Rose & Crown, York

Extremely pleasant pub just out of city centre with restored traditional fittings and furnishings and a generally comfortable feel. there are several distinct rooms round a central bar, and a courtyard area at the rear. Also benefits from its own car park. Beers include a couple of local guests alongside the usual Doom Bar etc; sampled the Bad Co Comfortably Numb which was in excellent condition. Pub Cask Marque listed. Food also pretty good and available all day.

Described at length by PSM below and I've nothing to add to his description. My pint of Rudgate Ruby Mild was in decent, if not brilliant ondition. I'd have no problem returning here if in the area.

This is a smart looking pub, just outside the city walls, that was previously owned by Tetleys and spent a brief period in the mid-1980's as a brewpub. The place has been opened out from what was clearly once a multiple room layout. The front bar has bare floorboards, a dark wood counter on the back wall and walls painted in bright colours, with some nice glazed tiling retained on a small section of wall near a redundant former front door. Padded benches run under the front windows in the space opposite the bar and I noticed a display of whiskey boxes and a large TV screen on the end wall. To the left of the bar is an opened out space with a couple of high tables and stools. An even larger collection of whiskey bottles can be found here, displayed on a shelf to the rear, under a huge map painted onto the wall. A door to the left leads through to a tidy lounge with bare brick walls, a nice fireplace and plenty of standard tables and chairs. There is another separate room behind the servery, set up predominantly as a dining room and accessed through a curtained archway which is flanked by more of those period tiles. The room contains formal table and chair arrangements, bottle displays in the window sills and a nice view out to the rear garden. To access the garden, you follow a colourful tiled path with a rose and crown motif towards the back of the pub. Pop music was playing for the duration of our stay, but was quiet enough to avoid being an irritation. The bar had four handpulls in action, dispensing Sharp's Doom Bar, Taylor Landlord, Black Sheep Golden Sheep and Rudgate Ruby Mild. Not the most exciting ale range you're likely to find in York, but my pint of the Ruby Mild was in decent enough condition. It is easy to dismiss this pub due to the high standard and extensive beer range to be found in the neighbouring pubs, but I found this to be a very amiable spot for a pint or two and with a more adventurous beer selection, there would be an unmissable trio of pubs within a short distance of one another.

Enter to a lovely floor-tiled entrance lobby with a rose and crown motif and also some nice art deco glasswork. Very nicely decorated interior, modern but fairly classy; some old internal fittings remain but ultimately it’s a mish-mash. Knocked-through a bit in the main bar but there are two other nice rooms which are more intimate. The olde York map frieze on the wall in the main bar is of interest. Four ales on at the bar; BS Golden Sheep, Doom Bar, TT Landlord and Rudgate Ruby Mild. My half of the latter was in decent shape. Also Thatchers Heritage for the apple-grapplers. As mentioned by RAR, kudos to the lone barmaid for keeping her head and humour in the face of the Pubs Galore onslaught. Tidy enough place - with a more adventurous beer selection this would be more than just a quick stop for me.