Visit the Telegraph s Pub of the Year 2020, plus the best pubs for food, families and dogs
Let s celebrate our great pubs. Here we reveal our readers favourites, plus Sawday s top spots of 2020
Our readers favourite pubs for food, families and dogs
Last spring, we were gearing up to announce the second Telegraph Pub of the Year, the Cartford Inn in Lancashire. In association with Sawday’s travel guides, we had put the call out for readers’ recommendations at the beginning of February; we keyed the big scorers and the most interesting personal testimonies into a spreadsheet, cast the runes, arrived at a shortlist and sent a crack squad of thirsty journalists out to visit all the pubs on it.
1/1 YORK’S longest serving landlord has died from Covid, just weeks before he was due to celebrate 40 years in charge of his village pub. Gordon Watkins, 71, and his former wife Lynn took over at the Ebor Inn in Bishopthorpe in March, 1981, and continued to run it ever since as Samuel Smith’s Brewery’s last tenant landlord. He was named landlord of the year in The Press newspaper s Pub Awards 2009/10 and received an award from The Campaign for Real Ale to mark his long service. He was said to have launched York’s first pub quiz in the early 1980s and used to run a massive bonfire and fireworks display every November in the pub’s big beer garden.