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Submitted on Saturday, 30th April 2022
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Dave's Pies & Ale, Leeds
Burley
Postal town: Leeds
LS4 2HQ
Served areas
Reviews of Dave's Pies & Ale (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Bucking Fastard left this review about Dave's Pies & Ale
A small street corner micro with limited seating and a small bar offering three handpumps with Nethergate Stour Valley,Anthology Canopy and Wishbone Velvet Gloss (NBSS 3.5) on my trip.The pies are quite modest sized thin crust but looked very good ,a sensible accompaniment to ale.There is a perilous descent to the loo but there is an overflow snug down here in the gloom.
It wont take many punters to fill the space and it will always be overshodowed by the narby Cardigan Arms but worth popping into if on a crawl.
On 14th April 2024
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2727 recommendations about 2727 pubs]
Will Larter left this review about Dave's Pies & Ale
I've been past this little pub many times on my way to Headingley for a Leeds Rhinos game, but it's always seemed full to the rafters, and anyway the Cardigan Arms is only 20 metres away. This week I was here on a non-match day, and talked my friends into giving it a try (see what I did there?), and we were more than pleasantly surprised. Three hand pumps on the bar, we tried all three between us, and it was clear why this micro has made it to the Good Beer Guide. I was particularly glad to find Linfit Old Eli, a beer once tasted at the Sair Inn at Linthwaite near Slaithwaite, and never forgotten.
We got talking to the man behind the bar, who was in fact Dave; formerly of the Grove (just south of the station, subject to an arson attack last year and not yet reopened at the time of writing) and he was able to update us on what's going on there, as he's still in touch with his former employer. Dave brought out a pork and chorizo pie cut into eight chunks, and it broke my heart to tell him three out of four of us were veggies; nothing daunted, he returned a minute later with a vegan roll, neatly sliced into three. The pies are a bit of a gimmick, it seems, but we felt privileged to be given free samples, especially as the beers were so good. (The toilet is down a steep staircase in the basement. I wouldn't suggest going to the Cardigan for recycling purposes - it's your decision.)
On 28th February 2024
- rating: 8
[User has posted 3745 recommendations about 3482 pubs]
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Old Boots left this review about Dave's Pies & Ale
Fairly tiny corner micro, I counted a total of 22 stools at six tables plus three by the counter, there’s an unused table in the basement and a few outside on Kirkstall Road and Cardigan Lane. Beerwise there’s three pulls, two dark ones on my visit from Rudgate and Turning Point plus a pale from Ilkley, there was Stancil Pilsner and Guinness from a 1970’s fount! Spirits are also available. The pies, and obviously there are pies, are pork with various tops etc such as chilli, stuffing, chorizo, Stilton and there’s a vegan option. The fridge in corner has many interesting cans and bottles. Decor from framed drinks adverts in mirrors, the bar canopy is a nice art nouveau stained glass job apparently from a pub in Edinburgh. The toilet is in the basement. Downside, is there one you ask? Yup the default glass is the dreaded handle mug, arrragh.
On 30th April 2022
- no rating submitted
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