The Barnsbury, Islington - pub details
Address: 209, Liverpool Rd, London, N1 1LX [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 7607 5519
Highbury and Islington (0.5 miles), Angel (0.6 miles), Caledonian Road (0.8 miles)
Caledonian Road & Barnsbury (0.4 miles), Highbury & Islington (0.4 miles), Essex Road (0.5 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
Pub suggested by Patrick on 28 Mar 2003
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> Current user rating: 4.6/10 (rated by 27 users)
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user reviews of the Barnsbury, Islington
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| Attractive looking, but I can only echo the comments of others who describe this as a restaurant rather than a pub. In the last few months I've found myself in quite a few of Islington's gastro-pubs which put the emphasis more on food than on drinking (e.g. the Crown), but at least those places still offer at least a bit of pub ambience. The Barnsbury is not just a gastro-pub, but is totally a restaurant which happens to have a pub-style bar in the middle. We had a nice pint of Landlord (I think Pride was the other option) and a Paulaner on draught, sadly at more like restaurant prices (near £8 for the two I think). But as we were not eating we wandered off very quickly. dpv - 16 Jun 2008 12:41 |
| Attractive looking, but I can only echo the comments of others who describe this as a restaurant rather than a pub. In the last few months I've found myself in quite a few of Islington's gastro-pubs which put the emphasis more on food than on drinking (e.g. the Crown), but at least those places still offer at least a bit of pub ambience. The Barnsbury is not just a gastro-pub, but is totally a restaurant which happens to have a pub-style bar in the middle. We had a nice pint of Landlord (I think Pride was the other option) and a Paulaner on draught, sadly at more like restaurant prices (near £8 for the two I think). But as we were not eating we wandered off very quickly. dpv - 16 Jun 2008 12:41 |
| BoehmBarwerk hits the nail on the head. There is nothing wrong with staff or the presentation, even the owner, normally very hassled, can be friendly, but it is NOT A PUB. secretdrinker - 27 May 2008 15:42 |
| Actually better than most other pubs in the area thanks to its dimmed lighting sculpted from upturned wine glasses. The staff were pleasant, albeit clearly put out that we were not there to eat. There were also people wearing suits in the pub on a sunday which struck me as a little odd, although each to their own. BoehmBawerk - 21 Apr 2008 13:30 |
| Sorry to say, I have to join in with the catalogue of complaints about the sh*tty service in this place. We had booked a table for Sunday lunch at 12.30pm, agreeing to give up the table at 2.30pm. That in itself always makes my blood boil. But when the service is so slow/churlish/inhospitable, I really lose the plot! We were hassled to hurry up and order from the minute we arrived, and appeared to have committed a mortal sin as 2 of our party were running slightly late. Despite being reminded (ad nauseum) we were being ousted 2.30pm, we waited 25 mins for our starters to be cleared. Our main courses did not arrive until 2.15pm, leaving us a luxurious whole 15mins to eat. (Though to be fair, we may have contributed to this delay by sending back 2 plates of beef which were so rare as to be filling the plates with blood). We then had the bizarre situation of a waiter at one end of the table telling us to eat up and get lost, whilst a waitress at the other was doing the hard-sell on desserts, coffees, more drinks etc etc..... Why don't they just ditch the bar and become the snotty Islington restaurant they so badly want to be? KathDyer - 17 Dec 2007 10:39 |
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