The Cricketers, Enfield

Situated just off Chase Green, down a narrow road, is The Cricketers, a pub that externally, to a certain extent, resembles a cricket pavilion. The exterior is white washed and has a white picket fence topped with decorative replica cricket balls. As we approach the pub, we see a cricket scoreboard style sign advertising Lagers, Beers, Wines – “LBW”. Inside the pub the cricketing theme continues with numerous pictures on display including earlier years Middlesex C C C teams. Of particular interest is a display of old bats by the side of a fireplace. Less attractive, in my view, are the set of lager fonts in the form of a set of cricket stumps and bails and a series of lights in the shape and colour of cricket balls. I’m a big cricket fan, but I’m afraid the whole cricketing theme is rather overdone. The main bar is long and bare boarded with a number of nooks and crannies flanked by larger seating areas at each end. The area on the left is carpeted, has several sofas by a fireplace and a smallish unobtrusive TV which was showing Man Utd v Man City. A number of tables in this area were reserved for diners and, whilst drinkers are certainly not discouraged, the food trade seems to dominate, with a number of family and mixed groups enjoying the substantial looking pub grub meals during my visit. It’s a McMullens pub which, on my visit, was offering AK, Country, Cask and IPA. Perhaps not surprisingly, the AK - £ 2.76p – was rather more expensive than at The Wonder, from where I had just come. The Cricketers is a pub that appears to be trying to cover all bases and, although it seemed to be making a good fist at doing this, this is not a pub worth going far out of your way to visit.