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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Mulled Wine ✶ Steins ✶ Hot Chocolate ✶ Bratwurst ✶ Christmas Movies ✶ Waffles ✶ Open 14 Nov - 28 Dec ✶ Mulled Wine ✶ Steins ✶ Hot Chocolate ✶ Bratwurst ✶ Christmas Movies ✶ Waffles ✶ Open 14 Nov - 28 Dec ✶

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 the best Christmas movies play 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

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

A cosy garlanded hut booth with tartan seats — The centre hut

Window huts in daylight looking onto Friargate — Window seats

A row of huts dressed with garlands and red blankets — The full row

The Big One

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.