Lucky 7, Cricklewood, NW2

Visited 14/04/25 No cask. Basic keg offering of Carling, original SB, Fosters, John Smiths, Guinness, Carlsberg and Carling. This is a basic and very traditional Irish bar in Cricklewood. Indeed, there are no windows to the outside world and a dark door leading into a lively and small venue with the bar counter in the rear right hand corner with, yes you guessed it, stools around the bar counter. There is a narrow ledge along the right-hand wall from the entrance to the front of the bar counter with some basic stools to perch upon. There is a small stage to the immediate left of the entrance with a large screen above showing evening racing on my visit. Booths and banquettes in fabric form down the left-hand side of the venue. Not surprisingly a lot of Irish sporting memorabilia on the walls, at least where there is space amongst the TV screens and the ornate mirrors . The other TV screens were tuned into the Irish evening news and there was indeed a lot of Irish ambiance about the venue. This is very rough around the edges, and I could imagine quite rough generally late at night.