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ALEXANDRA BAR & EATING HOUSE

376 Seven Sisters Road, N4 2PQ

Formerly Hornsey Wood Tavern

Closed and boarded. Now demolished.

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Last update: 03/01/2008

ARSENAL TAVERN

175 Blackstock Road, N4 2JS

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Last update: 20/04/94

AULD TRIANGLE

52 St Thomas Road, N4 2QW

No real ale

Formerly Plimsoll Arms

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Last update: 28/11/2006

BEACONSFIELD

357 Green Lanes, N4 1DZ

Fuller's London Pride, Greene King IPA

Welcome installation of real ale.

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Last update: 19/04/2006

BLACKSTOCK

284 Seven Sisters Road, N4 2HY

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Last update: 06/02/92

BROWNSWOOD PARK TAVERN

271 Green Lanes, N4

Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Courage Directors, Fuller's London Pride

Attractive pub with a friendly atmosphere, added to by the large dog who lives there. Also serves quite nice Thai food. Main room has a large screen for various sporting events, but it manages not to dominate, even when in use. One room has a pool table, and they have a few tables out the back, in a flowery courtyard.

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Last update: 29/12/2006

CROUCH

39 Crouch Hill, N4

No Real Ale.

New bar in former shop unit. Reported as closed following the death of the owner.

Closed.

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Last update: 17/02/2007

FALTERING FULLBACK

19 Perth Road, N4 3HB

(0207) 272 5834

Mon - Thu 12.00 - 23.00 (00.00 Fri/Sat, 22.30 Sun)

Fuller's London Pride

'Local' pub that's always busy. Three small seating areas with two clustered around the bar and one to the side more like a private room with a friendly atmosphere enhanced by careful use of lighting. The side bar leads into a larger back room with picnic tables, pool table and a Thai kitchen at rear. Food is served 18.30 - 22.30. When you step out into the back you enter what at first seems like a small, ground floor walled garden but this quickly opens up to a series of higher level decking linked by stairs which probably doubles the overall area of the pub. Smoking permitted outside. It is hard to do justice in words so go to the pub's website which offers a virtual tour. The flowers are truly a tour de force both at the front of the pub and in the garden. In keeping with its name TV screens show football and rugby. The handpumps in the back bar are quite old but only those in the front seem to be used. Retains some old Courage insignia on the exterior.

Formerly Sir Walter Scott

website: www.falteringfullback.com

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Last update: 25/08/2010

FINSBURY

336 Green Lanes, N4 1BX

Fuller's London Pride, Greene King Abbot

Another pub to have had a refurbishment recently, just up from Manor House tube. It has been through many disguises in the past including the infamous Mr Q chain and usually majors on sports. It's now had a clean up and is darker and moodier than before. Even better, real ale has bveen installed but at a cost, Pride costing 3.20 a pint! No wonder it was rather empty.

Was Finsbury Park Hotel. Punch

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Last update: 12/06/2009

GARDEN LADDER

501 Green Lanes, N4 1AL

020 8348 8563

12.00 - 00.00 Sun to Thu, 01.00 Fri/Sat

Varies

A former Indian restaurant converted into a pleasant pub with no TV. Already has a Cask Marque accreditation. Serves an excellent food menu and is a welcome addition to Green Lanes. This is a true free house being run by Simon and Susanna Walters, who commented, “We have Directors on all the time with 1 or 2 guest ales, recently Adnams Broadside, Bombardier, Deuchars IPA, Paradise Ale, Coopers Butt, Spitfire, Pride of Pendle etc. We do not rotate but choose by customer request and personal experience from all that is available.”

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Last update: 20/06/2007

GASLIGHT

5 Station Place, N4 2DH

11-11

Greene King IPA

Formerly Muldoons.

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Last update: 28/04/2005

HAPPY MAN

89 Woodberry Grove, N4 2SB

No real ale

An Irish pub. Noted as now called HAPPY MAN, quite a big refurbishment and a lot brighter, assumed no real ale, couldn't see anything obvious through the windows.

formerly Bechers, then Blarney Stone

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Last update: 03/03/2008

JOHN'S REAL ALE (OFF LICENCE)

41 Quernmore Road, N4 4QP

Shutters have been up for several years now, though the sign remains.

Closed.

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Last update: 16/09/2002

KINGS HEAD

126 Blackstock Road, N4 2JW

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Last update: 07/09/94

LONDON SHELTON HOTEL

60 Wightman Road, N4 1RU

Formerly Railway. No longer a pub. Has recently been refurbished (to little external effect) and will have a 'tandoori restaurant'.

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Last update: 18/09/2002

MANOR HOUSE

316 Green Lanes, N4 1BX

Demolished and site cleared late 2004. Now shop units and residential development.

Closed.

