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Has re-opened, does Theakston's cask real ale. Does Thai food.
31 Jul 2013 17:44
Has won CAMRA Greater London Cider Pub of the Year.
The below nicely sums it up:
'Another beer-focused modern makeover of a forgotten and decaying local, this place reopened in June 2010 but seems to have slipped under the radar of many of the capital’s beer hunters, perhaps because while pursuing quality and a warm welcome it’s gone for a more accessible and less geeky approach than some.'
31 Jul 2013 17:13
In-house brewery installed, and first batch available sometime soon.
Won CAMRA London Cider Pub of the Year, 2013.
19 Jun 2013 16:54
Now brewing beers in-house on a reclaimed Northern Federation Brewery plant.
3 Jun 2013 17:33
The Warrant Officer, Walthamstow
WILD CARD BREWERY presently based on the same industrial estate as Brupond Brewery has recently taken over this pub. A beer festival to follow in June; and another in June to mark Walthamstow Street Food Festival.
Hope to do limited brewing there in due course.
29 May 2013 13:10
The Windsor Castle, Lower Clapton
RECENTLY REFURBISHED AS A specialist real-ale and craft-ale pub.
Refurbished. New all round.
29 May 2013 11:57
The in-house brewery has been fitted (finally), and should be fabrication ales soon. Round the corner from the Wenlock Arms.
29 May 2013 11:56
The Wenlock Arms is due to re-open in the late after-noon of Monday the 3rd. of June, 2013.
22 May 2013 16:22
Re-opening at 1.00 p.m. on the 28th. of November, 2012. By all accounts: a comprehensive refurbishment, and~best of all~will have its own in-house brewery, the BARNET BREWERY.
Official opening by Roger Protz.
20 Nov 2012 13:37
Does anyone have any substantiated knowledge of what the future holds for this pub as it is indeed the only real pub left not just in Colindale but in the whole N.W.9 postal-code area?
4 May 2012 15:05
Went in yesterday to see it on its first new day, and was pleased.
The Wenlock Arms is exactly the same....!!!EXACTLY!!!: ambience, aesthetics, prices, range (better, even), live-music offer. Just a hand-over of front-door key.
Good news: the new owners include the boss of The Queens Head, King's Cross~a great pub with a good attitude.
They expect to do the refurb around January, 2013~of course, could be earlier or later.
Normal service resumed for now.
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Bring back the brass plaque.
11 Apr 2012 12:27
Turns out that there is another pub called the Wenlock Arms:
73 Main Street, Weldrake, York YO19 6AA
8 Apr 2012 14:32
Have received verification: it is, indeed, re-opening on Tuesday the 10th. of April, 2012.
6 Apr 2012 13:46
The word was that the Wenlock's last day under its current regime is the 5th. of April, 2012, but one of the senior guys said 31st. of March, 2012. Many people whether still fans or ex-fans might still like to wave a final good-bye.
16 Mar 2012 16:04
This pub is 100%, unequivocably fully contained within Colindale; it is not in Hendon at all.
14 Feb 2012 12:06
The Craft Beer Co, City of London
That elephant has very much been seen by me, and commented upon in earlier reviews. Beer selection=utterly superb; but prices are ridiculous.
30 Jan 2012 12:54
The Pakenham Arms, Clerkenwell
Having a rotating selection of a dozen Christmas ales, finishing on Sunday~worth a look at the range whilst you can: it does no promotion or marketing or advertising; no one knows that it's there, so enjoy the range before it reverts to a normal-selection pub due to its not informing people of its existence.
16 Dec 2011 09:55
The Pakenham Arms, Clerkenwell
Plus real ciders. The pub really needs to advertise: it's offering something good, but not making the fact known.
11 Dec 2011 14:38
Olga,
'Strange that so many people complain about the prices, yet seem happy to hand over �4 for a bottle of Peroni in most bars these days.';
how do you know that the people who have posted reviews on here complaining about the prices are people who are happy to pay �4.00 for a bottle of Peroni? Did any of the price-complaint reviews say or infer that doing so is to the reviewers inclination?
You've just grabbed that remark out of the air.
3 Nov 2011 13:53
The Pakenham Arms, Clerkenwell
Has recently fitted loads of hand-pumps, and now sells eleven cask ales.
21 Sep 2011 00:55
The Craft Beer Co, City of London
What the fella below, and others say about the beer range is utterly true; I wouldn't contest that whatsoever. It by a million miles times a million light years has the best beer range in the whole of Greater London; it by a million miles times a million light years has the best beer range in the whole of the United Kingdom~nothing even comes close. However~heresy, oh, heresy; will my fellow specialist-beer enthuasiasts prey for me to be struck by lightening................there's more to a pub than beer.
