The Fox, Holgate, York

The Fox is a large victorian pub in the holgate area of York that is very nice and unaltered inside,there are different areas to have a drink in around the bar and i was quite comfortable in an area at the front of the pub. There were two real ales on the bar which were Taylor Landlord which i had a drink of and it was very nice there was also John Smiths cask.

This should be the best in town but falls far short. An old coaching inn, it would have been the top spot in town once, the place where the local worthies wined and dined, had their weddings and wakes and Rotary dinners. Alas no more, very much a mediocre chain pub complete with the usual microwave menu and poor beer quality, run for the benefit of the accountants. No need to linger.

This has a heiratage award, there are a lot of pictures of the past from the Holgate Road works, which is next door which was a train builder upto the early nineties as part of the ex BR workshops, was a pleasent surprise for me as I revisited the works recently and did not realise it was such a gem.