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Three Crowns, Stoke Newington, N16

175 Stoke Newington High Street
N16
N16 0LH

Phone: 02072415511

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Pub SignMan left this review about Three Crowns

This is a huge street corner pub in the heart of Stoke Newington, with a modernised, opened out interior that unfortunately minimises a lot of the building's heritage features. The front seating area, situated under some massive windows, felt a bit like being in a goldfish bowl, thanks to the busy main road outside. Button backed banquettes run around the perimeter with lots of clunky school-style wooden chairs in support. Perhaps the best feature here is the fine anaglypta ceiling covering, which has a golden hue that looks effective in the evening light. The bar extends through a narrow mid-section of the pub and has dark wood counter panels and a rough bare brick bar back with ugly scaffold pole shelving. One end of the bar acts as an open kitchen and food servery area, although not too many people were eating during my stay. Beyond the end of the bar, the pub opens out into a rear seating area - a split level space with chunky wooden balustrades, low tongue and groove panelling and a bunch of plain mirrors and large, old local photos on the walls, plus a pub sign for their former guise as The Samuel Beckett. Music was playing quite loudly, but the cacophony within, on a half filled at best Saturday evening, more than matched it. A table football game can be found to the rear and there is a live music venue downstairs with a very basic bar and low stage.
There was no cask ale available, but a decent keg range included options from Verdant, Pillars, ELB, Deya, Drop Project and the like. I tried the Tiny Rebel Cali Pale at £6.50 a pint, which went down well enough. The barmaid was friendly and attentive and we popped back after seeing a gig downstairs and found other bar staff to all be cheery and efficient too.
This pub feels like it has a lot of stories to tell, but it's been knocked about so much that there's very little of historic interest to cling on to. The craft keg range was pretty good and went some way to making up for the lack of cask ale and the service seemed to be top notch, so whilst there are definitely better pubs not too far from here, I would still be happy enough to call in again some time.

Date of visit - 27th April 2024

On 20^th August 2024 - rating: 6
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Three Crowns

A striking ,large street corner pub with an attractive exterior ,a corner cupola and a fine side entrance.The large window frames are original and pleasing. Inside there has been a modern makeover with the High Street frontage now a set for dining area.The long bar extends along the building with an open kitchen by the dining area.The bar has exposed brickwork and lots of bar stools while beyond is a large section below a skylight with a reaised section at the far end and a small area with a table football machine near to the loo entrances.Tables and chairs here are trad,scrubbed pine popular.There is a downstairs gig veunue called The Waiting Room.
Pub food is not cheap with a median main of £18 and Pie of the Week £21.50 but food doesn't dominate the drinking areas.Screens will offer 6 Nations Rugby but they were off during my Friday afternnon trip.Decent muzak at sensible volume.

On entry you see two large keg gantries and there is a very good selection of guest kegs noted on a chalk board from brewers such as North Brewing,Marble,East London, and my Burnt Mill Beyond the Firs was pleasant.However on sitting down I noticed two handpumps ,one operational, that were somewhat obscured near the top end by a food special sign.On inspecting Marble Brick by Brick was offered, a red ale in superb NBSS 4.5 condition,very reasonable at £2.85 the half.It proved to be beer of the N16 crawl and I would recommend a visit for that alone.It's a decent pub,slightly hipsterish but one I would return to in order to check out the cask option.

On 10^th March 2024 - rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about Three Crowns

Was in yesterday but primarily for a late Sunday lunch and did not specifically come here for a beer, which is actually a good thing because, if it was more restaurant than pub on my previous visit, then I would say it is a full on restaurant now. The hand pumps have completely disappeared from the bar which is now dominated by the two remaining chrome keg tap fitments, and the open kitchen at the Stamford Hill end now dominates that end, and every table in the place is laid for dining. The only spot that wasn’t from what I could see was one remaining sole settee set up in the window section of the saloon lounge at the far Church Street end. There are a few modern craft beer options on the keg taps, but most of them are standard options and I can’t even be kind enough to say that this place is now focussed on decent craft because it wasn’t.
The Sunday lunch was very good and my pint of Brixton Pale ale that went with it was decent enough when it had thawed a bit, but as a pub to just sit in with a decent pint then you can put a line through this one.

On 14^th November 2022 - no rating submitted
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