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The Baring, De Beauvoir Town, N1

55 Baring Street
N1
N1 3DS
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Tris C left this review about The Baring

Date of visit: 19th October 2016 – rating: 3

I came here once about six years ago and found the place to be a little lacklustre. A return this evening and if anything, it's now even more dull; the promises of fun made on the pub's website don't exactly stack up once you're inside the place. The Boring perhaps?
Curved yes, and not that large with an insipid pale grey colour scheme throughout, spartan, bare boarded with conventional mixed furniture though really quite tatty. The main focal point is the TV over the former fireplace showing football to a rather down-at-heel local yet minimal (five-person?) local crowd, who, you guessed it, devoted their time to swearing at the referee/linesman every time a call didn't go their way.
Ales: four redundant pumps, thereafter just Meantime's Yakima Red craft, cold, and £2.40 a half!
A return visit? No chance, not least because the vastly superior Rosemary Branch is about 10 feet up the road from here, serves real ale, is a lot cheaper and isn't depressing.
I wouldn't be surprised if this place gets converted to residential use in the near future...

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A return a couple of nights ago to a pub which dates from the 1840s and despite the width, the interior is quite shallow.
This reopened in July with the original name partially reinstated, but it’s still a farewell to arms.
Suffice to say, not one molecule of the original interior remains, the whole now looking much more like a restaurant/ wine bar. Gone are the TVs, but now there’s a modern boarded floor, a white ceiling and white walls, some of which are distressed bare brick, the bar is dark smoky blue field panelled with a modern pale wood top, the bar back is just very simple grey matchboard with just two basic shelves, the whole clearly geared towards cocktails. Lighting comes in the form of Anglepoise sconces with white painted exposed metal trunking, then hanging white translucent teardrop shaded lamps over the bar; jazz mood music played over the stereo. Furniture is now modern wooden stuff, with dark vinyl fluted banquettes. Customers are now the more prosperous incomers who have contributed to the area’s gentrification and very mixed in age too.
There were two pumps, one unclipped the other delivering Sussex Best at a painful £2.75 a half but in very good nick, served by professional staff.
This isn’t a bad place for what it is, but I don’t think that it can be described as a pub anymore and in any event, the far superior Rosemary Branch is next door. However, this place was full last Saturday night, me bagging the last table. When you consider that this place was dead in its former incarnation, it’s funny what gets the punters in.

On 5th September 2022 - rating: 4
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Baring

An elegant exterior curving gracefully,the interior is sparse but not oppressive with traditional circular wooden tables,chairs and a wooden floor.The dark green wall covering goes well and the small bar contains 3 handpumps for on my visit a real cider,TT Landlord (Served southern style without a tight sparkler so NBSS 2.5,£5.70) and the third pump clip reversed.The craft keg selection is modest featuring some Beavertown among others.Food is served although I didn't inspect the menu.
There are sun trap benches on the front pavement well used by locals,while there is also a charming walled beer garden at the rear built on decking ,elegantly covered by an awning and with space heaters and ornate candle holders at each table.No doubt atmospheric if threating your partner to an evening meal.
The welcome was friendly and chatty,the muzak hip but not too loud and although not much to get the pulse racing from a real ale perspective it does seem to serve it's community well,laid back and cool.

On 11th August 2021 - rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Poet

Corner pub with a slightly curved frontage, located on a side street near the Regent's Canal. Renamed from The Baring since my previous visit nearly four years ago, and although now self-described as a 'wine bar and gin parlour' little actually seems to have changed inside the wide but mostly narrow bar with plain furniture and limited decor, with a rear alcove to one side. Pride, Landlord and Five Points Pale (£4.70) available from what is now just three handpumps. Very quiet early on Christmas Eve, but at least it was open (unlike many other pubs I walked past that afternoon).

On 2nd January 2020 - rating: 6
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Essex Road, 0.49 miles, 9 min walk (show)
Haggerston, 0.75 miles, 14 min walk (show)
Hoxton, 0.93 miles, 17 min walk (show)
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