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On the (AWFUL) advert for the Observer's Bar Guide the bloke goes into O's Bar which is also in Crouch End. It looks appalling. If the Observer Bar Guide is recommending places of this calibre then frankly it is not worth bothering with.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where have I been? Barbarella (although not strictly a bar); The Kings Something and another pub I don't remember the name of.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

isnt there a Nobody Inn at Newington Green too?

― gareth, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The King's Arms isn't great and has gone downhill since its refurb. Also it is one of the evil CE pubs that cashed my stolen cheques despite the really really terrible forgery of my signature. However there are worse places.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nearest bar to me is the terribly hip 21. Jahrhundert, which has terrible service, a terribly inconsistent kitchen, terribly overpriced drinks, and a terrible amount of chain-smoking schicky mickies not listening/not dancing to some terribly predictable DJs. A nice place for breakfast, though.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re. The Salisbury (Green Lanes): I've never been in because it seems a bit bare, and full of people wielding pool cues (perhaps that's just the bit that is visible from the street).

re. The Old Ale Emporium (Green Lanes): I've been in there a few times and quite liked it, but it's always jam-packed and I like a seat.

re. The Nobody Inn (Newington Green version): I used to go in there a lot because it stayed open late. Irritatingly Oasis were always on the juke box (it was around 96-97 though).

Does anyone like the Compton Arms in Islington?

― David, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wasn't telling her to go to ICE - I was just wondering if she had been there and if she thought it was as rubbish as we did. Barbellas is nice for food though, and pitchers of cocktails during its eight hour long happy hour. We will have to take you out for a proper Crouch End night out it would appear Anna. The Princess Alexandra is very nice in the summer for beer and just by the lido.

There is a Nobody Inn in Newington Green which is actually quite nice (though the back half is a bit like a scout hut if that takes your fancy).

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Princess Alexandra has some weird punters though like the hugely obese blind man who was sat near us. However the garden out back is great.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Unicorn, Camden Rd. Don't go there very often but good points = cheap, shows football, weekly pub quiz, friendly staff, spacious. Against = dodgy geezers, grubby decor, neglected toilet facilities. Good honest pub, 'pint for the gentleman' etc

― Graham C, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Princess Alexandra is very nice in the summer for beer and just by the lido.

What lido? God, I feel like such a newbie.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Duh, the lido by the Princess Alexandra!

It's on Park Road on the way to Ally Pally / Muswell Hill. I have never been as lidos are full of horrible children at the best of times and the proximity to Sprog Central can only exacerbate this problem.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sprog Central = what? a school?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The closest to me is the Master Plan Lounge. I live in very crime ridden area so I imagine the only planning going on in there is of the nefarious variety. Stay away from the Master Plan!

― lawrence kansas, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The dodgiest thing about the enormous blind man was his enormous blind MATE who was there with him. One enormous blind man is a coincidence but two seems like carelessness. Also the way these enormous blind men had a team of hangers-on helping them with their vast plates of food and hanging on their every word made me think they might be some kind of huge fat blind mobsters.

Hooray for the Princess Alexandria.

― Tom, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Y'know Tom I thought there were 2 then I thought nah, that's way too improbable, I must've imagined it.

Sprog Central = Crouch End, where North Londoners go to breed

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sprog Central = Crouch End. It is a little known fact that the Crouch End / Highgate environs are the most fecund place in Northern Europe with more pregnant/people with children under five than anywhere else in the UK, Belgium, Scandinavia, Ireland and Holland.

Pshaw Anna. You'll be telling us you've never been on the Crouch End rollercoaster next.

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kathleen's cafe. it's underground and there are italian lounge singers there twice weekly. i've never been though.

― maura, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well i suppose it has to have some kind of public transport

― gareth, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I DO NOT TRUST YOU ANY MORE!

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

where once there was innocence and delight, Pete introduces suspicion and fear. You're a bad man Baran.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Okay - so I was lying about the rollercoaster. Give a guy a break...

(I can however be trusted on public houses, it is a subject I never lie about).

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Luckily you can trust me as I am the honest side of the PeteEmma mindmeld. There is no rollercoaster. There are however NUMEROUS buses Gareth which surely count as public transport?

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hardly ever go to bars. When I used to, though, I'd go to the Union Colony Brewery where all the hippies went. They'd put Rusted Root on the jukebox and dance.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In Emma I trust then.

I am innocent and delightful (hem) that's why I keep falling for Pete's lies/

― Ana, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Removing the false veil of innocence is my burden unfortunately - but I try to do it in a harmless manner with lies about eyes and rollercoasters which hurt much less than the lies told by the government. Who is the evil man here eh? Is it me with my whimsical untruths or is it the government? Eh? Eh? Eh?

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(hem) indeed

;-)

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My local pub is Gibneys. I only ever go there on Fridays despite the fact that have minor Father Ted stars like Father Damo doing stand up there. I make a point of asking them can they tell some jokes in the middle of their show every week. However they've started charging at the door now so I will have to find a new local. Or just boycott drinking all night in a pub.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not having my hems thrown back at me by sex tourists.

