Good Reader, Crouch End, N8

Tris C left this review about Good Reader

This pub dates from the late 19th century but was rebuilt in 1954; the Watney’s regalia was removed when the original Princess Alexandria name was reinstated in 2018, the current moniker dating from just 7th August.
Describing itself as a gastropub, the website displays enticing food, but where it was prepared, I know not, as currently there’s no kitchen; still, you can munch on black truffle crisps. At £7.50 a bag. Otherwise, there’s a slightly posh country dining pub feel about the three-roomed interior: modern boarded floor, bare brick or white walls with dark grey punctuations, shiny white tiled bar back, eclectic trendy prints and mirrors, traditional furniture and enough potted ferns to rewild Kew Gardens; customers were mixed in age, genteel Muswell Hillbillies and Crouch End tigers.
Cask amounted to two unused pumps, then just boring Woodforde’s Wherry at an utterly jaw dropping £3.50 a half; the vastly superior Queen’s served me with an equally vastly superior Redemption’s Kazbek at just £2.45, 15 minutes later.
This place may be good for food – one day – but the Queen’s kicks this place into the long grass, the insulting ale price costing this place at least 1 point.

On 16^th September 2024 - rating: 4
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