Tap on the Tutt, York

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New owners and a new name, reportedly to distance itself from a previous reputation, it’s possibly moved up market. The old furniture has gone, replaced by comfortable furniture mostly matched and the dining room remains restored. Naturally there’s a grey paint job, there appear to be fewer screens but those are confined to the left hand or public bar and snug. There are six pulls with three in each bar, and they’re different in each, todays choice was Rudgate Jorvik and Battleaxe, Taylors Golden Best, Roosters Yankee, Daleside Bitter, and Copper Dragon Golden Pippin. It is run by the same group as the nearby Grantham Arms and the Fox and Hounds.

Still very much as it was when I reviewed it nearly ten years ago, the cask beer range is the same and the quality still good, the sports screens seem to have multiplied but the dining room appears to have been restored.

A pub that was renovated in the 1930s and untouched until 2007, featured as CAMRA's national inventory pub of the month in Oct 2007 it closed not long afterwards. Now thankfully reopened with modernisation but the wood and stained glass remains largely untouched. The dining room has sadly been taken over by a pool table in spite of another being available at the other end of the pub. The furniture fits in with the decor and perhaps some of it is the original 1930s makeover stock, most of it is "hard" seating. The outside Gents, accessed via a covered corridor, has been left alone with its massive ceramic urinals. TVs showing sport at both ends, footy one end and racing the other while I was there. Beers are still Tetley cask, John Smiths cask , and Taylors Golden Best which, in spite of its chilly temperature, was excellent. Usual kegs plus the now rarely seen Murphys stout. The guvnor knew his stuff about keeping beer apart from my minor quibble about temperature, but other than that in very good condition and my pint was topped up without me mentioning a word All beers were served in the correctly named glass. Altogether a class act and worth a visit, just a short diversion off the A1M junction 48.