The Habit, York

A fairly basic cafe bar, with a larger upstairs area including a roof terrace. The bar at the back holds a row of keg taps, which sadly proved to be fairly uninteresting mainstream/euro/Beavertown stuff. No sign of a handpump now. It does claim live music on Thursdays but there seems to be little other reason to patronise it.

Only one pull but sadly lacking beer, the keg choice was particularly boring and the bottle range even worse, I made my excuses etc. Hopefully this is a temporary situation and will be resolved after the pandemic.

Thought I hadn't been in here but when I checked my records indeed I had. Nothing special about the ales last night but they do change so we might be lucky on another occasion. No doubt we will revisit in due course.

I was expecting a lot more from this place after hearing some good reviews, sadly I was left a little disappointed. this is a very popular place with live music played most nights. the bar was packed solid on my Saturday evening visit and it was very hard to get to the bar. Four hand pumps were dispensing three beers as on was off. I was a bit disappointed with the choice as it was just generic Marstons stuff with Hobgoblin, Pedigree and New world available. The Hobgoblin was a very pricey £3.50 and was not in very good condition. This place was a bit of let down, a few changes and this could be a real gem but the price, choice and quality let it down tonight, not sure i would return.

The Habit is a small bar that opens early on a Saturday morning for drinks. Once inside there is a small oblong shaped room with a small bar to the rear right,there is bench seating to the front and right and two tall tables to the left,the room is bare boarded. There four real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Hop Studio York Quaffing Ale which went down very well,the other beer i noted was Marstons Pedigree New World. Backgrond music was playing and food was being served. I was the only drinker in pre 11 o clock. This was a pleasant enough bar to have a drink in before the middle of York gets packed later in the day. Pub visited 23/5/2015