Ye Olde Starre Inne, York

More than adequately described before so I won’t bother, did anyone mention it’s down a narrow alley off of Stonegate? The sign crossing over the road is a give away as to location (next to Evil Eye). Counter is at the back of the place on the left, home to an eight pull set, two were off the others being fairly local with Ainsty, Brew York, one each from the Masham breweries and Greene King IPA to break the spell. Mid end kegs on three mini T-Bars. Busy with a few tourists and locals on my visit but no students as previously, it was Christmas so they’d gone home.

Official site of Ye Olde Starre Inne - www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk

Official site of Ye Olde Starre Inne - www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk

Enjoyed my visit here , its a rambling sort of place , lots of nooks and crannies to explore when its not to busy , 8 handpulls only 2 from GK , Abbott and IPA , the other 6 were intresting locals , i had Treboom Yorkshire Sparkle , Jorvick Flaxon Blonde and Ainsty Angel all in good shape . Only real complaint were the Gents that had the smell of Ye Olde English Sewers . OK its a bit touristy but thats what i was being .

York’s oldest inn apparently and I can well believe it - a rambling interior with some yards for outside drinking. Sadly Greene King have clearly been bad news for it, as they usually are. Menus and generic corporate decor everywhere - besides the ye olde interior, you could be in any other bog standard GK house. 8 real ales is great but not if I have to pay £4.90 for them - disgraceful really. Slow service and the stench of cooked fish everywhere. Can we just insist on Sam Smiths owning all pubs like this?

Decent enough pub with a selection of real ales. The Abbot ale was particularly good in here. Would revisit.

Nice old pub tucked away down a little alley off stonegate lies the Ye Old Starre Inn. Sadly since the Greene king takeover of punch taverns this pub has suffered with its beer range deteriorating badly. Before there were six really nice ales from far and wide that have now been taken over mostly by the crap Greene king stable, IPA, Abbot, Greene kings London glory and the Taylor walker house beer now take up for of the pumps with no were near as much rotation as used to be the case in this pub. The prices are also creeping up with ales differing between the £3.40-70 range depending on strength. This is ab great shame as the pub is a great place to sit especially in winter with numerous open fires and warm comfy bench seating throughout. There is a really nice un altered decor to the pub that is one of its main visiting points. This is a great shame as this used to be one of my favorite pubs in York put as with all things Greene King it has been worsened. on a side not the manager with grey hair is a horrific human being and such a nasty spiteful bitter man. This has been brought to my attention by many workers and patrons, the sooner he leaves the better this place will become as the staff are really nice.