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The Gilpins Bell, Upper Edmonton, N18

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50-54 Fore Street
N18
N18 2SS

Phone: 02088842744

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David Walton left this review about The Gilpins Bell

Visited 12/05/25

Basic cask offering of GK Abbot and IPA with three unused handpumps from a set of 5 from the old JDW days. Keg offering of San Miguel, Stella, Carlsberg, Guinness, Cruz, John Smiths, Fosters, original and dark fruits SB, Heineken, Amstel. Beer prices were definitely JDW'esque.

I would guess that this place has been outside the JDW stable for at least a decade, but it still has the look and feel of a JDW venue apart from the food menus and beer options! As a venue it is a quite pleasant space with the stained-glass windows, high boarded ceiling and large centre skylight over the main bar area. The venue is, as you would expect given its history, carpeted throughout with a tiled skirt around the short part of the servery just inside the entrance and the longer length down the right-hand wall in the centre part of the main bar area. There is again a lot of Spurs memorabilia on the walls, and the venue isn't shy of a column or pillar. There is an area to the extreme right of the entrance with a different patterned carpet and offering some booth tables against the right most wall. Most here were seated in the regular tables and chairs along the front of the venue, and which turns right angled at the extreme left-hand end into another seating area with the same carpet at the extreme right end that then stretches along the glass frontage of the left-hand side of the venue. There is a large fire grate, unclear if still in use, in the centre of the venue and which on one side serves a raised and quite dark library like area in the centre of the venue up a couple of steps from the main bar area and opposite the servery. There is a large beer garden at the back, paved with regular picnic tables and which was popular on my visit. The walls, where not occupied by Spurs memorabilia, had a lot of the original framed JDW prints, surely only place where Glen Hoddle faces off to a William Cecil!

On 4^th March 2026 - rating: 5
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Aqualung . left this review about The Gilpins Bell

Having closed briefly back in March it's now reported to being run by the same people as the Coach and Horses down in Tottenham.

Visit May 2014

I stopped visiting this place some years ago due to poor choice and quality of ales. As a result I turned up today with rather low expectations.
Given that it's a converted motorbike shop it is a lot more attractive than your average dingy shop conversion as it is a large room with some nice stained glass windows at the back. There is also a decent sized patio at the rear left.
My problem with the beer selection turned out to not have changed much. There were two banks of six handpumps with the two GK beers doubled up, a cider, Wychwood Piledriver, Full Brazilian and Brakspear's Special available soon as was Banks's Saint Archer American beer. This left just Arundel Wild Heaven, Ringwood Filly Drift and GK Abbot Special Reserve. I went for the Arundel Wild Heaven which was the first beer I've had from this brewer that wasn't a sweet southern style beer (and I'm not being critical here). Sadly it wasn't entirely clear, but this is common for these "craft" beers and it tasted fine. I then went for the Abbot Special Reserve which was perfect. Both beers were only £2.05. This was incredibly cheap for a 6.5% ABV beer.
It seems to have improved since my last visits but could improve more, most notably with the beer selection.
I would imagine this place is a living hell when the nearby footbore team are playing. Apparently it only allows home fans on those occasions and plastic glasses are used. I wouldn't mind betting they bump the prices up as well.

On 19^th June 2016 - rating: 6
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hondo . left this review about The Gilpins Bell (JD Wetherspoon)

Large spoons with different rooms/sections and a beer garden. Plastic cups in use on my match day visit with bouncers checking I had a home ticket. Some Spurs memorabilia on display. Usual spoons deals and selection.

On 9^th November 2014 - no rating submitted
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