Having said that, you could spend a pleasant-enough Sunday wandering up to nearby Crouch End, with its smart, clean shopping parade and clutch of cooler joints on Park Road (we particularly like the canine-friendly counter-dining at Heirloom).
But we digress. In fact we digress quite a long way. Because this series is all about watering holes within a bottle’s chuck of the useful Orange line.
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As you’d expect, the building once did what it’s name suggests: it was an, er, functioning creamery, and those activities of yore are commemorated in the “milking” murals on the outside walls.
Inside, meanwhile, it’s pretty damn spacious hangar, as you’d expect a Grade ІІ-listed building of this nature to be. Exposed brick walls, a barn-like main bar, and a more contemporary restaurant and private dining room all compete for punters’ tired arses.
We guzzled a hearty house red – it was a chilly day – but craft beer fans will make a beeline for the 5 cask conditioned real ales, or bottles, cans and draft from 20 different breweries. There are more than enough options for a skinful anyway, before you stagger the few steps back to the station for the short hop home.
Next time: Things hotten up as we hit Harringay Green Lanes.
7 thoughts on “Good Pubs on the Goblin: #3, The Old Dairy, Crouch Hill”
Big fan of both the Southampton Arms and the old dairy despite the fact that in the SA a very drunk old man tried to give me a table dance. (Am ex Kentish Town now relocated to Leyton).
kentishtowner HeirloomN8 Stapleton Tavern across the road is good too.
graham_hitchen HeirloomN8 Yes. As we say in the piece.
Harvey Griffiths, was it The Old Dairy that you said went through a cycle of being closed down, revamped, reopened and then closed down again every few years?
The Old Dairy is where Owen works. He used to be at the Stapleton, which used to change name every two years or so.
I used to live round the corner form these pubs before I moved to E11 with my other half -was roudnd that stomping ground yesterday -Jay Hoonjan this may interest you x
Leytonstoner next stop has to be TheSalisburyPub on Green Lanes – great beer choice, with a quick snack in Antepliler en-route!