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The Bull, Islington, N1

100 Upper Street
N1
N1 0NP

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Castle (Mitchells & Butlers)

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Islington

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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Bull

Relaxed Islington pub, set on a corner with tall windows on both sides so light inside the main bar during daylight hours. There is a semi-mezzanine above (accessed via a spiral staircase), a darker dining room to the rear and a few pavement tables out front. No cask ale these days unfortunately, but there was a reasonable choice of vaguely crafty keg beers, e.g. my Hammerton's Panama Creature (£7.60).

On 8^th August 2024 - rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about The Bull

A staple watering hole of my youth, this is a late Georgian pub originally called the Old Pied Bull. As mentioned below, this place is a fairly predictable Islington pub conversion. Predictably walls are either bare brick or part panelled painted pale grey, adorned with theatre flyers. There's some unattractive industrial ductwork and a metal helical stair leads upwards; naturally the floor is bare boarded. Furniture is fairly conventional and there are some high butchers' block tables.
Ales: Sharp's Doom Bar, Purity's Ubu and Acorn Brewery's Barnsley Gold at £2.20 a half and good.
I'd give this place a 5 if it were more of a pub, but otherwise there's no reason to avoid it.

On 22^nd October 2016 - rating: 4
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john mcgraw left this review about The Bull

Another "if you have seen one you have seen them all" Islington pubs. Bare floors,bare tables and vastly inflated prices. There were 3 real ales on with nothing to write home about. The interior has been grahically discribed earlier.

On 10^th August 2014 - rating: 3
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