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Fantastic pub! Very quiet during the week, but friday, saturday and sunday nights are always busy. The bar staff are very friendly, there is a great mix of customers (including some celebrities..), and the beer is of great quality, even though the selection is small.
However, the piece de resistance is the food. Tapas midweek is superb, but the Sunday roast is absolutely incredible. I now hit the place every sunday without fail as the roast is as good as anything you could cook at home. And the helpings are as large as need be! 10/10!!
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Remains a welcoming, traditional pub. Unexciting ale range but all well-kept and a sufficient range of other options to drink. Pleasant garden and decent seating area outside - and a mix of clientele who don't bray as much as those in some other local establishments.
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One of the few remaining pubs in Highgate with a traditional atmosphere, now that the Victoria and the Red Lion and Sun have 'gone modern'. Only one or two real ale pumps but not bad beer for London. Basically a cheaper and less pretentious version of the Flask.
Not sure about public schoolboys in chinos though. Don't public schoolboys wear frayed jeans like everyone else these days...?
anonymous - 30 Nov 2007 15:23 |
Now the best pub in Highgate after the awful changes made to the nearby Red Lion and Sun. Can only hope this pub does not go the same way!
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Best pub in Highgate without a doubt. Great place for a pint with the paper or a night out with your friends.
There's a lot of history within the four walls of this place and you can't help but be taken by the surroundings - all dark wood and candles.
Being Highgate way it often gets packed with braying chino wearing public schoolboys, but that's a small price to pay for such a great drinking hole.
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Fantastic atmosphere in here, and I know it's well loved by many. Definitely looking forward to another visit soon.
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Best Pub in Highgate with a nice crowd and good ales, and interior. Definatly recomended.
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Great pub. Nice barstaff and clientel. Agree with all the positive comments below. Just one little suggestion..........................FOR F***S SAKE, WILL SOMEBODY CLEAN THE F***ING GLASSES, THEY ARE DISGUSTINGLY FILTHY. If you don't believe me, go in there order a drink, wipe the rim of the glass with a clean tissue, then examine the brown scum on the tissue. Nice!
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It's lovely inside, good service and usually just enough people (though I've never been on a Friday or Saturday night). As a visitor to Highgate, I must admit I always used to go to the Flask, but now I'm living there I've picked this as my local. You don't get the really pretentious types in here, I have found so far.
bethm - 21 Sep 2006 17:47 |
loved the interior of this place. Nice cider on tap. nice touch of curch candles on the tables which gave the place a nice feel.
anonymous - 13 Sep 2006 10:13 |
Good, old style interior and a usual selection of real ales; Youngs, IPA and Abbots.
Had modern but subtle music, surprising how you can fit Mylo into the background without sounding out of place. Was very quiet, but if you liked it you'd pick it up- very clever.
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Perfect pub for all the ladies to meet in so we chaps can have a drink and a grown up natter without them cackling away in your earhole at 100db, spilling their Bacardi breezers, and generally behaving in a puerile and embarassing manner...as they tend to do in this pub. Stay away chaps!
anonymous - 1 Apr 2006 18:10 |
Again a safe and reliable pub where ladies can meet without being confronted with testerone ridden cretins confronting you.
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In Highgate for the first time in ages.
Top of the list of pubs visited was the Wrestlers the bottom being Red Lion and Sun with The Gatehouse being somewhere in between.
The Wrestlers, in my view beats the others hands down on quality of service, the well kept beer along with a nice atmosphere. The Gatehouse, inter-alia, was fine but did not quite do it for me.
Finally but least we see that the RLAS is not accepting any comments from its customers, Strange that isn't it
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Personally I love this place... except on a Friday night. Fantastic, cosy (Diagon Alley-esque) atmosphere makes it great midweek, but too 'cosy' during peak drinking time.
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A fine choice when out in Highgate, good Youngs and Fullers, reasonable wine list, nice atmosphere with candles and flexible closing. The odd lock-in wasn't unknown in the past either...
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could be better, some nice touches but don't understand why people rave about it. staff are surly, and the beers ordinary.
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I totally agree
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Great atmosphere, great beer - best pub in Highgate!
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The Wrestlers' is not the best pub in the world. That's a ridiculous thing to say. It is an attractive, dark wood panelled boozer with a good selection of spirits and an uninspired selection of beers. The small pub garden is right next to the toilet and, to be quite frank, it stinks. The bar staff are surly. Also, I have recently heard that it has been infested by barflies.
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The Wrestlers is quite simply magnificent. Well kept beer and a good range of wines combine with a relaxed but sophisticated ambience to make this my favourite pub in the world. I recently had to move away from the area and I miss the Wrestlers more than anything.
Alastair - 11 Aug 2004 14:47 |
if your a traditionalist, go during the day or week-day evenings
dan - 25 May 2004 16:46 |
The best pub in the world - nothing more to say.
Jeremy - 9 Feb 2004 17:34 |
I nominated this pub and now I wish I hadn't! Its far too busy to be enjoyable nowadays and I've actually stopped going on weekend nights! I'm not telling where we go instead!
Robin McConnell - 26 Jan 2004 13:03 |
A friend and I sometimes visit this pub of a Friday evening and we would concur with the other punters that this pub makes one feel happy. The brew is good, service excellent, ambience relaxed without losing that lots going-on atmosphere. There is often a contingent of teachers from the Highgate Schools which is always interesting.
Rup Rahman - 15 Jan 2004 18:06 |
I recently saw a comment on www.travelslang.com which rated this pub highly. I would concur - a great pub with a groovy atmosphere.
harry - 8 Jan 2004 20:03 |
I go here with my mates most days and one of them works behind the bar.
It's the most pubby pub in Highgate since the Angel's recent overhaul. The decor, ambience and drinks are superb.
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I live south of the rive, but I make the long journey to visit this pub. The food is excellent, the beer is always well kept.
Paul - 15 Jun 2003 11:21 |
In my opinion a controversial omission of Highgate as a good drinking area of London. The Wrestlers is the best, although nearby the Flask (not to be confused with a pub of the same name across Hampstead Heath), the Angel and the Prince of Wales are all close contenders. These pubs are some of the best I have ever been in and are quite literally the main reason why I now live in Highgate!
Robin McConnell - 21 May 2003 12:05 |
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