Guidebook for York
Food Scene
The small Bettys. Less busy and just as nice as the big one.
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Bettys Café Tea Rooms
6-8 St. Helen’s SquareThe small Bettys. Less busy and just as nice as the big one.
The Viceroy
26 MonkgateNo.1 Indian
Very nice Polish food. Lovely restaurants on this street. Worth exploring.
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Barbakan Restaurant & Cafe
34 FossgateVery nice Polish food. Lovely restaurants on this street. Worth exploring.
Micklegate Fisheries
93 Micklegategood chippy
Le Langhe
Peasholme GreenFancy Italian food, a proper gastronomic voyage!
Truly English experience, a must. Be prepared for a little queuing.
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Bettys Café Tea Rooms
6-8 St. Helen’s SquareTruly English experience, a must. Be prepared for a little queuing.
Lovely food and drink, a converted pump house by the river.
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The Star Inn the City
Museum StreetLovely food and drink, a converted pump house by the river.
The Whippet Inn
15 North StGreat steak house
Your Bike Shed
148 MicklegateFunky coffee shop
Drinks & Nightlife
Guy Fawkes Inn
25 High PetergateGuy Fawkes birthplace with nice beer
Great food, lovely beer. Always busy...
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House Of The Trembling Madness
48 StonegateGreat food, lovely beer. Always busy...
Regularly flooded pub, good selection of Sam Smith beer and cider, from John Smith’s brother.
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Kings Arms
3 King's StaithRegularly flooded pub, good selection of Sam Smith beer and cider, from John Smith’s brother.
Sightseeing
Nice walk around the city on the walls. Local (viking) vocabulary: gate=street, bar=gate, pub=bar :)
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City Walls
Nice walk around the city on the walls. Local (viking) vocabulary: gate=street, bar=gate, pub=bar :)
10.15 am every day form Exhibition square lead by retired volunteers with brill stories! (Museum gardens, City walls, Shambles etc.) See: http://avgyork.co.uk
Exhibition Square
10.15 am every day form Exhibition square lead by retired volunteers with brill stories! (Museum gardens, City walls, Shambles etc.) See: http://avgyork.co.uk
Our favourite service is the Evensong (No admission), normally sung by the angelic Minster Choir, at 5.15 pm (4 pm on Sundays) Great opportunity to visit the cathedral.
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The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York
DeangateOur favourite service is the Evensong (No admission), normally sung by the angelic Minster Choir, at 5.15 pm (4 pm on Sundays) Great opportunity to visit the cathedral.
York Bier Keller
12 Toft GrnParks & Nature
Museum Gardens
Museum Streetlovely park
Getting Around
The closest unrestricted free on street parking as far as we are aware, just by the race course. (Certain parts of Albemarle Road - the one before Knavesmire Road - is also great for parking, but can get busy during office hours, so I'd park there the evening or very early morning.)
Knavesmire Road
Knavesmire RoadThe closest unrestricted free on street parking as far as we are aware, just by the race course. (Certain parts of Albemarle Road - the one before Knavesmire Road - is also great for parking, but can get busy during office hours, so I'd park there the evening or very early morning.)
Shopping
Morrisons
Foss Islands RoadSainsbury's
Foss BankWaitrose & Partners
Foss Islands RoadSainsbury's Local
63 Boar LnI-Market yase-Shambles
5 Silver StArts & Culture
Grand Opera House
Cumberland StreetNational Railway Museum
Leeman Road