Sand2inista Cantina Bar‎

A gruff bar on the corner of one of Leeds many one way streets. We entered at around midnight on the Saturday after much all day  drinking, the windows were fairly blacked out from outside but we scrambled in with the bouncer holding the door open. Inside was a  nasty scene for any drinker, around [...]

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The Three Horseshoes

During Otley run season the three horse shoes is no where to be seen. Quite realistically it disappears behind a wall of folk in fancy dress - some with teenage looking faces but most with costume of such ridicule that finding yourself standing in a queue on the street to get into this [...]

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Mojo Bar

This surprise hit two floor bar in the centre of Leeds likes to pull itself a crowd. Outside there is a brief queue to get in but the bouncers are friendly if a little stern. Inside the bar is lit up purely by red neon lights upstairs and down with good music played throughout the night [...]

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Reform bar

It is nice to know that in some spots of leeds a little reform is going on. In what looks like a trendy and happening venue,scores of young people and students fill into a medium sized, low ceiling, darkened establishment. The bar area is brighter than the rest of the venue which is riddled with comfortable [...]

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The Eldon Pub

A traditional pub sitting quite innocently on the war path of the Otley Run through which students come and storm this pub at around 9pm during Saturdays at term time. The interior is a rich fabric of dark woods with a space cleared in the middle of the pub for standing and drinking, [...]

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The Original Oak Pub

By all accounts the Original Oak pub in Leeds is one of those student gems that is a massive venue for congregation, partying and pulling in all weathers. Surprising it is then that from the outside it doesn’t look as big as it is within. Inside there is a forebar then a [...]

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Woodies Ale House

Woodies has enough of a claim to fame to be perfectly well standing on its own with the merit of being the start of the otley run. Probably the most famous pub crawl north of the equator. And Woodies is a very busy place to be at midday on a Saturday. Entering from [...]

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Milo Bar

Just next to the Wire club in Leeds City Centre is Milo Bar, another completely alternative venue that raises more eyebrows than Bill Oddy. We queue outside briefly before heading into a red room with hanging lamps, a little dingy in context but not tiny. The bar service is un-impressingly slow, and it appears [...]

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Azucar Tequila and Tapas Bar

With a very good selection of drinks including a whole array of tequilas. Inside the venue is a dark room with the occasional spotlight beaming down from above on the drinkers. Different booth types are the supplied seating with leathers in red and black and candles which light up the back [...]

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The Packhorse Pub

with a name that really sounds like a mule on his last legs, this pub doesn’t start off doing itself any favours. The first face we see at an interesting cubby hole window on the edge of the first room in the venue is that of the barman. But he is too busy [...]

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