The Half Moon Free House Pub in Harrogate

Excellent evening service snd food. It was rather warm, would recommend wearing layers.

Nice little place this after a walk around the town. Good range of drinks . Food is available as well.

A pub that doesn't allow dogs means 0 stars

Well worth the walk from town to this pub set in a stunning location by the river and only a 12 minute river walk to the 🚂 station although there are 80-odd steps to climb along the way. 4 cask ales available along with a large wine selection plus hot beverages.

A really excellent friendly pub with a familt vibe that does very well kept real ales and good small plates of foodie snacks. Definitely a must do pub in Knaresborough

We arrived hadn't booked(please do)we were well accomadated on abijou table for 2 the pate was good the doorsteps of bread were excellent, the pizzas were good the localbeer was well kept and tasty the pinot grigio was good ,the staff were were polite and efficient we will be back.

Superb atmosphere, foods to die for best pizza in Knaresborough! Highly recommended!

For me it's the best pub in Knaresborough. Great beer and drink selection, great service, in the winter it's cosy with two open fires and a fantastic atmosphere, in the summer you can drink in the park next to the river or sit at the patio or out the front. It's always the pub I recommend to people when they visit. Nice cakes too.

The Half Moon sits across from the river Nidd in a very picturesque part of Knaresborough. You can even take your drinks down to the Riverside park if you want. They offer up superb hospitality along with a good range of beers. We had a couple of nice pints from Roosters and Tiny Rebel. It's a cosy little pub with a great little yard to the back. One of our top favourites to visit in Knaresborough and well worth checking out. Dogs only allowed in the beer garden though.

Nice atmosphere, good booze, great night out.

Lovely service. Nipped in for a coffee as was driving, but the beer range looked great and will be back.

Fantastic service and such a cosy little pub. Great choice of ales and a lovely platter to go with it. Parking a little difficult over Christmas but only to be expected. Love it , can't wait to go back

I have just seen a review I put on from 6 yr ago which was 1 star..just to say this was not intentional and unsure why this came up 1. The half moon is 5 star all the way and would recommend 100%!

Lovely pub - they know how to pour a great pint of Guinness. Their midweek pizza nights are superb too.

Amazing. Beautiful pub inside, we sat near the log fire on this rainy cold night. We had garlic bread to share and a pizza each. They were very tasty. Definitely would go back and would recommend. The lads serving food and at the bar were all very friendly and very helpful. Will be returning and highly recommend this pub for a drink but definitely for food. Was too full for dessert, disappointed as the cakes on the bar looked delicious.

Check your bookings. Service absolutely terrible tonight and they weren’t even busy. No apologies by staff for mistakes.

We've been walking here from Harrogate for a number of years, well worth the walk and a real reward. Staff are unfailingly friendly, the beer very well kept, wine well chosen and glasses perfect. Food is simple but always delicious. Pate remains a favourite. Thank you all!

Seven of us comprising of 3 generations booked for Saturday lunch. We were received by a very helpful and courteous young lady who showed us to our table, gave us a few minutes and then returned to take our order. An assortment of cheese and meat boards accompaiied by hummus and pate with toast arrived promptly. Additionally two bowls of carrot and coriander soup which were delightful. The food was of exceptional quality and was enjoyed equally by the three generations. It is really refreshing to see a public house serving nutritional and high quality foods accompanied by excellent wines and beers. To sum up: An absloute gem providing fiest class food and beverages supported by efficient and very accomodating staff. We will return as soon as possible!

Excellent cosy pub with a log fire in the winter. Good drink selection, good food and friendly and efficient staff and service. Highly recommended.

Firstly I was ignored at the bar as obviously a woman standing at a bar must be with one of the men (?). We had booked a table 2 weeks ago for a Christmas meal but were given a small table in a thoroughfare to the loo. When we complained we were told "To be fair we are busy" It would be much fairer to give us a decent table when booked. If you want any respect don't go here.