A pub's having a great beer selection, and a pub's being a good pub are not arbitrarily mutually inclusive. Having a great beer selection does not automatically make a place a good pub; not having a good beer selection doesn't automatically make ab pub a bad pub. The two things can stand alone.
A pub has two aspects to its offer: 1) its product range; 2) its intangiable aspects: ambience, aesthetics, comfort level, atmosphere, etc. A pub can excel in both aspects; a pub can excel in aspect 1) only; a pub can excel in aspect 2) only. Sometimes beer enthuasiasts (I'm one, too) can be blinded by choice, and can't see the overall pub.
This has a great beer selection, but is not a great pub; I specifically say 'is not a great pub', not: 'is not a great establishment'.
The beer selection is superb~utterly so~but take away the beer, and it isn't a great place to spend time in. Excellent beer, but the overall pub experience isn't great.
22 Aug 2011 14:04
With regards to the below review: I was in there today, and it had three real ales.
14 Aug 2011 23:16
The Craft Beer Co, City of London
Chumley,
At no point in my posting did I say that I would prefer to drink in Wetherspoon's; please, qoute the part of my posting which said that I would prefer to drink in Wetherspoons; at no pont in my popsting did I even imply that I would prefer to drink in Wetherspoon's. Re-read my posting, and you'll see that I was merely commentating on the lazy practice employed by a lot of users on BITE of avoiding addressing concerns in a person's post regarding their feelings that a pub is over-priced and/or pretentious or such like, by giving a go-to-Wetherspoon's-type retort rather than actually actually giving a reasoned response.
Again, please, tell me where in my posting that I said or implied that I would prefer to go to Wetherspoon's than to go to The Craft Beer Co.
30 Jul 2011 14:05
The Craft Beer Co, City of London
In a review for another pub pkrp arrogantly says: 'I just don't understand why people post aimless and gormless comments like "this pub has gone downhill". In what way? If you inform the owners, they might do something about it (presuming there IS an issue). '; but in an earlier review for a pub put:
'Typical insular 'end of the road' pub that fails on so many levels. Go to the Ferry Inn instead - this place is a joke and needs to up its game. The crisps were nice though (I'm being sarcastic).'; you'll notice that he doesn't make any mention of what these things are which it fails on; he doesn't give any explanation of why it's a joke; he doesn't suggest what it needs to do to up it's game. This chap says one thing; does another.
Read through this person's reviews, and you'll see that he is very snobbish: it's no surprise that such a seemingly-snobbish person adores such a snobbish pub. (I'm not oppossed to this pub; I very much support its existence~it's giving real beer a much-needed high profile; but's let's not pretend that it isn't a snobbish place).
That cliche of attacking anyone who makes (often very valid) remarks about excessive prices of a pub, and/or its pretentiousness or such like with the go-to-Wetherspoon's/join-the-pikeys-at-Wetherspoons/enjoy-your-�1.20-Ruddles-at-Wetherspoon's/perhaps-you'll-prefer-your-local-Wetherspoon's, etc.-type retort is a tired, lazy, cliched retort.
30 Jul 2011 10:38
The Craft Beer Co, City of London
It's just bloody expensive~arbitrarily expensive; the management has clearly set prices high as a policy decision rather than each beer's price is decided upon as a wholly-self-contained decision based solely upon the costs involved in the beer's aquisition; evidence can be seen in the pricing of keg locally-produced beers as opposed to cask non-locally-produced beers, a specific case of this is the price per pint of keg Kernal. Kernal is made five or six miles down the road in South London: none of the it's-had-to-be-special-arrangement-imported-in-small-quantities-from-a-tiny-brewhouse-nestled amongst-the-fjords-of-Norway-and-here-it-is-now-for-you-in-the-heart-of-London marketing rhetoric applies. It's standard practice at the modern breed of specialst beer pub to arbitrarily charge really-high prices for keg speciality beers.
There's a touch of 'The Emporer's New Clothes' about the prices. Obviously, alot of the beers here need to cost more, and not just a touch more~I get what's involved; it's a matter of how much more. There's a point after which paying a premium for quality becomes being over-charged.
I'd expect to pay more for half-a-dozen free-range eggs from a farmers' market than Tesco Value battery-farmed eggs, and have no issue with that~but I wouldn't pay �9.00 for those eggs.
20 Jul 2011 00:46
The Craft Beer Co, City of London
This establishment has by far and away the best selection of beers~cask, bottle and keg in the whole of the United Kingdom: end of story; on that account~exceptional...wow; but the prices are uber-expensive. The prices are way, way overly-priced: I say that unequivocally.
