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Euston Tap, NW1
Euston
NW1
NW1 2EF
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Quinno _ left this review about Euston Tap
After an elongated period without visiting I’ve found occasion to pop in twice lately. The selection is broad (always at least one dark on cask) with good quality breweries rather than cheap rubbish, the cask quality excellent and prices are incredibly reasonable for London, you’d struggle to find comparable within 5 miles outside of Wetherspoons. The toilets will forever remain appalling and the spiral staircase is an absolute nightmare. But where it really matters - the bar - whilst others have fallen away, this one seems to have upped its game and it’s a must-do on a Zone 1 crawl. 8.5
March 2020
My original review seems have to disappeared into the void somehow. Many pixels have been spilt since then by others so all I need to say is - it's one of two original buildings at the front of the (scandalously) demolished old Euston Station.
Upsides - lots of beer in great shape; prices reasonable for London. Quirky surroundings.
Downsides - lethal cast iron spiral staircase with no passing points. Being hassled by the local junkies and scumbags outside.
It's a good place. Rated 8
On 20th February 2024
- rating: 9
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Ian Mapp left this review about Euston Tap
Incredibly, I've never been here before. Too loyal to the Doric Arch - the closest pub I have ever had to having my own seat :-)
Converted lodge from the original station. Lovely beer garden - if you can forget you are in the middle of a bus station. There's actually a rather cute upstairs room (where the loos are) if you look hard enough.
Chalk board with around 20 keg taps on. Some nice discoveries, with kernal (£7.20) and a cheaper Kelham Island Pale Ride on.
GBG reguly, inlcuding 2024.
On 16th October 2023
- rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Euston Tap
A right curiosity, and one of the least likely places to find a pub (let alone one serving up to seven cask ales and 20 keg beers on draught). The small bar takes up a good part of the single-room former gatehouse (one of a pair guarding the main entrance to Euston station), with green tiling below the counter and the distinctive copper-fronted beer dispensing system behind. Just enough room for a few stools around the walls and narrow standing areas to the front and sides (where the well-stocked bottle fridges are located). There is also a compact spiral staircase leading to the additional seating in a compact lounge upstairs (where the limited toilet facilities can also be found) and a small patio beer garden on the station side. Price-wise, a Lunchtime Bow Tie from Howling Hops came in at £5.00 on my latest visit.
On 23rd September 2023
- rating: 8
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Brainy Pool left this review about Euston Tap
Great ale range and at very fair London prices. £4 a pint was the cheapest I found all weekend. They have made the most of not much at all here, it’s basically a well-stocked beer stand for a swift one before your train. Not one for a session unless you love breathing in fumes and watching stressed out commuters rushing around. Hard to rate but I’m certainly glad it exists.
On 17th July 2022
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Will Larter left this review about Euston Tap
I've never really warmed to this place - the building is interesting rather than comfortable, and the walk up the cramped spiral staircase to the awkward toilet is enough to suggest that postponing your recycling moment would be a better idea, unless (like me on my recent trip to London) you actually arrive with a pretty desperate bladder. And then when it comes to restocking, I find the bar unattractive and the way the beers are displayed and served also doesn't help. On this occasion I deliberately went for a beer that I had drunk at the tap for the Five Points Brewery, the Pemberton Arms in Hackney. I had felt that it was a poor beer but wanted to find out if that had been because it was treated casually there. The same beer here, Five Points Best, was superb, and when I had finished drinking it at an outside table I went back in and complemented the bar staff. I managed to do it in such a way that it seemed like I was complaining about the beer, so that when I ended up telling them how the beer was so much better than it was at the brewery's own tap they were doubly chuffed, as I had anticipated.
On 13th May 2022
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Euston Tap
ORIGINAL REVIEW August 2011.
My first visit to this very fine addition to the London drinking scene.I visited on a Friday after work fully expecting a heaving bar,but pleased that although busy it was never rammed.There is a lot of transient custom with folk popping in for a quick one on their travels,and customers spill outside to drink on the terrace or on the pavement with a fine view of buses manoeuvering .On my visit the blackboard to the right of the bar listed 8 cask ales with an admirable range of strengths and styles from various well respected microbreweries while the board to the left listed 12 kegged beers and lagers ,many at high ABV priced by the half.The fridges supply interesting bottled beers.I thought the ale prices very reasonable for the location.
If you have a head for heights it is worth ascending the tight spiral staircase to see if there is a seat available because the ground floor is primarily for vertical drinking.The loos are upstairs as well which needs to be factored in by anyone with mobility issues.
The clientele is not dominated by beer tickers,the kegged beers were more in demand than cask and a younger generation of drinkers were in the majority on my stay.As others have mentioned the less experienced staff have not quite mastered the skill of serving customers in the order that they have been waiting at the bar,but thankfully the punters are more versed in bar etiquette and normally point out who should be served next.
I will definately use this pub again,there is always the chance of being presented with an outstanding ale to get your teeth into.
UPDATE October 2016
Over 2016 I have used The Euston Tap on a number of occassions and feel compelled to increase the score here to 10,simply for the outstanding real ale selection in absolute peak condition from the likes of Marble,Siren Craft,Arbor,Cloudwater and Hopcraft.The bogs are still a mess,it can get crowded immediately afterwork on a friday,but that's a price worth paying if you are hunting for the very best that real ale can offer.And the prices are more than reasonable for Central London.Can't wait for the conversion of the Cider Tap opposite to another cask ale emporium which will also allow a spruce up to this bar in time .A "Must Visit" when in the capital.
FURTHER UPDATE April 2022.
