The Beaufort, Colindale, NW9

Visited 22/04/25 Cask offering of Original and Special with two of the four handpumps unused. Typical Youngs venue keg offering of Pravha, Madri, Neck Oil, Estrella, Peroni, Camden Hells, Asahi, Guinness, Aspall. Large and airy Youngs establishment about a 5 min walk from Colindale tube station. It is essentially L shaped with the foot of the L just inside the entrance and with the bar counter, wood with zinc panelling on the front, along the start of the long part of the L! It is bare boarded with some black inlays to the wood in front of the bar counter. Some tall stools at the bar counter. There are tall tables to the right of the entrance and a couple of rows of red fabric sofas to the left of the entrance in the glass plated frontage. Opposite the start of the bar counter is a seating area with regular tables and chairs, commenced by a long leather seat padded church bench. A door takes you out onto the patio area at the side of the pub, paved with large tables and huge umbrellas with overhead electric heaters or smaller picnic style benches. Beyond the bar counter to the back of the pub is a dining area with booth tables and regular tables and chairs with the kitchen serving hatch in the back left corner. Nice high ceiling, pleasant lighting and with the doors wedged open made for a cool atmosphere in the venue. Definitely one of the newer Youngs venues but given a number of them I have been to can't event muster up a hand pump, this was a (marginally) better example of its type.

Official site of The Beaufort - www.thebeaufortpub.co.uk

Official site of The Beaufort - www.thebeaufortpub.co.uk

This Youngs pub only had Bombardier and Ordinary on during my visit. There was also an unused ale pump and a selection of standard and premium lagers. I found the barman that served me to be friendly enough, but the pub itself is totally devoid of any atmosphere and is more like a hotel bar. There is a plasma screen at one end of the pub which was showing Sky Sports News, but I saw no live sport advertised. There is also a dining area with set tables at the other end of the long bar past the high tables and sofas. I can't envisage returning here again.