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True Craft, N15
N15
N15 5NR
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Bucking Fastard left this review about True Craft
Former street corner pub,now stripped out to form a craft keg bar and eatery.The furniture is largely metal framed and modern with all tables numbered.Along one wall is an open kitchen offering sourdough pizze (also takeaway) besides some caribbean options,it all smelt good.
The small bar has a cinema style visting board above with 10 keg options with on my trip 2 from Pressure Drop,including my Espadrille Sour at £5.80 the 2/3rd.Other options were from Exhale,Verdant,Deya,Wild Card (stout),a Lager at £4.20 and a house Timeless IPA 5.5%.The soundtrack was calm and cool ska and I was pleased to see that pricing wouldn't exclude local folk.
This is a laid back place,friendly behind the bar and a good addition in an area bereft until recently of decent places to drink beer even if that means no cask ale.Close to both trains and tubes at Seven Sisters.
On 29th August 2021
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about True Craft
This is a good sized, street corner, single room pub just a short walk from Seven Sisters tube station which, as the name suggests, specialises in craft beer. The open plan room has very scruffy exposed floorboards, walls either painted grey or left as bare brick, and a ceiling with an unusual geometric pattern across it. Two small pillars in the centre of the room do little to break up the open space which has been filled with metal frame chairs serving a great many small square tables. The servery is over to the right and has a counter that looks like it’s made from old railway sleepers which prop up the very thick stone slab counter top. Brewdog-style ‘cinema’ beer boards line the bar back and list all the available draught beer options. Décor is notably kept to a minimum, although as a fan of old pub signs, my eye was immediately drawn to one for the West Green Tavern – the previous name of this pub - which is on display on one of the walls. Along the rear wall, there is a drinking ledge with bar stools behind which is an open kitchen which was churning out large quantities of pizza to a full room of hungry Spurs fans on a busy (but notably not packed) match-day afternoon. The buzzy atmosphere was complimented by an enjoyable reggae soundtrack which chugged away in the background.
I counted a total of ten craft keg taps, all mounted in familiar fashion across the bar back and offering beers from the likes of To Øl, Tiny Rebel, Seven Sisters and Affinity, with one real cider thrown into the mix as well. I tried the Mile End Salvation Pale which had a good hop-forward profile but set me back a hefty £5.00 which is far from the sort of price I expect to be charged in this part of town.
This is a decent enough craft beer bar that doesn’t really do a great deal to stand out from the crowd but does at least serve an area that has become a bit of a beer and pub wilderness in recent years. With the renaissance in craft beer in Tottenham and the surrounding area, this makes a good addition to any craft beer crawl but isn’t really a destination in its own right.
On 31st March 2020
- rating: 6
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john gray left this review about True Craft
Ugly battleship grey painted exterior.Functional interior with cheap looking seating.Lots of keg beers and decent selection in the fridge.I had a Seven Sisters beer.
On 10th November 2018
- rating: 7
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Steve of N21 left this review about True Craft
The old West Green Tavern shut down some time in 2013 and has remained boarded up for the last few years.
But now the upstairs two floors have been converted into flats and the downstairs pub area reopened on the 15th of August 2018 as the True Craft Tap House and Bottle Shop with a bar area with 10 Craft keg taps and a kitchen area providing sour dough Pizza's.
Internally it’s a bit minimalistic with stripped back brick walls, wooden flooring and mainly wood tables and chairs with a couple of settees around the edge.
The Tap wall bar is on the opposite wall as you enter, with the pizzeria kitchen to the left and the bottle fridges and racks to the right of the bar. Local Tottenham breweries were well represented on the 10 taps with brews from Brewheadz, Beavertown and Redemption alongside other London offerings from One Mile End and the Seven Sisters brewery that now brews out of Bermondsey. I went for the keg version of Redemptions Big Chief and very good it was to. But at £4.00 for a 2/3 it should have been.
My Saturday lunchtime visit found it more functioning as a restaurant with quite a few groups in for the sour dough Pizza’s and hopefully it will be a bit more of a pubby experience in the evenings. But its good to have this former pub back functioning as a decent craft beer bar.
On 28th October 2018
- rating: 7
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Steve C left this review about The West Green Tavern
This pub is fairly basic with a generic draught selection, a couple of pool tables, Sky Sports and three plasma screens. The England v West Indies game was being shown and there was some good banter going on between the regulars, who all seemed friendly enough.
I can't see myself returning here again as I live miles away and I certainly wouldn't make a special trip to sample the delights of Seven Sisters again.
On 19th May 2009
- rating: 5
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