The Junction Bar

Junction Bar is a fairly neat looking bar, set back from the road behind its own courtyard equipped with picnic tables and drinks with long wide steps leading down to the front entrance. Above the giant letters of the bar name calls to thirsty drinks who happen to be passing on the opposite [...]

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The Sugar Lounge Bar

A moroccan soft red-curtain interior makes the Sugar lounge appear out of place among the rotting fruit stands and cheap hair wholesalers of Stroud Green road. The sale is meze, “come and bring groups of friends” appears to be the message as we enter spotting perhaps two small crowds plunging hands into [...]

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Chapter One Bar

Chapter One bar looks relatively boring from the outside but unlike most one the strip this one has a rather grumpy looking bouncer outside but he lets us in with a smile and past a small entrance room we make our way past a second door into the body of the venue. There is a lot to look at; [...]

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Albert and Pearl Bar

Replacing the old Medicine bar in Upper Street the Albert and Pearl bar (weird name if you ask me) is more like a pub now than a bar yet with qwerty additions such a bulk shots for low prices and more obscure spirits. The clientele are of an odd assortment with the old [...]

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The White Lion of Mortimer

For a pub with no atmosphere the white swan is surprisingly busy.each table is occupied with some pretty tired looking  working class people looking like they are on their last legs. The service in this relatively small wetherspoons is friendly but the bar staff are incredibly slow joking amongst themselves as time [...]

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Pappagone Bar and Pizzeria

A loud bar restaurant combination with a  short wide loud very seriously acting little Greek host. He shows us to the bar, which we are capable of finding ourselves thank you and moves us every ten minutes to a place he would rather have us sat in.the loud Italian bar staff serve us [...]

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The Library Bar
This venue has changed hands more times that a jugglers balls. I am certain that I have reviewed it more than twice and each time it has a different name and the tiniest hint of a change to its interior staffing and theme. This time its called the library (because in the very [...]

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The Railway Pub

Sitting literally outside the back of finsbury park station is the railway pub and thank god, I was plenty thirsty. Half of the door were bolted shut so getting in wasn’t easy but when i finally hauled myself through the doors i found myself looking in the face of a middle aged lanky [...]

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The Kings Head Pub

Often have I walked past this staple in the diet of the islington drinker but waited some 5 years before going inside. I remember a time when one would pay to enter this pub due to its popularity but in hard economic times the entry in now free. Within is a well lit pub [...]

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Wax Jambu Bar

A dark bar filled with people, shoulder to shoulder. Filling every tiny table, sitting on couches and in tiny booths looked packed as sardines are the occupants,only revealed once you enter through the glass doors past bouncers and bag checkers. The wait for drinks is very slow, at a bar that sits at the [...]

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