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Euston Tap, NW1
Euston
NW1
NW1 2EF
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John Bonser left this review about Euston Tap
The Euston Tap is a new venture – opened late in 2010 – and is housed in one of a pair of attractive looking old stone lodges at the main entrance to Euston Station, off the Euston Road. Both lodges feature some attractive external stonework and include a list of place names that are ( or were ?) places presumably served by train from this station. These stone lodges are Grade 2 listed and are apparently one of the few remaining parts of the original station which was built in the 1830’s.
On the pavement outside, a sandwich board tells us that The Euston Tap is a Craft Beer House with 27 Craft Beers on Tap. If we need any further encouragement to venture inside, we’re further told that “good people drink good beer”.
Inside, at ground level, we find a small tiled bar with, unusually, real ales being served from taps from the wall directly behind the bar. A further row of taps here serve speciality foreign lagers and beers from Germany, Belgium etc. Blackboards indicate the prices and gravities of the various offerings. An extensive array of bottled beers is also available – stored in large glass fridges at the side of the bar. The whole floor area is quite small and seating is limited to padded stools round the perimeter of the room. The walls are decorated with some framed architects drawings of the Euston Station buildings.
Further seating upstairs ( but no bar servery ) is accessed by a challenging steep spiral iron staircase. This upstairs room is rather spartan, but has some comfortable padded seats and is decorated with some further architectural drawings. Upstairs on this floor is the gents toilet ( singular ) – a room about the size of a telephone box with just a single urinal - although there is a unisex toilet room next door.
There’s some outside seating off the pavement in a small area behind iron railings. There’s also several seats on the pavement side of the railings, but, if you sit here – as I did – you can expect to be accosted at regular intervals by the local lowlife and dossers – “ spare a bit of change, guv ..etc”. These seats enable you to watch the buses coming and going from the station forecourt and enable you to breathe in the traffic fumes to one’s hearts desire.
On my recent Saturday lunchtime visit, beers on included Camden Town Brewery Bitter ( £ 2.90p ), Bristol Beer Factory Stout ( 4% ABV at £ 2.90p ) and Bristol Exhibition ( 5.2% ABV at £ 3.30p ), prices, which, by London pub standards, could justifiably be considered reasonable. Beers from Ossett and Saltaire were also on. Higher gravity foreign beers included Great Divide Titan Ale ( 7.1% at £ 3.75p for a half ) . Orchard Pig Cider was on ( 4.2% at £ 3.60p). Pizzas are available between certain times by arrangement with a nearby restaurant.
I gather that this place is under the same ownership as The Sheffield Tap ( which I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to visit recently ), although I didn’t see anything inside to indicate that this was the case. I’m not the brightest bloke in the world, but you would have thought that a few flyers on the bar top with words to the effect “ enjoyed your visit – well then visit our sister pub in Sheffield ? “ couldn’t be a bad idea.
This is an enterprising new venture and I hope it succeeds. If you haven’t been here before, you’ll probably want to pop in and I wouldn’t discourage you from doing so, but I imagine it gets impossibly busy at times – with the challenging staircase and limited toilet facilities likely to be particular problem points – and space and it’s not exactly comfortable and characterful inside. I doubt anyone would want a long session here.
I enjoyed the visit, but, having had my curiosity satisfied, I think I’ll probably leave it to the beer tickers now.
On 8th April 2011
- rating: 6
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I L left this review about Euston Tap
Was surprised how much room there was in this 'gate house' type place at the entrance to Euston station. Really impressed with the range of both ales and foreign brews on tap, especially the American craft beers. The Great Divide hercules IPA at 10% was superb along with Flying Dog and Flying Fish ones from the USA. it must be a challenge to carry a round of drinks up the tall spiral stairs to the upper seating area. The only toilet is also up there. Superb new pub but will be a bit cramped as it get more popular.
