The Black Horse, Barnet - pub details
Address: Union St, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 4HY [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 25890) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
High Barnet (0.5 miles)
New Barnet (1.4 miles), Hadley Wood (1.8 miles), Oakleigh Park (2 miles)
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> Current user rating: 4.8/10 (rated by 16 users)
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user reviews of the Black Horse, Barnet
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| Best of the three pubs I tried on or around Wood Street last night (The Lord Nelson and The Alexandra being the other two), but still a fair way short of being anything more than a servicable watering hole. Green King IPA was pleasant, price was fair, service was very good and the environment approchable enough inside (if a little too bright and "new pub" looking with light wood and those little spotlight things and so on) but if you can cope with the noise of the traffic going by (it's right on a main road) the beer garden is very well maintained and the better bet on a clement evening. They are quite keen on putting on entertainment here from the look of the notices around the pub, but last night's effort of a geriatric covers band that looked almost as bored to be playing their insipid covers of various standards as I was in listening to them from the beer garden, doesn't bode well for the general standard. Full marks for effort in bothering to put live music on though. This being the closest of the Wood Street pubs to Barnet town centre itself, I would say it's probably worth checking out at least once if you have exhausted all the drinking options in that locale and fancy a change, but it isn't worth making a special visit for. At least it's only a 5 or so minute walk back to Barnet's best pub (in my humble opinion) The Mitre, should you not care for it particularly. Mr.Monkfish - 31 Jul 2010 12:32 |
| This used to be a great pub but very different from the place I used to know a year or two ago. We got glared at we walked in. I had to stop myself from saying "this is a local pub for local people". I wanted to leave as soon as we got there to be honest. I think the most distburbing thing was the number of racist comments I overheard every now and then. Obviously tolerated in this establishment. I found it very cliquey and mainly full lads out to watch the football get smashed out of their skulls. That's ok if that's what you're after, I suppose. Crawler1966 - 5 Jul 2010 13:08 |
| GK IPA and Pride on which nobody else was drinking, a kind of disco cum Karaoke night and staring locals - let's go somewhere else. Snarling_Mallard - 23 May 2010 11:55 |
| Used to come here a lot a few years back but the owner has put me and a few others off going. Once got told we'd have to leave if I didn't buy another drink when we'd literally finished the last drink less then 1 minute ago. 1985 - 8 Oct 2009 16:42 |
| It gets quite lively when they have a band on, although the ones I've seen there so far have been very average - although the easily pleased regulars may disagree. The beer is nothing to write home about, but at least the place seems to be shaking off it's dodgy past reputation for trouble. DarkLordOfBarnet - 24 Jun 2009 23:28 |
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