Whitby is of course the local seafood and Whitby fish and chips are always popular.  

If you want to find holiday accommodation in Whitby then there's a choice of accommodation in pubs Whitby and the hotels with pubs. There's a greater choice of English country pubs and village pubs near Whitby where you can often find traditional good pub food, special Sunday lunches and pub carvery menus.

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