We hired the pub for a private function - an 86th birthday party! Landlord Tom and his team completely nailed it. Food was brilliant, service was excellent. Nothing was too much trouble - this is an A1 traditional pub. Love it and can’t recommend it enough.

Had a very nice cheeseboard here at the half moon. We had a table next to an open fire on a cold evening, the food we had was delicious backed by the great staff here. Made us so welcome. Had a great evening.

The Half Moon Free House Pub in Knaresborough is a hidden gem. Quietly located, it offers a warm and cozy atmosphere with two actively lit fireplaces. The seating area and bar are great, and the food, including pizza, meat and cheese boards, and pate, is delicious. The staff, especially Piers and Tom, are friendly and attentive. There's also an outside area with benches and heaters. The only downside is the recent change in their dog policy. Overall, it's a delightful place to visit.

Love this place, a true gem! Tom always looks after us so very well and his homemade patè is amazing. 100% reccomend

Lovely homely pub with real fire. Free parking on the road

This is hands-down the best pub in Knaresborough. Lovely architecture and decor, friendly staff and great drinks and food. Gets busy, but that's not surprising!

Had a wonderful lunch here. Staff are very friendly and efficient. The food is lovely and reasonably priced. I would definitely recommend a visit here

Fantastic hidden gem. Well worth a visit.

Beautiful friendly pub with excellent beers and cocktails - lovely Porter too ! Food is good and the home made pate is yummy

Excellent sharing plater for lunch, very welcoming staff. Definitely recommend a visit here.

Best pub in Knaresborough. Tom,Nat and the whole team are so welcoming . Beautiful pub with log fire and relaxed atmosphere, they do brilliant cheese and meat boards as well as wood fired pizzas. We walk along the river and finish with a glass of red and cheese board - bliss !! Heated outdoor area - dog friendly … With blankets for when it turns to winter . Our definite go to for good service friendly welcome and great food !

Great! Enjoyed my meal. Careful about sitting outside in the evening late summer It's cold. Only one heater.

Great place for a light bit of food, good portion sizes and perfect for lunch or light dinner. We visited mid week and was quite and had a table straight away no booking.

The best pub in Knaresborough, and one of the best in Yorkshire. Well worth a visit if you're coming from afar. Staff, food, drink and atmosphere always on point 👌

Lovely pub, great welcome, fabulous range of drinks and good food.

Don’t book to go here if you’re in a rush, terrible service, OK if you’re about 18 and mates with the Chef or Bar Staff otherwise you’ll be ignored. Cheeseboard served without separate plates and pizza mediocre, won’t be back.

Lovely cheese board. Really friendly staff. Wish the pizza menu was open on the weekend, but had a really lovely time.

A huge thank you to the Half Moon Inn for allowing us to celebrate our little boy's first birthday, they couldn't be more accommodating, great atmosphere and the food was fantastic.

Liked this place good selection of gins, good food and friendly helpful staff. Recommended

Good place for a bite to eat and a drink. Small but quaint.

What a nice pub to spend time with a gorgeous and intelligent lady. Service is first class. Helpful and caring staff. Pizza excellent and beer cold and bubbly. Looking forward to my next visit. Bring vegan cheese and they will happily add it to your pizza.

Lovely little free house... Good selection of beers and the staff are really friendly. Pizza nights are great and the cheese and meat boards are lovely bar snacks!!

Got a Aperol Spritz bit pricey at £11.50!

The best cheese board in Yorkshire, coupled with a cider this has to be just fantastic. Always made to feel welcome and revisit time and time again.

Lovely pub, great beer and lovely snack lunch, bread olives and meat platter - perfect. Service was great from Tom and the team

Lovely food and drink as usual. The service here is usually five star, when your glass is empty they ask you if you want another which was great. This seems to have gone by the way and you have to go to the bar for every drink now. still good but not as special

Great pub. Only stopped for a quick drink but staff were very friendly and knowledgeable. Food looked fantastic Lovely pub and very clean and tidy

Great staff, food and atmosphere

Small pub serving limited pizzas and meat /veggie boards but of good quality. Great real ale choices, especially the porter. Friendly staff.

