The bartenders are always friendly, even at 3am, when they try to close. The glasses are filled as…read morethey should (no half glasses of coke), and the prices are decent and good. They have a room with a door, where you can sit with a large group (of students), that's very pleasant. Furthermore upstairs is a pooltable and a terras to lounge. I used to come here twice a week, when I studied in Bangor for 1 semester. And I always lost track of time (although I didn't drink at all). Nice and comfy.

Cracking pub in upper Bangor. Ales are well kept. Possibly the best pint of Guinness this side of…read morethe Irish sea! Very reasonable prices for the beer. Owner is a genuinely nice guy. Pity more pubs aren't like Patrick's.

Oh, lovely Rita! We loved her food. I went back two days in a row for the lasagna. Mwah!…read morePerfection. (and she's a hoot too). Patrick, the owner, is very friendly. He makes this a welcoming place. The first time I was there, there were some locals at the bar. The second time it was swarming with college people. So, I think the crowd varies a lot.

The Belle Vue is a certain kind of quaint. With a bookcase of old books, a tatty lampshade and…read morerustic framed pictures, it was a perfectly pleasant find in Bangor. There are two rooms with a bar in the middle, joining the two. We chose to sit in the room to the left of the bar since it seemed cosier, with various decor quirks, including a funky 3D-style picture of James Dean. I longed for a ginger beer but, to my disappointment, they were all out. From my glance at the fridge they did seem a little low on soft drinks. A Fentiman's Victorian Lemonade came in at £2.50, the highest price I've seen so far for Fentiman's in a pub. Ouch! Service was alright, so much so that there's nothing that stood out to me, good or bad. We did notice Tesco's own brand ketchup and brown sauce on the tables. How cheeky of them! The Belle Vue was fine for a one-drink stop, although I'm unsure how it would fare for any more than this.

If you need WIFI stay close to the windows (Streetside). It…read moreis a real Britisch Pub for Bangor student. There is a lot to do for them! Quiz night on sunday (loud music and no way you can have any conversation of any meaning.), a fake Christmas a month before X-mas. Pizza and one drink for £5,- witch is very cheap and looks very well! Then you have, loots of tea, beer and other drinks, like any other pub. It is a good atmosphere, none of the tabels are the same, their many different chairs, some are litte broken, but that doesn't matter. Even if it is quit, it is a warm place to stay. They serving their food on marble plates, like the ones you can see in the Flintstones :) It is a shame we could eat there: except of the chips, everything is made with gluten and dairy: pasta, pizza, burgers.

We've been to the UK "n" number of times. We've been here about a week, starting off in London,…read morethen Cardiff, then south Wales, now north Wales. Every placed we've dined has been pretty exceptional. Until this afternoon. Blech. We came specifically for the Sunday Roast. My turkey was extremely dry. My husband's beef was tough. The roasted potatoes were quite good. Our roasted parsnips we're overdone and quite flaccid. The mixed veg of carrots, broccoli and kale were steamed to just done, thankfully, but were not seasoned at all. Hard pass.

Great real-ale pub with good value pub grub and friendly staff…read more Only on-street parking, which is limited, but otherwise what's not to like? Recommended.

Do not recommend, my mate had to wait ages yesterday morning and his chips weren't cooked properly…read moreand we were asked to leave because we were all under 16, we didn't cause any trouble,one of us were 15 and the rest of us were 13 and we are all mature and didn't cause any disturbance and it's stupid that they didn't ask us before we had our food because then we wouldn't have had to waste our money on this place just for our food to not be cooked properly

I came here in March when visiting Bangor University. It is like the British Applebee's (I am…read moreAmerican). Cheap sugary drinks and decent quality food for a cheap price. A good place to get drunk and feast with friends!!!

If there's a group of you out, and you've already had a few in upper bangor, before heading down…read moreglanrafon hill - make sure you head into rascals for a fishbowl! I don't know what they put in them, I can't even remember how much they cost, I do know they get you drunk Expect the odd idiot in there, it's usually a local idiot that starts kicking off. If there has been a Wales rugby or football match that day I'd suggest giving the place a miss, any other time it's spot on. It's not the biggest pub, but there's plenty of room to sit. There's a pool table on the top level, and a good selection of fruit machines in the lower level. The prices are pretty average, certainly not expensive. The staff aren't fussy about what you wear, and it's generally quite an easy going place. It can be a bit quiet at times, but if a load of you turn up at once you can have a good time. I wouldn't recommend it as somewhere for a couple to visit really though, more a group of friends.

An average drinking venue, drinks are fairly cheap. Not a typical British pub, more a bar/loud…read moremusic place for young people. Not recommended for couples, more for groups of friends. It is most definitely not a pub where you can go and have a conversation - the music is extremely loud. It is mainly frequented by students and local young people. Unfortunately there is sometimes fighting outside on the street involving drunken youths, which can be intimidating and unnerving. Rascals is a good place to go if you are on a pub crawl or are already a bit tipsy but probably not somewhere you would want to spend your entire night as there is no chance of interaction due to the loud music and it is often very busy. If you like Desperados, go here as it is the only pub in Bangor that sells it!

Yates was for many years known as The Castle. And before that, it was known as something else the…read morename deserts me. The point is, this is in a good spot for a pub and as a result not enough effort has been put into making it a great pub. The owners are aware that they can get enough people in purely by virtue of the position so why bother trying any harder? Shame really. Having said that, they do have good offers on drinks, especially big cocktail jugs. All aboard, who fancies making some bad decisions?

We ventured into yates on a whistlestop tour of bangor looking for real ale pubs and remembered it…read morebeing pretty good (10 years ago). Very disappointed though. The furniture was poor, clientele rowdy and couldn't tell if my pint was clear or not because it was served in a heavily scratched, plastic pint pot. Staff were friendly though. And the beer was acceptable, if a little on the cold side for me.

Grim. If you like your cocktails warm and from a premixed bottle and still want to pay cocktail bar…read moreprices, this is the place for you. Add some miserable, unhelpful staff and dirty tables and it makes this place a real experience! Don't waste your money, try the Fat Cat just across the road instead. Even Wetherspoons is loads better.

Varsity is a bar that has undergone numerous name changes over the course of the last four or five…read moreyears. There is a reason for this. Despite being in a nice old building that occupies a fairly pleasant spot, there is something very soulless about varsity. Maybe it is the fact that they insist t on banging out funky house at maximum volume form six thirty pm onwards. It's like they are screaming 'we're youthful, we're mental, come here!' I'd rather not to be honest. Sometimes the atmosphere can be a little bit confrontational as well. Give it a miss.