Reviewing every last watering hole in Leeds city centre

The Botanist

One of Trinity’s two bars, The Botanist is something a little bit different and has an amazing beer selection to boot.

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The Adelphi

Beautiful Victorian inn reinvented as a trendy gastropub. If you can brave the crowds, great food and beer await inside.

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Wetherspoon’s — Becketts Bank

Just another Wetherspoon’s. Not bad, but there are others available.

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Neon Cactus

Tequila, Mexican food and the world’s largest hot sauce collection. They just forgot to include any great Mexican beer.

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Azúcar

Food, drink, dancing and Howard Marks. But what about the beer?

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Yum Yum

Would we go for a night out in a shop? With a beer selection like this, it would be hard to keep us away!

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The Wardrobe

Quarry Hill’s only bar is very chilled and has great food.

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Hoagys Bar

A sports pub where we felt quite uncomfortable and out of place. Definitely not for us.

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Call Lane Social

Call Lane Social has a few good beers in a fancy environment, but it’s too dark and too loud for us!

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Bar Room Bar

This Call Lane staple is now a Pizza Kitchen, but it’s still a bit too dull for us to want to come back often.

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Wharf Chambers

Members-only bar and event space. A welcoming place for all kinds of people to get a decent beer and chill out.

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The Hourglass

Definitely a chain pub but somewhat nicer than most of its kind. Ridiculously cheap food too!

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The Angel Inn

A Sam Smith’s pub, with everything these pubs are famous for. And the floors aren’t sticky any more!

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The Old Steps

This financial quarter pub is reaching out to the after-work crowd, but not much else.

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The Pack Horse

In an alley off Briggate, The Pack Horse surprised us with its pleasant atmosphere and excellent beer selection.

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Nation of Shopkeepers

A list of amenities as long as my arm, but are all the hats and the beards too offputting?

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The Victoria Hotel

There’s more to The Victoria Hotel than 150-year-old décor (although that’s lovely too).

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…escobar

…It’s really dark in here!

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Cuvée

Granary Wharf’s champagne bar certainly looks and feels the part. And we aren’t the part.

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Wetherspoon’s — Stick or Twist

Leeds’s earliest Wetherspoon’s pub is hiding in a forgotten part of town, but they haven’t forgotten about great service and beer.

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