| Pub | Comments | Location |
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| BATLEY | ||
| Wetherspoon's Union Rooms | Impressive high ceilinged rooms in an old building.
Last visited September 2023. |
Commercial Street |
| BRADFORD | ||
| City Vaults | A busy, lively and cheerful city centre pub serving a small selection of spot on real ales.
Last visited December 2013. |
Hustlergate |
| Ginger Goose | This place is a rather good Wetherspoon's clone, serving cheap food and good real ale in a large modern pub.
Last visited December 2012. |
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| DEWSBURY | ||
| West Riding Refreshment Rooms | A fine range of real ales in a nice multi-roomed pub located on the Huddersfield-bound platform. Interesting memorabilia covers the walls. Wedged at peak times.
Last visited September 2023. |
Station |
| HALIFAX | ||
| Three Pigeons | Gosh, what a splendid find! A multi-roomed pub with a mainly art deco interior but with different decoration styles in some rooms, including a comfortable snug at the front with its own tiny counter. The main counter serves a small standing-only area with a fine mosaic floor (I think - it was a bit crowded), and opening off that are other rooms and a corridor leading to two more. A wide selection of quality real ales is on offer, and it looks like they still use the traditional beer economisers.
Last visited December 2014. |
South Parade |
| HAWORTH | ||
| Black Bull | At a prime location in the middle of Main Street is another tourist oriented pub with a fake (I think) olde worlde interior. A small selection of well kept real ales and a good looking menu.
Last visited December 2011. |
Main Street |
| Fleece | The full range of Timothy Taylor's beers in this splendid ale house situated right in the middle of the tourist area. The multi-roomed interior is nice plain traditional pub style and not at all the fake olde-worlde I had feared in this prime location. The food, which has gradually moved more up-market in recent years, was very good last time I ate there, and they've a fine range of foreign bottled beers in the unlikely event that you're not keen on Taylor's brews.
Last visited December 2016. |
Main Street |
| Haworth Steam Brewing Company | A small cafe/bar serving their own (brewed elsewhere) and guest real ales, and excellent food. It really is very small, so on busy days you need to get in before the crowd if you want a seat. Confusingly, also known as "Brewhouse", and "Gascoigne's Bistro".
Last visited December 2014. |
Main Street |
| King's Arms | At the top end of the cobbled Main Street is this very pleasant pub serving hand pulled Tetley and Black Sheep, with economisers in use, in accordance with local tradition. The interior is stone walls and wood beams, possibly all fake? The food looks good.
Last visited December 2009. |
Main Street |
| Old White Lion | Right at the top of the cobbled Main Street is a large multi-roomed pub with very olde-worlde (fake?) decor inside. There are two bars plus a restaurant and the bar food is good. I sat in the very comfortable smaller bar. They serve a small range of real ales, the Tetley Bitter is spot on, and it looks like economisers are used.
Last visited December 2016. |
Main Street |
| HEBDEN BRIDGE | ||
| Calan's Micropub | A small range of excellent ales is offered in this rather good micro-pub. The food offering is limited to pork pies, the one I sampled was exceptional.
Last visited December 2016. |
Bridge Gate |
| HUDDERSFIELD | ||
| Albert | A basic street corner boozer, no real ale, some fine Victorian features inside.
Last visited August 2019. |
Victoria Lane / Albert Yard |
| Corner | Just a doorway on a back alley, and the pub is upstairs. One open room with pleasant modern styling. There's also another room on the next floor up, deserted when I was there. Seven handpumps serving local owners Mallinson's brews and guests. The Seaside Arms was very good. Only four customers in at twelve on a Friday.
Last visited August 2019. |
Market Walk |
| Head of Steam | A splendid multi-roomed pub with the usual Head of Steam selection of excellent ales and collection of railwayana.
Last visited May 2006. |
Station, Platform 1 |
| The King's Head a.k.a. The Station Tavern | Amazingly, a second real ale pub on the railway station, at the other end of platform 1. One large rather plain room plus a couple of side areas, and a superb selection of quality ales. Live music at the weekend.
Last visited May 2019. |
Station, Platform 1 |
| Wetherspoon's Lord Wilson | A large modern open one-roomed Lloyds No.1.
Last visited August 2019. |
King Street / Zetland Street |
| Wetherspoon's Cherry Tree | A large open modern Wetherspoons.
Last visited February 2012. |
Church Street / Wood Street |
| KEIGHLEY | ||
| Boltmakers Arms | A tiny one-bar local pub, pleasant, comfortable and friendly, and serving spot-on pints of Timothy Taylor's brews. The landlord here won a competition in 2012 to rename Timothy Taylor's Best Bitter, which is now called Boltmaker.
Last visited December 2012. |
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| Cafe Choux Choux | A rather unusual cafe concentrating mainly on breakfasts when I visited on a Saturday morning, but at the end of the counter are four handpumps offering guest ales.
Last visited December 2015. |
Keighley Station |
| Cricketers Arms | A small one-roomed boozer busy with friendly drinkers when I was there early on a Saturday evening. Excellent real ales available.
Last visited December 2014. |
Coney Lane |
| LEEDS | ||
| Bankers Cat | A beautiful, all fake I think, interior od dark wood panelling, chandeliers, bookshelves and so on in this Thornbridge outlet offering a good selection of their brews plus the occasional guest. What a wonderful pub.
Last visited September 2023. |
Boar Lane / Mill Hill |
| Duck and Drake | A plain, perhaps even tatty (But spotlessly clean and tidy) two sided classic, with umpteen cask ales on, all fairly local I think. I had Saltaire Amarillo, very good.
