The Narrow Boat, Islington - pub details
Address: 119, St. Peters St, London, N1 8PZ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 7288 0572
Angel (0.4 miles), Old Street (0.7 miles), Barbican (0.9 miles)
Essex Road (0.6 miles), Old Street (0.6 miles), London Barbican (1 mile)
Pub facilities/features:
- Quiz night (Sunday 8:30pm), TV
- Fruit machines
- Food served, Real ale
- Canalside location
- Function room for hire
Pub added by flateric. Last visited on 13th Feb 2006. Suggested by Tom Barbell on 15 Apr 2003.
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> Current user rating: 6.8/10 (rated by 55 users)
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user reviews of the Narrow Boat, Islington
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| Alighting from the No 21 bus at Shoreditch Park we had a pleasant stroll along New North Road and joined the Regents Canal towpath, walking west towards Islington. Dodging bikes with jangling bells and Londoners out jogging in the sun, we came across the Narrow Boat Pub. Failing to gain entry through the door by the towpath we climbed up and onto St Peters Road. The pub was empty except for the young waitress leaning over the balcony taking an opportunity to enjoy the brief spell of warm weather. We chose the seating on the balcony, overlooking the water and ordered olives and a basket of bread with oil and balsamic vinegar. This was quickly served along with an excellent bottle of Chilean Sauvignon, chilled to perfection. Service was friendly and efficient but sadly the weather also had a chilling effect as the sun disappeared. We moved inside and downstairs where the seating overlooked the canal and towpath again. Our main courses were ordered – a mixed meat platter with more olives and Cumberland sausages with mashed potato. The platter had a good variety of meat and was pronounced great by my companion. My sausages (3 of them – not the one coiled Cumberland I was expecting) were extremely tasty although they looked a bit pale and undercooked. I would recommend a bit more browning. The gravy was just right – not too thick – and flowed over the creamy mash. All washed down with a second bottle of wine as it was so good. Downstairs, the décor is rather strange being a mix of pop art wall covering at each end of the room and wonderful art deco mirrors along the walls. Through the windows we viewed the tall buildings opposite resplendent with rectangles of white, grey and blue whose reflections gave the impression of paper bags floating in the canal. Narrow boats moored outside reminded us where we were. A pub we would certainly return to, sooner rather than later. Livingbynumbers - 10 Apr 2008 21:40 |
| Seems to be more of a gastro-bar than a pub. Should be a decent outlook over the canal when the noisy building work opposite has been completed. Didn't see anything interesting in the way of real ale but the Steigel Goldbrau was good. Didn't eat there but the food looked pretty expensive (e.g. £8-ish for some pretty ordinary looking chilli con carne). Service was OK-ish - I had to wait for my beer until it could be brought over to our table with my wife's coffee. OK for a stop if you are walking the toepath, but not really my type of place. RexRattus - 15 Aug 2007 10:50 |
| i spent a very disappointing and frustrating evening there last night. I think the food is majorly overpriced and does not meet up to its descriptions, the whole thing a cold money-making venture with no care taken. The food sent was almost inedible, we sent it back twice and only got more horrible food. piad 8 quid for a bit of wet pasta with a few mushrooms, and little spinach, a far cry from the promised 'creamy sauce with parmesan shavings'. no parmesan, as we were told, after 15 mins of trying to get it fixed, very politely, 'it should have been taken off the menu', but it wasn't! and no one said sorry, so i felt totally shunned. we got free garlic bread that was literally inedible, and the bar manager refused to talk to me, worried i'm sure that i was going to complain. after already waiting for 35 mins for it to appear in the first place! such a beautiful place for a pub. why not just serve burgers or soemthing you can manage, or if the chef doesn't turn up, just be honest about it! anonymous - 19 Jul 2007 14:16 |
| I can report the Pure UBU ale is now in perfectly fine form. There are normally 3 or 4 ales on at any one time and I have never had any problems with them, quality wise. Hopefully the previous poster's experience was a one-off. Planner_21 - 17 Jul 2007 10:41 |
| Went there last week. Lovely setting by the canal although the passing bikes ringing their bells could get a little wearisome. Tried the Pure Ubu ale from the Purity Brewing Company but it was served in such appalling condition that I had to send it back. There were lots of bits of goodness knows what floating about and it was as murky as the adjacent canal.The barman had the affrontery to suggest that it was meant to be like that because it was real ale.A shame that he took that tone. On leaving I remarked to my fellow drinker that nobody else seemed to be drinking the reale ales, which may tell you something. Ordinary - 28 May 2007 20:39 |
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