Friargate · Preston · Est. 2019

The Winter Lodge.

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

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The Lodge

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 Home Alone plays over the bar.

Season14 Nov — 28 Dec

Locale49–50 Friargate

ReservationsOptional — walk in

Dress codeChristmas jumpers welcome

Inside the Lodge

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The Winter Lodge on Friargate painted across the snow-white floor — Fig. 01A warm welcome

Rows of wooden huts with tartan blankets and garlands — Fig. 02Hut row

A guest wrapped in a red blanket holding a Winter Lodge enamel mug — Fig. 03Cosy blankets

Home Alone playing above the fireplace inside the lodge — Fig. 04Movie corner

Bar staff in alpine dress with a litre stein — Fig. 05Stein o'clock

Wooden huts by the window looking onto Friargate — Fig. 06Friargate view

A garland-framed wooden booth glowing with fairy lights

'Tis the season
to be jolly.

The house rule

Served daily

Your table is a cabin

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