Duck and Drake in Leeds

Great pub of character. The Bank of Dave was filmed there. Real ale is served there. Well worth a visit 👍

Great for a small pub, good friendly staff, definitely worth going to see great tribute bands even better when you get a seat.

The place its self is a landmark of Leeds the bar staff especially jade are more than welcoming and friendly lovely little noisy cosy nook to retreat and have a pint and the beer garden a phenom all in its self

Great pub, excellent beer and good for a pork pie or 2. White Rat on hand pump is top drawer

Legally obligated to serve a 125ml wine yet refused

Great venue nice selection of beers we're gonna go back and checkout the garden and the food

Amazing service, fantastic choice of drinks

Top cask ale boozer. Frequented this pub in the mid 80s whilst at Poly. Always visit when in Leeds.

Fantastic British pub! Nothing else to say. It's perfect for what it wants to do. Excellent service excellent cask beers!

Proper little pub right in the centre of Leeds, got a very good Guinness here and the guy behind the bar was lovely.

Great range of real ales. A traditional pub plenty of room inside and out

Great beer garden, good selection of beers, what more do you need, apart from it’s raining, plus a good music venue, if you like heavy music, I don’t think they do Opera 🍺🍺

Great well kept pint..especially the stout🍺🍺

Great pub,great beers and cracking beer garden

Was on our first ever visit to Leeds to visit family member . Family members husband is a regular visitor to the Duck &Drake and told us he would be there on our arrival day. Nice friendly atmosphere ,lovely beer garden

Always a must when going into Leeds. Just round the corner from the market, and always very large selection of real ales. Very large beer garden round the back with huge brollies for shelter.

Bar staff were very rude. Rushed us into finishing our drinks so they could remove us from outside to set up for an event. One of the barmaids did nothing but complain about working to everyone, in full earshot of the punters. It's a shame, it's my first ever visit here and I've always looked forward to trying it. But a disappointed experience means I'll probably never return

A grand pub. The outside is a very well presented area. Always a great atmosphere and always friendly. Great selection of beers and soft drinks.

Great old style boozer, a good crowd in the early evening.

Will differently visit again with the other half. Good and friendly people with a secret beer garden.

Excellent pub, great choice of beers

Classic old boozer, not changed much in 30 years. Plenty of cask ales, old school decor and with two distinct sides like pubs used to have! If you want airs and graces don't come here, but if you want good cask ale in a down to earth proper pub then this is one of the best in town.

Good boozer! If you want a nice place to drink and some live music, you cant go wrong!

Classic Boozer... Friendly barman, interesting clientèle, choice of outdoor spaces...

Came here to watch a live band, The Aquebus, who were amazing. Great pub with a brilliant atmosphere, cheap drinks, friendly staff, outdoor seating and regular live music performances. Will be back!

Good bar and beer choice. Nice beer garden

Great pub, and nice variety of bands that play at the venue. Wish the garden area could stay open a bit later on these rare summer evenings.

What a blast from the past this place was, reminding me of pubs in my 80s Uni days, even flock wallpaper. Polite helpful staff too! Will go back one day for the live music

Great bar, friendly helpful staff, place was rocking

Nice bar with wide choice of beers whiskeys and wines. Friendly staff and mixture of locals and students

Excellent pub, last went here 25 years ago and it's still superb.

Great choice of real ales and brilliant staff.

Great selection of well kept beers and always a good atmosphere. Excellent staff, a must if your visiting Leeds. Have a nice beer garden out back as well. Great pies.

Always a great pub for a pint and some natter. Staff are great and the beer garden was full of flowers in bloom.

Beer has gone really down hill over last 2 years, various beers like piss, standards have gone to shot. Don't know what is going on, need to get a grip not even cheap ffs. Went tonight and was not offering a fresh pint of landlords when beer was like tea? They said it was OK??.

Nice place to have a coffee when you waiting for flixbus . And very close to flixbus kirkgate bus stop And this place have out side nice ceiling place . Visit and enjoy the experience

Traditional pub fairly central to the City Centre. A nice walked beer garden. The staff were ok with the sensitive subject of the removing the sparkler on the hand pumps. Three good beers were enjoyed.

Excellent beer, live music on tonight, a bit loud but it was a spur of the moment choice to go there.

I popped in for a good quality ale. Very good ale, but quite pricey. Friendly service from the enthusiastic bar team.

Great pub Live music on often. Went in the lounge part tonight, very nice and welcoming, leads to a beer garden 😀 I never knew !! Good selection of beers

cheap pints, great band, and even better bar snacks.

Lovely pub with a great selection of beers/ales/bitters. Staff are always friendly and easy going. Treat yourself to a scrumptious pork pie and a pint in the beer garden.

