The Wild Swan, York

Located on the main road and very much a dining pub. It does have a separate bar to the left, but even this is used for diners (though it accepts dogs). The whole place has been done up in light colours, even the ceiling beams, with plenty of light wood evident and a fair amount of tan coloured dining chairs. Decorations are country prints and high level bookshelves. Still not bad for a pint or two, with three cask ales: Black Sheep Best, TT Landlord and Ilkley Mary Ann, in good order.

Official site of The Wild Swan - www.wildswan.pub

Official site of The Wild Swan - www.wildswan.pub

Coverted from a "characterful" village pub into a pub cum restaurant. As you enter there is a formal Restaurant to the right and a comfortable public bar to the left, Scrabble tiles on the doors describe what's on offer in each. Both rooms share the central open fire although in the public it's an inglenook style one. Beside the fire are a couple of leather armchairs, a wheelback chair and a tables, the rest of the bar has mainly kitchen tables a little crammed in, the restaurant's a little packed as well making the journey to the toilets a bit of a struggle, especially if some dick has his chair stuck out. Disabled access is possible but the toilet is reached through the restaurant where the furniture may make navigation difficult. The toilets are rather tweely labelled as Girls and Boys and there's that nice liquid soap and hand lotion popular with country pubs, and the paper towels are in a basket. Rather than the traditional tea lights they have lanterns fitted with strings of leds, there are packs of card games on the tables as well. The public has some exposed ceiling beams, although not particularly ancient ones, light fittings made from antlers and a stuffed stags head on one wall, otherwise it's decorated with pewter tankards, a variety of prints, pictures and mirrors and there are china swans above the fire. On the bar-back a stuffed fox looking a bit like Basil Brush’s dad lurks. Three hand pumps in the public, none in the restaurant of course, serving a well kept Landlord plus two from Black Sheep. The front wall and sign bill the pub as a "Proper Yorkshire Pub" and admittedly a bit of village pubby-ness remains in the bar.