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Last update: 23/05/2006

MEETING PLACE

17 Blackstock Road, N4 2JF

No longer a pub, just a small cafe.

Closed.

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Last update: 18/03/2003

N4

20 Fonthill Road, N4 3HU

11-11

No Real Ale

No handpumps, no real ale. Decor altered, but not much else.

Originally Duke of Edinburgh, then Red Rita's, now renamed N4

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Last update: 20/06/2009

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

6 Ferme Park Road, N4 4ED

(0208) 292 4170

11.00 - 23.00

Three rotating beers (Bass can be on more regularly)

The beer range can vary depending upon what the pub can source (on last visit in August 2010 it had Black Sheep Bitter, Spitfire and a beer from Brew Dog in Scotland). Usually busy with a second room mainly for games (darts, pool, bar billiards). A shop conversion (1989), like many Irish bars in North London, majoring on sporting events in an area under-served for pubs. Impressive fireplace and pleasant wood panelling. Outside drinking area at the back where smoking is permitted. CAMRA Members Discount of 10% - show your card. W3 bus links to Finsbury Park, stop is right outside the pub and from the back bar you can read the indicator showing the time the next bus is due. Sunday lunches. Privately owned by Henry Brewer Ltd.

website: www.nicholasnickleby.co.uk

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Last update: 25/08/2010

NOBLE

29 Crouch Hill, N4 4AP

020 7281 7444

Mon - Thu 17.00 - 23.00 (Fri 00.00), Sat 11.00 - 00.00, Sun tbc

Caledonian Deuchar's IPA + guest

This pub was taken over by the same people who run the Northgate (113 Southgate Rd) and is now a gastropub focussing more on food but at last with real ale on tap. A one-bar pub with a mixture of booths and tables (large and small). It was one of the original Marler bars and after that a succesful Tap & Spile.

Formerly The Flag, Racecourse, and Tap and Spile and latterly Big Fat Sofa

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Last update: 2o/06/2009

OAKDALE ARMS

283 Hermitage Road, N4 1NP

12-11; 12-10.30 Sun

Beer range varies - around 4 Milton brews + 2 guests

Pub reopened under ownership of Milton Brewery. Six or seven real ales including a mild and a stout available at all times. Also real cider always available. Small but interesting range of foreign beers. Pub is under threat from owners who wish to convert to residential use. This pub has a very pleasant atmostphere. This a large pub with two rooms and quiet ambiance - major football matches are shown in one room. Pool, darts and other pub games are available. It is the branch pub of the season for Autumn 2003 and its Pub of the Year for 2005. Holds regular beer and cider festivals.

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Last update: 19/04/2006

OLD ALE EMPORIUM

405 Green Lanes, N4 1EU

0208 348 6200

11.00 - 00.00 Mon - Thu (01.00 Fri/Sat), 12.00 - 00.00 Sun

Deuchars IPA, Fuller's London Pride plus two rotating guests

Small cornerhouse pub with mix of students and locals. Following a recent renovation this pub now has a lovely atmosphere. There is a heated covered area for smokers, a polished wood floor, nice furniture, celebrity photos on the wall and a jukebox with 5000 selections. The guest ales come from the cellarman's reserve catalogue. Erdinger weiss bier is also available.

Formerly Mortimer Arms.

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Last update: 10/03/2009

OLD DAIRY

1-3 Crouch Hill, N4 4AP

020 7263 3337

12.00 - 23.00 Mon - Sat; 12.00 - 22.30 Sun

Caledonian Deuchar's IPA, Harveys Sussex Bitter, Sharps Doom Bar.

Three changing real ales. The fifth pub to be acquired by Realpubs limited. Oddly enough the building was just that – Friern Manor Dairy Farm, established 1839, this building dates from 1889. With its crenallated exterior, minarets and large relief etchings extolling the virtues of the various processes in producing milk, it certainly presents an unusual sight. It’s received an impressive make-over and, with such a large space to work with, can successfully offer separate dining arrears without impinging upon the overall pub feel. It has the now standard mix of large tables and sofas, illuminated by table lamps plus candles and with huge picture windows either end. The atmosphere is added to by impressive chandeliers, exposed brick walls and ductwork with steel girders. There are lots of different areas to eat or drink - details of food and serving times are best obtained for their website.

website: www.realpubs.co.uk

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Last update: 22/08/2009

OLD SUFFOLK PUNCH

10 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, N4 1JX

Closed permanently as of Tuesday 18 Feb 2003.

Closed.

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Last update: 20/02/2003

OSBOURNE TAVERN

106 Stroud Green Road, N4 3EN

Has been Nando's Chickenland for several years.

Closed.

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Last update: 16/09/2002

PARK TAVERN

164 Tollington Park, N4 3AD

11-11

No Real Ale

Friendly, two room pub, much used by the Irish.

