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The Elmhurst, Tottenham, N17

131 Lordship Lane
N17
N17 6XE

Phone: 02088080996

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Star Pubs & Bars (Heineken)

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Tottenham

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David Walton left this review about The Elmhurst

Visited 04/11/25

First venue of this mop up N17 session that had some cask. Two hand pumps, one un-used, the other dispensing GK IPA (got your hopes up there)! Keg offering was adequate, BT Lunar Haze hazy IPA, Tiny Rebel Clwb Tropica, Adnams Mosaic Pale Ale, Theakston Mild, Brixton Low Voltage Session IPA, Red Stripe, Moretti, Inch's, Neck Oil, Amstel, Guinness.

Re-opened in mid-summer 2025. Pleasant and large venue. Right-hand side inside the entrance is bare boarded with bar counter along left-hand side before the venue opens out at the back. Front left-hand side has some tall stool seating at the bar counter, a studded leather banquette to the right of the entrance and some tall tables and chairs down the right-hand side opposite the bar counter. Nice ambient lighting and a pleasant pop soundtrack. Nice leaded glass windows and lots of dark wood panelling around the bar counter and doorways. The rear part on the right-hand side is labelled the Sports Bar, and it has quite a few tall tables and high stools, a corner banquette, some drinking ledges, with large screen footy viewing possibilities, a couple of dart boards and several traditional table footy games at the rear. There is a large rear beer garden outside off the left-hand side of this rear part of the venue. To the left of the entrance, and with a small serving counter to the rear of the main bar counter, is a small Snug Bar. Again, bare boarded, with a large rug in the centre of the room, small number of regular tables around the perimeter, some with bucket style leather armchairs. Wood panelled walls and adorned with prints of the area in years gone by. All around a very pleasant venue, that would score more highly of the cask offering was extended.

On 14^th February 2026 - rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about The Elmhurst Hotel

Not an especially old pub this, dating from 1903 and listed on CAMRA’s inventory of pubs with historic interiors, this being of Some Regional Importance.
As different as chalk and cheese, this place is situated almost directly opposite the Antwerp Arms across Bruce Castle Park, the exterior is a masterclass in brewers’ Tudor, not improved with the United Nations bunting; two empty Taylor Walker sign frames remain, devoid of their gold guncarriage motifs, perhaps so as to not upset the locals, lest they be mistaken for an affiliation to another team in N5. The interior can be seen on CAMRA’s site, notable for the bar back and the fine Lincrusta ceiling. There were no customers in the sizeable front room, save for a rather ominous character slumped over the bar; some activity was heard and briefly viewed courtesy of the grey-painted pool room to the rear, but otherwise it was deathly for a Thursday evening, when it was all systems go at the Antwerp; and as there wasn’t even a barman visible – unless it was he slumped at the bar – I left.

On 11^th February 2023 - rating: 3
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Elmhurst

This massive and magnificent old pub would once have been the Rolls Royce to the nearby Antwerp Arms' mini. It's an Edwardian pub built in 1903 according to the exterior stonework. Inside it still retains some of its original features - the bar counter, bar back, Lincrusta style ceiling, leaded and coloured glazing in the windows, and wooden surrounds plus glazed screening above the wide archway leading between the two largest rooms are all original. The bar back is particularly interesting, being elaborately carved, with wooden pedestals in the upper parts, and with small mirrors behind them.

The pub itself is very large. There is a large room on the corner which, judging by the number of unused doors, would originally have been subdivided into two or three rooms, and possibly including a jug and bottle bar. This leads on (via the archway mentioned above) to another large room at the back, plus there's another, relatively small, room on the left reached via a doorway from the large corner room. Both of the larger rooms contain pool tables, and the large corner room also has a large pull down TV screen at the front.

This pub evokes a feeling of faded splendour, but it has something of an unloved look about it now. I was the only customer in there on Monday lunchtime, but I suspect it might get busy in the evenings, perhaps with underage drinkers hoping to get served, if the signs all over the place saying that "proof of age is required" is anything to go by. But the young barmaid didn't ask me for proof of age for some reason.

There's obviously no real ale, with the two handpumps on the counter apparently being just for show. A half of Guinness rocked in at £2.25. I didn't see any sign of food when I was in, although a sign near the counter suggested that food might be available at some times. The arrival of a customer (me) seemed to induce the barmaid to put on some music, the noise of which she later supplemented with the TV that seemed to be showing some Aussie soap opera. This is a pub of faded grandeur. I probably won't be making a return visit unless it features on a LPG pub crawl due to the surviving original features.

On 21^st November 2015 - rating: 4
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