The Prince, Stoke Newington

The Prince is one of the best-looking pubs in N16, hidden-away on a back street... The food is really tip top, and it's the big draw - I don't think it can really compare to the atmosphere of the old Stoke Tup/The Lion or the Shakespeare... but lunch (never cheap) is always of a very high quality. It's certainly in a different league from the Rose and Crown and the like.

This being Stoke Newington, there's always one table of awful parents who think it's fine to take Maisie, Olly and their six toddler friends to the pub for the whole afternoon and run riot, like a pre-school version of Lord of the Flies on speed. Can't they just all stick to the Three Crowns (the biggest creche in north London) and leave us in peace!? The Daniel Defoe is on to such a winner by banning kids. You know chaps, you can't have kids and expect to still have the same life you did before... (although apparently in N16, you can!).

15 Jan 2011 19:09