The Flask Pub (Highgate Village - London)

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February 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Flask Pub

Pleasant surprise; is one way to describe this rather well hidden yet large pub with all its character, pampered with young trendy folk with a big beer garden out front, heaters and a canopy. It’s quite hard to believe that something this big is just around the corner from the quiet village high street, but its there. Once journeying through the furniture outside and up to the main building, one finds the pub steps upwards onto a plateau, from where a bar sits with its back to the entrance wall, and beyond is a wooden room with lounge-like side-rooms and cabinets about the place displaying antiquities and trophies. The service is very fast and quite friendly. The selection behind the bar is intriguing, I pluck a Jamaican beer from the procession of bottles and thoroughly enjoy it.

Overall the Flask is a fun pub which draws a popular crowd, great in both winter and summer months with something for everybody - 7/10

Tags: Highgate and Archway

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1 Ella Connolly // Apr 13, 2009 at 8:19 pm

I agree with what is written above. The Flask is big and it has a sort of dark and cavernous interior in parts which lends itself to mystery and intrigue.

But…the food is a disaster. I arrived at 12pm, opening time, and the ideal time to order a Sunday roast without worrying that the kitchen had run out. Rib of beef was my choice, accompanied by green beans, carrots, roast and mashed potatoes and a yorkshire pudding. At £11.95 I was expecting something impressive. I couldn’t have been more disappointed. The beef was red raw, none of the fat had been trimmed off, the vegetables looked dead from too much cooking, and the yorkshire pudding was burnt in parts. I then made an another mistake of ordering pudding. Described as an “almond, pear and chocolate torte” it was more like a lump of sponge cake with no almonds, no pear, and about 5 chocolate sprinkles.

Do not go to this pub if you want a Sunday roast!!!