Golden Ball, York

An excellent community pub, just on the right side of tatty. It has several rooms, including two large ones and a side room with a bar billiards table (no right-handed shots though!). There is a nice courtyard garden at the rear. It had a good range of Yorkshire ales on, including a house beer from Ainsty. I had the Yorkshire Heart Blackheart which was excellent. It is in one of the more obscure residential parts of the city centre, although it falls nicely between the Ackhorne and the Slip.

looked like a good multi roomed pub but I can’t review it in detail as there was no room inside. I was sent to the beer garden to enjoy my real ale from Ainsty Ales, table service only post Covid. Seemed lively and popular and the ale was fine.