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Minster Inn, York
York
YO30 7BH
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Tenanted (Marstons)Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
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OogyWawa . left this review about Minster Inn
Lovely little friendly community boozer worth finding as it's a little off the beaten track nestling down Marygate off the main Bootham thoroughfare into York. Beer usually well kept although one gripe is that the landlord doesn't listen to the punters that tell him that blonde and golden beers are under-represented on the bar - there are too many of the darker bitters one at any one time from the Marston's stable.
That said - those that are served are well kept. Can't bring myself to give it more than a 7 - mainly due to the distinct lack of "guest" ales and the huge choice of beers available in other York pubs - but certainly a very worth Good Beer Guide pub.
On 13th May 2012
- rating: 7
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Minster Inn
I see the ratings here climbing 8 to 9 so here I am with 10 as this pub so very well deserves top marks. I hadn't picked to visit here on my list of York pubs. But thanks to a tip off, am glad I called in, this really is a proper pub. Staff management and customers all very friendly and have a great chat. Very clean and well run, they even polish the brass pipes in the gents outside. This pub is quite difficult to leave as the choice and standard of beers are so good. I went for the Banks Lions roar, Marstons Burton Bitter, Ringwood Boondoggle and Jennings Snecklifter. Will certainly call again.
On 19th March 2011
- rating: 10
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Will Larter left this review about Minster Inn
A real favourite of mine. There are two rooms and a drinking corridor, plus a tiny yard at the back for smokers. The beer range doesn't change much: Brakspear Bitter, Hobgoblin, Marstons Bitter and Double Drop, plus (as always) Jennings Sneck Lifter.
The atmosphere is really friendly, a pub whose landlord and locals always welcome strangers and tourists. The puzzles on the tables and mantelpiece are constantly being added to by regulars and now include some wooden ones. The pub is handy for York City's ground if you're going to the football.
On 13th March 2011
- rating: 9
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Alan Winfield left this review about Minster Inn
This pub is unaltered and is quite close to the city walls but outside them,it was a Stones house in the 80s but now has products mainly from Marstons like Wychwood Hobgoblin, Jennings Cumberland or Marstons beers, this is a small and cosy pub that is well worth a visit and it is a short walk to the recentley opened (about a year) Bay Horse at the bottom of this road.
On 24th August 2010
- rating: 8
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Old Boots left this review about Minster Inn
Nice friendly pub lying in the shadow of the walls of the ruined St Mary's abbey. A Marston's house so beers from their stable only but very well kept, the pub deservedly is a GBG regular. The layout is the original Edwardian one also seen in the Blue Bell, although in a lighter style here with two bars off a drinking corridor all served from the same central servery. Five pumps with the Marstons beers including a cask lager from Wychwood called Regal, wasn't that a brand of very cheap cigarettes a few years ago? Simple décor in keeping with the clean Edwardian lines, the wall of corks, some old photos of the pub and some beer cellar related brassware.
On 1st August 2010
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Rex Rattus left this review about Minster Inn
They had Sneck Lifter, Brakspear’s Bitter, and Jennings Tom Fool on. I had the Tom Fool, which was fine. There were sparklers on all the taps, but trying to blend in with the locals I pretended that I was used to drinking beer that came looking like a cream soda, but I doubt whether I fooled anyone.
I found this an interesting an unusual pub. You enter into a corridor, which leads to a separate room on the left; on the right is another smallish room that contains the bar counter. The side of the bar counter is actually in the corridor, and when I was in the pub there was a local propping up the bar while standing in the corridor. A couple of other unusual things about this place is the chimney breast covered with wine bottle corks, and the solid metal puzzles on the tables for use by customers who must like to fidget with something while drinking. But this struck me as a real locals’ pub, and I would be happy to pay a return visit if in the area again.
On 14th June 2010
- rating: 7
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James Joines left this review about Minster Inn
Multy roomes Edwardian Inn with Real Ales.
On 3rd May 2009
- no rating submitted
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