\n He said: \u201cI\u2019m over the moon. I thought out-of-town pubs don\u2019t get a look in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Luke added: \u201cAll our customers will be as well.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Holme Lane, in Tong Street (Image: UGC) The pub has been in the Buttrey family since 1998 but their association with The Holme Lane goes back even further than that.\n<\/p>\n
\n Luke said dad, Michael Buttrey, 77, and mum Maria Buttrey, 74, took over the pub for a couple of months before going to two other pubs, then making their way back to Tong Street.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cThis came up and they\u2019ve been here ever since.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The family has \u201calways loved doing it\u201d, according to Luke.\n<\/p>\n
\n Michael Buttrey and son and now landlord Luke Buttrey of The Holme Lane, which has been crowned the Best Pub 2025 (Image: Telegraph & Argus) His journey began at 16 when he started DJ-ing at various pubs, but Luke now runs The Holme Lane after his dad handed over the reins.\n<\/p>\n
\n Luke said: \u201cHe took a step back, but he won\u2019t retire. I don\u2019t want him to.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cHe does the books and everything.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Holme Lane is \u201clike a proper old-fashioned pub\u201d and Luke said he likes \u201cto keep the pub like a living room”.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cPeople come in and it\u2019s nice and warm and friendly.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe chat to customers, listen to their problems, they\u2019re friends. Customers who\u2019ve never been in before, and come in, and chat to them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n It isn\u2019t a pub where you get served and it\u2019s \u201cthanks, off you trot\u201d, according to Luke.\n<\/p>\n
\n That approach has been the recipe for success in remaining open at a time when pubs are disappearing faster than ever, and Luke told the T&A that winning the award will help too.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cIt\u2019s just a massive boost for us to be recognised.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Luke added: \u201cIt\u2019s getting harder and harder and things change and people aren\u2019t coming out as often but my dad is still holding his own.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019re still going. We\u2019re not going to be millionaires, but we\u2019re still ticking over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can officially announce that The Holme Lane pub, on Tong Street has been voted as the Best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013592389590251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}