Brigantes, York

Enjoyed our visit to this 2019 Good Beer Guide bar with a good selection of ales both cask and craft. Enjoyed our choice of New Bristol Bootleg House Jooce and Tipping Point Lucid Dream.

this pleasant enough bar appears to be owned by Okells and contains their real ale along with others. it’s quite pleasant inside with mostly respectable couples and groups. Sadly for me it lacks any real character despite being well run. Both food and drinks are expensive in here (all specials over £14!)

Wine bar set up in building not too far from the station. Ok, a bit modern and little character but good beer

Fine selection of ales on offer last night. Haven't been in for some time so was pleasantly surprised by the available cask beers and had a couple of 7.4% ABVs which I can't remember the name of!

Nice real ale meets gastro pub type place that is more pub led in the evenings. There is a really good selection off at least ten real ales and these usually include mostly Yorkshire brewery with Timothy taylor usually always having one of their beers on. On my recent visit it was a brass castle take over night so most of the beers were from their portfolio, the northern blonde was on the steep side at £3.45 as most of their beers are but was very nice. Definitely worth a visit as their choice and quality is always good, a nice place for a beer but the decor amy be a little too trendy/upmarket for traditionalists. I would usually fall into this category but this place I quite like.

Modern, alehouse-style bar / restaurant run by the small Market Towns Taverns chain. Gastro-pub interior, with the side room set aside for dining until 21:00, and still very full in the mid-evening. Ten handpumps, offering an excellent choice of real ales (including York Minster Ale).

It doesn't look too promising from the outside as one who prefers traditional pubs however once inside, despite the rather modern interior I found it quite nice. Lots of cream or grey walls, the place is fairly large and steps up and down a bit as does the local terrain. Wooden floor, patterned banquettes, a side area looked rather more for food than drinking. A series of booths are divided by obscure glazed screens. Newspapers were available in a rack, beers pretty much as described below, the Symphonic was from Thwaites and I thought the Okell's was Manx Pale Ale. A fairly upmarket place really, seemingly aiming at younger affluent persons looking for food and an evening out rather than pub crawlers but I still enjoyed a good pint of ale in here. My notes suggest there is a room upstairs, perhaps there is, who knows it was at the end of a very long day?