Owl & Hitchhiker, Upper Holloway, N7

After passing the cordoned off seating area out the front that is covered by a couple of big umbrellas I was confronted with a very large pub that has a thin long bar area at the front and a dance floor at the rear where the bar swings around the back. There are stairs that lead up to some balcony seating and there is yet another bar which was closed of by an iron gate on my early Saturday evening visit. There are plasma screens throughout and a large projector screen on the back wall and whilst I was present an FA cup game was being aired in the front section of the pub and a premiership game was on in the rear. There is no real ale in here, just a standard draught selection from which I had a decent pint of Guinness from a barmaid who was friendly enough when I was finally served. I spotted a sign in the window advertising a disco and karaoke night every Friday which goes on until 4am and I can imagine live bands are sometimes/often seen here. I didn’t think that the atmosphere was very good for the football and my nights of dancing until the early hours have long gone so I doubt that I’ll return.