“Some food shows real flair”, at this popular Muswell Hill gastropub, which benefits from a “beautiful” outside area; it’s “expensive” though, and not everyone likes the reintroduction of the “garish” Kinks memorabilia to pep up the “uninspiring” modern interior.
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Press Reviews (2)
Rowan Moore (29th May 2008)
2/5 stars
The newspaper’s (architecture) critic visits the “blameless-looking pub [which] has the honour and the burden of being the place where the Kinks first played in 1960, and has now been made into a gastropub, with ubiquitous scrubbed oak and ex-school chairs, and biscuit-coloured paint”. He finds a “happy enough” crowd, but sadly “[o]nly one man, with loud shirt and long black rocker’s ringlets, evoked the Kinksian past”.
Jenni Muir (10th April 2008)
4/6 stars
The décor may be “bland”, but the critic finds almost everything else right at this Muswell Hill gastropub. Dishes are “largely well executed” and, “most importantly, everyone seems to have a terrific time”.
Rowan Moore (29th May 2008)
Jenni Muir (10th April 2008)
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