The Pryordurkins

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We found ourselves stopping for Sunday Lunch today at Guy Fawkes Inn on Petergate in York.  The place has a warm welcoming atmosphere as you enter this very old building which as the name implies was home to Guy Fawkes himself.  After you spend a little while in here though you get a sense of something else.  It seemed Ghostly and I’m not sure I’d want to find myself left alone in the place at night!   Anyway, it is very darkly decorated and still boasts the use of original gas lighting which only adds to the general aura of the place.  With a roaring fire as you enter the bar, it is definitely worth a stop on a cold wet winters day.  We sat down at a large old wooden table and ordered up a Roast Beef lunch for myself and a Slow Roast Belly Pork for Paul.  While waiting we had a drop of the old amber nectar to keep us going.

This is clearly a popular place because while we sat waiting our meals to arrive, we noticed by now all the tables were full and because you can’t book, many a person kept popping their head around the doors to see if tables were free.  The Guy Fawkes Inn as the name suggests also has a number of rooms to let and we could see a few people having finished their meals return to their rooms.  Perfect location if your visiting York and don’t mind the ghostly feel about the place.

Our food arrived and we tucked in.  While the food was better than your usual pub lunch, it was nothing particularly special, which was a bit of a disappointment.  My Roast Beef was tasty, but the vegetables were plain.  Paul didn’t seem to enjoy his Roast Belly Pork and seemed to making a job of it trying to slice it up with his knife.

All in all though, well worth a visit if only for the ambiance of the place and a decent pint.  We’ll certainly go back.

Pryordurkin rating 3 stars. Tel: +44 (0) 845 4 60 90 20

We made our first visit to Tate Modern in London on Saturday. Arriving at the main doors to what is the old Turbine Hall, we noticed a small crack in the flooring… It turned out to be one of the highlights of the visit. Doris Salcedo Shibboleth was in fact a very clever piece of work. The small crack starting at the door continues its way along the entire length of the turbine hall and as it did, becoming ever wider and ever deeper. What we found most interesting about this, apart from the obvious question – how did she do it, was the way people behaved along the crack; how they looked at it, how they walked along it, how they lay down and put their hands in it and the look of puzzlement on peoples faces.

We spent the next three hours exploring the seven floors that sit alongside the main turbine hall mostly saying things like, we could do that, or what is this all about. In the end, we decided it was the way people behave in places like this that is the most interesting thing. The sheer variety of ways in which people can be rude is staggering!

Score: Rating 4 Stars. Visited December 2007.