Pint Of Ale

Another visit to our favourite pub chain, Market Town Taverns. This time to Bar T’at on a rainy Sunday afternoon where I indulged in a fantastic pint of Ossett Brewery’s award winning Pale Gold.

Typical of this pub chain, the building is a sympathetic conversion (the conversion won a local Ilkley award for contribution to the townscape) complete with art nouveau beer adverts on the walls. The pub is named after the Ilkley anthem On Ilkley Moor Baht’at.

The food on the lunch menu was typical pub fayre, well priced, but unlike food we’ve experienced in many other pubs. The Black Sheep and Steak pie was rammed full of meat, bathed in exquisite gravy and served with the most wonderful chips. Chips like your gran used to make - crunchy and fat with perfect fluffy insides.

The only thing to put a dampener on things (apart from the rain outside the large windows) was a two year old toddler racing around the place with her old-enough-to-know-better mother giving chase. Round and round they went and it was visibly annoying some of the other drinkers and diners who had tried to escape for a quiet Sunday afternoon pint.