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The Beehive, Tottenham, N17

Stoneleigh Road
N17
N17 9BQ
Phone: 02088083567

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Tris C left this review about The Beehive

Dating from around the mid-19th century, this was rebuilt in 1927 in the classic brewers’ Tudor style, featuring on CAMRA’s list of pubs with historic interiors, this being of Regional Importance and grade II-listed; a detailed description and photos (note the stained glass Art Nouveau skylight and fireplaces) can be seen on their site; if you want to see photos of food, cocktails and typical punters (but not the actual interior), consult the pub’s website; muppets!
The interior’s a genuine treat, with an authentically baronial feel with a decent soundtrack over the stereo, rather than a minstrel playing a lute; a TV was spotted – off – so presumably sport, if shown, is selective. Décor amounts to some randomly scattered knickknacks and there’s a gazebo-style garden to the rear; typical customers can be seen on the aforementioned website, some attending life drawing classes on Thursdays.
The ale front amounted to two unused pumps, then just Five Points Best at £2.25 a half and very good too, served by a friendly barmaid.
This is a very nice pub, the best of my five-hole crawl, but the lack of ale choice is a pity; why doesn’t this place serve the excellent Redemption Hopspur, a suitably tribal drink, given its location? Twickenham’s Naked Ladies would also be an appropriate choice, especially come Thursdays…

On 13th February 2023 - rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Beehive

A well preserved brewer's tudor pub with a historic interior,it's well worth exploring.The first door you come to is for the Public Bar,quiet,no flatscreens here and lots of low tables and comfy chairs.Further along the exterior is a door marked Off Licence but not operating nor is the Jug and Bottle bar within.The side Saloon entrance is where the punters head for with it's long bar,fine wood panelling with other rooms running of it.Opposite the bar are some high tables while through a booth entrance is a quieter back lounge.There is a wide seating area infront of the patio doors to the extensive beer garden with ranks of wooden banches and a sports flatscreen.In fact there are lots of flatscreens and being a Spurs pub the locals were taking much joy from Man City's 5-0 demolition of Arsenal.
The food offering looked standard pub grub mostly around £11 such as burgers,ribs,jerk,steak but this isn't foodie and most punters are just quaffing.The keg selection is mainstream and of the 5 handpumps one clip was reversed while the other offered Redemption Hopspur (I've had better,NBSS 2.5,£4.20).
A little let down by the paucity of real ale (Spurs were playing at home the next day,so this maybe a permanent state of affairs) but worth wandering around the see what pubs were like in the interwar years.A fine example of it's type.

On 29th August 2021 - rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Beehive

This is a fine inter-war Brewer's Tudor pub with a large, multiple-room interior, just off the busy A10 High Road. I visited in the run up to a match at nearby White Hart Lane and found the place pretty packed, which made it difficult to get round to exploring in full. Entering to the main bar area you find the servery down the left hand side with a high bar back decorated with lots of interesting old electrical devices. A good deal of standard seating was available in the dark wood panelled space opposite and a few bits of old breweriana enhanced the traditional feel. To the right there was a doorway through to another side room, but having spent the best part of 15 minutes trying to get served at the bar, I wasn't in the mood to negotiate the crowds to explore. A lot of original looking doorways with stained glass panes detailing the room's function (Luncheon Room, Self Service Room etc...) can be still be found throughout the pub. The room opens out a fair bit beyond the bar into a wide seating space with loads of standard tables and chairs and large patio style windows on the back wall. These lead you out to a fine pub garden with loads of picnic bench seating and a large TV screen showing a live football fixture. A stall to the rear was doing barbeque style food which seemed very popular with the large crowd who had drifted out here on a warm Spring afternoon.
The pub's future was up in the air a few years back, but the place was thankfully rescued by a local pub company and they have ensured that a good range of ales forms part of the pub's strategy, perhaps explaining their popularity pre-match. Options on this visit were Redemption Trinity, East Coast IPA and Hopspur, Caledonian Flying Scotsman and First Dawn, Truman's Runner and Sambrooks Scrumdown. I couldn't bring myself to order a beer called Hopspur prior to my team's fixture against Spurs, so I enjoyed a few pints of the East Coast IPA, which flew out of the (plastic) glass. My only gripe on this front was that the bar staff were pretty slow in getting through orders, causing a long wait at the bar.
This is clearly a good pub that I can't say I feel I've done full justice to, having been unable to fully explore the place. The beer was well kept and this is probably the best ale range you'll find within a pretty large radius. I liked the look and feel of this place and would be very keen to make a return visit to have a proper poke around and enjoy some more of their beer from a proper pint glass.

On 17th May 2016 - rating: 8
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hondo . left this review about The Beehive

Located not to far from the fitba. Quite a dark interior with a courtyard at the rear. 8 real ales and food served.

On 23rd March 2014 - no rating submitted
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Roger Button left this review about The Beehive

On the face of it, finding a pub of architectural interest in an area like Tottenham is a tall order and yet the Beehive is one of the select pubs to feature on the CAMRA Inventory of historic pub interiors. Set back just off the High Street, this mock Tudor pub dates from just 1927 but the interior has remained virtually intact since then and retains several interesting features. The original layout consists of a Lounge Bar with Luncheon and Self Service Rooms, Public Bar and an Off Licence with the names are all depicted in coloured glass in the doors throughout the pub.

The carpeted saloon bar is a quite spacious with beamed ceilings, fine panelling and a brick fire place above which is a flat screen TV. The rear section is the “Luncheon Room” the glazed upper part of the dividing screen being still clearly visible. The small service bar still protrudes into what would have originally been a separate room although the 2 sections are now effectively one large L-Shaped bar. Another handsome brick fireplace with a splendid brass hood is the centerpiece with a second TV above. The walls are adorned with various plates and brasses. Off to one side is the “Self Service Room” that today houses a pool table, table football, 2 dart boards and even a boxing punch bag machine. Note the numbered doors throughout the pub, a throw back to when the use of each room had to be numbered and their purpose listed separately for licensing purposes. Despite its heritage significance, the pub has suffered from some insensitive treatment with old TV brackets still stuck on walls, cheap posters and an element of overall lack of care. The spacious beer garden that could be such an asset is also quite a mess with worn grass, a few tatty benches and, these days, several smokers.

The Public Bar cannot be accessed through the pub and is of lesser interest other than some fine paneling with what looks like an in-built darts cabinet below a trophy cabinet and a less handsome fireplace than its saloon bvbar counterparts. There is also a pool table although this is covered and pushed aside on match day when the pub naturally gets busy being en-route from Seven Sisters Station to White Hart Lane. That said, you can generally get a seat in one of the bars.

The beers themselves are generally a waste of time. There are 2 ale pumps and whether they are in use is very much a lucky dip. My most recent visit saw just a reversed London Pride clip and to be honest, the ales have never been either adventurous or well kept which is shame as this is one of the more interesting of the pubs in the area and could be so much better.

On 25th March 2010 - rating: 5
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Beehive

There were two handpumps on the bar, but neither were in use. Plus the Stella, Fosters and Carlsberg lagers were all off, leaving only John Smith's Smoothflow and Carling on offer. Not good. Although this pub is on the CAMRA inventory of London pubs with historic interiors, my stay in the Saloon Bar did not give me the impression that there was anything special about the pub. It had a dirty, uncared for look about it. The carpet was filthy and didn't look as if it had been vacuumed any time recently. Most of the stools appeared to have been inexpertly recovered with some whitish fabric. All in all it looked very tatty, but also lacking any of the character that a pub can still retain without having had a flash makeover. I can't see any reason to return.

On 2nd November 2009 - rating: 3
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