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Was in the other night tried two really good guest ales and the staff couldn't have been more efficient or freindly!
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I found this pub to be pretty average at best. It IS typical Wetherspoons despite what anyone else here says. In terms of it "not being the best pub in North London", that's a bit of an understatement. It's not the best pub in N8, it's not the best on Turnpike Lane!
Beer not very good, stick to bottled. Landlord and barstaff not overly friendly either.
Keep walking...
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Ringo_Piece - you need to get out more. The Tollgate is not the best pub in North London, but it's certainly not the worst. You get a great range of clientele in here most nights. The beer is almost always well kept and the bar staff aren't bad at all. Give it another try.
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Have to be honest - it's got better. Think smoking ban helped (controversial to say I know!). Staff much improved in past six months. Punters are the usual strange mix but its cheap and cheerful - there are far worse places.
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I must say this is about one of the only Wetherspoons left in North London I know thats still good. Has very good Staff Polite & well run. The Ales are always spot on when I go in here and Ive never had a bad Pint. I only ever go here in daytimes or early evenings on my way home but its always been OK and welcoming.
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I've always been prepared to stick up for this place, but tonight the toliets were disgusting. They need to do something about this soon!
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The last couple of times I have visited the Tollgate they seem to have solved their pump clip problem (see my complaint of 8-May). Or maybe I have just been lucky.
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This is a decent Weatherspoons, mixed crowd, mostly decent staff and a good range of beer well kept. It's not the poshest pub you'll ever find but it does wjhat it says on the tin!
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Seems like quite a decent place (perhaps in contrast to other Wetherspoons I've visited in recent memory), when we visited it was quite clean, and the drinks were in good shape.
However, it's inexcusable to leave pump clips on display when the ales are not actually available. We tried to order two of the ales on offer; the barman knew they were off, yet left the clips on display. How hard can it be to remove a clip?
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Still a better than average Spoons, but could do with a bit of a clean out.
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This pub is good. I've been there several times as I live in the area. The thing I like about it most is that it has a huge non-smoking area so I can eat my (wonderful, huge, cheap) Sunday roast without choking on someone else's bid for cancer. The staff are always exceptionally friendly and helpful - we had a couple of smokers sitting in the non smoking bit last week, using as their excuse "well we couldn't find anywhere else to sit". They were given very short shrift!
The food is always good, and arrives fast. Even the steak gets cooked the way you ask for it, hurrah!
My husband likes the beer, I like the fact that the wine is at the right temperature whatever colour it is. The deals are good too, burger and a drink £3.99, two mains for £5.49 or Sunday lunch and a pudding for £7.99.
The loo's are usually clean but there is one that has a bit of a flooding problem. Sometimes when it's busy the tables don't get cleaned as fast as they might but that's the same in any pub.
There's even a bookshelf which we happily raid when we are trying to digest another vast dinner by the fireplace.
Can't fault it. Thanks guys. I hate pubs usually becuse of the smoke, so the fact that I like coming to this one week after week is down to the great staff and well enforced non-smoking area. My husband is very grateful too!!!
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This use to be my favourite wetherspoons pub in the world.A night in here , then off to the queens for a late one and music.Was always a decent pint and atmosphere.Has gone down abit since then.Not the worst pub in the area, but certainly not the best
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Have to say this is possibly the grubbiest Wetherspoons I have ever been in. Dirty glasses, manky toilets, staff not fussed at all - but then looking at the state of most of the customers I understand their apathy. Stay home with something from the local off licence.
celt7 - 29 Oct 2006 20:15 |
Pretty much the boggiest of bog standard Wetherspoon's you'll ever see.
Usual cheap prices, variety of beers, indifferent service et al. Slightly tattier environmant than some and a more varied mix of people distinguish it from any dozen other such pubs.
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It is a nice big wetherspoon's pub. The usual.
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For a wetherspoons it's not too bad. They have speciality beers on most of the time, a good selection of real ales (including some class cornish ones) and the bar staff are very efficient. You can more often that not find a spot away from the usual crowd that gathers at any pub that has cheap drinks and enjoy the rest of your time there.
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There are far worse pubs than this in the JD Wetherspoon chain. The thing to do here is to go right to the back, past all the usual JDW lowlife who congregate at the front: do this and you'll find the place is actually fairly quiet and, for a JDW, clean.
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I went to Hornsey last week intending to do a bit of a crawl and check out a group of pubs in the area. I ended up enjoying the Tollgate enough that I took up residence there for several rounds and most of the evening. A friendly atmosphere, a nice list of guest ales (even if half of them were the same Fuller's line that can be found a every second pub in the city) at a really good price, and a knowledgeable barman eager to talk about the different beers on offer. Overall, a place I wish were nearer by...
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Once again a typical Wetherspoon's but this one does have plenty going for it. Namely a monthly beer festival (this October it is Red Squirrel) that is both good and cheap. Other than that, exactly what you would expect.
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Had my bag stolen in here on Thursday 28th April. According to the police, it's notorious for it! Happens all the time apparently! They could have put some notices up warning customers about this - the Wetherspoon's at the top of Wood Green has exactly the same problems. All the pubs in Wood Green have gone down the pan in the last 5 years. I'll have to move I think......
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Interesting conversations with real characters, and a lovely front garden.
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Fairly typical Wetherspoon's pub - takes ages to get served, food takes ages to arrive and isn't always properly cooked. I returned a beanburger that had been deep fried from frozen and was still cool in the middle - "they" weren't happy - ha!
Clientele - mostly broken down alcoholics who will always get served first as they SHOUT their orders at the barstaff - never mind the fact that you've just stood there for 10 minutes wondering if you're invisible....
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