Whether you’re a fresher or a returning student, this interactive map has pinpoints of all the key restaurants, bars, coffee shops, live music venues, charity/ book/ record shops and clubs, helping you make the most of the incoming year in York.
Hopefully there is something new for everyone on this list, maybe it can be used as a checklist to help you get a feel of the independent shops and nightlife on offer throughout this gorgeous city.
You can access the whole map here, or select individual maps by filtering the results to fit the theme you would like to see. A list of each place and its location can be found below:
Coffee shops and bakeries
- 200 Degrees Coffee Shop: 68 Low Petergate
- Alma: 6 Coppergate
- Bison Coffee House: 17 Heslington Rd
- Brew & Brownie: 5 Museum St
- Cafe Nero, 3 Kings Sq (personal favourite store)
- Drift-In York: 1-3 Nessgate
- Dyls: Skeldergate Bridge
- Flori Bakery: 9 Scarcroft
- Gatehouse Coffee: Walmgate Bar
- Kiosk: 41 Fossgate
- The Kitchen at Alcuin: Campus West, University Rd
- Little Arras: 50 Goodramgate
- Merchants Coffee House: 54-56 Fossgate
- Over the Rainbow Cafe: 5 Patrick Pool
- Partisan: 112 Micklegate
- The Perky Peacock: Barker Tower, North St
- Plush Cafe: 6 Stonegate
- SOPHiE: East Lodge, Lendal Bridge
- Spring Espresso: 45 Fossgate
- vi coffee + wine: 2 Monkgate
Restaurants
- Bab Tooma York: 63 Goodramgate
- Bengal Brasserie: 21 Goodramgate
- The Biga+: 67 Walmgate
- The Blue Barbakan: 34 Fossgate
- Corner Grill House: 12a King St
- The Courtyard: Derwent College, Innovation Way
- The Cut & Craft: 8 St Stampson’s Sq
- Ippuku Tea House: 15 Blake St
- Kalpakavadi Restaurant: 26 Fossgate
- Karoo Bar & Kitchen: 18 George Hudson St
- La Vecchia Scuola: 62 Low Petergate
- Love Cheese: 16 Gillygate
- Lucia Restaurant: 13 Swinegate
- Marzano Italian & Grill: 13 Fossgate
- Rise.: 44 Fossgate
- Rustique Restaurant: 28 Castlegate
- Sotano: 1 Little Stonegate
- Spark: 17-21 Piccadilly
- Wine Stories: 24 Parliament St
- York Minster Refectory: 2 Deangate
Bars, Pubs and Clubs
- BlueBox: 12 New St
- The Botanist York: 15 Stonegate
- Brew York: Unit 6, Enterprise Complex, Walmgate
- Charles XII: Main St
- The Cross Keys: 34 Goodramgate
- The Drawing Board: 10-10a New St
- Dusk: 8 New St
- Evil Eye: 42 Stonegate
- Flares York: 6 Tanner Row
- Fossgate Tap: 54-56 Fossgate
- The Glasshouse: Langwith College, Deramore Ln
- The Guy Fawkes Inn: 25 High Petergate
- The Hop York: 11-12 Fossgate
- Kuda: 12 Clifford St
- The Lowther: 8 Cumberland St
- Pitcher and Piano York: Coney St
- Popworld York: 3 George Hudson St
- Revolution York: Coney St
- Salvation York: 23-25 Tanner Row
- The Stone Roses Bar: 4 King St
- Tank & Paddle York: Merchant Exchange
- The Vanbrugh Arms: Vanbrugh College
- Yates York: Church Ln, Low Ousegate
- Ziggy’s: 55 Micklegate
Book/ Charity/ Music shops
- The Blue House Bookshop: 10 Bootham
- British Heart Foundation: 14-15 Bridge St, 11 Goodramgate
- British Red Cross: 15 Walmgate
- Criminally Good Books: 14 Colliergate
- Earworm Records: 1 Powells Yard
- FortyFive Vinyl Cafe: 29 Micklegate
- Janette Ray Booksellers: 8 Bootham
- The Little Apple Bookshop: 13 High Petergate
- Lucius Books: 144 Micklegate
- Mind: 25 Goodramgate, 9 Coney St
- The Minster Gate Bookshop: 8 Minster Gates
- National Trust Gift Shop: 32 Goodramgate
- Oxfam Bookshop: 69 Low Petergate, 14 Micklegate, 7 Goodramgate
- Pitch 22 Records, Books, Art: 22 Fishergate
- The Portal Bookshop: 5 Patrick Pool
- Rebound: 5 Gillygate
- RSPCA: 5B Goodramgate
- St Leonard’s Hospice: 68 Fourth Ave, 60 Layerthorpe, 5 Scarcroft Rd, 20 Colliergate, 42 Fossgate, 50 Broadway
- Sue Ryder: 28 Goodramgate
- Vinyl Eddie: 86 Tadcaster Rd
- Waterstones: 15 Coney St
Live music
- The Basement: 13-17 Coney St
- The Bootham Tavern: 29 Bootham
- Cat In The Wall: 4 The Stonebow
- The Crescent: 8 The Crescent
- Eagle & Child: 9 High Petergate
- Fulford Arms: 121 Fulford Rd
- The Golden Fleece: Pavement
- The Hi Ho Club: 2B King’s Sq
- Hole In The Wall, High Petergate
- The National Centre for Early Music: St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate
- Nola: 2A Lendal
- The Players Lounge: 40 Coney St
- Ye Olde Shambles Tavern: 44 Shambles
- The York Barbican
- The York Vaults: 47-49 Nunnery Ln
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