Duke Of York

I’ve never been in a pub like this one. It is really cool and interesting. Everybody should go!!! It is worth it.

One of my favourite pubs. Always packed on a weekend. Tucked away in a nice corner so you don’t get any riffraff. Hidden cubby holes and rooms to enjoy a nice pint of some of the best in local ciders and beers. Skittle alley and board games on offer to get the convo going. I’ll pop in for one… Yea right… Still there after a few

Was impressed with this pub from the moment I stepped inside. A lovely warm fire, beautiful displays of lights around the otherwise dimly lit interior, then I saw the beer towels and poster that cover the roof! Décor with personality. The music seemed tuned in with the atmosphere too.
Having taken all this in I had the choice to wash it down with one of four real ales (an unpredictable selection), O pale ale (keg) or Bee Sting Pear Cider (grr.Perry) (also keg). Oh yeah and a strong cider called Up Your *rse (too right!). All those liquids before you consider the more common ciders and lagers (strongbow and stella were welcome absences though!). There were some canny looking bottles in the cooler too.
If you require a little more than drinks and decoration there is a book swap corner in the front and a skittle alley at the back.
The perfect modern pub.

The Duke of York is a great little pub tucked away in the backstreets of St Werburghs. It’s regularly frequented by musicians and arty types. I love it here for a multitude of reasons, but this is one of the main ones.
They serve excellent beers at reasonable prices and there’s a skittle ally in the back room. All of the skittles are unique, with some being twice as fat as some of the others. The markings dictating where the skittles should be placed are too far apart, making the game unfeasibly difficult, (but this doesn’t bother me as I always cheat).
The place is decorated in some artfully applied kitsch, and there’s a bunch of feisty women serving behind the bar most of the time, who are generally up for a chat as long as they’re not too busy.
There’s a great walled garden that can get incredibly noisy, and an upstairs room with distinctly different look and feel to the downstairs section. I’m unsure what this place serves (probably private hire?), as it has only ever been sparsely used when I’ve been there, even thought he downstairs has been heaving.

This very friendly, spacious but cosy local pub in the arty locale of St Werburgh’s is a good choice when you’re in this neck of the woods. While perhaps not being a pub to which you should make the journey from other parts of Bristol, it’s a solid local establishment serving the chatty residents of BS2.
It has loads of different areas, including the famous skittles alley, and the much-​loved covered back garden which has several large picnic tables to accommodate large groups and smokers. The main ground floor areas inside are cosy, lit with strings of fairy lights. Upstairs, find a space that could be somewhere else completely; with chic low sofas and tables, and art on the walls, it feels more like an upmarket city centre bar. Odd to have such separate areas with distinct atmospheres, maybe, but good to have the options all in one place.
When walking through dark local St Werburgh’s streets looking for the place, keep your eyes peeled for the splendid exterior covered in graffiti, and listen out for the happy chatter from the smokers in the pub garden.

The Duke of York is like a little oasis in the heart of sleepy St Werburgh’s. Those that know about it have themselves become fixtures in the eclectic madhouse of weird collectibles attached to every available surface. Those that don’t, stumble across it once and find themselves wending their way back through the dead-​end streets to find it time and again.
Outside the pub is daubed in fantastic murals and otherworldly woodwork. Inside the older frontage it is like a little Aladdin’s Cave of things somebody should have discarded but instead adhered to the walls, ceiling, bar and doors using any means possibe. From tuppences painted black to inflatable flamingos and chilli pepper fairy lights, it is a feast for the eyes and a source of many conversations.
But it’s the friendly atmosphere of camaraderie behind the bar that draws the loyal punters back time and again. The Duke stocks a wide