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North Bar, Leeds

24 New Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NU
Phone: 01132424540

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Old Boots left this review about North Bar

Covid Special
Table service only, track & trace via their wi-fi login, all carried out with aplomb - if you have a smartphone, also card only payments. Sanitizer on every table, although it’s the cheap soapy stuff that doesn’t evaporate and leaves your hands sticky for ages. Outside tables and slimline benches take up some of the road outside.

On 1st September 2020 - no rating submitted
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Old Boots left this review about North Bar

Had a small make over, not too drastic just reupholstering of the benches, lots of slatty bits at front and on the ceiling, clean walls and dangly prints. 20 keg taps, 3 pulls and a load of bottles.

On 26th August 2019 - no rating submitted
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custodian 42 left this review about North Bar

Very full and very noisy on Saturday afternoon. Narrow long place with the bar on the left. Decent selection of real ale and craft beers. Amazingly easy to get served, I must say.

On 25th September 2017 - rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about North Bar

The North Bar's website speculates as to whether this was Britain's first 'Craft Beer' bar and, given that it opened back in 1997,it certainly has a strong case. The bar has spawned several other venues in and around Leeds and has been refurbished in the last week or so, which renders my description obsolete before I've even written it. The pub has a shop conversion layout, with a long, narrow interior which has a seating area to the front and the servery mid-way into the room on the left hand wall. The room is bare boarded with bench and standard seating down the right hand side and small tables with regular chairs on the left. The walls have been decorated with some colourful French and Eastern European movie posters and opposite the bar there is a large mural listing countless different varieties of beer. There is also, for no discernable reason, a photo booth here as well. Beyond the bar, a smaller section houses a few more seats underneath some particularly garish wallpaper. Loads of flyers for various events in Leeds and across Yorkshire were piled up on a long shelf at the front of the pub, but all of this has been removed in the refurbishment in favour of wooden slats that run up the wall and across the ceiling.
There are four hand pumps on the bar and whilst my Sunday afternoon visit meant I was too late to catch the Beavertown brews that the rest of the PuG group enjoyed on Friday night, I instead got to pick from Kirkstall North Prototype, Ilkley Pale, Burton Bridge Top Dog Stout and Blue Bee Nectar Pale. I opted for the latter which was in pretty good shape, if not the most memorable beer of the weekend. The usual eclectic keg range and extensive bottled beer selection synonymous with this type of bar was in evidence. One thing that came across was the staff's enthusiasm for good beer, with one barman getting particularly excited about the recent delivery of some bottles from an American brewery I'd never heard of.
I think it was this obvious passion for their products that won me over to this place, as the bar itself isn't anything to get too excited about. This was the last pub I visited after three longs days drinking around Leeds, so I may have been a little jaded by this point, but I'd be keen to revisit the next time I'm in town.

On 17th January 2014 - rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about North Bar

Another interesting location on our PG crawl. The bar was starting to fill up quite rapidly on our arrival, so we were lucky to have arrived handy and to be served quickly. Also it was good to have a bit of space at the bar to see what to order. We managed to get a seat at the rear of the place, right next to a wall mural of the Atari Asteroids game, wow that takes me back. I went for the Beavertown Benzara and Quantum Brewing American Light. Defo worth a visit.

On 5th December 2013 - rating: 8
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Bucking Fastard left this review about North Bar

A shop conversion to a cutting edge craft beer bar,the interior is long and thin,stripped back to bare essentials with the bar towards the rear.Basic furniture,and a slightly sweaty atmosphere from a lively bunch of imbibers.As you might expect in such a hip bar,the downstairs lavs were unisex. At the bar there were more keg taps than handpumps,yet a decent selection of real ale.The Beavertown brewery beers were being showcased on my trip with around six either keg or cask.My Benzara and Smog Rocket were in good shape.
It may not suit traditionalists but I would always call in to see what ale's available and the bibulous atmosphere would encourage consumption .One for the adventurous ale drinker,on my list for a revisit.

On 23rd November 2013 - rating: 8
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Gill Smith left this review about North Bar

This bar has an interesting choice of beers and we chose Beavertown Smog Rocket and Kirkstall North Prototype, and I got a shock when the bar staff charged me £4.90 for my 2 halves! She then asked me how much change I wanted. She gave me some more change, but I think she was confusing cask ales with the variety of keg ales they had on offer. They do seem to go in for the more adventurous breweries and also have a variety of bottled beers, including continental in bottles and on draught.

On 23rd November 2013 - rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about North Bar

A very long, narrow room with a fairly anonymous frontage, opposite the bus stops outside John Lewis. On the right: wooden bench seating, on the left some fairly small wooden tables with small wooden chairs, trying to maximise the seating opportunities in the available floor space. Some of the chairs have Vedett logos, which enhance the Belgian cafe feel of the place. On the bar are many imported beers on fonts plus four real ales on hand pumps. Toilets are downstairs.

I only stopped for a quick half on a recent circuit of the city centre, but I wouldn't mind coming back for a longer stay to try some more of the beers.

On 31st July 2012 - rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about North Bar

Narrow, rectangular bar housed in a very unpromising-looking building that you could quite easily walk past several times before noticing it. Once inside, it has fairly plain furniture and decor so attention is immediately drawn to the brightly-lit bar to one side at the back part of the room. Many interesting craft and imported keg and bottled beers, plus four handpumps with offerings ranging from the 3.8% Kirkstall Prototype 4 to the 6.8% Buxton Axe Edge Double IPA. Well worth seeking out.

On 3rd June 2012 - rating: 8
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ROB Camra left this review about North Bar

Narrow but long bar very reminiscent of Fringe in Manchester. Similar eclectic mix of customers from tattooed punks to middle aged shoppers all getting along fine. A large range of Belgian/World beers on both draught and bottles. There were also 3 cask ales on when we visited last Saturday evening. I had a pint of the rather excellent Brooklyn Black from Crown Brewery in Sheffield, the other half had a Kriek. It was very busy with not much room to stand amongst all the tables, but we liked it. We'll certainly be back again, probably on the way to/from Reliance as we were this time.

On 5th February 2011 - rating: 7
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