Thai & Co - Bar and Restaurant

A restaurant offering a delightful selection of more exotic cocktails, Thai & Co sits in the middle of one usually quite calm high street of North Finchley. Inside there is a bar to the left but eating an ddrinking is strictly for table servcie only where food is pushed […]

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The Bald Faced Stag

Where has this gastro pub gone? Only about an eighth of it is still a pub apparently - the rest is a platofmr restaurant - laid bare and sorry at the back of this establishment. The selection of drinks however is quite good and the vibe is relaxed but up-beat with a […]

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The Catcher in the Rye

This pub is a short stretch up the high street from Finchley Central Station and then suddenly it appears right at the side of the road. Apparently this pub has recently had a refit from a more traditional a shady image and now presents a couple of small tables outside with […]

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The 3 Oceans

From outside this looks like a giant advert on the side of a wall for what is inside. Inside the place is all about looks, there is a swank bar swept around a corner of a very well lit lounge. There are 70’s half cut shell chairs in leather around small impractical tables […]

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The Malt and Hops

A traditional pub with pool table, well stocked bar and very friendly bar staff, has a flavour of Barnet’s old Green Man in it with the small fluorescent signs on the bar highlighting the bottles on offer. At the back end is a dart board and the tables are assorted of the […]

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The Safari Club

Not impressed by the picture? Well with just some taxonomy on the back wall consisting of two antelopes and a reindeer and no trees in sight, this apparent themed bar-come-asian-restaurant feels more like some kind of social club with smoking outright banned from the small room itself, extraditing those smokers to a plastic […]

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The Joiners Arms
Approaching this pub in Finchley central one comes across a small beer garden out the front and instantly the booming voices of lads on the piss. Once past the bouncers and inside; you walk along a long shiny wooden wall and this breezes off to a bar on the left. On the right […]

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The 3 Horse shoes

Not the place for a stag do! I’ll say that much and I’d know I went here for just that-my stepdad’s Stag do. The place is basically a cosy pub nested on a semi-busy junction into London. It is made up of two room which arc around the bar and a secluded […]

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Finchley Golf Club Bar

Well to be fair there’s not much in the way of drinking around some of those country spots dotted around London so the odd golf club should do the trick when thirsty in the summer. This particularly grand venue plays host to some of the nicest holes in London but lets not […]

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The Central

Apr 2008 : The Central has now closed perminantly

You come through the doors of the place that looks like a sort of annexing from outside and very un-publike. The room opens up in front of you as a range of seating and a long bar to the right. Going to the bar I find […]

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