Kathleen's Cafe sounds quite nice Maura.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Pav". It's often full of students.

― Graham, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

future sex tourist at least please, I mean I haven't been there yet.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, but you have 'friends' who know the prices in Britain ...

SEX DOMESTIC!

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a "Pav" in Trinity College in Dublin too. They let you buy 3 cans of shit beer for a fiver. Unlike my shit college bar where everything is full price and made under proper health standards.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Several of you have been to it. The Duke of York, sing its praises.

― Ed, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a bit like an independent All Bar one for my liking. Nice beer though and they let us move the table etc, but where were the nooks and crannies I demand of a pub?

Anna, I may not be talking to you anymore.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My nearest pub (and not that bloody near either) is a Jim Thompson's, which doesn't really count. My nearest kosher pub is, appealingly, called the Arab Boy, and it's oaky. And okay. It does have the football on, but then I don't have any friends who live in the immediate vicinity so I always end up watching it at home or travelling into Fulham or town.

When I lived in Royal Leamington S!P!A! I lived just next to the roughest two pubs in the world, or at least I imagine they were, I never went in them. One was called the Jet and Whittle, which was nice. I had to call the police once when I saw shaven headed young gentlemen loitering outside the Jet with an iron bar, drawing a swastika onto the corner shop.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Come with my to my nook, Thai bar girl, that I might have some fun with yours...."

― Tom, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But you wuv me really Chris. See how my delightful innocence melts your heart ...

Oh alright then.

D of Y - strange sepia tinted television.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can I plagiarise that one Tom?

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes "plagiarise". Of course.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anna, what was once Ice, indeed melted, unfortunately it's turned into slush.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ahh bless.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get a Cranny, you two!

― Tom, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If she's going to go round melting people I best try harder at removing her innocence.

What's that mushy pile of goo on the floor? Why if it isn't Cabbage. His days of sex tourism seem long gone. Instead it appears tidal motion has set in.

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I drive past the Arab Boy on an almost daily basis. Yet have never been in.

― dan, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I best try harder at removing her innocence

That has a terrible Tess of The D'Urbavilles ring to it.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*Twiddles moustaches*

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Go back to talking about pubs the lot of you.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't believe N. was comparing me to Tom Cruise in Risky Business, jesus you're the ones making pub threads into chances to flirt outrageously. Such a bad influence.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not like I do this often though Ronan, I would never be a candidate for the 1983 teen sex satire that is Risky Business

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm, closest to our house is probably Otra Parte, a tejano nightclub that bbqs during the day and always has big dodgy looking tourbuses in the parking lot at night. Whenever we drive by I joke about never getting to go there and Hank jokes about not wanting to get stabbed.

The next nearest after that is Ships, which is our favorite bar. Ships is little with one pool table and a great fucking jukebox (bob wills and lightin' hopkins). And it's next door to our fave restaurant, El Monterrey, so you can imagine we get a lot of use out of that particular block.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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lets go to the palm tree, garda

― cherry blossom, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:09 (fifteen years ago)

he's famous for this, and other weird tics, like he'll sometimes just not let a group in for no reason. he's one of those landlords that will sit and drink with you when you're the only 3 people left in the place till 3am, but barely recognise you the next time you come in. generally a nice bloke tho.

Is this The Sun we're talking about? I have a recent anecdote about a friend having to sit in the cubicle there for a good fifteen minutes while some other friends tried to negotiate some toilet paper for him from the manager, and apparently the manager wasn't making it at all easy to be obtained...

― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:30 (fifteen years ago)

haha no that's the palm.

cb i'm game for the palm anytime...apart from tonight or tomorrow, after that tho literally any day ever

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

palm tree manager sounds like the worst

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

longshot i know but is there any pub in london where you can play CHEESES (throwing a big cheese shaped wooden block at some bowling pins) like they do in the midlands.

― r|t|c, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

not helpful but i know a bar in detroit, usa where you can do that, but they call it feather bowling

― mizzell, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

freemasons arms in hampstead, though they call it "london skittles" of course: http://www.londonskittles.co.uk/

― joe, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

yeah soz i was about to say, i could've just googled it.

wow proper alleys! that kinda seems less fun than the drop-down midlands table tbh:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skittles_(sport)#Midlands

― r|t|c, Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

palm and palm tree next friday

― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 January 2011 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

oh no just palm tree not palm

― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 January 2011 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

BREAKING NEWS: the camel on globe road now sells punk ipa on draught. been there about 5 times since i found this out, which is about 5 times more than in the previous three years.

― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 March 2012 10:55 (fourteen years ago)

We just got a new local in a converted post office, it's pretty cool, snugs in old bank safes and stuff. Which is good because the actual closest local is fine for football watching but going in with girls feels like a complete no-no. It's basically all builders from what I can see.

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 18 March 2012 11:59 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Calling Chap: is the Dartmouth Arms any good?

― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:16 (thirteen years ago)

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