Northumberland Arms

Open til 1am, this is our go to place after The Alexander Flemming shuts down for the night (a little far away but we all skate so no big deal, right?). Normally busy and packed with people, it’s a good place to grab a drink or two before finally heading home for the evening. Prices are decent, haven’t tried the food and they aren’t too fussed about some sweaty skaters turning up and grabbing a few drinks late in the evening. It’s also just a short skate home from there to Camden, so anything that’s on the way home is already a thumbs up in by books.

Not a bad bar — quite small in side and a tad over priced but its open to 1am so always end up here wjen you don’t want the night to end. Always found the bat staff not very friendly here.

Corner pub on a busy London Road. Small selection of real ales on draught. Minimalist interior. Ok place to grab a pint on your way home from work I guess but not much else.

Feels very new and modern which is not what the outside suggests. Small beer selection but two real ales to choose from. Pint of hobby gobby for me!

Shocked to see the bad G**gle reviews, so here I am. Emerged on a Sunday night ravenous. Walked in and checked out the menu and selected the cheffiest burger in sight. Homemade steak burger with caramelised onions, bacon, mature cheddar, tomato, lettuce and mayonnaise. Came with a side of coleslaw and chunky flat chips in a mug. It came all served on a cheeseboard and it was a massive beaut.
Burger was sizeable — about a half pound I reckon. Buns were heavily studded with sesame and toasted on both sides and formed a perfect crunchy outer covering to the deep brown caramelised onions. Their sweetness was a counterpoint to the slab of back bacon under it. The burger was cooked medium rare and had a rosy centre and a crust, and was indeed hand-​pattied and not some frozen aberration. Under the cheddar was the usual veg, which I thought was an example of excellent burger construction — too frequently the veg comes on top, which causes the bottom bun to disintegrate too early.
I nearly had to dislocate my jaw to stuff it all in, but with some clever manoeuvring I chowed it all down. The ingredients are quality and — save for the few leaves of mayo-​greased lettuce that made a run for it from the back of my burger, the bun held up to the challenge and made every bite bliss.
The coleslaw was perfect and oniony in every bite, and the chips were just chips.
Some burgers are all about the patty, but this was a creation that was more than the sum of its parts. Pleasantly surprised for a tenner!

A nice pub with a good selection. The staff were ok (it was Friday night so they may have been a tad busy) and the seats are comfy.
Other than that it’s a fairly standard corner pub.

I walk past this place everyday on my way to and from work and it has never looked appealing to me so I had never gone in. However, last night as I waited (and waited, and waited!) for friends to meet me I popped in here for a bite to eat and a pint after work and was pleasantly surprised.
I completely agree with Aaron B below about the comfy and local feel, which is unusual for this area. The staff were super friendly and helpful and the Guinness was good.
I ordered a bacon & avocado sandwich was VERY impressed with it’s size and quality. The avacado was freshly cut, perfectly ribe and not at all brown. The bacon was thick and crispy, but not dry. And the seeded bread was incredibly soft and cut thickly. The sandwich came with mustard mayo, which was a little strong but tasty nevertheless and was accompanied by good chips.

A good solid pub that somehow manages to feel comfy and local in a particularly soulless (for pubs) area of London.
A good spot to meet up with people, it is just big enough for a medium sized group of you to start the evening, without being stark and too open plan.
The beer is well kept and they serve black sheep ale, (which I have a soft spot for as it is my local brew back up in Yorkshire).

Good, solid local, with the full range of J2Os and what looked to be a reasonable menu (both important to me — I don’t drink alcohol and I tend to go out for a quiet meal rather than a quiet drink). That said, this time I was out for a drink with a friend — the beer was apparently reasonably good, the atmosphere pleasant and conducive to kicking around for an hour or two.
Definitely somewhere to go back to — they’re open on a Sunday, which is a rarity round this bit of Fitzrovia — and it was a pleasant enough atmosphere. Very traditional sort of a pub, but this is considered a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

Standard jo average pub, which is deeply loved by it locals.
The best part about this place has to be its late license. after trooping around central London deeply disapointed that no pubs were open at 12pm on a saturday night, i somehow ended up here, and was happy to find it. They do some Karoke nights, and have a selection of rarer ales.
It’s nothing to rave about, and I probally wouldn’t come here again unless I was in the same situation but I got chatting to some of the locals and made some media contacts, which is always worth a pint or three.