City Guides
Halifax
Pubs and Bars
Whilst lacking in nightclubs, Halifax is home to a huge number of pubs and bars, with a variety of drinks and jukeboxes to choose from. As well as the usual selection of Yate’s, Wetherspoon and other chain pubs, the town offers traditional real ale pubs, wine bars and rock-themed pubs. Most of the more popular establishments can be found in the same part of the town centre, making paying a visit to two or three of them an easy choice!
Bar 15 on Bull Close Lane is a bar, club and live music venue with a capacity of two hundred people, also known as ‘The Rockshack’. With low ceilings and a long, narrow layout, the venue provides perfect acoustics for the rock and alternative bands that play there on Friday and Saturday nights. The bar also hosts a classic rock DJ in ‘Martyn’s Rockshack’, presenting tunes from the last twenty years of rock output. Drinks are cheap, and special offers are plentiful.
The Halifax and Calderdale branch of CAMRA recommend numerous pubs in the area, but awarded ‘Pub of the Year’ in 2006 to the Fox and Goose in Hebden Bridge. The pub is popular with locals and real ale lovers, and has recently been refurbished and decorated.
The Shears Inn is another real ale pub that has been commended by CAMRA, this one with mentions in ten consecutive editions of Good Beer Guide. The pub serves a variety of quality pub-meals and offers a broad selection of locally brewed and continental real ales.
The Standard of Freedom is a popular Halifax pub, tucked out of the way in Skircoat Green. The pub took its name from a Chartist speech made by the then landlord about ‘raising the standard of freedom’.
The William IV, on King Cross Road, is located on a quiet street, but is extremely popular and usually very busy. Pub meals are served on the premises throughout the day.
Bar 15 on Bull Close Lane is a bar, club and live music venue with a capacity of two hundred people, also known as ‘The Rockshack’. With low ceilings and a long, narrow layout, the venue provides perfect acoustics for the rock and alternative bands that play there on Friday and Saturday nights. The bar also hosts a classic rock DJ in ‘Martyn’s Rockshack’, presenting tunes from the last twenty years of rock output. Drinks are cheap, and special offers are plentiful.
The Halifax and Calderdale branch of CAMRA recommend numerous pubs in the area, but awarded ‘Pub of the Year’ in 2006 to the Fox and Goose in Hebden Bridge. The pub is popular with locals and real ale lovers, and has recently been refurbished and decorated.
The Shears Inn is another real ale pub that has been commended by CAMRA, this one with mentions in ten consecutive editions of Good Beer Guide. The pub serves a variety of quality pub-meals and offers a broad selection of locally brewed and continental real ales.
The Standard of Freedom is a popular Halifax pub, tucked out of the way in Skircoat Green. The pub took its name from a Chartist speech made by the then landlord about ‘raising the standard of freedom’.
The William IV, on King Cross Road, is located on a quiet street, but is extremely popular and usually very busy. Pub meals are served on the premises throughout the day.
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