| The Last Drop Inn |
Jim's York Pub Guide |
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Owned by the York Brewery (vertical integration in action) this pub is a funny mixture of styles. I felt that it wished it was two hundred years old and that they'd asked the builders to make it look this way using modern construction materials. Resultantly, it doesn't quite make it. There are wooden beams in the ceiling, wooden floors, table tops resting upon wooden beer kegs and benches to sit upon as an alternative to seats. An old piano sits down the front. When I was in, the place was being visited by what seemed to be York University Real Ale Society, all boasting loudly about which real ale pub they'd been in that night and what they'd drunk. The usual suspects were reeled off - The Maltings, The Blue Bell, The First Hussar - and I remembered why I drank lager at that age. Old before their time. I left thinking I'd let this place settle in before I returned, and just as I was leaving one of the customers was beginning to crank up the piano. Sounded quite good too, and if he's a regular I might go back sooner. After all, this was how Billy Joel started. And then I can sit at the bar, but bread in his jar and say "Man, what are you doing here"? Check their Website |
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| Real Ale | Nearby Pubs to Crawl To: | |
| Yorkshire Terrier, Stonewall, Brideshead, Hoegaarden, Bitburger | The Northern Wall | |
| Other Information | The Old White Swan | |
| Serves Tapas 5pm - 9pm | The Roman Bath | |
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