The Oakdale Arms, Woodberry Down, N4

Sad too see in my local Paper this Pub will be closing for good on 19th March too be replaced with yet another over development of flats. Ive had many of good Pints in this Pub over the years going right back too around 1976 the first time I went there was when my Brother was working at Maynard's just up the road. Now theres not a decent Pub left in the area and they call this progress.

Randomness Guide to London - Oakdale Arms entry

Randomness Guide to London - Oakdale Arms entry

They had Weston's Old Rosie cider, as well as Milton's Dionysus and Icarus on. I had the Dionysus that I had never had before. It's a 3.6% hoppy lager-coloured ale which tasted excellent, and at £2.60 a pint is very reasonably priced. The pub itself has an air of tattiness that only a decent pub can carry off. It should be a very good pub – and probably is at another time – but what spoiled it for me was the mind-numbing loud thumping rave music that was being played. It's the worst “music” that I have ever heard being played in a pub. I couldn't get out fast enough – but I did stay long enough to finish my pint! I can't see me making the trek up to North London to visit this pub again.