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Last update: 18/03/2003

RAILWAY

11 Wells Terrace, N4 3JU

No real ale

An interesting looking building from the outside built in traditional pub style, on a free-standing corner site and immediately opposite the Wells Terrace exit from Finsbury Park station, there's loads of wood panelling and a central bar with a strong ex-pat Irish feel - indeed an alternative name of O'Loideain's is used; a Gaelic name, which when Anglicized became Lydon, Lyden or Leyden. Why it is used here is not known. Despite the outside signage advertising cask beer, none is sold.

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Last update: 21/08/2010

ROBEY

240 Seven Sisters Road, N4 2HX

For a time run by the Mean Fiddler group, it then became a music club, it has now been gutted internally but the facade remains.

Formerly called the Sir George Robey and before that the Clarence Tavern

Closed.

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Last update: 16/02/2010

SALISBURY

1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, N4 1JX

020 8800 9617

17.00 - midnight Mon to Weds, 17.00 - 01.00am Thu, 15.00 - 02.00am Fri, 12.00 - 02.00am Sat, 12 - 23 Sun

Fuller's Discovery, London Pride, ESB, seasonal beers

Re-opened end Jan 2003 under new owners 'Remarkable Pubs'. Switched from selling Ridleys beers to Fullers. Well worth visiting for the magnificent Victorian architecture alone, the pub is listed on CAMRA's National Inventory of pub interiors of special historic interest.A selection of good food is available lunch and evening and there is a separate dining room. Later at night that room can feature DJs or occasional live music. Quiz Monday evenings. Hoegaarden, Leffe, Litover (two different) and Zubr lagers.

Was Charringtons, Bass until 2002.

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Last update: 09/01/2008

STAPLETON TAVERN

2-4 Crouch Hill, N4 4AU

(0207) 272 5395

Mon-Weds 16.00-23.00 (Thu 00.00, Fri 01.00), Sat 12.00-01.00 (Sun 22.30)

Greene King IPA, Abbot Ale.

Acquired by small pub company Antic in 2010 and seemingly likely to revert to a more traditional pub style, the pub was still undergoing building work in August 2010. Early indication is that the beer range will remain tied to Greene King but, as with all their other pubs, it is likely that there will be a strong food operation. Table football. When this establishment traded as the Stapleton Hall Tavern it was quite a famous live music venue. [The original Stapleton Hall Tavern was licensed in 1765 at the NW end of Stapleton Hall Rd., was sometimes known as The Green Man and became Stroud Green Conservative Club in 1888. The house has subsequently been converted to flats.]

Formerly Stapleton Hall Tavern, Danzibar (!) then The Larrik in 2001.

website: www.stapletontavern.com

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Last update: 20/08/2010

TWELVE PINS

263 Seven Sisters Road, N4 2DE

No real ale

A very Irish pub.

Formerly Finsbury Park Tavern

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Last update: 28/11/2006

WHITE LION OF MORTIMER

125-127 Stroud Green Road, N4 3PX

11-11 (10am for breakfast)

Courage Directors; Greene King IPA, Fuller's London Pride, Marston's Pedigree, four regularly changing guest beers, Westons Marcle Hill and either Old Rosie or Organic Vintage

One of the oldest Wetherspoon's pubs, established in 1986, converted from a car showroom. Not sure why the name was chosen, but it is heraldic, one of the "Queen's Beasts". It has changed substantially after a complete refurbishment about 10 years ago. Out with the central bars and leather settees; now it is just a jumble of spaces and a bar down one side.

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Last update: 10/03/2010

WORLDS END

21-23 Stroud Green Road, N4 3EF

Sun - Thu 12.00 - 23.30 (Fri/Sat 01.00)

Sharp's Doom Bar plus two rotating guests in winter, one in summer; Weston's First Quality Cider (summer only)

Just 2 minutes walk from the Wells Terrace side of Finsbury Park tube station. Consisting of many different areas, with a central bar and retaining a number of interesting features, especially the ceiling around the stage which is, once again, being used for its designed purpose - Thu (upbeat acoustic), Fri (Ska funk), Sat (band night), Sun (acoustic). and there's a poker night with an entrance fee on Monday night. When the stage is not in use a huge screen for sports drops down and there are numerous screens dotted around the pub which allows different sports to be shown that are advertised on a board outside. Short menu comprises pub standards old and new (burgers, sausages, fajitas, fish and chips) served 12.00 - 22.00 (except Mon - Weds when food service closes at some time between 15.00 and 18.00). Fantastic table football machine, £1 a game. Outside seating on Lennox Road. Bought by Capital Pub Company in May 2007.

Originally branded Rhythm & Hops

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Last update: 21/08/2010

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