Craft & Co
Craft beer, gin and cocktail bar
A bar on the Watergate Rows for craft beer, artisan gin and cocktails, with live music.
📍 24 Watergate Row North, Chester CH1 2LD
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The Pied Bull
Historic pub
A former coaching inn dating from 1155 and the oldest continuously licensed premises in Chester, with a heavily oak-beamed bar, its own brewery and, they say, a ghost.
📍 57 Northgate Street, Chester CH1 2HQ
Ye Olde Boot Inn
Historic pub
A Rows pub dating from 1643 and called the Boot since 1750, with low beams and a strict no swearing rule.
📍 9 Eastgate Row, Chester CH1 1LG
The Brewery Tap
Brewery tap
The Spitting Feathers brewery's pub on Lower Bridge Street, with cask ale and local beer in one of the best pub rooms in the centre.
📍 52 Lower Bridge Street, Chester
The Albion Inn
Traditional pub
A small three-roomed backstreet pub below the city walls, decorated with First World War memorabilia.
📍 Park Street, Chester CH1 1RQ
Old Harkers Arms
Canalside pub
A real ale pub right on the canal.
📍 Russell Street, Chester
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Start with Craft & Co, The Pied Bull, Ye Olde Boot Inn, The Brewery Tap and The Albion Inn. Our full list has 6 bars.
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Who wrote this guide
This guide is written by the team at M.AD Agency. We run cocktail festivals in more than 20 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland and have worked with hundreds of bars since 2022. We love Chester's bars, so we put this guide together from our own research, recent awards and trusted local guides.
No bar paid to be included and nobody can buy a place. We check the guide regularly as bars open, change and close.
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