Last visited September 2023. |
Kirkgate / Harper Street |
| Head of Steam | This member of the chain is a traditional boozer knocked through around a circular servery. I had an excellent murky Citra from a somewhere I'd never heard of. A very impressive range of draft Belgians, including Chimay Grande Reserve, Kwak, two La Trappes, Delerium Red and more.
Last visited September 2023. |
Mill Hill / Bishopgate Street |
| Lamb and Flag | A converted old building very well done inside with bare brick and pastel plaster on the walls. Plenty of Leeds Brewery ales on offer as well as guests. The menu is a bit up market: Pig's cheeks with garlic mash, apples and veg. £19.00 - Ouch, but I bet it's good.
Last visited September 2023. |
High Court / High Court Lane |
| Tapped | A modern bar serving their excellent own brews and guests by electric pump.
Last visited June 2017. |
Boar Lane / Mill Hill |
| Scarborough Hotel | A fake (I think) pleasant traditional pub interior behind a wonderful ceramic frontage serving a good range of quality real ales. Menu looks good. Belongs to the Nicholson's chain.
Last visited August 2018. |
Bishopsgate Street |
| Wetherspoon | Unusually, this member of the chain doesn't have an individual name. A medium sized 'spoons located off the station concourse. Always busy, with little chance of getting a table.
Last visited June 2023. |
Railway Station |
| Wetherspoon's Becket's Bank | One large open room with a balcony area above. Some impressive marbled columns and gold ceiling decorations.
Last visited July 2019. |
Park Row / Bedford Street |
| Wetherspoon's Cuthbert Broderick | A pleasant open place on two floors, with modern decor. Unusually, the toilets have unisex washbasins.
Last visited July 2022. |
Cookridge Street / Millenium Square |
| Wetherspoon's Hedley Verity | The decor in this one is a strange mix of the old, dark wood panelling, and the new, naked air conditioning ducts. Overall, rather good.
Last visited July 2022. |
Woodhouse Lane / Vernon Street |
| Wetherspoon's Stick or Twist | A very large open modern 'spoons. Ale excellent, I had one from local brewery Kirkstall.
Last visited July 2022. |
Merrion Way |
| West Riding | Conveniently located for the station (Although not as close as the 'Spoon's.) is this pleasant bar with contemporary decor. The menu looks good and the real ale, from a modest range, is spot on. Very quiet at twelve on a Monday.
Last visited August 2018. |
Wellington Street / Little King Street |
| Whitelock's | This historic pub is a bit of a back street gem. I particularly like the ceramics on the bar front. A wide range of real ales is served. Unsurprisingly packed on a Saturday afternoon.
Last visited June 2017. |
Turk's Head Yard |
| MARSDEN | ||
| Riverhead Brewery Tap | A plain wood floor and tastefully understated traditional decor with the odd barrel thrown in for authenticity in this fine pub. A wide choice of real ales from the brewery downstairs (visible through a window) and from the owners, Ossett Brewery. I haven't visited the dining room upstairs.
Last visited December 2010. |
Peel Street / Argyle Street |
| MORLEY | ||
| Wetherspoon's Picture House | The pleasant decor is a mix of modern at the front and antiquey further back.
Last visited September 2023. |
Queen Street / Peel Street |
| OXENHOPE | ||
| Bay Horse | A proper traditional lively village pub busy with locals, mainly the pub football team, when I visited on a Saturday afternoon. A couple of real ales are available, on economisers, I had Tetley Bitter.
Last visited December 2010. |
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| PONTEFRACT | ||
| Wetherspoon's Broken Bridge | A very large nicely decorated place, converted from a shop, I think.
Last visited February 2023. |
Horse Fair / Finkle Street |
| SLAITHWAITE | ||
| Commercial | A very nicely done and well cared for interior with understated decor in this open pub which is partly knocked through while retaining separate areas. An excellent range of real ales from many breweries is available. The leather sofas are comfortable.
Last visited December 2011. |
Station Road / Carr Lane |
| SOWERBY BRIDGE | ||
| Jubilee Refreshment Rooms | One large open room decorated with railway and other memorabilia, with a small bar counter at one end serving excellent real ales.
Last visited December 2015. |
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| TODMORDEN | ||
| Polished Knob | An excellent town centre pub just a short walk from the station, with pleasant under-stated decor and a fine range of real ales. The small stage in the corner with piles of speakers promised some noisy live music later in the evening, but I had to leave just as the band were setting up. The range of basic pub food looks good value.
Last visited December 2013. |
Burnley Road. |
| WAKEFIELD | ||
| Elephant and Castle | A wonderful tiled frontage and a very nice traditional interior, partially knocked through. Check out the ceiling panels. They serve an excellent pint of hand pulled John Smith's.
Last visited July 2003. |
Westgate / Smyth Street at the bottom of the station approach. |
| Harry's Bar | I think this counts as a micro-pub, certainly from the size point of view, just one small room with rather good bare brick and rough wood decor and a counter in the corner. Nine handpumps and the ale I had, Small World's Twin Falls, was superb.
Last visited November 2019. |
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| The Hop | A rather good new place with some old-looking features. Deserted on a Sunday lunchtime when I was the only customer, and I was left in charge of the place when the barman went out for a smoke (Free top-up anyone?), but I bet it's packed on a Saturday night. Excellent real ale, and that's what counts. Places like this are often chilly at a quiet time in November but the wood-burner was doing a great job and it was very comfortable in here. Custom tripled as I finished my pint.
Last visited November 2019. |
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