Inside The Winter Lodge: wooden huts, garlands and fairy lights, with Santa by the bar

TheWinterLodge

Preston's legendary alpine Christmas bar. Six weeks a year, a canopy of ten thousand lights, and every hut on Friargate glowing until late.

Book your hut

Step off the high street and into the Alps: wooden huts wrapped in garlands, a ceiling of fairy lights, and a mug of something warm in your hands while the best Christmas movies play over the bar.

Season14 Nov - 28 Dec
Find us49–50 Friargate
ReservationsOptional, walk in
Dress codeChristmas jumpers welcome
A garland-framed wooden booth glowing with fairy lights

'Tis the season
to be jolly.

The house rule

Take a Hut

Every booth is its own little wooden lodge: pitched roof, tartan cushions, a blanket on the hook and your name above the table. Bring four friends or the whole office.

Reservations are free and optional. If the huts are full, the stools by the window watch the world go by on Friargate.

SeatsUp to 8 per hut
BlanketsOn the house
Christmas partiesPrivate hire available
Walk-insAlways welcome
A row of huts dressed with garlands and red blankets
The full row
Window huts in daylight looking onto Friargate
Window seats

Christmas Parties

The work do, the friends-mas, the annual get-together, done properly. Take a booth, take a row of them, or take the back room and make the whole night yours.

A Booth

Cosy, up to eight

Your own wooden hut for up to eight. Blankets on, mulled wine in hand.

Book a Booth

A Few Booths

Bigger, the whole team

Side-by-side huts for the whole team. Together, but every crew gets a den.

Book the Row

The Back Room

The lot, fully private

A fully private space for the big one. Your crowd, your night, your rules.

Book the Back Room

Book your hut

or just wander in.

Open 14 November to 28 December. Tables are free to reserve and there's always walk-in space. For Christmas parties and private hire, send us an enquiry and we'll get a date in the diary.