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Ferry Boat Inn, Tottenham Hale, N17

Ferry Lane
N17
N17 9NG

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David Walton left this review about Ferry Boat Inn

Visited 02/06/25

Surprisingly decent cask offering of L Pride (OK give me that one), N1 from Hammerton, Hobgoblin Gold, Kazbek a blonde beer from Redemption and the Mayflower Session IPA from Southwark Brewing. Keg offering of Cruz, Guinness, Moretti and their Sale di Mare, Peroni, Stella, Neck Oil, Amstel, Asahi and Inch's cider.

Pleasant pub sandwiched between the River Lea and the Coppermill Stream. Some tables and umbrellas out the front on a small, paved area. There is reasonable parking, and the bar counter is against the rear wall to the slight right of the front entrance. Tiled around the bar counter but an otherwise flagstone bar area between the entrance and the bar counter. There is a leather banquette to the immediate right of the entrance on the front window but generally tall tables and tall stools in this area. There is a large fire grate on the right-hand internal wall, the chimney shared the other side of the internal wall in a carpeted area that has a series of booth tables, a semi-circular green leather banquette in the front window and some other regular tables and chairs. Entrance to the nice, paved beer garden is off the left-hand end of the bar area, and it has some lovely tree cover as well as some actual cover. There is a large, carpeted seating area over this left-hand side of the venue (apart from a bare boarded section with what would be a very cosy fireplace) just before the exit to the beer garden. Another old fire grate with the wooden surround inscribed "Ferry Boat Inn" in case you forget where you are. A green and mustard coloured leather banquette along what is the left most wall of the venue, regular tables and chairs throughout plus a large dinner table in the front bay window. Thought this was a very enjoyable stay, the venue feels like it is a country pub and then you remember you are quaffing in N17!

On 14^th February 2026 - rating: 6
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Ferry Boat Inn

A very thorough review from Tris doesn't need much added from me about this Stonegate eatery.The ale options on my trip were Doom Bore,Adnams Ghost Ship and ELB Jamboree (NBSS 3.5,£5.65 ) .Both ELB Cowcatcher and Redemption Pale were "coming soon".The service was friendly and the light bite lunch menu offered a very good fishcake and salad for £9.
I didn't like the brightly lit advertising board with rotating adverts,and although the pub garden is large,the River Lee at this point is more a muddy stream,the days of a ferry being required was before all the flood prevention measures and the building of vast resevoirs.
The real fires were kicking out some good heat on a cold day,and at least the mindless muzak was played at background volume.It's not a bad pub,mainly food orientated but is fine for just drinking and does at least offer some real ale.A short walk from the Lee Navigation.

On 11^th January 2024 - rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about Ferry Boat Inn

Dating from the early 18th century, this may have once been a coaching inn, having a commanding view out over Walthamstow Wetlands – or ‘reservoir’ to you and me – from the enormous beer garden, punctuated by white hanging lights on my late evening visit; there’s a huge customer car park, but customers have to pay to use it.
On entering, the first thing you notice is the substantial old fireplace in its natural bare brick state. It’s a multi-roomed affair having been subjected to a hotchpotch of trendified/gastrofied clichés: white bar back with dark shiny ceramic tiles and tubular steel gantry, flagstone floor or patterned tiling or carpet, duck egg blue, mid-grey and white paintwork, mixed zoned furniture, pretentious circular wire shelving hosting ceramics which probably come from the likes of Toast Homewares or Muji, flowers in bottles on tables, trendy blown glass lanterns with filament bulbs or spun metal shades; the ugly games machine is highly incongruous, less so the needless TV, sound off, Ainsley Herriot grinning away; in all, it’s a bit like an upmarket Harvester. Customers were painfully few, with two scruffy builders in their plaster encrusted work clothes, presumably not the image the pub wants to foster.
The ale range wasn’t up to much, with a reversed clip, then Pride ‘coming soon’, Doom ‘coming soon’, ELB Cowcatcher ‘coming soon’ and Southwold at a reasonable £2.50 a half on decent form, served by a couldn’t-be-arsed barman, a second half pulled by a more forthcoming barmaid.
This really isn’t a great pub. It has been far too made over with little or no respect for its heritage, but as there’s little near here, the best advice is not to come here; the pay-to-use customer carpark is a bit of a cheek too.

On 11^th April 2023 - rating: 4
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