York is full of exquisite cafes - I'm so impressed with this little city. This place was definitely…read morea treat. They lure you in with their window treats. But you aren't lied to. Fantastic food and coffee. Limited seating. Worth the wait. This was our last breakfast in York. Very memorable.

Really great place. Excellent cakes. Enjoyable coffee. Would definitely return....read more

Great roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding and roasted vegetables. Service was good. Warm…read morebrownie with ice cream for dessert. Beautiful restaurant in York.

Historic old pub with good Yorkshire beer! The Black Sheep Ale hit the spot! Great atmosphere and…read morea lovely spot to while away an hour or so.

Good food and service. It was my first time in the area as a tourist and I just wanted good food…read moreand to be in my way. I went in and the staff was very helpful and knowledgeable. The gluten-free options were very plentiful and the burgers I had were great. It was cooked so well and the toppings were just as tasty. I will eat here again, if I come back to the area.

I had a lovely meal here last night and I would like to thank the wonderful staff for being able to…read moreseat all 7 of our party. We tried to go to the Byron down the street but we were told that they couldn't seat 7, even though their Newcastle branch could. So we walked down the street, and had the choice of Zizzi and Gourmet Burger, so we picked Gourmet Burger. After a while, we were seated and we ordered. I had a cheeseburger with skin-on fries and they were both great and freshly cooked too! We did have to wait a while to get our food but it was well worth the wait. I was almost defeated by my gigantic burger! I wanted a salted caramel milkshake but I forgot that they had milkshakes. Silly me. The toilets were very clean but had one of those hand dryers that keeps turning on and off randomly, so that was annoying and I ended up having to use the toilet roll to dry my hands. Apart from this, everything was perfect!

Lucia's was a great spot for dinner while in York! Since it…read moreis a wine bar my husband and I started our dinner with a glass of wine- "when in Rome" and all that. We split the bruschetta, margherita pizza, and caesar salad- all were 10/10! The atmosphere was very fresh and elegant and totally added to the experience. It's cllocated very centrally in the "shambles" area - so pop in while shopping when hunger strikes!

I arrived with a party of three and we were seated outside. It was a little cold but luckily they…read moregave us blankets that we could use. The music was way too loud so we had to half-shout over it but otherwise the ambiance was really nice- pretty colors, lots of plants and such. The menu is relatively limited but I love Carbonara so that's what I ordered. It arrived after a normal amount of wait time and it was very good. I'd order it again if I went back.

What a cracking place. It had been recommended to us by our son and his real ale drinking…read morecompanion. They had a tale of going here, ordering two pints of a high octane brew and being asked if they were sure, so they confirmed that they were only to get what they wished for and billed £48. They still find it funny and how good the beer was. The beer choices are excellent. The barmaid made us laugh as she asked where we were from and when we told her of our Newry home she said 'Oi don't even know why I asked that Oive no idea where that is I come from' so in fairness we didn't recognise it either but I gathered it's near Newcastle on the Tyne. We four didn't hang around the ground floor instead opting for the upper floor. We opted for modest brews around 4.5 ABV - two pints and two glasses of wine around £22 but some of the high strength beers would have set you back near £30 a pint so with these they sell in measured portions for example a third of a pint. The atmosphere was crackling and we thought it was folks from the York races that had started that morning but were assured it's often crackling. We all had some food to with three main meals and me opting for a breakfast choice, at 8pm on a rainy York night. I had a bacon and a lightly fried egg in a roll served with butter and sauce. It was perfect and was £4.5. All the food was priced for what was on the plate. The place has lots of fascinating objets d'art on the walls and ceilings including a wonderful statute of the Virgin Mary in the gents rest room and bawdy art. No evidence of trembling madness but shrewd selfish business sense. It's a pity it's card only as it makes it harder for serving staff to make tips. Let's hope it's not a house of trembling poverty for them? Our evening was delightful and we left happy diners into the wet streets of York it at least the rain had stopped.

Nice choice of beers and great little setting .. would recommend .. even had Deya from my local…read morebrewery

Sat our group of six on the back patio, which is very nice. Staff was excellent and made ordering…read moreeasy. We ordered a wide range of drinks and food options, with a few snacks thrown in for good measure. All excellent, and the prices were very reasonable! Wish I could make another trip to this pub, but unfortunately I am leaving York tomorrow. :(

A lovely place to grab an afternoon pint with friends! The beer garden is one of the best in the…read morecity. When it's a nice day out, there's fewer things in the world I find more enjoyable than drinking with friends outside. Thus, when the opportunity arose to do so while visiting York, we decided to hit up the Lamb & Lion. Pro-tip: check the beer garden first to grab a table and then buy your pints. You are far from the only person in the world who loves day drinking outside. When we visited, the beer garden was packed! We luckily were able to find a table, but during our time there we saw quite a few people unable to locate a spot. There's nothing worse than having a beer in one hand and finding no place you can drink it! The beer selection is typical and prices are reasonable. What you're really paying for here is the ambiance of the garden. While there's chatter from others all around you, the garden itself is secluded from the street, with one side facing the city wall. Relax under an umbrella and enjoy your pint-- I know I did.

