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The Mother Red Cap, Archway, N19
N19
N19 5SE
Pub Type
Punch TavernsReviews (Current Rating Average: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Tris C left this review about Mother Redcap
A quite historic pub this, and as resolutely Irish as they come.
The interior is much as described with some modernish wood panelling and floor and bar with a slightly raised area to the front corner. However, there's some fantastic polychromatic Victorian tiling and mirrors. Otherwise it's a bit tatty.
There's a pool table to the rear and a few TVs showing the horse racing.
As you'd expect in a pub catering for Celtic customers, there's no ale and the Irish landlady was accommodating enough but this place held few surprises and I don't envisage a return visit.
On 21st September 2017
- rating: 3
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Alan Winfield left this review about Mother Redcap
The Mother Red cap is a corner pub that is situated at the top end of Holloway Road and close to Archway tube station.
Once inside there is a U shaped room which is bare boarded,there is bench seating to the front with small stools,plus a drinking shelf on the left side which had chairs to sit on.
The TVs were showing rugby and there was a pool table to the rear left.
There were no real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Worthington Cream Flow,which was a poor drink.
Not a pub to go out of your way to do,but i was on a crawl and trying to do all pubs on Holloway Road.
It seemed friendly enough to me.
Pub visited 25/2/2017
On 30th April 2017
- rating: 6
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john gray left this review about Mother Redcap
Big old Irish boozer with Sky sports ,pool and big keg fonts selling the same lagers as the rest of the local pubs.
On 12th May 2015
- rating: 4
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Steve C left this review about Mother Redcap
I didn't spot any real ale, but there was plenty of lager and Guinness – This is Archway after all!
The sign on the wall outside the pub says that this place has ‘the friendliest welcome on Holloway Road'. I know that this is hardly a massive feat, but I thought I would test this out and I have to admit that the landlady was very friendly. There is a pool table around one side of the pub and 2 well placed plasma screens which were showing Sky Sports. The major let down I found with this pub were the locals who were not very accommodating and loitering in the wrong century. I ended up leaving just before the band started.
I'm still to find a decent boozer in Archway – The search continues.
On 22nd September 2008
- rating: 5
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