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The Three Horseshoes, N20

1169 High Road
N20
N20 0RA

Phone: 02084452121

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Friern Barnet, Whetstone

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David Walton left this review about The Three Horseshoes

Visited 13/05/25

Cask was a single pump dispensing L Pride, other hand pump had a TT LL clip turned round. Keg offering of Cruz, Moretti, Peroni, Camden Hells, Inch's cider, Amstel, Guinness, Fosters, original and dark fruits SB, Carlsberg and John Smiths.

Very pleasant pub marked down for its beer offering. There is a small outside seating area at the front with picnic benches on a paved area. The bar counter is upon you immediately on entering and has stools at the counter, the hot seats in the house on my visit. The venue is bare boarded and there is a good dose of wood panelling on the walls in the venue. Some tall tables to the immediate right of the bar counter with a TV facing the bar counter. Walking round to the right from the bar counter are some nice small tables with bucket armchairs by an unused fire grate. A few booth tables take you to the other smaller side of the bar counter in a small area with a few tables and another TV screen above another fire grate. A small room off this area provides another TV screen plus a dart board and a pool table. There is a small generally covered seating area outside at the back on a paved surface.

On 23^rd May 2026 - rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about The Three Horseshoes

This is a pub originally built roughly at the transition from George IV’s reign to that of Victoria, at the junction of the High Road and Friern Barnet Lane, where you can find some beautiful early 17th century alms houses; I suspect it has been rebuilt and although now run by Craft Union, it still retains a metal ellipse atop each sign frame, an indication that this was once a Whitbread’s house.
The interior looks to have been redecorated fairly recently: a modern white tiled bar back, new boarded floor, low white screed ceiling – which is a bit odd – mixed conventional furniture, décor taking the form of drinks’ deals, still very loud background music taking precedence over France’s misguided attempt at an Olympic ceremony, ignored by a mixed age local crowd at the time of my Friday 9.30pm visit.
Like Strongers, I too found it difficult to get to the bar and payment was a pain, as the card reader is fixed, meaning I had to navigate the throng to reach it. There was an unused pump then solitary Hobgoblin Ruby at just £2.05 a half, served by a flighty barmaid and tasting as expected.
This is better than most Craft Union pubs and is positively like the Audley compared to the nearby Cavalier, but Friday (and probably Saturday) mayhem aside, the place to be in N20 is the Griffin.

On 1^st August 2024 - rating: 4
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Three Horseshoes

There were a couple of ales on - Doom Bar and Purity UBU (£1.80 a half). I didn't see any sign of food at midday on a Monday.

This pub has some nice fielded paneling on the walls to two-thirds height. The bar counter front is also inter-war, and also with fielded panelling, but unfortunately now painted a dark purple. The central island bar has the main drinking area at the front; a smallish room through a doorway on the left; leading to a further room at the back where the panelling has been painted a bright aquamarine colour. I chose to sit at the front, preferring the purple bar counter to aquamarine walls. There is some further booth seating behind the servery.

This is a decent pub without being anything special. I could have done without the thumping pop music, and I prefer a more traditional colour scheme, but my UBU was in fine shape and it's certainly worth dropping in for a swift one if you're in Whetstone.

On 9^th September 2017 - rating: 5
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