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Poll for Lancaster crawl June /July 2026 with Bucking Fastard
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Studio Kitchen, N1
N1
N1 7ED
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about Studio Kitchen
Visited 27/08/25. Visited previously as Commissary on 23/08/21.
No cask. Keg options of Meantime Prime Pale and the Anytime Pale, plus Asahi, Grolsch, Guinness, Cornish Orchards cider.
This canal side place is hard to find from Google maps. Instead, entrance is via a buzzer on Shepherdess Walk before it crosses the canal and then down a flight of steps and along the canal side. Outside there are plenty of picnic style benches / tables on the towpath. The venue itself is glass fronted and stone tiled with the bar counter against the rear wall to the left of the entrance. Some high tables and chairs in the windows opposite the bar counter and then some leather sofas and armchairs on the left-hand wall with regular tables and chairs the other side thereof. To the right of the door is another area, narrower, again glass fronted with bucket armchairs and regular chairs and regular tables. No screens and a very low-key soundtrack. Perfectly pleasant in light evenings for a quick stop off before going somewhere more beer orientated.
On 18th April 2026
- rating: 4
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Commissary
You get to this bar through a gateway off Shepherdess Walk by the bridge over the Regents Canal and then by walking along the decking where boats are permanently moored.The building is part of Eagle Wharf and was once the frontage to a warehouse.The decking widens out and allows room for a series of bench tables for good weather use.Access from a boat cruising the canal will be tricky and would entail breasting up to a moored craft.
The bar has two rooms,to the right an area which looks more like a restaurant,while the tap room from the front door is really the place to drink.The large windows let in a lot of light and modern furniture gives this a contemporary vibe ,while flatscreens will show both terrestrial TV (on a drop down) and well as Sky Sports.
There is a short pub food menu offering mains,sandwiches and quesadillas ,whatever they are.
The bar just has 4 kegged beers doubled up ,including a Samuel Adams and a Shepherd Neame Whitstable Bay Blonde lager (a total rip off at £2.50 the half).No real ale and no interesting craft beer on keg let this bar down,and despite an interesting location,I cant see any reason to revisit.
On 25th February 2018
- rating: 5
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