A food-led McMullen pub, much larger than it first appears, with the original building facing the road extended to side and rear. Various seating and dining areas around a two-part bar counter. Refurbished with semi-modern furniture and light decor. Substantial patio / grass beer garden. Two banks of four handpumps, offering Cask, County, IPA and the seasonal Tommy's Tipple (£3.75). Not a bad spot, overall.

This is another large old Victorian pub on a prominent site. It's now completely opened up into one very large room, with a few sofas and banquettes but with plenty of normal tables and chairs. There's plenty of space in here, allowing them to have a decent amount of room between the tables. In the way of gastropubs it's bare-boarded, and with the pillars, bar counter, and some walls painted that charcoal grey/indigo colour we see so often in these types of pub. Of course there are various prints on the walls, and one wall has some unusual fish themed wallpaper. I saw free wi-fi advertised.

However, several original Victorian features remain in here, including some etched and cut glass, but perhaps most notably a superb pillared bar back that still retains its glazing, and what looks like a mahogany and cut glass office at the back. The lattar piece had a wood carved square and compass surmounting it, a clear masonic link to the pub's name.

This pub still has quite a lot of character despite its modernisation. The ale selection is OK, without being terribly inspiring. I reckon the food might be fine if you wanted a big lunch, or dinner, but a few more of the more usually seen light bites might be welcome. This pub is certainly worth dropping into for a swift one if you're in the area.

A tasteful station cafe bar by the main entrance to Keighley railway station. There are two rooms with the counter in the front room, home to four pulls including a well kept Yates Golden Ale as a regular, two guests and the fourth stump advertising a Cider and a Perry. Crisp modern style decor with traditional brown wooden tables and chairs in the front, leather sofas in the back along with more tables and chairs on a raised area. There is a view of the KWVR tracks from the back but surprisingly no railway porn other than a London Underground sign from Liverpool St.

It certainly seems and looks an authentic ancient pub ,split on three levels with some uneven floors and walls adding to the effect,very busy with the young/slightly hip early Friday evening crowd, two banks of three pumps, and as mentioned previously doubled up,beers available all from the Sheps stable were Master Brew, Whitstable Bay and Bishops Finger,I am not a huge Shepherd Neame fan but unlike the previous reviewer, I found the Whitstable Bay to be top notch and very enjoyable. If you enjoy or can tolerate Sheps beers I think most people would enjoy this pub,I did and for me one of the better pubs in Guildford I have tried to date.

One of a number of modern ale houses on King Street, Beer Emporium, which opened back in July 2013, stands out from the crowd by virtue of the fact that the bar is down in the cellar, with a bottle shop taking up the ground floor space. The Grade II listed building was originally owned by a wine merchant, with the cellars used to store their stock. Nowadays it is beer, rather than wine, that prevails and this is made abundantly clear by both the name and the neatly ordered shelves that face you on entry, lined with countless bottles of small batch beer. The stairs leading down to the bar have some very nicely worked, highly polished wooden hand rails and decorative features, which created a favourable initial impression. The vaulted cellar bar sees the servery run down the right hand wall with a row of fairly limited seating options opposite, although a partitioning wall partially obscures a much larger seating area beyond. The walls, as you might expect, are bare brick and there wasn’t a great deal of décor around the room, although a bright stained glass skylight above the bar provides some much appreciated natural light and acts as a nice focal point. To the rear of the room, a large table had a collection of leaflets and flyers for various events around the city as well as numerous CAMRA publications. Music was playing surprisingly loudly for a mid-afternoon visit although the volume may have been accentuated by the acoustics of such a large, bare brick room. If the idea of subterrainian drinking isn’t for you, there is the option to take advantage of the picnic benches that have been arranged outside along the front wall.
The hand pumps here were dispensing Mallinsons US Mild and Baton Rouge, Secret Brewery Trial Brew, Five Sisters Red Pale Ale, Milestone Hoptimism, Dunham Black Velvet and Butcombe Haka, with at least one box of cider visible on the bar back and a good keg and bottle range as well. I tried the US Mild which didn’t really work for me, but it was in good shape nonetheless.
I enjoyed our relatively brief visit here and thought it offered something a bit different from other such bars around the city. It’s definitely the place to go to if you want to try some interesting bottled beer and is worth inclusion on any crawl of the city’s top craft beer bars.