North London drinks?

[Stig]

The Mucky Pup is an excellent pub, we go in there quite often.

Back to Finsbury Park area, the World's End is vastly improved, judging by the bad opinions I've heard of what it was like before. It has ale in it and everything.

I've never heard of the auld triangle. Someone tell me where it is please?

This one we're going to seems ok, though beer can be a bit dicey on occasion. But it was one of my earlier urban75 pub meet places. Fairly new to London, I remember thinking it was way up in the wild wastes of the north, now I have to go south to get there. citizen66 was there, possibly some others too but can't remember them, he was the loudest.

 

[Pickman's model]

i'd forgotten the world's end

never really liked it though

 

[Stig]

It's all polished woodwork and shiny handpumps now.

I bet they charge a fortune for tomato sauce in there.

 

[IC3D]

The Fallbacks a nice pub, best inside seating is in the bar area, the garden is quite big actually with a terrace sort of affair and great if its a sunny evening and The Worlds end and live music quite often plus real ales etc as has been said, I drink around Stroud Green and would be good to come along, although I'm fairly new it would be nice to meet some people from here. I've never been to the Auld Triangle must check it out. The Noble also takes dogs

 

[Pickman's model]

It's all polished woodwork and shiny handpumps now.

I bet they charge a fortune for tomato sauce in there.

they charge a fucking fortune for everything else

 

[pootle]

Enough of this sauce teasing - if the Fullback has a thai kitchen, I can't imagine they will have much in the way of ketchup/mayo/salad cream etc and surely they aren't going to charge for sweet chili sauce or thai green curry sauce?

We are going to the Fullback (as the first stop at any rate) and should there be any sauce charging outrage, we will leave in disgust.

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[5t3IIa]

where to?

the dairy's dear
the wetherspoons is dreary
12 pins (finsbury park tavern as was) is ok
never much liked the blackstock
no one can ever find the auld triangle (ex-plimsoll)
not a great fan of the gas light
the railway's a bit small
the edinburgh's utter shit
the park's quite nice but don't know if it's to everyone's taste

I used to spend a lot of time in the Bank of Friendship. We used to call it the Bogtrotter's Building Society becuase we thought we were funny. It has a nice big garden with lovely trees but that's all the good things I can say about it. Let's not go there.

 

[marty21]

vote thursday kids!!!

 

[Stig]

We are going to the Fullback (as the first stop at any rate) and should there be any sauce charging outrage, we will leave in disgust.

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Very well re-railed. An impressive feat.

 

[scifisam]

NOT Saturday 4th July. It's London Pride, so I'll be busy, and central London will be busy too - dfficult for buses. Besides, an awful lot of pubs nowadays seem to celebrate the day we got shot of the US. Might be extra difficult to get seats.

I vote for the Thursday because it's the only day that week I'm not already engaged.

 

[5t3IIa]

I don't vote for Thursday cuz it's a school night

 

[scifisam]

I don't vote for Thursday cuz it's a school night

So's Sunday. Saturday will be hella busy.

 

[marty21]

I don't vote for Thursday cuz it's a school night

wuss!

 

[Dr. Furface]

I voted for all 3 dates. I should be able to be there whichever date is set but wld slightly prefer Sat. I've only been to the FF once about 3 yrs ago - nice enough as I remember but nothing special. Tis a bit dire round there for pubs generally though.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Back to Finsbury Park area, the World's End is vastly improved, judging by the bad opinions I've heard of what it was like before. It has ale in it and everything.

Yeh it's makeover was a big success - and much needed. I used to meet a friend in there sometimes when it was the bad old World's End, but hadn't been there for a while. So I was going over there this time and didn't know it had been done up, and as I was walking there I realised I needed a quick visit to the lav as soon as I got there, and I was thinking 'oh bollox that's the last place I wanna have a crap!' coz the bogs were the worst, esp. the stink of them. I had no choice though. So it was one of the best surprises ever when I got there and found they'd done the place up and the toilets were all shiny and clean, with loo paper and locks on the doors and they even smelt nice too! Lovely.

Soz for the irrelevant derail!

 

[TitanSound]

I remember doing random jam nights at the Worlds End a few years back. It was a fucking dive and every time I was there some kind of trouble broke out.

 

[Onket]

wuss!

I hope that's not banter. Careful now Marty.

 

[marty21]

I hope that's not banter. Careful now Marty.

nowt wrong with a bit of banter

 

[Onket]

nowt wrong with a bit of banter

Well, you would have thought that, wouldn't you.

 

[marty21]

Well, you would have thought that, wouldn't you.

banter controversy !

 

[5t3IIa]

Stop that! The pair of you!

I retract what I said about school nights and am back to being 'easy'.

One thing though: Mart- is this near the 254/106 route?

 

[marty21]

Stop that! The pair of you!

I retract what I said about school nights and am back to being 'easy'.

One thing though: Mart- is this near the 254/106 route?

not too far, it's up the Stroud Green Road from Finsbury Park station and on a road on the right, 10 mins walk tops

 

[pootle]

Very well re-railed. An impressive feat.

Thankyouverymuch!

I'll let the poll run until sunday bedtime I reckon.

 

[Boycey]

i voted thurs, can do sunday too though, may just be a little worse for wear/falling asleep into a pint. the thousand yard stare straight through people from the internetz you've just met doesn't often give the best impression... though thinking about what happened when i first met pootle it ain't the worst that could happen

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I can do any of the dates...

 

[pootle]

though thinking about what happened when i first met pootle it ain't the worst that could happen

You said it was food poisoning/some sort of viral stomach bug, but I just reckon it was the excitement of meeting twisted kitten in the actual flesh







but yeah, if it does turn out to be the sunday, there may be one or two or three of us with the old thousand yard stare/falling asleep into a pint syndrome...

 

[pootle]

I remember doing random jam nights at the Worlds End a few years back. It was a fucking dive and every time I was there some kind of trouble broke out.

When I was younger and not living in London, I used to think Camden, and the Worlds End was the centre of the fucking universe. I was never happier than clutching a pint of Lowenbrau and playing the pinball machine

How are the toilet still such a disgrace today though?

 

[marty21]

I used to drink a lot on finsbury park in the early 90s when mates lived up there, I think the worlds end was about then, pubs in finsbury park were *slightly* different then

 

[IC3D]

When I was younger and not living in London, I used to think Camden, and the Worlds End was the centre of the fucking universe. I was never happier than clutching a pint of Lowenbrau and playing the pinball machine

How are the toilet still such a disgrace today though?

its a different Worlds End, I turned up to the one in Camden really nervous cos I was asked to compere a night only to be asked where I was cos as I should of been in Finsbury Park a much less intimiding place, it was the Camden crawl and I was wandering around bricking it

 

[Sunray]

I voted Sat but actually Sunday is going to be better I reckon.