Don't respond with the unnecessary and uncalled-for typical go-drink-your99p-Ruddles-with-the-pikeys-at-Wetherpoon's-type insults: I totally and utterly grasp the concept of you-get-what-you-pay-for/quaity costs. I'm not ill-informed/naive/cheap/not interested in quality (I certainly am, and not a lowest-common-denominater drinker), and I get it: something which is all of these things: strong ABV, from a small company, not a mass-producer; made in small or smallish batches, had to be imported into the country... will obviously cost more money; the issue isn't that they cost more money, the issue is how much more.
Some of the cask beers cost more than you'd be charged for the selfsame beer elsewhere~even in the posher City pubs, or in the heart of the West End, but it's within tolerance levels: you'd think a quick 'oww-ahh' to yourself, but then be: 'oh, well, not to worry', and carry on; whereas, all of the other beers are out-and-out overly-charged for. I get economies of scale, and am an experienced speciality-beer drinker, so recognise the difference of what's on offer, and what's involved, but this is just expensive~in some cases, prohibitively expensive.
I'd expect beers of this sort to cost more; and I'd expect prices in general to be higher at a trendy/fairly-up-market pub/middle-class-character pub, as oppossed to a boozer, but it's the extent.
You expect to be charged a premium for quality, and rightly so; but there's a certain point at which paying more for quality becomes over-charging.
I'll happily pay more for quality, but not over the odds for quality.
10 Jul 2011 22:34
The Southampton Arms, Gospel Oak
Site moderators, where are you. For months no new pubs reported by me have been added; no against-policy, etc., reviews reported have been removed. Other than a pub owner paying to use the site has anyone had anything done by the site in recent months?
6 Jun 2011 23:17
This isn't a review for this pub; it's a request that the World Wildlife Fund lobbies the United Nations to declare Beer in the Evening moderators, and e-mail readers-and-responders an endangered species: there has been no sign of life from them for months, so clearly they are few in numbers, and close to species extinction~that is assuming that they haven't yet gone the way of the dodo.
26 Apr 2011 15:50
This isn't a review for this pub; it's a request that the World Wildlife Fund lobbies the United Nations to declare Beer in the Evening moderators, and e-mail readersr-and-responders an endangered species: there has been no sign of life from them for months, so clearly they are few in numbers, and close to species extinction~that is assuming that they haven't yet gone the way of the dodo.
26 Apr 2011 15:49
This oft-used line: 'What happened to the customer is always right', or similar always amuses me. It isn't the case that the customer is always right simply because an expression exists 'The customer is always right'.
I'm about to invent an expression: 'Ten-year-old black cats are apples'; an expression now exists 'Ten-year-old black cats are apples' so it is an inherent, universal, unequivocable fact that ten-year-old black cats are apples.
The person who is right is right. If a business wishes to operate an arbitrary, no-matter-what the-customer-is-always-right policy, that is its choice, but not its obligation.
23 Mar 2011 01:02
It is having a twenty-ale beer festival on the 26th. of April to 28th. of April, to mark the wedding of the pub's cat...I'm not kidding.
6 Mar 2011 19:52
It is open once again.
If in the area, a visit to the Rose and Crown, in the adjacent hamlet of Trowley Bottom, is well recommended; it's one of those should-see-it-once places.
HERTFORDSHIRE - Trowley Bottom, Rose & Crown
East Anglian Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors
, Trowley Bottom, AL3 8DP
(Near Flamstead)
Tel: 01582 840564
Opening Hours: Mon to Fri 5.30 to 11; Sat, Sun 8.30 to 11
Draught Beer & Cider: Real Ales
Pub Food: No food
Listed Status: Grade II
A rural gem of a pub which time has passed-by. The sheer minuteness of this pub makes it a significant survival. There is a small public and a minuscule lounge � the door between them has been removed but the opening has not been enlarged. The copious veneered panelling; bar counter on the left; bar back shelves and the brick fireplace all look to date from the 1950s. Mrs Wilding is in her 80s and very frail so the pub is run by a band of locals / friends. As a result, it has rather limited opening hours, best to ring first to check.
6 Mar 2011 17:33
Closes on the 28th. of March. It will be refurbished, and will open as a steak-house pub.
2 Mar 2011 21:56
The Duke of Hamilton, Hampstead
Re-opened on the 1st. of March, 2011. Sister-pub to THE BARNSBURY, Barnsbury, N.1, with both under the ownership of THE THREE BOOZERS LTD. A mild and very-sympathetic internal and external refurbishment, with much of the original features retained. It now has a permanent hot-food offering, but this does not dominate. Six hand-pumps; five micro-brewery and smaller-family-brewer cask ales. The cellar bar has been brought into general usage.
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The re-launched Duke of Hamilton is way better than I had feared. Woody's will always be Woody's~we'll miss him, but whether you like it or not, things move on.
