Old English Gentleman, Hull

Everywhere I looked, this pub was supposed to open at midday. However, I arrived earlier in the day to find it closed. Seeing that I was trying all of the doors, the guy who was inside put three fingers up to me. I didn't take this as an insult and assumed that he was saying that they now opened up at 3pm. With it being shortly before 2:30, I wasn't going to wait around in the freezing cold. Returning early in the evening, I found a fairly full pub that was much more cosy than it had looked from the outside. A barmaid had appeared instead of the guy I had seen earlier. Wainwright is the regular beer. Directors was also on. Nice enough pub. Shame about the beer choice.

Comfortable seems to be the universal one-word summary for this place, housed in part of a fine-looking Georgian building, and I certainly wouldn't disagree. Has relatively dark furniture and decor, but this is enlivened with plenty of old theatrical photographs and other memorabilia. Branded as a Mansfield house, the distinctly limited beer choice - EPA and Jennings Cumberland - is the only drawback.