Update - There are now two toilets upstairs, one unisex and one gents - this place is now getting very busy with a lot of people coming in for just one drink then moving on. It's big downside is the three sided bar which results in the bar staff not being able to see who's been waiting to be served and hence serving the first person that they see approach the bar. Most staff are pretty good but one or two will serve who they like the look of rather than who's been waiting a while. A shame really as this place was started to give people a chance to experience a wide variety of beers but is now starting to be more about who's trendy with more and more people in there for a wine or a lager.
On 4th April 2011
- rating: 6
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john mcgraw left this review about Euston Tap
Very small pub with a range of 19 draught beers from around the world and 8 cask beers from Britain.The draught beers can be very expensive but the cask beers seem to be the going rate.The ones I tried were in very good condition.Can get packed but seeing it is so small it does not take a lot to fill it.Small outside drinking area.Handy for Euston station.
On 4th April 2011
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about Euston Tap
This is an unusual and very niche pub, situated inside a tiny building at the entrance of Euston station. The ground floor is dominated by a large bar, which leaves a narrow U shaped area in which to drink, with just a couple of ledges and a handful of bar stools for seating. Behind the bar there are 8 taps for cask beers and 19 pumps for keg products, all mounted on the rear wall. Most of the taps and pumps are unclipped, so all the available beers are detailed across two large blackboards on the back wall with prices and abv’s specified. Four huge fridges, full of quite pricey beers from around the world stand in the rear corners of the room whilst there is a huge mirror with the pubs name and logo on it hung above the pumps.
In the right hand corner there is a steep spiral staircase which leads to a small, comfortably furnished room, which was packed on my visit. There is one unisex toilet up here and they have now also added a separate room next to it fitted with a single urinal, but these are the only restrooms, which is worth bearing in mind if you don’t fancy chancing the stairs. Trays are available to assist in carrying beers upstairs. A small seating area has also been created outside, although this didn’t appeal to me on a February evening. Food is available in the form of pizzas ordered from Famous Ray’s – a local pizza parlour. They were around the £10 mark.
And so to the beer. The eight cask ales on when I visited were Dark Star Sussex Extra Stout, Garden Gate and Original, Brewdog Punk IPA, Marble Pint, Adnams Oyster Stout, Bristol Beer Factory Bristol Stout and Thornbridge Wild Swan. I had a pint of the Bristol Stout which I thought was outstanding. The 19 keg beers were mostly from the US, Germany and Czech Republic although I noticed Camden Pilsner was also listed. The cask ales were priced around the £2.80 - £3.40 mark, but the keg beers varied in price between £3.00 and £8.00 presumably depending on how difficult they had been to source. The selection was well varied as there was at least one cider, one fruit beer and several dark beers. The staff seemed to be very knowledgeable and were good at recommending alternatives when a certain beer went off.
This place offers a very different experience for the pub goer. The traditionalist may struggle to get to grips with what is essentially a modern bar set-up (although the green tiling around the bar is a nice nod to a bygone era), yet conversely this may be tempered by the interesting choice of building. Certainly from a beer drinker’s point of view, it makes an exciting prospect, especially for those keen to sample the new wave of kegged beer (presuming your wallet can handle it). Well worth a look, if only out of curiosity. I will certainly return and look forward to seeing how this enterprise develops over time.
On 13th March 2011
- rating: 8
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hondo . left this review about Euston Tap
Well certainly something different. An excellent varied range of beers and knowledgeable staff make this pub well worth visiting. I cant really add to the fulsome descriptions of the building below (didn't venture upstairs).All the bottled beers are available to take away. The pub makes a good tripleheader with the doric arch & the bree louise. The pub is very handy for euston station & within walking distance of st pancras & kings cross stations.
On 23rd February 2011
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I L left this review about Euston Tap
Situated in one of the original stone entrance to Euston station situated in the park next to the Euston Road this is a great conversion into a small two storey bar. Ther is a central bar that takes up about half the ground floor faith the beer taps along the copper clad back wall which also house large fridges either side of the bar. About 8 - 9 British ales are served from the lower taps with foreign beers on the upper one , these taps having mainly American micro brewery tops to them. A good selection of American brews are normally available with Stone, Anchor Sierra znevada and Great Divide breweries often available. Whilst the British ales are normal London prices the imported beers both on tap and in bottles, do vary in price quite a bit but it's still cheaper than flying out to these places to try them!
