The Market Tavern — Restaurant in Preston

Excellent city centre pub located, as suggested by it's name, close to Preston's historic markets.

Great real ales as well as Erdinger as a permanent offering in addition to an excellent range of bottled beers including Belgian ales. Also lagers and ciders and wider range of spirits and some wines available.

Warm, inviting atmosphere especially on cold winter evenings and limited outside tables for enjoying cold beer during the summer watching the busy market activity during the day.

The only issue is opening times; some times the pub closes early and sometimes doesn't open at all during the week. We particularly like coming here on Christmas Eve but the pub shut by 9 pm on Christmas Eve 2014 which was disappointing.

I appreciate that staff need a holiday also but surely in the pub trade Christmas is a busy time and folk want to come out and enjoy a few festive beers.

Hopefully the opening times will be made clearer and even better just open till 23:00 every night and perhaps 01:00 on Fridays/Saturdays-I am sure the there will be a lot of custom if this was...

Honestly I've enjoyed coming to this little gem for a while now, I've seen it evolve and blossom over the past 4 years or so, it's become a safe haven on Wednesdays for the LGBT community and beyond with beautiful and friendly staff.

Although some bad apples may come in to try and spoil the bunch the staff stand strong and try their best to make this a safe place for all.

I love them for this.

The food is comforting, its nothing extraordinaryly complex, its food you'd make yourself or ask your mum back in the day to make because honestly you felt like hell and just needed a food hug, toasties were certainly my comfort, now all we need is fish finger sandwiches and i might move in!

Keep up the...

Well,this WAS a decent public house but due to a young,inexperienced,female Landlady...many,many previous visits by regular customers have fallen incredibly...perhaps the unprofessional Landlady is guilty of this lack of customers and after speaking personally with a few,this is definately the case.....what a shame that due to this,the turnover has dropped,obviously and being a friendly,understandably,Landlady would change the customers,the turnover and opinions of anyone aware of why this...