When I walked up the steps, and opened the door I didn't know what would confront me, but it was OK: no uniformed or black-trousers-white-shirt/black-skirt-white-blouse, etc staff; some familiar faces, including some staff; food now on offer, but not dominant; five interesting cask ales. Time will tell how things will pan out, but cautiously optimistic.
2 Mar 2011 20:50
I have no aquantance with the management so shan't add to these obviously-planted comments.
20 Oct 2010 13:38
The fact that he was fast asleep is irrelevant. Are you a soothsayer who can look into the future, and guarantee that your baby won't wake up a few minutes later?
20 Oct 2010 12:34
The Malt and Hops, North Finchley
I like the pub itself; it's on the main road, but I'd call it a backstreet boozer. It's a proper pub-pub~unmessed-around-with, and just as a pub should be
B U T.......................
my [add expletive of your choice]; the pints are expensive. Even in the trendy, up-market. full-of-the-beautiful-people pubs in the area an ale isn't that costly. I've become immune to being charged huge prices for a pint in London and surrounding area; and am not naive nor ignorant~I appreciate the double-whammy which the pub and brewing trades have encountered: the Credit Crunch, which has meant that most businesses have had to put up prices, but on top of that the punitive duty increases which the Government has specifically targeted at beer; then you have the ridiculously-high rents which PubCos impose; nevertheless, notwithstanding that these prices are high. There is no qualification to the high prices: they are just high.
20 Oct 2010 10:56
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19 Oct 2010 14:28
ok, point made; please, now stop glogging up the site for users.
15 Oct 2010 14:59
People love a conspiracy, but their is no conspiracy here; the reasons are mundane. The rumours that the Wenlock would be closing surfaced a very long time ago, and pre-date the rumours that the DoH might be closing. The date for a branch of CAMRA to submit its draft list of 'Good Beer Guide' entries was before the DoH rumours reached the local branch. It is a draft list, not a full-and-final list, so after submission a reasonably-long period of time passes before the submitting branch has to either confirm its draft list, or make changes to it. Between the date of submission of the draft list, and the date that the branch had to give its final confirmation of its GBG listings Camden Council told the freeholder of the DoH that it is likely to refuse the planning-application, and the freeholder withdrew the application; whereas the state-of-play with regards to the Wenlock has not changed as far as the North London branch of CAMRA is aware.
No conspiracy; no scandal, just a matter of dates when information was passed on.
13 Oct 2010 15:59
Pub has re-opened (it closed in October, 2009, after a fire).
8 Oct 2010 14:05
Recently been added to the National Inventory of Pubs of Historic Interest.
Exceptionally good.
8 Oct 2010 12:16
The Orange Tree, Winchmore Hill
Regarding the below comment, Southgate Tube station is actually a very-short bus-ride away (take the W6 or the 125 from the station). Southgate has a Wetherspoons, a very-.good one called New Crown.
7 Oct 2010 15:07
This pub can now be as loved as I've always wanted to love it. It was (almost) my perfect urban pub; alas, it is a Greene King tied house. It now has a well-established policy of having two guest beers; these are genuine guest beers, and frequently change.
New Barnet isn't so great, but The Builders is. Combine this with a visit to the very-good Ye Olde Mitre Inn JUST up the hill in Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5.
7 Oct 2010 14:24
The Orange Tree, Winchmore Hill
This pub is now doing a rotating-genuine-guest-ale policy; usually two, but a minimum of one, and, as said, genuine guests, not ones from Greene King's aquisitions. The selection of guests changes fortnightly. The guest ales and GK IPA are (at the time of writting) only �2.00 per pint all day on Mondays (excluding Bank Holidays).
The pub isn't nor ever has been a Greene King tied house, just does those beers.
Even though in a random (and Tube-less outer suburb) it is well worth a visit regardless of where you are in London; one of those days when you think: 'Hey, I've not nowt on why not just go to random nice-sounding in some random area that BITE threws up'. Combine the random trip with a visit to the 'Good Beer Guide' regular Dog and Duck, Winchmore Hill, London, N.21 (12 minutes' walk), and a visit to (very short bus-ride) the Regional Inventorary-listed The Wonder, Enfield Town, Middlesex......try on a week-end-evening for the old-time music; this has a Wetherspoon's, Moon Under Water, nearby for a cheap lunch-stop and/or a rounding-off of the day. One extra which could be thrown into the mix is The Beehive, Lower Edmonton, N.9
7 Oct 2010 14:13
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The Crooked Billet, Clapton
RECENTLY REFURBISHED AS A specialist real-ale and craft-ale pub.
Refurbished. New all round.
Some original locals remain as it has managed to achieve a balance in the refurbishment.
16 Aug 2013 13:03