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Black Horse, Potters Bar
South Mimms
Postal town: Potters Bar
EN6 3PS
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 9 of 10) see review guidelines
Steve of N21 left this review about Black Horse
Looked this one up again whilst doing a walk of the nearby Catherine Bourne path and found it completely unchanged from my previous visit 15 years ago and still doing a very good impression of a pub that time forgot.
The tele was on showing the Sunday football in the plain small public bar area to a few who were interested, but fortunately the sound didn’t bleed through to the majority of Sunday lunch diners sat in the lounge section, which had a roaring fire going in the log burner.
The Greene King logo sign was still in situ on the exterior end wall, but this pub does not come up on the GK website, so I am assuming it is independent nowadays. The one operating ale pump was badged with something called Black Horse No1 Amber Ale that the landlord assured me was not a GK brew but certainly looked and tasted like it came from the Bury St Edmunds mass production line.
With McMullen’s closing the nearby White Hart on the St Albans Road, this is now the last man standing in South Mimms, so hopefully it may get enough visitation to keep this community time warp still going.
On 16th December 2025
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Renata Nemeth left this review about Black Horse
Lovely Little village pub and diner. Great home cooked food ( good variety) with quite few interesting staff going on. Quiz dinner on tuesdays, entertaintment on saturdays. Good promotions time to time.
Must try: home made burger!!!
Love it!
On 27th January 2011
- rating: 9
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Steve of N21 left this review about Black Horse
The Black Horse is a smallish two bar pub tucked away down the narrow Black Horse Lane in South Mimms, just off the main rat run between Junctions 22 and 23 of the M25.
There’s been an inn on the site since the 18th Century and the current pub is a traditional back street boozer doing a decent pint and decent pub grub. It’s a Greene King pub, so the beer choice is not stunning, with usually IPA and Speckled Hen on offer and the IPA has been well kept on the couple of times I have dropped in. The internal decor is traditional with wooden beams, brass plaques and old photos on the walls and an open fire in the more public of the two bars. But the Lounge section, which is mainly used as the dining section, is still fairly plain and homely and has a feeling more like your Grans front room.
The pub also benefits from a decent sized outsize back garden, equipped with a Gazebo with benches to accommodate the smokers.
Customers tend to be locals and passing ramblers, exploring the many woodland walks in the area.
So, in conclusion a decent enough, no frills back street local boozer and if I lived in the village, I’d certainly be in here at regular intervals.
On 23rd June 2010
- rating: 7
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