Public Houses and Food Outlets

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The Picture - The old Wentworth Arms bar, now long gone.

Wentworth pumps

Back Top Eating, Drinking and Socialising
Some of our local pubs are very old. The New Inn (formerly 'White Hart') is at least 400 years old and most other local pubs have long histories. We also have some new ones in recent times. Some non-food pubs might offer a sandwich or even limited accommodation if the visitor enquires. You can usually find excellent 'real ales' ('RA' in the list below) in local pubs and clubs.

Food Outlets Quick List
Most local chippies are closed on Mondays. Have a look at the Cafes page and these:
Café Crème (Fb) 76 6118; Julie's Café (T-P Trail), 07885 498 572; The Arthouse (Fb), Church St., 76 5080; Generations Café (Fb), 761583; Waggon & Horses (Fb) Oxpring, 76 3259; Canton House, Spring Vale (Menu), 76 2474; Cinnamon Spice, 76 6006; Taste of India, Bridge End, 76 6951; Tiamo's Italian, Bridge End, 76 1200; Penistone Fish & Chips (Fb) Opp G Kleen's 01226 800485; Bridge End Fisheries, (recommended) 07540 748 809; Chili Lodge (Indian, Silkstone Common, delivers to Penistone), 01226 792 300.

Back Top Featured Hostelries:
'RA' = Real Ales.

  RA WiFi Spread Eagle

Crystal PalaceWentworth Arms Sign
    Old Crown
RA   New Inn (White Hart)
  WiFi 'the bridge'
RA WiFi Royal British Legion
RA WiFi Cubley Hall
RA   Pen Bowling Club
  Some WiFi Penistone Cafés

Back Top Pub and Club Contacts List
A good pintUseful for booking a wild party, family gathering, reunion, wedding reception, divorce party, wake, etc.
Pubs and Clubs are supposed to display a 'Bar List' of drinks prices but the dodgy ones ones won't.
Most (but not all) Penistone phone numbers start with 76, so you only need the last four numbers, 76-xxxx.
Use 01226 dialling code outside the area. Links checked June 2023.

Abbreviations:
Fb = Facebook, RA = Real Ale, NB = Normal beers available (not all fancy unknown beers), ECP = Egg, Chips and Peas available on request.

Members' Clubs

Local Micro-Breweries

For more information about Penistone, see Visit Penistone, which includes a full list of accommodation, eating and drinking in Penistone in the 'Essentials' section, with contact details and distances from the town centre. Don't forget; you're in Yorkshire - when you get a pint, always ask for a top-up.

Back Top Developments in Recent Times
We might think that going out for a pint is a declining activity with so many pubs closing and Penistone has lost more than its share of watering holes. Yet it is not all one-way, as new pub and food businesses have come along from time to time.

Cristello's Wine and Gin Bar
New for 2019, the former JT Smith's furniture shop ('Jaytees') was renovated to become two businesses in one. After months of public speculation on the sporadic activity of 2019, Cristello Enterprises Ltd applied to BMBC for a New Premises Licence. The company (11548622) would be run by local people, registered in September 2018 to Lisa Marie Wasden of Salters Way, Penistone.

First to open was Cristello's Bridal shop on Sat 23rd March. The adjacent Cristello Gin and Wine Bar had hoped to open on the same day but was delayed by licencing problems with BMBC. The new bar appears to have a connection with the Green Dragon, Thurgoland, via LBW Enterprises Limited (the LBW might refer to Lisa and Brett Wasden).

The wide opening hours do not necessarily mean that it can be open all day, just that it is flexible to open within those limits. According to staff there, tthe bar cannot open at the same time as the bridal shop, which rather restricts the potential for a drink on Saturday afternoons when Market Street is busy.

The Vault
This opened in November 2019 as a bistro and cellar bar in the former Antiques Shop at the top corner of Church Street. The layout is a bistro at ground level and a bar down the stairs, aimed up-market, and described by its owners as: 'A contemporary bistro restaurant with a speakeasy cocktail bar underneath. Situated in the heart of Penistone'. A 'Vault' lager pump is prominent on the bistro bar but there was no real ale on draught (Doombar in bottles), although the downstairs bar would probably have more choice. Facebook.

Smithy Arms
A tiny pub with micro-brewery had opened on Bower Lane, Oxspring, across the road from the Waggon and Horses. It became quite popular over the few years it was open and it had use of a car park down the road which did not impinge on the Waggon's trade. The story goes that its landlord has now retired and it has closed.

Back Top Ring o' Bells - A Lament
There used to be a verse on the mantelpiece of this old (defunct) Silkstone pub, with the following lines:

Customers came and I did trust 'em,
I lost my liquor and my custom.
To lose them both it grieved me sore,
So I'm resolved to trust no more.
Chalk is useful say what you will,
But chalk ne'er paid the maltster's bill.
I strive to keep a decent tap,
For ready money, but no strap.

Back Top Dining Out
Plenty of daytime eateries in Penistone (see the Cafés Page) but not much in the evening. More details and choices can be found at Visit Penistone.
Before you call anyone take a look at their hygiene ratings, you might be surprised. See Scores on the Doors and Omgomg (type in S36).

Now to the various venues ...

If you would like to stay locally, you might find some accommodation ideas at Visit Penistone's Where to Stay, Lavender NDT's Accommodation List and the Accommodation page.

Back Top Half Full or Half Empty?
A message from Barnsley CAMRA:

"Not satisfied with the amount of beer in your glass? - Ask for it topping up.
Still not satisfied? Contact Barnsley Trading Standards on 01226 772 532".

Back Top Home  W. C. Fields: 'Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.'