Decent pint, a bit quiet when we came, a nice selection of real ales. Mainly heavy rock music over speakers, I think I would come again next time I come to Leeds for the real ale choices

Great old music pub in Leeds centre. Historic live venue. Great ale selection. And growlers/pork pie's. Nice relaxing outdoor garden area. A must visit at the weekends for live music 🎶

Basic but welcoming. Good selection of beers. Beer garden surprisingly nice.

Old fashion pub. With excellent real ale

Great place for real ales and there was an excellent band playing too. Blues/rock fantastic.

An old-fashioned and atmospheric city central area boozer. Great for real ales and selections. There are no frills in this place but a very good atmosphere. If you like pubs with live music, then this is the venue. The gents toilets take you back to the Edwardian era, at least. No CAMRA members discounts but reasonable prices for the city central location.

Great beer, free music, proper pub, quick service, no waiting for girls wanting 4 cocktails when you only want a pint.

What a cracking venue! Right in the heart of Leeds with love music almost every night, great beers and a great atmosphere! Highly recommend!

Excellent no frills traditional pub. Excellent beer, well kept. Good service. Ossett beer is particularly good.

The definition of old school watering hole. On a Monday afternoon it was pretty quiet. Music was good but the clientele was a bit sad. The side of the drinking you don’t wanna end up on. Regardless, clearly a live music venue with a stellar draft/cask list to boot. The usual suspects plus many more. The first time I’ve ever seen Golden Best on cask and for £4.30 I immediately said fire it up! Overall in a great area of town being near the touristy markets of the Corn Exchange and Kirkgate. Can’t go wrong here. A legendary pub for a reason.

I went there for the beer garden as they have one. Ordered a beer and than found out the beer garden was closed. Asked the staff why and they had no reason. Wouldn't recommend

Good night live music can't beat it

Love the Duck, great atmosphere and the best bands!

One of the best pubs in Leeds, friendly staff and punters, great beer garden. Excellent beer and the pork pies are to die for. Love this place

Cracking beer and very good pork pies

It's good and it's close. Much cheaper than my local corner shop. Would recommend, just don't try to make eye contact with the miserable lady that sometimes works there. She'll melt your soul!

The Duck and Drake is one of the must go to pubs in Leeds as it has everything a beer drinker wants. The beer is always on top form and there is quite a lot to choose from. I had the two wilde child cask ales, and i can honestly say the gimme s'more was one of the best pints I've ever had, we went to Wilde child the following day and it was on there and the D&D was much better. I also had a pint of the Bank of Dave named after the film of the same name which was partly filmed there. A great traditional pub that is simply awesome.

One of the best pint I've had in leeds. They certainly know how to keep a good cellar. I'll be back again and again 😀

Full of sweaty locals and tourists great beer and music, what's not to love.

Great pub, pie, pint and live music!

Great bar service & atmosphere, good choice of drinks but can't comment on food as we didn't have any.

Great bar, venue with a fantastic beer garden, friendly staff and on top of all that dogfriendly!! Love it there!

Now a normal & fair venue thanks to the new generation.

Great beers real ale sold at this pub and live music friendly place to drink in Leeds this is the only place to come to drink in Leeds

Proper English pub with proper locally brewed beers. Called ona Friday night after an event in Leeds, on route back to the train station. There was a live band playing blues and rockabilly style music - brilliant! Friendly locals and hard working bar staff who seemed to know instinctively who was next to be served. Great night, highly recommended.

Lovely traditional pub with great ales, a wide selection and lovely pie and peas. Friendly service, great value and a warm atmosphere.

Didn’t park there while waiting for a friend. There’s an arts and crafts shop nearby that is not relevant. The bar itself is great, good beer, live music and tasty pork pies to keep one’s stomach lined.

Sorry only parked there.whilst waiting for a friend.Looks like a nice place. Arts n craft shop nearby Great.

Lovely atmosphere, beer garden was really nice!

Great selection of beers in an amazing venue. The beer garden is one of the best in Leeds.

I used to use this place a lot a few years ago, and wrote a complimentary review in 2015. However much has clearly changed. Pricing used to be low-end, now it's upper end, which I suppose may be due to things out of their control. However, the staff attitude on the midweek lunchtime we visited was appalling. The chap clearly didn't want to be there, treated customers with contempt, and had an expression on him as though he had just suffered a bereavement. When I asked for a pint to be topped up as the head was over an inch he actually became rude and defensive. We won't be troubling them again.

I don't get in here as often as I once did. It was like I'd never been away. I went on a late Saturday afternoon and the place had a very lively trade. The feeling was very cordial and sedate. I was on my lonesome and I caught one or two people's eye and they were really friendly. Service was quick and efficient and the TT Golden Best that I sampled was the best, it was beautiful. A really good city centre pub...... Don't change a thing!

