The Famous Cock Tavern (Highbury Corner - London)

The Famous Cock Tavern

Seated next to the station in waht seems like a rougher-than-average area of London sits the Famous Cock Tavern. The name certainly made me laugh for indeed I wondered if the name was once soemthing else and it had been changed by a furious landlord's wife in the early hours of one morning a hundred years ago when she found him sleeping in the broom cupboard. The venue is a medium sized sports style bar openeing early for breakfast in the morning with several large screens,a few fruit machines and a well stocked bar. The bar man is rather friendly and the pub is populated with high stools and booths on what is a mostly traditional layout for a pub. At the back is a beer garden and the bar selection is mainly ladish with very few girls in eyeshot.

Overall a fairly cheerful sports pub, a slight sting on the prices - £1.50 for the smallest coke you've ever seen and nothing impressive, charming or even appealing except somewhere to park your bottom and watch the darts at 8am. 5/10