Given someone has mentioned about a guide to Headingley and someone saying Ari Gold should do a pub review of Headingleys boozers (no chance, he cant remember any of them, i thought i would take it on my big broad shoulders and give you my personal review of the public houses of Headingley



[uThe Oak[/u
Good old "ole time" boozer in Headingley with a beer garden just ever so slightly shorter than Cala Millor Rhinos chest. An alright pub, normal ales you would fine in all other boozers and do nice food however their is a downfall...

AVOID IN THE SUMMER
If nice weather the tax dodgers and Ari Gold will be out in the garden taking up your drinking space and wasting their money on the wee water that is Carling and lapping up the sun





[uThe Skyrack[/u
Over the road from the Oak is the Skyrack. Now before I start my review of this public house ill lead you into a personal opinion of this pub...


its sh[ii[/ite, i hate it. Now dont take my opinion for granted, after all I like Girls Aloud. However there is something that makes me mad about this place. It feels IMHO that they want YOU to feel honured that you have stepped in their pub. I dont. Horrible floors and beer is as flat as a Danny McGuire pass





[uHeadingley Taps[/u

My fave boozer in Headingley, nice inside, good choice of same alcohol as everywhere else AND if its a Sunday, they do a cracking Sunday lunch with a drink for £4.95 which will leave you full for the rest of the day.



[uTrio, Arc and The Box[/u

These three "Bars" ive labbeled together as well, they are owned by the same bloke. Trio has a bar which sells foreign beers which is alright. Arc is very nice and expensive and has a lovely food bit next door (The baked Brie and Onion Chutney is very nice). The Box is expensive and full of wannabe Uni WAGS



Up Otley Road going away from the Headingley centre is three other booozers famous for being the starting point of the infamous "Otley Run"

[uWoodes (The Woodsman for McLaren Field[/u)
Pub with wooden features, simlar sort of alcohol you would fine anywhere else



[iThe Three Horseshoes[/i
My fave drinking hole in the world at minute, nice warm feeling, cheap food & drink and show RL (well they didnt on Saturday but most other times they do)


[iThe New Inn[/i
The landlord is a Robin (or the last time i went in was) ok pub, usually very busy but they do have the added bonus of having a Dart board








any opinions please leave below ta!

There's a place in the arndale centre that does a cracking range of beer. I think its called Arcadia. been in a few times and seems nice enough

Why did you bother?







hardly insightful, well written or well researched was it?

It is supposed to be tongue in cheek....

I'll do my review for you;

[uThe Oak:[/u

My advice is to avoid this like the plague. It's full of Leeds Uni toffs living it up on their daddy's credit cards, and you can get exactly the same deals (and a slightly better pint) up the road in The Taps.

[uSkyrack[/u

I like the Skyrack, and often venture in on a night out with Loz just because he doesn't like it. It serves decent fosters (as decent as Fosters can be) at £2 a pint, and there's nearly always someone I know behind the bar, meaning no queue time.

[uHeadingley Taps[/u
My regular haunt on match days. The beer is pretty decent and the food isn't bad for the price of it (sunday dinner is very good). It's bit rubbish for watching live sport though, as shorter people like Loz struggle to see the TVs high up on the wall.

[uBox, Trio and Arc[/u
These again are favourite haunts of the upper class girls who have one sniff of Smirnoff Ice and are off their heads. If you want to pull some upper class lady hole, I suggest going here. They also serve Ari Gold's favourite beer Desperados, but due to them being £3.50, and the credit crunch, I can't afford these.

[uThree Horseshoes[/u
My favourite pub in Leeds since I moved here, cheap beer, fit barmaids, and a massive screen for sport. On a slightly amusing note, look out for the bloke who stands by the bar who is the double of Micky Rourke.

These are the only ones I've been in, unless I was too drunk to remember being in the others.

The 3 Horseshoes is also the proud sponsors of [url=http://www.yorkshirepostcricketclub.moonfruit.co.uk/The Yorkshire Post Cricket Club[/url - agree with the sentiments expressed, they do a free food with the Thursday Pub quiz too..!

Why didn't I know this?

Free food is great!

I don't need you spotty little oiks telling me about the Pubs in Headingley.

I was boozing the Otley run whilst yer father was drunkenly groping yer mother. In fact, if yer mother was in Headingley any time between 1988-1992 there's a strong possibility I could be yer papa.

Not you Loz. Obviously I could never spawn anything as ugly as you. Or you Jord. I could never spawn anything as stupid as you/

The Oak - alright in summer but only tend to go in there in winter if we are running late as I can't stand the Skyrack. if there is a queue of the unwashed, I wouldn't bother.

Skyrack - used to be the best bar in Headingley years ago until they 'did it up'. It used to be and should be the main Rhinos bar. However whenever we do have to go in I get a feeling that the tax dodgers are looking at you as if to say "why are you lot in a student pub". I refuse to queue to get in here after a game.

Arcadia - best bar in Headingley. In before most games. Think its nice because before a match it's mainly Rhinos and the opposition fans who like a decent pint and not the cr4p they sell down the road. Plus the higher prices keep the students out.

Woodies - Nice bar, sometimes get a few ex players in before games. Never too packed either and decent beer

Three Horseshoes - Alright, nothing special just a typical old pub. Good beer

New Inn - A bit too modern inside and the beer (including bitter) is a bit fizzy

Taps - not been in for a while. used to love going in there on a Sunday match and having the steak and chips

Trio etc - In term time i steer clear. Not that i don't like students, wasn't that long since I was one but they always seem to look down their noses at you. Plus i hate southern accents, which a lot of them in there have.

Box - Alright, bit pricey for what they serve though



We now however mainly sup in Leeds before getting the bus/taxi. Scabby Taps, POW, Spencers, Brewery Taps or Adelphi

I get stupider by the day me, all the drink has killed off my two brain cells.

right, i've had an argument going with mates at Uni in leeds for ages that the Otley run i know and that is done now never started at Woodies but started a lot further up otley Road in Cookridge

LMFAO!!

I think the hardcore and original Otley Run started in Otley and had to be tetley's pubs.

We weren't quite that hard-core. We usually started in Woodies and never got beyond the Three Horseshoes which was our fave.

Not much of a "run" - two pubs.

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Did you ever do the horsforth mile G???

No, we rarely ventured that far that often.

We lived in Little London and would walk home from headingley so Osfoth was a bit too far. Though we did briefly try out the Old Ball as our regular haunt but ended up going back to the Three Horseshoes.

Also, Osfoth got a bit tasty every now and then. Didn't they have a mobile cop station for the naughty boys? As reserved little wall-flowers from the affluent estate in Little London we wanted no part of that

Any pub thats sells Carlsberg isnt worth visiting.

Pin, Midnight Bell and Leeds Brewery Tap are the best boozers in Leeds right now.

Leeds Pale Ale is the best drink on the market at present!

It could get lively

I've not tried Pin yet

The last time we did the Otley run we started with 12 of us in Woodies. By the time we ended up in Yates opposite Morrisons in town there were 8 left.

Two were in hospital with broken legs after vaulting a small wall only find a 6 foot drop on the the side and two had been banged up for fighting.

It's the one i prefer to the rest TBH

next to Adelphi another of my more enjoyable pubs/bars

Why do some "blokes" get so pretentious about larger, its main/only purpose in life is to get you p1ssed, I couldn't give a toss where or how it's brewed.

Carlsberg is brewed?

It's gotta taste nice in order to get you p1ssed.

Agreed. Generally speaking lager is lager is lager.

It's not like Beerwhich can vary wildly in relation to quality, taste and flavour.