The Waterfront, York

No sports TV at all during our visit and food wasn't being served either. So a bit of a different feel to when Graham visited. The staff were very friendly, but the beer offering needs quite a bit of work. Ms CAMRA wanted a red wine, which she had and pronounced very good. I didn't feel the same way about my Theakstons keg though. It's perfectly OK for what it is, especially in Summer, but I doubt we'd bother again.

After some years as a restaurant this has nominally reverted to being a pub, although it is still largely an eating house but now with an overly loud sports TV (which was being studiously ignored by the customers). A big draw is the tabled area outside on the quay but inside there is a single fairly modern-feeling room inserted in the old building, which was once the Ship Inn according to the old sign under the paint. Being prone to occasional flooding it is a bit plain with a stone tiled floor and much of the plaster removed from the walls, while the rows of tables are mainly copper-topped. A small restaurant-type servery counter is located in a side room with a fairly mundane set of taps. Bitters are restricted to John Smiths and Theakston's keg offerings. Frankly somewhere for the tourists only.

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