The Windmill, York

A well located pub at a busy crossroads on the route between the station and the racecourse and close to Micklegate Bar hence its popularity with racegoers, the multiple big screens are popular with fans of other sports. Now a U shaped pub as only vestigial walls remain in many parts. The long front bar has a dining area to the right furnished with tables and chairs. To the left the pub goes back much further and ends at a patio with many separate spaces in between, some being sofa furnished booths. The front barcounter has two pulls but the counter in the back room has a couple more, a blackboard on the counter listed the three cask beers on that day in addition to the Black Sheep Bitter, the most interesting being from Revolution. T-bars provide the usual mainstream keg beers. The counter itself is finished with leather clad bump bars Michelin Man style, and the whole place is decorated in relentless modern style with laminate floors, tall tables and so on. Nice enough but lacking character. There is a 10% discount for CAMRA members which was advertised on a sign on the bar.

Decided to call in as Ouse Boozer said they now had "an interesting range of beers available". If you call one an interesting range then you're disillusioned. The front room stank of something unpleasant which may explain why we couldn't find anybody working behind the bar. There were only two other people in the pub, so after a couple of minutes wait, with no sign of life, we left.