The White Swan (Upper Street - Islington)

The White Swan (wetherspoons)

And what a wetherspoons she is! You get searched on the door by the bouncers and enter into a large venue first with a low celing and then opening out into an art deco nightmare of wallpaper and warehouse style ceilings. There is a kind of veranda out the front but inside it feels very much like the lobby of a Holiday Inn or similar motel. There is a rather smokey middleaged crowd inside seated at crap tables with an awful service at the bar to match. The drinks in here are upper street prices so of course they are more expensive and the back end is always empty. It really is an enormous pub for a wetherspoons, okay I've seen perhaps one more bigger but its impressive for islington.

Overall I wasn't amused, its the place to drink only if you cant see the walls for the awful wallpaper or for the bagfulls of money in your pocket required to drink here. Points for size but little else so 4/10.

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