Guy Fawkes Inn
Bar: Guy Fawkes Inn
Address: 25, High Petergate
Average Pint price: £3.00
Rating: * * *
There are several licensed establishments in York that try to lure punters in by claiming an association with a certain famed historical terrorist who was born in this city. The Guy Fawkes Inn goes farther than most and claims to be on the location of his actual birthplace. Whether it is or not, I don’t particularly care.
I arrived at the inn on a Sunday afternoon, having consumed nothing but a cup of coffee since the night before. Naturally I was looking forward to a roast, but much to my dismay they had stopped serving food. I resolved to have a quiet pint of Staropramen and then leave to search for food, but one of my companions embarrassed himself hideously by failing to recognise the barmaid-postgrad who had taught him in first year, and we were compelled to flee to the courtyard to finish our drinks. In the cool air we discussed whether anyone would ever open a bar at the birthplace of one of the 9/11 hijackers. Guy Fawkes sat down next to us.
“I thought Ye Olde Starre Inne was supposed to be your local!” I exclaimed. “Wait a minute, weren’t you hung, drawn and quartered?” “Oh no,” he replied, “I jumped from the gallows and broke my neck before they could draw and quarter me!” “Ah,” I said, hurriedly draining my pint and fleeing to somewhere with more food and fewer dead revolutionaries.
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