Ye Olde Custom House Chester: Watergate Street pub

Ye Old Custom House

Watergate Street ·CH1 2LB ·under 0.1 miles from The Cross

Closed · opens today at 12pm Watergate Street under 0.1 miles from The Cross

Best for you need a safe pub-food choice on Watergate Street and You need a central pub with a beer garden and cask ale

Good to know Pub on Watergate Street and good for groups

Avoid if you need an independent freehouse.

Watergate Street

Historic pub

Pub food

Beer garden

Cask ale

Is it your kind of place?

Go here if

You want a safe pub-food choice on Watergate Street.
You need a central pub with a beer garden, cask ale, high chairs and accessible access listed.
You are meeting before or after Chester Racecourse.

Avoid if

You want an independent freehouse.
You are looking for specialist craft beer or ambitious food.
You dislike corporate pub offers and big-screen match-day energy.

Book for groups, race days, sport and family meals. Food service finishes earlier than pub closing, especially Sunday.

In a paragraph

Ye Olde Custom House is a Watergate Street pub serving Marston’s-style pub food, cask ales, sport, family facilities and beer-garden seating near the racecourse route.

What it's like

Ye Olde Custom House has the old Chester look from the street, but the visitor experience is mostly dependable chain-pub territory. That is not a crime. Sometimes the useful answer is pub classics, space, sport, a beer garden and food that keeps a group moving.

Chain pub in historic clothing

It is strongest as a practical Watergate Street fallback: before racing, after shopping, with children, with a mixed-age group or when nobody wants to gamble on a tiny independent kitchen.

Worth knowing

Ye Olde Custom House is a chain pub in a useful old Chester wrapper. That makes it dependable for groups, food and race-day pints, but not the place to chase independent food or specialist beer.

The essentialsVisit

Getting there

under 0.1 miles from The Cross.

Hours

Current official hours show daily opening 12:00-23:00.

Food & drink

Food service is listed as Monday-Saturday 12:00-20:00 and Sunday 12:00-18:00. Use it for burgers, pies, fish and chips, Sunday roast, sharers, kids meals or a race-day pint.