NO BASS TODAY, BUT THE PALACE JOINS LEEDS PUB ROYALTY

February 2024. Leeds Pub Crawl.

Just a half in the Duck and Drake, very sensible now (too late, too late) as Will and I made a penultimate stop on our curated exploration of heritage hostelries.

Down behind the Minster,

sits the Palace, no longer a GBG regular since the days when I popped in here (and the Whip (RIP) ) for a quick pint of (Leeds) Tetley on the way back to the station from Quarry Hill.

“Light and airy” rather than “dark and scruffy” these days, perhaps not a pub to delight the purist,

but one for gentlefolk and value diners as much as the Old Boys left.

We’d been promised Draught Bass, and you’ll know what a Bass convert Will is since Fagan’s introduced it at £5 a pint to reinforce its craft potentials.

Where is it then ?

“Conditioning in the cellar“, apparently.

I hid my disappointment, and the sense of grief that the Doom Bar was also “Coming Soon”, and picked the Rudgate Ruby Mild, leaving Will to have an intelligent conversation about Landlord and putting beers on too soon and cellar management that would have warmed the cockles of your heart.

I’ll have to come back and see what this terrific publican gets from Bass (and Doom Bar), as the Rudgate was the beer of the day, a cool, chewy 4.5.

A great soul soundtrack to accompany your Eddie Howe, too.

Six pubs in, all gems. Where next ?

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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

9 thoughts on “NO BASS TODAY, BUT THE PALACE JOINS LEEDS PUB ROYALTY”

  3. My old lunchtime venue in my Quarry House years –
    well Fridays I suppose. Pints of Ind Coope Burton Ale and. my lass driving me back over the tops to Miggy. My staff didn’t suffer when I occasionally overstayed. Flexi credit in lieue of conspiratorial silence about the boss was understood. It was only now and then

    A great Tetley Heritage pub, with great beer. I used to stand in that bend in the bar. Happy days.

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  4. Even from Australia this pisses me off. It knows it is me as I am logged into WordPress, it not on the post itself. It is I. Le Tandleman.

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    1. The Scarborough was the pub we usually went to after union meetings at the Queen’s Hotel in Leeds when I was a CPSA/PCS member and rep in DSS/DWP. I always found the Wetherspoons in the station decent too.

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      1. Working next to the Grove, our after-work crawls would be a mix of Grove, Cross Keys, Midnight Bell, The Hop. On a busy day in Leeds I’d still recommend staying south of the station. There’s even craft there now with Northern Monk and Salt…

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      2. I see your point , and the Garden Gate will hopefully be back to its best soon.

        Our visitors wanted to see the heritage pubs (Cardigan, Templar, Whitelock’s) and wouldn’t have been mobile enough to walk south.

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      3. I like the Scarbs. Last went in a couple of years ago when beer was great, and rugby league memorabilia is impressive. We didn’t pop in because it would have been very tricky for our group to access with current works going on.

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