The Yarborough Hotel

A good pub to go to just before catching the train back down to London. Prices are very reasonable, especially the bottle of wine for about £6 and the beer prices also very good. Food reasonable and always offers on. Gets full on a friday and saturday [last time I was there it was rammed yet there were only 3 staff on, hope Wespersoons is listening]. Great service under the circumstances and good atmosphere.

There are many things going for the Wetherspoon’s chain, and The Yarborough Arms is no exception.
It is a huge pub that has prospered since being purchased by the chain. It is always busy and for such a large pub with four or more huge rooms that takes some doing.
The atmosphere is lively with a cross section of customers enjoying very inexpensive drinks and a cracking menu.
Various specials on different nights, Thursday night is curry night, choice of about a dozen different curries, papodom and pickle, rice, naan bread and a pint for £5ish …you can’t go wrong…
Well done Wetherspoons…

a great little bar also a lovely place to eat have been there many times when meeting up in town there menu ranges from two for five pounds right up to steak n chips they also do curry nights whitch is very popular nice friendly place good beer, nicely located for all the shops weather out for just a drink or a meal this place is def worth a visit

After paying further down south prices, we were amazed when we paid for such a cheap round! It is very reasonably priced.
It’s full of old men drinking their pensions away and it’s a blessing the smoking ban came in as you couldn’t see in there a while ago.
The food is average Wetherspoons grub, cheap and cheerful.

I used to dislike this Wetherspoon pub because it was always packed on a Friday and Saturday night and I would come out with bruises. I did have some decent meals there though. usually 2 meals for £6 or something. However having lived in the south for a year I almost fell over when I was asked for £1.35 for my pint of real ale last weekend. There is always a good selection of ales. It was quiet and they allowed my friends 16 year old daughter to sit with us while we had a drink.
The Yarborough was owned by Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company and, eventually, by the LNER. After the Second World War, the British Transport Commission owned it. In 1951, it was bought by a brewery from Hull. In 1960, it was nearly demolished. The hotel, which is a symbol of the town’s transition from an 18^th-​century fishing village into a great Victorian port, is now a listed building. It is one of the town’s best-​known landmarks .
It was purpose-​built in the mid 19^th century (1851) to serve Grimsby’s first railway. The hotel took its name from the second Earl of Yarborough, who was a director of the railway company and lived at nearby Brocklesby.
Example prices. Guiness £1.49 Carling £1.39 Fish and Chips £2.99 Burger and chips £3.99
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Apparently 17,540 people joined them for the world’s largest wine-​tasting event, making them a Guiness world record holder. They are also Grimsbys Pub of the Year.