Had a great live band on and great selection of beers. For a busy night guinness was pretty damn tasty! Worth a visit!

Proper old style , full of character and characters, missed out on a pork pie as sold out , that will teach me to procrastinate! Good beers , my fav is TT Landlord 😋

Very handy for the bus station, clean toilets, warm and comfortable .Friendly and adequate staff. And most of all GREAT BEER AT A SENSIBLE PRICE.

My favourite pub when I visit Leeds

Great boozer, staff and the punters in when we visited were great craic.

What a place ❤ its a traditional boozer called in last week if you love a no nonsense venue and lots of choice of beers will be calling again 👍💯🤣

Pub as the same acts nearly every month and many not that good, beers overpriced and decor inside the pub is like the pub in general Boring and should have closed down years ago to make way for Housing for local residents at least something good would have come out of knocking down a boring pub who charges extortionate prices for flat beer

Good beer selection and quality.

I've been in a few times now on a Saturday evening and seen some great live bands. They sell Timothy Taylor Gold, Fosters, Neck Oil, Birra Moretti and others. Food only available are pork pies and crisps.

Great live music , great beer !

Live band night. Always a great place for live music

Great pub for live music and comedy, lovely bar staff

Good selection of beers. Music nightly, friendly host.

Nice experience. Friendly staff, good selection of beers and most importantly, rock music 🤘

Great traditional pub, real fire, great hand pulled beers, friendly atmosphere, one to visit for real ale drinks

We like the Duck and Drake as a pub, so we came to dinner with friends. The reservation was for 7pm and we were looking forward to some good honest pub food. It took a while to get a drinks order delivered, simply because it was busy, that's understandable. What blew us away was the really slow service in our food. As far as we could see, there was only one person taking orders and she seemed to be under pressure. Four of the items on the main menu had sold out, so that was a bit disappointing but once we ordered our food we sat back and waited. For a full hour. No explanation, no apology, nothing. Not a scooby. I don't need to expand on how we were hungry, fed up and disappointed . I will say that we left. It was shabby. We won't bother going again. There's no excuse for any of what happened. It's a well established and professional pub so there is no excuse for just how it all went wrong. One other thing. There were dogs everywhere. On laps, at tables and under tables, I think they were better cared for than we. Rubbish!!!

One of the best pints of Guinness in Leeds

Great staff, clean toilets, good beer selection. A proper rock pub. Loved it.

Excellent Pub. Great live music and a lovely log burner keeping everyone warm. Also had some lovely fizzy lager

Live music, fantastic pub with great beers too

Classic boozer with well looked after cask ales

We were in to watch the gig for new year, so can't comment on the food and I drink spirits so couldn't tell you about the beer... But it was a cracking night with a great band and atmosphere, and the prices were the normal prices with a pay as you feel gig. Can't knock it at all. Thanks guys.

I fancy sitting, and I fancy the occasional drink. Duck and Drake has chairs AND alcohol. Getting intoxicated is great fun, and I can get totally smashed on the type of alcohol they sell at Duck and Drake. I also like pork pies. I once fell off a boat. As a bonus they maybe have karaoke and quiz. It's my favorite pub in Leeds.

Just went for a pint of Guinness as recommended by a you tube channel. A good classic pub close to Leeds city centre Well worth a visit and the Guinness was exceptional Not had food

Great classic pub that truly supports the live music industry. If you ever get the opportunity to go see a live band here it is truly worth it, they are one of the few venues left in Leeds providing a real breeding ground for live music. The staff are also fantastic and do a great job of keeping everyone served, even when it's rammed. The owner Rob is also a great guy and really looks after everyone (customers and staff). My only quibble with the place is the price they charge for spirit mixers. When it comes to beers they have a great selection (including non alcoholics) and they are very reasonably priced, but a double (house) rum + coke costs me the best part of £9. I kind of get their thinking, but unfortunately I'm allergic to beer and would love to support this pub a lot more than I already do, but I just can't justify that sort of money on the regular when I could (for example) get a cocktail in one of the UKs Top 50 cocktail bars nearby for about a quid more. I know it's a bit of a personal gripe, but hopefully one they can sort out by adding a spirit mixer deal or two in the future just so I can justify coming down and supporting the bar a bit more. P.s. if you visit, please bring a bit of cash (£5 - £10 would be ideal if you enjoy them, but a couple of quid is fine if you didn't) and always put money in the bucket to support the bands. They are playing for basically nothing and I've never seen a bad band here, they deserve a bit of your spare change to help them keep going.

Great beer, they really look after their ale lines. Cracking staff. Awesome vibe with lots of live music.