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The Ranelagh, Bounds Green, N11

82 Bounds Green Road
N11
N11 2EU

Phone: 02083614238

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Castle (Mitchells & Butlers)

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Bounds Green

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David Walton left this review about The Ranelagh

Visited 19/05/25

Four handpumps offering Adnams Lighthouse and Broadside, TT LL and Rosie's Pig cider. Keg offering was Lucky Saint, Aspall, Peroni, Asahi, Budvar dark lager, Prime Time IPA, Madri, Rebel IPA, Camden Hells, Pravha, Neck Oil, Brooklyn Stonewall IPA, Guinness, Prime Time IPA, Beavertown Cosmic Drop Berry Punch Beer (whatever that is), Brooklyn Pulp Art and the Ghost Faith from Northern Monk.

U shaped venue with a very truncated leg to the left of the entrance. This side is wood panelled painted maroon and has regular tables and chairs. It felt primely a dining area on my early evening visit, ahead of an upcoming quiz that all the tables were booked for. The bar counter faces you as you enter and then follows down the right-hand side with a wooden corner fitted banquette in the front right window. There is an area with regular, floral patterned fabric chairs around regular tables with some mixed velvety and leather banquettes around two of the walls. Plenty of pictures on the walls and a very floral wallpaper with an art deco circular mirror above an interesting dark fireplace. Off to the right of this area is a door out onto a decked and covered seating area before a couple of steps down onto the main beer garden, paved with plenty of picnic tables with umbrellas and some more permanent covered seating areas. Thought this was a pretty decent venue even if the cask was unexciting, it was cask choices in a part of London where cask is hard to come by!!

On 21^st July 2025 - rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about The Ranelagh

The Ranelagh Hotel as was, dates from the mid-19th century, an empty Taylor Walker sign frame atop the pole sign; there’s new smart plum livery, well-tended flowers to the fascia, an attractive beer garden to the right.
An obviously modern makeover has resulted in a dark lacquered floor, bare brick then trendy floral wallpaper to the rear, smart plum paint to the walls and field panelling up front. Furniture is largely conventional, but the sofa-style seats to the front with floral upholstery are a bit girlie though hard as nails. There are trendy prints, décor in the form of palms; there’s a substantial selection of trendy glass hanging lamps with filament bulbs. As mentioned, the customers are on the younger and at the more fashionable end of the spectrum, the result of ongoing gentrification?
A credible cask selection amounted to an unused pump, reversed Doom clip, Landlord and Hophead at a very decent £2.90 a half, in good nick, served by a vacant barmaid.
This is a decent pub, certainly the best of just the three in N11, but as mentioned, the Prince (N22) beats this in the cask department but lacks the more traditional pub feel found here.

On 4^th August 2024 - rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Ranelagh

This Victorian pub, a short walk from Bounds Green tube station, was originally built in 1861 and internally has not changed much from the description given below, except it was spruced up with another lick of paint during the pandemic period. Outside the original decking area is also now under the cover of a permanent awning and the garden space was improved during the covid period also.
What has changed is that the ale focus has changed from cask to craft to attract the younger demographic who are moving into the Bounds Green / Bowes Park area. There are still four hand pumps on the bar with a minimum of two on the go at any time, but they focus on mainly national brewers and the more interesting options tend to be on the keg taps, especially when there is a craft brewer tap takeover. For my visit last Sunday Doombar and St Austell tribute were on but with the dreaded “coming soon” label draped on them, The St Austell Proper Job had just gone, leaving a solitary TT Landlord, which fortunately was in very good nick. But my co-drinkers were there for the craft options, and they had the more interesting choice of Camden Town Brewery Stout, Deya Thinking Juice Pale Ale, Thornbridge AM:PM Session IPA, Brooklyn Stonewall Inn IPA and Brixton Reliance Pale Ale.
If truth be told The Prince, further up Bounds Green Road towards Wood Green, still does the Cask / Craft offerings much better but its nice to see The Ranelagh moving in this direction also and its worth doing as a double with The Prince. If The Springfield was only to up its game as well, then we would have a really enjoyable stroll along the Bounds Green Road.

On 15^th July 2024 - rating: 7
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