The Rocket, NW1

A big barn of a place that was once called The Rising Sun, but became The Friar & Firkin in 1992 and has been called The Rocket since around 1999. There's some evidence of its Victorian heyday (the pub was rebuilt in 1899), but not much. This is essentially a banging sports bar with TVs all around, the size of king size mattresses and clients of the vocal lads in T-shirts school; multiple games machines dominate proceedings and pictorial menus display their bill of fare (basically burgers and the like). On the plus side - and it's a very meagre plus side - ales comprise Greene King's IPA, Sharp's Doom Bar (clip reversed), Fuller's London Pride and Goddard's Ale of Wight at a very reasonable £1.85 a half, which is cheap for the area and was decent enough. This place is everything I hate in a so-called pub and I will never return; the Somers Town Coffee House is just around the corner and is oh-so-much better.

Large but soulless pub with a few original features.Busy with 5 cask beers ,black sheep bitter.doombar,london pride etc.okay