Really great place, good food and service, food freshly made and delicious! Well worth a visit

Lovely atmosphere and a little beer garden.

That good that I can’t remember going 🍺

Some amazing platters served by some really friendly staff I would highly recommend

Always welcoming. A real fire, friendly chat and great beers. The food looked hearty. Especially recommend the Malbec wine and the Espresso Martini/ Moontini, which also comes in an indiscernible decaff version. Hard to leave once you get settled in!

Great selection of beers and other drinks, plus awesome brownies. Really good outdoor seating area with heaters and blankets provided.

Lovely meal today. Very good quality.

Probably the best pub in Knaresborough. Welcoming and friendly, great beer 🍺

Excellent, friendly, communicative team will do anything to accommodate, food was great, and choice of drinks very ample. Couldn't fault the atmosphere, booked to go back again this weekend. Update, we've been back a number of times over the last couple of years or so, always remembered by name, and service has remained high. Nat is the friendliest, warmest guy you could ever want to meet, and makes it a pleasure to try drinks, and food here. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

My favourite pub! The staff are so friendly, the beer, cider and wine all top notch too. The atmosphere is warm, welcoming and relaxed. Just as a good pub should be. Roaring fires and simple - but ever so tasty food. Worth booking as it grows in popularity.

Met with family mid week and very popular.

Had the best cappuccino and amazing pecan caramel brownie at this warm and welcoming pub today. Lovely friendly young team serving. Highly recommend..

Lovely little pub but gets very busy so if you want a table make sure you book one!

Was stopping nearby in a cottage only a few minutes walk away from here in which I booked ahead for a Saturday afternoon. Got a comfy relaxing front window seat near to the real homely fire. Staff were so friendly and helpful as we ordered our food and drinks. Firstly we had a bottle Sauvignon blanc at £17.50 to accompany our meat and cheese board at £14 with pate and toast at £6.50, I have to say the portion amount was plentiful but also it was all delicious. we was enjoying ourselves that much we stayed longer and had more drinks, my wife had 2 rhubarb and ginger gins with Tonics at £6.60 each and I had 2 Hendricks gins with tonics £7.10 each. What a lovely time we had in this traditional old welcoming free house pub in knaresborough.

Awesome little pub, lively atmosphere, well kept selection of ales and pilsners on tap.

Fabulous pub with fabulous staff

Small and cosy with friendly staff, a great beer selection and lovely bar food. Highly recommended if your passing and need a rest stop 😊

Very accommodating....lovely courtyard. Great food, great drinks, great staff. 100% reccomend.

Had a fab Christmas Day morning with the Half Moon we are regulars but have never gone out on a Christmas Day but the team and the atmosphere they created was fantastic so we have been converted .Thanks so much to fab Tom and his team you made our day x

Visited a couple of times while staying nearby. First time just for a couple of drinks (Black Forest Gateau Porter was amazing), then again on Sunday evening. The pub was busy when we arrived but the bar staff kept tabs on who was waiting for a table and allocated space in order very effectively. We had a mixture of meat and cheese platters which were beautifully presented and delicious. The bar staff here are fantastic, welcoming, friendly and helpful. Two warming fires were very welcoming with sub zero temperatures outside. In essence - a wonderful pub which we will be returning to next time we are in the area.

Probably the best pub we visited on our Annual Ale Trail. Warm welcome from the staff, a good fire in the hearth🔥a nice pint and comfortable seating.😊🍻

Stunning pub with friendly service and lovely homemade food. Chocolate brownies with ice-cream were gorgeous. Highly recommended!

Past this pub a few times and fancied trying it out because it looks so good from the outside and it is so good on the inside. Full of local friendliness and atmosphere and a good selection of beers and food, very well positioned next to the river.

