The Guy Fawkes Hotel, York

A pub/eatery and hotel, terraced, and in undressed brick with rear patio. As others have said, it looks like a converted Georgian styled house. The interior has three rooms. I just went into the main bar, which is the room you enter from the street, however, there is a dining area off to the right and another room at the back. They all seemed to be in dark brown and wood panel, with wood floor and have some wood carvings. There is a mix of settles, bar stools and wood chairs, some also carved and a couple of nice stone fireplaces in the various rooms. There are also some nice prints on the walls. We didn't eat here, so can't comment on the food, but the service was fine and the place was packed with a mix clientele - well i think it was - it is a bit gloomy! Beer; tap stuff with Leffe and Staropramen, with Rudgate Battleaxe, York Terrier, Black Sheep Copper Dragon Black Gold and a decent Leeds Midnight Bell on handpull. We did this pub a few years back when i did most of York pubs - this came out as one of the best, so i will always pop in here when visiting. I now pack a torch.

Although not in the 2010 Good Beer Guide, we stumbled on this pub a couple of years ago during a beer festival, and have visited each time we are in York since then. Multi roomed town house style building dim inside with some gas lighting and candles. Decent range of beers. Enjoyed Hambleton Horsing Around and Great Heck Staggering Genius.

There were numerous ales on when I visited, and I went for the Hambleton Ales Nightmare which was (unsurprisingly) a dark rich ale full of flavour and menace. The pub is obviously named after one of the ill fated members of the gunpowder plot of course, who ended up being hung, drawn and quartered in London, but who was born in nearby Stonegate. This looks for all the world like a town house that has been converted into a pub. As you enter, the bar counter is on the left, in front of which there’s a small drinking area; there’s a separate room at the front on the right; and another separate room in the back on the right. The floors are all bare-boarded, and furnishings are mainly solid wood tables and chairs, although there were some benches in the area in front of the bar counter. The only seats available when we visited were in the back room, so that’s where we sat. This room looks as if it is often used as a restaurant area because the normal tables and chairs in here are the most convenient in the pub for dining. Some people in here had obviously just finished eating (we were in fairly late in the evening) and there was no problem in us sitting in here with just a drink. The room was quite gloomy, but the candles on the table gave it an intimate feel. An interesting feature in this room are a couple of alcoves containing murals of swans and fawns and the like. This is a perfectly decent pub to stop off for a drink, and I would very happy to pay a return visit if I get to visit York again.

Fine old hotel with a dark but interesting interior, renovated in 2008. Six pulls of mainly smaller brewery products of good quality and a range of both boring and interesting keg beers. Lots of rooms of varying sizes in a simply decorated dark finish with settles and tables all looking very 18th Century in style. Some rooms have gas lighting. The pub operation is food led complete with brass numbered tables but the wet side doesn't appear to suffer as a result. Pleasant friendly staff and all real ales are £2.50 a pint, I don't know if that's a short or long term offer.