Great Polish food. The pierogis are delicious. My husband had the halibut and really liked it. I…read morehad the vegetarian pancake stuffed roll and it was yummy. The portions are generous and we were both stuffed ourselves by the time we left. Great service and atmosphere, too.

Excellent food, great atmosphere. Maybe the best pierogis I have ever had. Highly recommendedread more

We ordered the honey bbq chicken wings and the cheese garlic bread. Both were absolutely amazing…read moreespecially the wings!

This review forms part of the Legendary Mini-Break of the Sisterhood....aka Angie And Fiona Do…read moreYorkshire....aka The 'Win'kend. Having strutted my leggy, longhaired sibling around Sky Lounge on Thursday like a prize show pony, I decided to stick her hungover ass in the back of the car and whisk her to the secret waterfall in the Dales that I can't tell you about because then it wont be my secret any more (you're not squeezing THIS one out of me Yelp!!). I skinnydipped Fiona's delicate Southern backside in freezingly fresh water, stuffed a buttery picnic into her and sat her in a local pub for some wincingly bad white wine and then I left her in the capable hands of a man date to Chaophraya. The 'Win'kend was exceeding all expectations. Then on Saturday I washed her, dressed her, brushed her pretty teeth, hung some Best in Show rosettes in her glossy mane and flung her into the heart of York to buy Cath Kidston dresses and overpriced picture frames. It was during this extended bonding session that we stumbled upon, and thus into, Oscar's. May I start by miming the rubbing of hands over walls and saying that thing I often say, much to the bemusement of most of my friends, "Lovely wallpaper!!". You just can't have enough tropical birds on big red flowers. I'm not being sarcastic. I genuinely have a remote sex button that gets pressed by the sight of interesting wallpaper...which I then sit by and bang on about ad infinitum, ad nauseum, all the time stroking said paper like a 100% proper sausage of a human being. Oscar's has wallpaper for the win. It also has a nice range of ales, wines and fruit beers....a strawberry fruli later and I was ready to mezze things up a notch. We plumped for mixed olives and a mediterranean platter which, at £4 and £8 respectively provided ample piles of slippery olives, rich taramasalata, thick hummus, cool tzatsiki, salad and warm flatbread for three of us. There's olive oil and balsamic vinegar on the tables to extend the bread life into some proper dipping. It was fresh, flavoursome and tasty. We even got more bread to finish off the dips, that's how dipalicious it was. So why only 3 stars? Lovely looking bar. Clean and well stocked with interesting and wide choices of drinks and food. Utterly FAB-U-LOUS wallpaper. Pleasant toilets....I could go on. But there's the one thing isn't there that just scoots you down the ratings faster than a wet rat in a slimy pipe. Customer service. Yes the staff were all achingly polite. Most were fabulous looking. There were more than enough of them to go around. But. Every single damn time we wanted something we had to play the staring game. Staring politely. Staring more urgently. Turning around in chairs and staring. Sighing and staring. Having that conversation about when is the right time to just shout 'Excuse me!' at the 10th waitress to walk directly past your table whilst earning an Olympic Gold (see what I did there) for deliberately avoiding meeting your eye despite being close enough to see right into your wanting soul. Watching huddles of said staff engaged in exciting looking conversations about last night in the corners of the bar with their backs turned to the entire dining contigent was really the final straw. "EXCUUUUUUUSE MEEEEEE!" Pah. Not good enough. Oscar's salvages the 2 points for looking lovely, being comfortable and having tasty grub at a good price but having worked in bars and restaurants from the age of 14-25 nothing irks me more than being deliberately ignored. If you are being paid to wait then no customer should be left wanting, whether they are your 'service' or not. Scuttling past diners with your eyes on the floor is downright lazy and turning your back on them to chat with your bessie mate for 10 minutes is downright unacceptable. If I could manage to wait tables efficiently at 14 Oscar's then your proper grown up staff can manage it now. Rant over...but never out! MWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Well, we had lunch here today and it was certainly an experience, not to be repeated…read more The waiter was lack lustre, uninterested, and either got the order or bill wrong, forgot things, and plainly was 'not there'. The food was ok. Not great. Not bad. Under seasoned. The pizza was ok, crust thin, toppings sparse. The best thing we ate was an arugula salad dressed with lemon olive oil and grams Padano. That being said, the girl at the bar who checked us out was very helpful. Would we go back? Absolutely not.

How does an Italian restaurant run out of staple meals like lasagna? We had virtually no contact…read morewith the waiter, so getting drinks refilled was next to impossible. The food was basic and very average. Overpriced for the quality and lack,of service.