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Antwerp Arms, Tottenham, N17
N17
N17 8AS
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Pub SignMan left this review about Antwerp Arms
This is a good-sized back-street local’s pub, close to White Hart Lane Stadium and with an emphasis on well-kept cask ale. You enter to a compact front bar area with the servery on the rear wall and some very limited seating options around the perimeter, mainly under the front windows. The servery has a pleasant dark wood counter and traditional bar back whilst the rest of the room boasts some rather nice partitioning screens with attractive decorative panes. Décor is fairly simple, with the eye generally caught by the TV screens dotted around the walls showing muted live football. The room extends down the right-hand side for a long way to the rear, with tile flooring and half panelled tongue and groove walls with cream uppers throughout. Things have been brightened up somewhat by the addition of some art prints, old photos and a dartboard, although more of the above is needed in reality, as these are long plain walls that need as much sprucing up as they can get. A couple of skylights and a large patio door to the rear help illuminate this part of the room in daylight hours and there was another TV screen also showing the muted football match. The patio doors open out to a beer garden furnished with some sturdy looking benches and popular with the smokers who were constantly coming and going throughout my stay. It goes without saying that my visit, immediately after a Spurs home fixture, saw the place rammed, but the staff coped pretty well at the bar and it was far easier to get served than it was to move through the pub.
The four operational handpulls were all dispensing beer from the nearby Redemption brewery, with Hopspur, Pale Ale, Trinity and Fellowship all available on this occasion. My pint of the Trinity was very well kept and slipped down nicely, perhaps because the locals seemed to be putting away a lot of the redemption beers between them, ensuring good throughput.
I definitely could’ve caught this pub at a better time, but despite the crowds and lack of standing room, I really enjoyed my visit here, having a bit of good banter with some Spurs fans and enjoying the tasty local beer. It’s nice to see a back-street boozer in an unfashionable neighbourhood turn things around and start doing well for itself – I’ll try to get back out here on a non-match day to appreciate the place at a slower pace.
On 1st April 2020
- rating: 8
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Steve of N21 left this review about Antwerp Arms
The resurgent Antwerp Arms is now our pub of choice for match days. Saved from the developers when several local benefactors , including THFC themselves, stepped up to raise the final £125,000 needed before the deadline, this community owned pub is well described by Rex below. The only thing he missed is the small secluded courtyard garden outback which is pleasant when the sun is out and a boon on matchdays..It would be rude not to drink the Redemption Hotspur and its usually a well-kept pint..
On 15th March 2017
- rating: 8
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Rex Rattus left this review about Antwerp Arms
This is a pub that's been on my radar for some while, and this week I finally summoned the will to get myself up to Tottenham to pay it a visit. And I'm glad I did. There are four handpumps, but only three are ever in use, with often only two with the third being brought into use when Spurs are at home. But when I visited on Monday three were clipped - Wadworth Dirty Rucker (but which had apparently finished the previous evening), plus the Redemption pair of Pale Ale and Hopspur. The Hopspur was in very good condition, and at the very reasonable price of £3.30 a pint for a 4.5% beer. The kitchens aren't yet up and running.
This is now a community owned pub, having been saved from the grave by a relatively recent campaign. It's a simple one-room pub with a modern bare-boarded floor, and mainly furnished with with banquettes and normal tables and chairs, but with a couple of armchairs. The pub has been extended at the back with the addition of a conservatory, which leads out to a garden at the back. This is an attractive out-of-the way pub, that would no doubt originally have been built to meed the needs of the less well-heeled members of the community. There are attractive bowed and lattice glazed windows at the front, a nice brick fireplace on the right, but other than that period features are in short supply here. The bar back and counter are both modern, but the (grey painted) panneling on the walls may be old, if not original, features.
I saw an advert for live football matches to be shown, but when I was in at early doors on Monday lunchtime only one of the three TVs was on, showing some midday news programme. I also saw a piano residing at the back near the conservatory. I was the only customer so cannot comment on the usual evening atmosphere of the place, but the barman/landlord told me that they get very busy on matchdays (no surprise there!), to the extent that they ensure that they have three ales on. The number of ales that they have on is constrained by the limited stillage that they have available.
Despite, or perhaps because of, its simplicity I really liked this little pub. It has a delightful setting looking out over Bruce Castle Park, plus my pint of Hopspur was on super form. This is a little oasis in a desert of pubs that don't do real ale in this area, and is the sort of enterprise that fully deserves our support. I plan to return sometime.
On 20th November 2015
- rating: 8
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- Accommodation : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 10% - last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Car Park : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 09 November 2014 by hondo .
- Darts : Yes last updated 09 November 2014 by hondo .
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Function Room : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Hot Food : No last updated 20 November 2015 by Rex Rattus
- Jukebox : Yes last updated 09 November 2014 by hondo .
- Karaoke : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 20 November 2015 by Rex Rattus
- Micropub : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Quiz Night : Yes last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 20 November 2015 by Rex Rattus
- Real Cider : No last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
- WiFi : Yes last updated 01 April 2020 by Pub SignMan
