Barking George Bar @ Harrogate Inn, Harrogate

A large hotel recently renovated and the bar has been relocated to the other side of the building from when it was the lacklustre Duck and Dog bar in the St George Hotel and it’s greatly enlarged. It comprises two rooms, one on the Crescent Gardens side being by the main entrance, impressive stone steps leading up to an equally impressive bar. The décor is somewhat botanical but looking up there is a magnificent glass dome, the lighting is a little bit tart’s boudoir. Furnishing at high and low tables. Four handpulls on the counter, Theakstons Best Bitter and Old Peculier being reversed, a third blank and the fourth with an interesting beer from Sharps… no really. Usual stuff on T-Bars. Over a door in the corner is a sign reading Stray Away, an Harrogate joke, the door leads to a second bar with an horseshoe bar with four pulls, same beer, and more T-Bars. Similar furnishings but more inclined to dining, I suspect this bar is more of a dining room for the hotel. It is lit by a set of large chandeliers. Although newly refurbished the interior signage seems to date from the previous incarnation and is a bit misleading.

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