Covid and the lower central London footfall has dealt a heavy blow to the Euston Tap.Although the keg selection is still wide,and the number of real ales has increased since the various lockdowns,the ale policy now seems to focus on low ABV pales and bitters.Gone are the higher strength interesting brews from leading exponents ,the selection these days can lead to disappointment at the "samey" nature of whats on offer.A significant downgrade from me.
On 18th April 2022
- rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about Euston Tap
Housed in the West Lodge at the entrance to Euston station, this is the product of the gang behind the vastly superior Sheffield Tap and as it happens, superior (but not great) Hackney Tap.
Having passed this place on far too many occasions to possibly contemplate, I decided to succumb to curiosity and experience drinking in what essentially looks like a two-storey mausoleum. The interior’s well described below, with a high ceilinged entrance room with painfully little space, the vast majority of drinkers braving the rear beer patio. Then there’s the helical staircase, which is too narrow to allow passing space; several attempts at an ascent were aborted due a customer descending. Once up, I found myself in a dingy little room, with a scruffy floor and studded banquette seating to the burgundy walls, with a few railway themed prints applied to them. It’s quite claustrophobic and the small size amplified the conversation of the lads at the table next to me. I then realised that a tall screen to the rear, was there to hide the doors to the lavs, which open directly into the room: a single-person urinal, seemingly with no lock and a unisex cubicle. A group of around five women arrived and took a seat, none with a drink which I thought odd. Constituting half the room’s occupants, it then dawned on me that they were queuing for the loo. Another drinker tried the door to the urinal, only to reveal the user, visible to me from where I was sitting; a group of people at a table were munching a pizza just three feet from the cubicle’s door.
There were five cask ales displayed, with one having gone off, the list not matching that advertised for the day on the bar’s website. I opted for a half of Gun Scaramanga at an extremely agreeable £2.10, but it was cold and bland, like a glass of water with a few drops of lemon juice in it, finished by me under sufferance, served by a barman who was friendly enough, despite his vacant stare.
Not being a fan of seeing people use the lav when I drink, I really didn’t take to this place one little bit; the deathly bland beer didn’t help and I rather wished I were in the O’Neill’s sports bar over the road, with a half of Foster’s. Euston tap indeed.
On 18th March 2022
- rating: 3
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Euston Tap
After a lengthy train journey into Euston, I just had time for a Sunday evening visit to the Euston Tap. I've never been a big fan of this bar, especially since the Cider Tap closed. But it's still the best option in the Euston area with the Bree Louise having also been sacrificed for HS2. The East Lodge (opposite) is often closed these days, as was the case on Sunday evening.
It's a single two-storey building that used to be one of the two gatehouses for the station. The bar takes most of the space on the ground floor, with very limited seating options. As such, the ground floor is primarily for vertical drinking. However, if you can negotiate the narrow, spiral staircase to the upper floor, you can almost always find a spare table. Toilets are also upstairs. But it's a real pain having to keep going down the stairs to the bar to fetch drinks.
All beers are served from taps behind the bar. 5 cask options were available on Sunday - Hammerton N7, Five Points XPA, Big Smoke Solaris, Gun Parabellum & Timothy Taylor Boltmaker. However, there are more craft beer options - Mondo Captain & Campana, Brick Blackhorse & Peckham Session, Siren Soundwave, Hackney Mysterious Spectre, Signature Roadie All Night & Pink Vinyl, Five Points Jupa & Northern Monk Eternal. The fizzy cider was the Real Al Company Crafty Apple.
In addition to the multiple taps, there is also a good bottled range, with large fridges either side of the bar.
Staff here tend to be very helpful and knowledgeable, whilst customers tend to be fairly transitory. I often see a few familiar faces from the London pub scene in here. When we arrived, it was busy. It soon emptied out, before becoming really busy again. Such is the nature of the popular and convenient venue.
On 17th March 2022
- rating: 7
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Blackthorn _ left this review about Euston Tap
A quite unusual pub housed in a tall vertical building that was perhaps some sort of gate house in a former life, it’s one of a pair either side of the approach road to the station, although the other one to the east was not open on our Saturday lunchtime visit. There is a small amount of outside seating on a terrace and the surrounding pavement.
Internally it’s fairly minimalist, and could perhaps qualify as a micropub were it not for the music that were playing. The bar counter takes up a good percentage of the available floor space, and together with refrigeration units for bottles, this covers the whole of the back wall. The flooring was some sort of quarry style tiles, although oblong in shape rather than the more usual square. Glazed green tiling was on the lower part of the walls, as well as a ledge for resting your pint on. Seating was fairly limited, consisting of stools around the perimeter and at the bar counter. A rather steep spiral staircase in the corner led upstairs, although we did not investigate this. Other than that, there was little of any note other than a chart on the wall showing different styles of beer.
Beers on tap were Moor So’Hop, Adnams Bitter, Redemption Trinity, Bad Seed Shortcut, Beartown Sha-Man, Five Points Pale and Five Points Best. Another dozen or more craft ale options were available on keg, dispensed from taps mounted to a copper plate behind the bar counter. The solitary cider was Adnams Wild Wave which is a new one on me, but went down rather well. It’s certainly an unusual location for a pub and there was a decent beer selection, but I didn’t really warm to the pub style and it’s not anywhere that I would rush back to.
On 8th May 2019
- rating: 6
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Delboy 20 left this review about Euston Tap
An odd place for a pub but it works. Great selection of cask, keg and bottled beers which are not that expensive. I have been looking forward to visiting this one and I am glad I did.
I didn't attempt the spiral staircase!
On 11th October 2018
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