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The Osidge Arms, N14

Hampden Square
N14
N14 5JP

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Southgate, Osidge, Brunswick Park

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David Walton left this review about The Osidge Arms

Visited 19/05/25

No cask. Keg offering of Neck Oil, Cruz, Madri, Moretti, Fosters, Amstel, Heineken, Pravha, Guinness, original SB.

Quite large venue on a small roundabout with some parking out the front. An L shaped venue with the bar counter around the inside right angle and the venue has a well-worn herringbone block wood floor. This place well advertises its Turkish food, and the restaurant area is over to the right of the entrance and has some nice colourful leaded glass windows. Between the restaurant and the entrance is a regular seating area with a mixture of seating types and regular tables. To the left of the entrance is a bar area with a pool table and a dart board that requires a table to be moved to be in play. A large TV screen was showing teatime TV but there was a clear indication this place would be showing live footy if there was a game on! I realised by wandering outside there is a large outside seating area (think picnic benches on astroturf) and some annexe seating (inside but accessed from outside) that suggests that the place can get quite busy and indeed what I thought was a small restaurant area to the extreme right of the entrance had an extension at the side making for actually quite a large dining space. Clearly this place is now a Turkish restaurant with traditional pub frontage. With its limited beer range it doesn't do the trick for me.

Another small postcode area for pubs, with only the New Crown having a cask offering (ignoring the paltry offering in the Fishmongers, which I did after tasting the Tribute). I enjoyed the Irish venue Doyles more than the other traditional pub venues, which were a thoroughly disappointing lot!

On 27^th July 2025 - rating: 4
[User has posted 777 recommendations about 774 pubs]

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Tris C left this review about The Osidge Arms

Built for Taylor Walker, this is a 1930s’ pub, no doubt to cater for the area’s expansion; it’s a big, rambling roadhouse-type place, in a none-too-appealing area.
The somewhat rundown and certainly neither plush nor upmarket interior exhibits little in the way of authenticity, save for at least one freestanding brick fireplace, herringbone parquet floor and some field panelling painted white, the remainder blue. The right-hand side is a Turkish/Mediterranean restaurant – certainly not a ‘gastropub’ – where very loud music was playing, so perhaps a party was in full swing at the time of my near 9.30pm visit; a little girl could be seen dancing. There’s darts and pool, furniture is modern, décor travel-themed and Levantine, locals really a bit rough and sweary – not the place I’d want to take a child.
There’s no cask, the best option being Neck Oil, £3.50 a half, served by a slightly suspicious landlord.
This is definitely not my bag at all. Like Strongers, I too felt like I was intruding into someone’s private members’-only party and I was very glad to leave, but I’d love to know where the area’s better options are…

Rated: 2.5.

On 3^rd August 2024 - rating: 3
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Komakino . left this review about The Osidge Arms

A 30s-style build located on a roundabout and facing retail parades either side, this operates by its own admission as a "gastropub/Turkish kitchen", although the cuisine is a mix of English and Turkish and includes roast dinners on Sundays. With more than one entrance, this likely had multiple rooms in a previous life but is now, predictably, knocked through to create, in essence, one room, albeit semi-divided into bar and dining, with a generous bar area to the left of the room and a semi-raised dining area semi-partitioned to the right. The bar area has a pool table to the left along with a couple of large flat screen TVs, showing a PL game during my visit, with the sound on, and annoyingly, both out of sync with each other, giving a disconcerting echo. Internal decor is a little tired, with a scuffed parquet floor in herringbone pattern, two-third height wood panelling (some painted over in white), worn bar counter and tables and odd bric-a-brac dotted around on windowsills as well as a trunk and a couple of violins adhered to a cork board. England flag bunting adorned the rear-facing bar (a hangover from the World Cup which finished two months prior) and no surprises with no real ale. A pint of Grimbergen Blonde was an alum-mouthed £4.90. Service was friendly, as were a couple of locals I chatted to, but as Steve N21 mentions below, there are better options in the area.

On 24^th September 2018 - rating: 3
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