Anchor Inn, York

Great friendly pub with charismatic landlord and landlady. Music friendly with great live acts and fab old fashioned rock n roll mixes from the resident team nightly. Huge food portions at great value with the Sunday bin lid a must, finish it if you dare! Was there on holiday for a weekend and had a really lovely welcoming time. Good mix of local residents and holidaymakers, set in a beautiful spot right on the river, just the chillout I needed. Oh yeh and girls, the talent is not bad either!

Self styled community pub close to the Ripon canal, it certainly seems to have a good local following of people of all ages from the area of Langthorpe and Milby just over the river from Boroughbridge. The bar is an L shaped one with a pool table and seating in the shorter front section, while through an archway is the barcounter and a room with bench seating and a high table with chairs although not quite in the usual style. It's a pleasant enough room decorated with some prints and a model of Tweety Pie and Sylvester, dark wood and stained glass dividers round the dart board and a door with an interesting stained glass window leading out to the garden. There is also a profusion of audio-visual devices. Beerwise there are four handpumps, a solo one of which looks unused, the others serving Landlord, Black Sheep Bitter and John Smiths Cask in very reasonable condition, there are also a few founts of the well known kegs Strongbow, Guiness, JS Smooth, Fosters and 1664 as usual.