Up the spiral stairs is a seating area and one unisex toilet. a great newcomer to the beer scene and well worth a vist especially if you have a bit of spare time before or after travelling in or out of Euston station.
On 15th February 2011
- rating: 9
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Gill Smith left this review about Euston Tap
Quirky pub, looks more of a monument from the outside. The umbrella was useful as it helps to identify the pub as it is further forward of the station than we expected. We called on 23.12.10 and the only toilet available then was a portaloo outside for the gents and no ladies toilet. Could have been the sub zero weather. Pleased to hear on previous reviews that there is a toilet upstairs normally. Beer choice was varied with around 15 continental and 8 - 9 British ales, and I did not find the prices of the British beers excessive, maybe used to city prices. Had Bristol Beer Factory Bristol Stout 4% which was not as good as their 4.5% Milk Stout. Thornbridge Merrie was fine at 5.9%. Certainly want to call again when next in the area.
On 2nd January 2011
- rating: 7
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Danny O'Revey left this review about Euston Tap
Quite bizarre 'pub' this one.
Located in one of the 2 small stone entrance buildings, it could easily be missed. Its a really strange place to find a pub & could easily be missed. Tiny inside, the bar takes up most of the space on the ground floor and there is a small steep spiral staircase up to a 2nd floor and small toilet.
Many different choice of beers and my Thornbridge Kipling was superb.
Whoever came up with this idea should be thoroughly congratulated, and its also a departure for Network Rail's usual bland retail by numbers approach to their major station space. Has to be seen to be believed! But only go and see it at a quiet time!!
On 20th December 2010
- rating: 9
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Andy Ven left this review about Euston Tap
You could easily miss this place. Compact at ground level, due to the presence of the bar whilst a spiral staircase leads up to a lounge room and the toilets. Outside, despite the cold weather, there were tables, chairs and an umbrella - almost very British except no one was sat outside.
Despite its bustling surroundings it was fairly quiet and welcoming inside. The chap behind the bar was friendly and chatty. He explained that the cellar, a former shooting range, is outside underneath the pavement.
8 cask ales drawn from handpulls mounted on the wall behind the bar, a further 19 draught beers and 4 cabinets of bottled beers. I had the Thornbridge Wild Swan (3.5%) which was much paler than my usual choice but fine. Many of the 8 ales were between 5 and 6%.
I may pop in again if I have time before catching the train.
On 15th December 2010
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Clive Thompson left this review about Euston Tap
I've been to the Euston Tap maybe 7 or 8 times now so thought I'd do a second review. From my experience the staff don't exactly rush around so it can take a while to get served when busy, but service has always been friendly and knowledgeable. Price wise a standard pint price of £2.80 to £3.20 is the norm but there are some scary prices for some of the premium beers. The Thornbridge Alliance at 11% is £9 a pint and there are some others around the £6-£8 mark, but these are specialist beers so I think credit should be given for being brave enough to get them in.It's worth noting that the half pint glasses are oversized so don't think you are being short changed, the pint glasses are 'to the rim' I think. Don't be confused by what is showing on the draft pumps behind the bar, they are just for decoration, details of all of the beers both cask and draft are shown on blackbords either side of the bar. A recent addition has been a few beer menus on the bar with the various bottles and prices listed. They also have special beer trays to help you get upstairs with multiple pints. Food can be ordered from a nearby pizza restaurant with whom the pub has an arrangement to deliver,. When on my own I've always found it easy to get chatting to other customers and the typical clientele are clearly those in search of good and unusual beers in the curiosity of unusual surroundings. I think the place will keep developing, although it is restricted by its size and layout, and can see it thriving in Summer when people can drink outside.
On 3rd December 2010
- rating: 8
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