We went for a cheese platter. It was generous, varied, nicely presented and great value. The service was friendly and efficient and pub's ambiance relaxing. We would happily return when next visiting.

Friendly staff, great atmosphere and delicious charcuterie boards with some lovely wines to choose from to accompany! Our favourite place to visit when in Knaresborough.

Fabulous pub, amazing staff, the platters are phenomenal, we had the best night, cannot wait to return, do not miss if you are in Knaresborough….

Excellent good, staff and hospitality, thank you for an excellent evening.

Atmosphere was spot on, staff so friendly, good choice of lovely beers, we had a cheese board and it was lovely, such fab value! Would defo recommend coming here!

Pleasant relaxing pub if a little expensive

Cosy and friendly place with welcoming staff.

Love coming here, always a warm welcome. Treated ourselves to the cheese board, enjoyed with a large glass of wine. Such a lovely atmosphere in here, just like minded people out for a relaxing evening, what's not to love?

Lovely pub. Great food. We had cheese and meat share plate and home made pizza that was gorgeous. Good craft beer too. Nice outside courtyard that's got covers for the weather, heaters. Even blankets and hot water bottles! Dogs not allowed inside but in courtyard. Very freindly staff.

Great beer cheese board exerllent and extremely friendly staff highly recommended 👌

Four ales on. Great meat and cheese platter for two at lunch.

Excellent meal in lively pub with great selection of wines and beer. Pizzas were excellent and staff were attentive and friendly

Excellent service, great atmosphere, delicious grazing boards, good choice of ales, would highly recommend 👍

In ERROR, only one star 🌟 was given. Please please 🙏 IGNORE, would give the amazing place five stars and more "+++++++++ EVERYTHING about the Half Moon experience is perfect - food, service, ambience etc etc

We were staying overnight in Knaresborough and came across this gem of a place. From entering we were made to feel very welcome by Molly who had the friendliest smile. We chose to eat in the outdoor courtyard - this is a gorgeous setting with...

Cozy place with lovely snacks and staff. 4 starts because breads on plate cut too thick and not toasted so a bit difficult to eat also table was not clean but everything els nice. We ordered one meat and cheese one meat plate.

Very generous meat & cheese boards! Great service, lovely staff❣️Definitely worth a visit!

Nice place, lovely service, we got the following cheese board for 13 pounds: - pickled onions - onion chutney - blue cheese - brie cheese - some pink cheese - toffee cheese - pickled(?) Olives I'm sorry to give only two stars, the service was great but food is not. The cheese was alright apart from the toffee one... Award winning? I'm not so sure.. The olives were in a sauce that I didn't recognize but it was simply not nice at all: they would have been much better plain.

Lovely walk along the river topped off with a few pints in the Half Moon pub Thanks Tom for your great service

A very old yet excellent county pub with a warm and welcoming atmosphere Food limited, however what they do serve, sharing platters of meat and cheese, pizzas for those who like them along with the most gorgeous deserts again limited is absolutely 1st class. Anyone visiting this beautiful historical town of Knaresborough must drop in to "The Half Moon" down on Abbey Road by the river just to say "Hello"

Visited the Half Moon whilst staying at Teardrop Cottage nearby. Lovely little outdoor terrace, staff rushed out to pull out the awnings when the rain came, offered us a table inside but due to the patio heaters and awnings, the rain didn't take away the...

Great place to go and enjoy a pint, locals are very kind and friendly, felt nice during my last visit with my colleagues during an unofficial meet

Good selection of beer's and wine's good food

Do not, under any circumstances, park your bike against the next door shop window

Lovely pub, nice little beer garden

Customer service was fantastic today, the young girl was very well mannered and made my husband and I feel very welcome. The home made pate was just divine, fab staff and fab service overall. Quite simply a delectable meal, would definitely come again soon. Thanks...

Love the Half Moon - please please please do pizza on Fridays!

Great friendly service. Cheese platter was good and some nice beers.