The Islington Town House, N1

All change, and this is now the Islington Town House, 'Islington' written in substantially larger script, suggesting that this will be part of a chain. This pub is now no longer a jazz and blues venue, but a rather formulaic modern venture which ticks all the modern boxes: boarded floor, spot lights and modern lighting, part bare brick and of course, grey paintwork all designed to attract a fashionable young crowd, though there were few customers. The problem of course is that all the pubs around here pretty much look the same. Furniture is mixed with some high bench seats and milk churns to the bar converted into stools. Ales: Truman's Swift, Hammerton's N1 and Purity's Mad Goose at £4.20 a pint which was on good form and reasonably priced given the area. This new pub is already a bit old hat and though far better than the Joker of Penton Street, it's still no match for the Craft Beer Co.