The Podger, Leeds

Looking like an estate pub it doesn’t disappoint and none the worse for that, nice and busy on a Friday mid afternoon with more mature customers. It’s one long open plan room across the front of the pub with an almost central servery. This is home to a couple of T-bars of the nation’s favourites with two pulls in between. Tetleys cask on one and Leeds Pale on t’other, I swerved the Tetleys on the barmaid’s advice as it “tasted funny”, the Pale was mediocre but not chip worthy, not really a cask beer pub of course in spite of its Cask Marque rating. Wacky carpet and laminate floors, hexagonal tiles round the counter and ordinary wall finishes. Sports on big screens and subdued piped music complete the picture of a standard but nice local pub. The name comes from spanners apparently, see the pub sign.