The Empress

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  Devon salmond

  ·3 weeks ago

  “Great food and good beer! Got a chicken Caesar, steak and a blackened chicken pasta. All the food was delicious. Highly recommend stopping buy. Great atmosphere too.”

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  Red Eyed Rant

  ·1 month ago

  “Myself and my wife booked the empresses for our wedding reception 5 months in advance, we thought it was a great venue that ticked all our boxes , we like the layout so we could we could have reception upstairs and be able to make use of the stray outside too, With 3 weeks to go for the big day we saw an event poster on Facebook for family fun day , bbq dj and choir which we found disappointing as we felt the venue were trying to cram as much into one day as possible which would have diminished our special day potentially resulting in us stinking of bbq and having our wedding dinner drowned out with a choir right outside the front door and a dj that would potentially have clashed with ours, I phoned up to raise my concerns only to be met with a stand offish response of “you said you was gonna be upstairs and I can assure you it won’t interfere with your wedding do” despite myself saying two djs would be playing at the same time and that we also don’t want to stink of bbq arriving and going outside, The landlady didn’t really seem bothered that she could lose a booking saying it’s ok if you want to cancel…. We felt it wasn’t a great start to our wedding plans and decided to go elsewhere with 3 weeks to go , which to put it bluntly was a lot of stress and upset especially for a day that only happens once between a couple, Ive never experienced such blasé laid back mentality in hospitality in my time and definitely don’t expect it when the booking is tied to the name wedding reception”

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  Dave Midwood

  ·2 months ago

  “Nice pub. Decent carvery, function room, beer garden and public grassed space opposite”

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  Karen J

  ·2 months ago

  “Had a really lovely lunch today with hubby and MIL. We all ordered the scampi which was really good with the most amazing home made chips. The portions were really generous and the staff lovely! Very reasonable price!”

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  James Ludbrook

  ·2 months ago

  “Tesco Harrogate staff party, thank you so much for last night, the venue upstairs was great and thanks to the young man on the bar, he did an excellent job. Thank you so much”

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  Teresa Ballinger

  ·2 months ago

  “Little gem of a bar on the Stray. Friendly staff and food portions are huge. Highly recommend.”