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A great place got even better when they got green king IPA in on hand pump.A cracking pint,if ever there was one.
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Finally tried the food in here on Monday ,after admiring it for months.
I went for the Fish and Chips( a favourite of mine)
Superb, just like it use to be in most if not all Chip Shops(though not these days).Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Going to work my way through the menu now.........The full Breakfast ,you are on my list! Then the steak and ale pie ,i reckon
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I should like to note that the below reviewer Tottenham Sean was meant to meet me at the Springfield but he fell asleep meaning I had to make a solo visit. Impressively large open space in main bar and the refurbishment has been done tastefully and good beer selection. My only complain is that there seemed to be one or two patrons who perhaps had a few too many as they were blind drunk. At my local down in Kentish Town we can at least handle our drink.
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Judging by my typos in the below comment,it looks like i have just left the springfield!
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Love this pub.It has been totally refurbed nad is now clean and smart with Toilets that are actualy within the health guide lines :)
Whilst it is attracting a whole new range of people(you actually get girls in here now!!!)
The old loacls are still here and enjoying the "new" pub
I did have a few doubts when it reopened, but have none now.The barstaff are all bot h friendly and professional.haven't eaten in here but the food looks good,it has to be said
A great pub for all ...But still a local pub
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Well I've been in here a few times recently and its been totally refurbished and did it need it. New toilets are downstairs in part of the old cellar an extension has been built on the back including disabled toilets and its finished to a very high standard of decoration & restoration 100% better than before and its not been wreaked by the gastro brigade. Its serves good food & has three real Ales on tap was well also still has plenty of screens for showing sport things are look good lets hope they do well as they have certainly spent some wedge doing it up.
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Like others, I had mixed feelings about the refurb and was worried about it being run down a few months ago. The place did really need brightening up but in the back of my mind I kept fearing the dreaded word "Gastropub." Well I've popped in a few times now, think the place looks great, light and modern without losing the site of what it is, which is a great community pub with a good selection of well priced drinks that are well kept by the landlord, (unlike other boozers round this way that have gentrified themselves). Just goes to show you can give a place a lick of paint and a change of furniture without losing your character and identity. Mind you, as a previous reviewer said, the "Bar & Grill" sign outside and meals priced up to fifteen quid would suggest they are looking to attract customers from the Ranelagh and that poncey cafe bar down the road. I only have one thing to say - don't do it! Remember who you are and who your customers are and with this revamp you aren't going to go far wrong!
Happy days!
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Regardingt he refurb, this pub actually looks like somewhere you'd want to drink now, although whether it actually is, is yet to be seen.
Also, with 'Bar and Grill' emblazoned on the front of the building in gold lettering, one might think they're doing their best to attract patrons from The Ranelagh rather than convincing people to stay or return to what was once their local.
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Well past today and noticed its closed and in the process of being totally refurbished and did it need it. The temporary wall at back I thought was permanent has now gone and things are looking good. Lets see what its like when its finished. I will update later.
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I've been drinking in this Pub regularly since 1975 over the years its changed from having a central bar and being a real good Pub to now just being about a quarter of its size and being right run down. Only one small front part of the pub remains what used to be the front bar. It now just don't have the same atmosphere it had before it now feels very threatening and a lot of the old trouble makers which were banned have creped back in. Its as though its being deliberately run down for closure. Toilets are now downstairs in what was part of the original cellar totally inaccessible to disabled but the rest of the pub has now been bulldozed and is now flats even the upstairs rooms and back part so It would not surprise me if the rest follows very soon. Do not think I will be back until it improves if it ever does before closing.
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My local, and i love it.But..............
I know a refurb is going on and things are not going to be the quite right for a while.But is this an excuse to have one person behind the ramp on a Friday evening? .The Guinness went, and the por love didnt know how to change it ,so we were waiting nigh on half an hour to get a pint.Coupled with the toilets being as described by "Ales only" a lot of the old regulars seem to be giving this place a swerve.Its a shame and something i only hope is temporary.
I do feel the owners could have done a better better with the toilets situation(again, i agree with ales only).I also notice a lot of the undesirables that the last manger did well to rid the pub of are creeping back.Oh well.
Lets hope it returns to being the best local for miles.Time will tell
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Been drinking in this boozer years but it seems to have lost half the pub at present only the small front part remains with no proper toilets just one little cubical its not good in a busy pub full of beer drinkers have to queue for a slash they need a couple of portaloos outside. I do hope this is only temporary as they appear to be turning the rest into flats. lets hope there going to extend the back part and build some new facility's.
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I am not a fan of kareoke in the slightest,but was pleasently surprised with one of the singers i saw here last Saturday(6th Oct).
Why this fella(Elvis O'Toole i think his name is) hasn't been signed up is a mystery that only God can answer.I have never seen such raw vocal talent in all my gig going days.He stunned the crowd into silence with his own unique versions of a variety of all time classics.It is wildly accepted thyat rock legends UFO are the biggest name musically ever to come out of Bounds Green,but i feel in Elvis O'toole we have someone who will make them seem small fry by comaparison.
Simon Cowell get your finger out!!!!!!!!
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A great local Pub.A real centre pin of the Working Class community of Bounds Green(the middle class wannabes have their "local" up the road).
Just last night the barman commented what a good mix of people the pub attracts,predominantly English and Irish, but a good overall mix. It has the feel of a club to it in that most are friendly and on at least nodding terms with each other.Not that this makes it unfriendly to new comers, far from it.
Local pubs like this should be cherished as they are disappearing fast.Once gone, they are gone.You can't recreate something after you have allowed it to go.
If anything ever happened to this pub a large chunk of the Village feeling that makes this small area of Harringey so special will lost to memory.
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Just Too address a previous comment by ccfc 10
The Only time there is Loud unavoidable noise is on a Saturday night's when the karaoke is on it gets loads of non drinkers screeching there Lungs off on the karaoke then and Ive never seen them told too buy a drink if you avoid it then like most regular drinkers do its a good old boozer a bit run down but its ok.
I often use this Pub during the week and have done for well over 30 Years but I would not use at weekends when the Karaoke is on as I don't like that racket and I'm a bit too Old for Karaoke. Other times its a nice old fashioned Pub that showing all sports like Football Horse Racing Darts Etc. The grubs also very good but cheap like Pie & chips around �3 cant be bad. Also Beer prices are as cheap or cheaper then any other Pub locally. Theres a Pool Table & Dart Board as well as plenty of TV Screens too watch the Footy. All in all its a good boozer like anything else you go in when you like whats on if you don't like it you go elsewhere why complain
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I'm all for traditional boozers (No. 1 favourite - the Harringay) so sorry to strike a discordant note here - but this is a depressing estate pub and the domestic squalor on view at the weekends will make you lose the will to live
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Not a bad place. Been in a few times. It's big has got a pool table and is pretty good for watching sport. It is bit grotty though! Pleasant enough and has welcomed smokers with open arms in the back garden with a TV and patio heaters.
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Not bad. Was in there one night and it sounded like World War 3 had broken out upstairs, turns out they were doing Irish dancing up there??!!!
Not bad, they show football which is a bonus.
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very nice local.I have only ate in it once but the food is nice. very good for watching football. guinness is fairly good. I mostly drink in the pub at weekends.
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