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The Gipsy Queen, NW5

166 Malden Road
NW5
NW5 4BS

Phone: 02079164959

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Kentish Town West, Queens Crescent

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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Gipsy Queen

Corner pub not too far from Gospel Oak Overground station. The front room is semi-circular with tiling around the bar and bare boards beyond. There are some portraits on the walls and other ephemera such as a stuffed magpie behind the bar. There are lots of windows overlooking the street. So, it is presumably fairly bright during the day.

Music was playing fairly loud and as I sat at the bar, I became aware of the pub quickly filling up for the Sunday speed quizzing competition. It was a fairly young crowd. So, this must be a fairly trendy thing to do.

In addition, there were at least 3 TVs, with Six Nations rugby advertised. The pub also hosts disco nights and there is a strangely timed happy hour from 7-10pm on a Friday.

To the rear of the bar, there is a pizza kitchen and further seating in a much quieter space. I witnessed a pizza being delivered to a table. It was massive and smelt very tempting. There is also a garden signposted to the right-hand side of the bar.

The 2 barmaids were easy on the eye and the 4 handpumps sported Hammerton N1 & Twickenham Naked Ladies (no pun intended). The other 2 sticks were unclipped. Craft beers included Hammerton Swiss Prisms & Panama Creature, Jiddler's Tipple Jacob's Kriek & Everyday Pale Ale, Big Smoke Cold Spark, Vocation Death By Cherries & Hackney Boogie Van & Mysterious Spectre. Cocktails were also being promoted.

This pub proved to me that there is life to the Gospel Oak area beyond the Southampton Arms. I really must get out more!

On 27^th January 2025 - rating: 6
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hondo . left this review about The Gipsy Queen

L shaped interior with an outdoor area to the rear. 4 real ales and numerous keg served.

On 5^th October 2023 - no rating submitted
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Gipsy Queen

First time to visit this pub for me and I liked this pub a lot and was suitably impressed. The main bar room with its studded yellow banquettes around the perimeter and classic and conventional tables, chairs and stools throughout is well described by the reviewer below. Then hidden out back is quite a spacious, and a bit colourful outside patio drinking area with separate areas including a couple canopied booth seating areas.
Yes there is clearly a focus on food and as becoming of modern London pub interior makeovers the kitchen is exposed behind glass at one end of the pub. Sunday roasts were prominently advertised but then the rest of the food menu seemed to be Mexican with some sort of tie up with an award winning street food vendor.
But it is an independently run establishment and the key selling point for me was more the 4 cask ale pumps and the 18 keg beer lines and the chalk beer board at the other end of the pub which detailed what was on them.
For my visit three ales were available in the shape of the New River Brewery Isle or Rye, Gorgeous Brewery Goofyhoop and Tiny Rebel Stay Puft, a very good Porter. And the Keg lines included three craft brews from Tiny Rebel and further offerings from Siren, ABC, Camden Town and Belleville.
Live music was advertised for Friday evenings and it was very good to see the showing of the current Women’s world cup so prominently promoted as we would all agree this is an increasingly important demographic to attract into the modern pub. The projection TV (the very sensible option to permanent big screens) was not in use for my visit and I also did not particularly notice the CCTV camera screen behind the bar. But if I had had done I would have taken comfort in the fact that this is a pub management that clearly takes the safety and security of its customers and their possessions seriously.
Apart from my pint of stout being at slightly exorbitant Hampstead level prices , I didn’t find a lot not to like here.

On 24^th June 2019 - rating: 7
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