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Rose & Crown, York
York
YO10 3BP
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Punch TavernsReviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Graham Coombs left this review about Rose & Crown
Extremely pleasant pub just out of city centre with restored traditional fittings and furnishings and a generally comfortable feel. there are several distinct rooms round a central bar, and a courtyard area at the rear. Also benefits from its own car park. Beers include a couple of local guests alongside the usual Doom Bar etc; sampled the Bad Co Comfortably Numb which was in excellent condition. Pub Cask Marque listed. Food also pretty good and available all day.
On 18th August 2017
- rating: 8
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Alex Conway left this review about Rose & Crown
Recently refurbished pub with six hand pumps dispensing a more generic selection of ales. Timothy Taylor's landlord and Doombar seem to frequent regulary with others such as hobgoblin and Black sheep also frequently on offer. On my visit I opted for a pint of sharps Atlantic at £3.40 which tasted ok but slightly new to me as did my friends beer so quality here is sometimes a little off top form but drinkable anyway.
The decor is very nice and has had a lot of money invested in it. In back room live music is frequently available. This is a nice place to have a drink but with the high competition of the two pubs within 10 seconds walk this pub needs to do more to compete. i would return again if every having a crawl around this are as the Rook and Gaskill and Wagon and horses make this a good aprt of town for a hop between good pubs.
On 15th December 2015
- rating: 7
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ROB Camra left this review about Rose & Crown
Described at length by PSM below and I've nothing to add to his description. My pint of Rudgate Ruby Mild was in decent, if not brilliant ondition. I'd have no problem returning here if in the area.
On 2nd September 2015
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about Rose & Crown
This is a smart looking pub, just outside the city walls, that was previously owned by Tetleys and spent a brief period in the mid-1980's as a brewpub. The place has been opened out from what was clearly once a multiple room layout. The front bar has bare floorboards, a dark wood counter on the back wall and walls painted in bright colours, with some nice glazed tiling retained on a small section of wall near a redundant former front door. Padded benches run under the front windows in the space opposite the bar and I noticed a display of whiskey boxes and a large TV screen on the end wall. To the left of the bar is an opened out space with a couple of high tables and stools. An even larger collection of whiskey bottles can be found here, displayed on a shelf to the rear, under a huge map painted onto the wall. A door to the left leads through to a tidy lounge with bare brick walls, a nice fireplace and plenty of standard tables and chairs. There is another separate room behind the servery, set up predominantly as a dining room and accessed through a curtained archway which is flanked by more of those period tiles. The room contains formal table and chair arrangements, bottle displays in the window sills and a nice view out to the rear garden. To access the garden, you follow a colourful tiled path with a rose and crown motif towards the back of the pub. Pop music was playing for the duration of our stay, but was quiet enough to avoid being an irritation.
The bar had four handpulls in action, dispensing Sharp's Doom Bar, Taylor Landlord, Black Sheep Golden Sheep and Rudgate Ruby Mild. Not the most exciting ale range you're likely to find in York, but my pint of the Ruby Mild was in decent enough condition.
It is easy to dismiss this pub due to the high standard and extensive beer range to be found in the neighbouring pubs, but I found this to be a very amiable spot for a pint or two and with a more adventurous beer selection, there would be an unmissable trio of pubs within a short distance of one another.
On 16th May 2015
- rating: 7
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Steve C left this review about Rose & Crown
The Rose and Crown consists of a room with seating to the left front, more seating to the left rear and a U shaped bar to the right with yet more seating behind it. This bar supports six hand pumps which were drawing five ales and Thatcher’s Heritage cider. Signs around the pub indicated that live sport would be shown via Sky and BT Sport, but as my visit was on a Friday afternoon one screen was airing muted rolling news and the other muted Kerrang videos. Open mic is advertised for Thursday evenings from 20:30. Out the back is a beer garden that houses some picnic tables.
I found the service to be very friendly and the locals to be harmless enough. I would pop back in if passing.
On 26th April 2015
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Rose & Crown
Attractive, refurbished pub retaining side and rear rooms in addition to the main 'L'-shaped bar. Also has some old tiling on the main entrance walls and on the floor beside part of the counter. Patio beer garden to rear. Doom Bar, Golden Sheep, Landlord and Rudgate Ruby Mild (£1.80, half) available on handpump when we visited.
On 26th April 2015
- rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about Rose & Crown
Of the three pubs we visited on Lawrence Street the Rose and Crown had the weakest Ale range, but I was lucky to get in whilst the Rudgate Ruby Mild was still on. Three separate rooms and some nice period features, and all in all a decent pub, but if I had to miss out one of this trilogy it would be this one.
On 19th April 2015
- rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about Rose & Crown
Enter to a lovely floor-tiled entrance lobby with a rose and crown motif and also some nice art deco glasswork. Very nicely decorated interior, modern but fairly classy; some old internal fittings remain but ultimately it’s a mish-mash. Knocked-through a bit in the main bar but there are two other nice rooms which are more intimate. The olde York map frieze on the wall in the main bar is of interest. Four ales on at the bar; BS Golden Sheep, Doom Bar, TT Landlord and Rudgate Ruby Mild. My half of the latter was in decent shape. Also Thatchers Heritage for the apple-grapplers. As mentioned by RAR, kudos to the lone barmaid for keeping her head and humour in the face of the Pubs Galore onslaught. Tidy enough place - with a more adventurous beer selection this would be more than just a quick stop for me.
On 5th April 2015
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about Rose & Crown
I've not much to add to what previous reviewers have said. This pub was a bit, but only a bit, more modern and "well appointed" than the Rook & Gaskill over the road. It did have a bit of art deco tiling around the place, and I thought that the leaded light glazing was an attractive feature.
I got in here early enough to get a half of the Rudgate Mild, which was in superb nick although it was about to finish. I also made this our lunch stop, and my wife and I had a couple of excellent baguettes, for about a fiver a pop as I recall. Although this one didn't have the range of ales available as most of the pubs we visited, I still thought it was a friendly and welcoming pub.
On 2nd April 2015
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Rose & Crown
A decent traditional pub, which is very well kept. I especially liked the etched glass lamps over the bar counter. I found the young barmaid to be very helpful and kept her head in spite of the Pubs Galore crew, piling in through the door. Beer wise there was nothing really out of the ordinary, Sharp's Doombar, Timothy Taylor, Rudgate Ruby Mild and Black Sheep Golden Sheep. The Rudgate Ruby Mild had just finished, by the time I got to the bar. The helpful barmaid said she would run down to the cellar and put another one on for me, not wanting to make a fuss, I went for the Black Sheep Golden Sheep, which was in superb condition. Another feature here was the Victorian cast iron fireplace in the front room. As Moby mentions, the other two pubs close by do have a more adventurous range of beers.
On 2nd April 2015
- rating: 6
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