Alice House, Queens Park, NW6

Fairly large corner pub that has no real ale. But it does have a decent selection of craft beers and cider. Harviestoun Alice Lager, Wild Beer Bibble & Partizan Porter were on. The cider was Sandford Orchards Devon Mist. I'd booked a table as requested, but I received a ticking off for arriving 10 minutes late. They'd almost given our table away, which wouldn't have been a problem considering there were plenty spare. We were only stopping for a quick pint. But they'd blocked the table for 6 hours, which clearly demonstrates that the system can never work. All urinals were blocked off in the gents. Another practice that I find odd. This was despite signs stating that only 1 person could enter at a time. Surely using the urinals is no more of a health hazard than using a cubicle, if you're the only person in the toilet? I did quite like the atmosphere of this place though. So, I wouldn't rule out a future visit if in the Queen's Park area.

The Alice House is a corner pub that is painted in the trendy London battleship grey colour. Once inside there is a single decent sized room,the bar is on the left side,there were mid sized tables and stools near the bar and chunky wood tables and chairs elsewhere,there was a small raised area to the front right,plus a seperate area down a few steps to the rear. There were no pumps on the bar,but there were those very tall fonts which had craft crap beers flowing from them,i had a drink of London Fields Hackney Hopster which was expensive and looked like a light coloured sludge,it tasted slightly better than it looked,there were five other craft keg beers on,i noted Camden Hells Lager and Camden Ink. The pub was almost empty on my Thusrsday dinner visit. There was some very good background music playing during my visit,with one track by Pink Floyd which you dont usually hear in pubs. This is a decent enough modern pub,that could have done with one token real ale on. Pub visited 1/5/2014

Official site of the Alice House - www.thealicehouse.co.uk

Official site of the Alice House - www.thealicehouse.co.uk