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The Prince, Wood Green, N22
N22
N22 8PA
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Reviews of The Prince (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about The Prince
Visited 28/04/25
Six cask offerings of the Penpol Pale Ale from Verdant, the Run Hop Run pale ale from Northumberland brewery Rigg & Furrow, the Railway Porter from Five Points, the hazy session IPA from Newcastle brewery Two by Two Brewing, the Big Love blonde ale from Duration and the Best Bitter from Almasty. There is an impressive selection of craft keg from predominately London brewers and comprising the Martina session lager and the Amos Czech pilsner both from Bohem, the Small Wonder table beer and the Luna nitro stout both from The Goodness Brewery, the Slam Dunkel and the Astral Maze Superdelic IPA both from Villages, the Morello Cherry Sour from Muswell Hill based Tart Brewery, the Casual Pale from UnBarred, the County Pale from Henhouse, the Clouds IPA from Phantom Brewing, the Bet the Farm farmhouse pale from Duration and the Blazt passion fruit pale from Drop Project. Cider was from two London produces, the London Apple Cider from Umbrella and the Crafty Apple from The Real Al Co based in Walthamstow. AF / low ABV, only in 440ml cans and all from the Below Brew Co (but offering a lager, a NEIPA and a West Coast pale ale).
This is an attractively located venue with some nice green space around in what is otherwise inner-city Wood Green. The venue has some outside seating at the front and right-hand side and inside it is bare boarded with the bar counter facing the front. There are some regular tables and booths down the longer left-hand side, but all of the seating and punter action was on the regular tables and chairs in front of the bar counter. The smaller right-hand leg offers some ledge seating looking out of the windows on that side but nothing remarkable to look out onto. This feels like a great community pub away from the hustle and bustle of the area around the tube station and it has a regular quiz on a Sunday evening. Would have zero hesitation in returning here if in the area or even making reasonable effort to trek here. Comprehensively N22’s finest!
On 24th May 2026
- rating: 8
[User has posted 1770 recommendations about 1743 pubs]
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Tris C left this review about The Prince
Dating from 1870, the last time I passed this former Charrington’s pub was in early 2010, when it was boarded up, looking rather forlorn.
Now the venue sports a black front, for this is now a rather trendy place, situated on attractive Trinity Road, overlooking a pleasant small greenspace. Given the exterior – minus the attractive tiled entrance plaques (see photo) – the interior comes as no surprise, with a black boarded floor, very dark grey – black? – paint job alongside some bare brick, black Victorian-style chandeliers with low wattage filament bulbs, white ceramic tiled bar back to – you guessed it – a bar array painted black, surmounted by fish-themed wallpaper; at least the ceiling was painted white. Furniture comprises modern, pale scrubbed tables alongside chairs which wouldn’t look out of place in a conference centre; a decent soundtrack played, but it was too loud to make conversation practical. Customers were mixed, with a few older more traditional locals, otherwise young, professional incomers, perhaps attracted by the swanky lavs, with two cubicles, no less and if you’re into merch, T-shirts with an image of the pub are available.
Aside from a real cider, the ale front initially looked impressive with five pumps pulling Hammerton N1, Burning Sky Plateau, Two by Two Leapfrog, Vibrant Forest JUPA and Five Points Railway Porter at a very reasonable £2.50 a half, served by a friendly barmaid, but this represents one porter and four pale ales; why not incorporate a stout, IPA and Best for some actual variety?
This pub is ok, but the lack of variety on the beer front and the dark, Gothic interior, not to mention loud music, rather let the side down; does this pub just select ales on the basis of pump clip design? Still, you could do an awful lot worse when in N22.
On 6th February 2023
- rating: 6
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Prince
It’s also only about a five minute walk from Alexandra Palace station on the Moorgate rail line and a couple of months ago I decided to walk past The Starting Gate ( limited ale choice on this occasion) and try this one out and very glad I did.
Somehow I missed that in recent years this formerly best avoided boozer has morphed into a cask and craft beer led pub. Well described by PubSignMan below I can’t really add anything except to say that the table candles referred to below have currently been replaced by bottles of hand sanitizer for obviously reasons.
The KSP of the Prince is now it’s regular changing beer range, and in this respect the bar top supports six ale hand pumps positioned between two banks of five craft beer taps and then a further small tap wall with five taps for ciders on the bar back.
For my most recent visit last month I had the pleasure of choosing between Burning Sky Plateau Pall Ale, Tapstone Brewing Hop Wire, Marble Brewery Pint, Two By Two Brewery Strata Talus Eleanor, Five Points Railway Porter and Wood Green Brewery Hopping City on the cask ale pumps. And those more inclined to modern craft ales could choose between offerings from Howling Hops, Two Tribes, Vibrant Forest, Twisted Wheel, Two By Two, Goodness and the fairy local Bohem Brewery.
Tried the Five Points Porter and the Wood Green brew ( well it would have been rude not to) and both were in good condition.
I have chosen to eat lunch here on the couple of occasions I have visited over the last months but the food is provided by what can be best described as street food pop up vendors who tend to change and not have extensive menus. The times I’ve tried them the food has been good but not what you would describe as standard pub fare. If you stick to the wet stuff the service levels have always been good in my experience.
On 4th January 2022
- rating: 8
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- Accommodation : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Beer Garden : No last updated 06 February 2023 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 06 February 2023 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 11 August 2017 by Bucking Fastard
- Darts : No last updated 06 February 2023 by Tris C
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 11 August 2017 by Bucking Fastard
- Hot Food : Yes - Thur -Sun - last updated 11 August 2017 by Bucking Fastard
- Jukebox : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Karaoke : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Live Music : No last updated 06 February 2023 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Micropub : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 11 August 2017 by Bucking Fastard
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 11 August 2017 by Bucking Fastard
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 15 November 2017 by Pub SignMan
- WiFi : No last updated 06 February 2023 by Tris C
