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The Old Manor - Wylotts (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

The Old Manor - Wylotts

Lots of old people having their last meal. the music glides with the creeking of their bones, but it is reasonablely calm and to be fair is much nicer than most of the alternatives in the area and it seems from the popularity that this is no secret. It is a small network of round tables, corner tables, long wooden tables in what starts as an old shanty bar and turns into a fully fledged budget restaurant which looks like it does quit ewell for itself. The timber ceiling adds a nice older effect and dispite the inital impression that this just serves the local nursing homes, it is in fact very pleasent and safe.

Overall a calm among the stormy, loutish bars of Potters Bar where the more traditional pub goers appear relaxed and the elderly can afford a suffient meal in peace. 6/10

Cask and Stillage (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

Cask and Stillage

When a team of loud, beer-bellied louted locals literally shout at you when you enter a pub in between singing the worst hits off of an knock-off jukebox, you feel unwelcome and slightly scared. This venue certainly has atmosphere, but I wouldn't call it comfortable. From the outside the place doesn't look very large but it canters off into a raised platform to the right with a pool tables and games machines and narrows off at the back into a covered back garden. Darts are also available. The experiences one can expect in this pub are young teenage girls drunkenly staggering in off the road in broad daylight to throw up in the toilets, only to get thrown out afterwards; the most vile language you have ever heard coming out of the mouth of a father of three with young-uns at the table; and young adult males slamming 50 pence pieces on the pool table with such force I fear that by the time you go to visit the pub, it will just be a hole in the ground.

Overall a truely authetic Potters bar effect pub. Avoid unless you are looking for some kind of fight or if you have lost the will to live, but hey, they do have darts, and it is a quaint building! 4/10

Old Owens Sports Ground Bar (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

Old Owens Sports Ground Bar

If you are on the lookout for someone under the age of 18 having a good old drink head-down here- ok you do have to be a member of a nearby school (hence the loophole) but if you know anyone in the area they can normally get you in. Its typically a small bar with dancefloor out in the sticks on the way to goffs oak from potters bar. The drinks are very well priced and theres plenty of seating. The music is of course dreadful but nothing beats it in the summer as it overlooks large playing friends and basking in the sun with your pint while watching football never felt so good.

Overall a simple 6/10. Not worth heading there unless your sure you'll get in- its a long walk home!!
 

The Green Man (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

The Green Man
This is a chav-hole. Approaching the place it is cast in mysterious shadow- a large building but upon entering you feel like you are ina  cottage with a bar. The cheapest thing served here is a £1.69 pint of carlsberg and everythign else is rather ripped off. Goign around the corner brings you into a dark and dismal club atmosphere with pool tables plasma TV and enormous noise of RnB which throws you off your feet. The crowd is lutish and young and the toilets are cold and uninviting.

Not very good but it is open late- so it gets 6/10.

The Duke O York (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

The Duke O York

Yikes, this isnt a pub at all so whats it doing here? Its a beefeater surely? A restaurant? No belive it or not if your doing a pub crawl from potters bar to barnet you're going to have to stop at this pub because its the ionly wateringhole on the way. Drinks are overpriced, half the seating is outdoors and amist the screaming kids this place has little else to offer you.

Overall 1/10 for pity

The Admiral Byng (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

The Admiral Byng


The large wetherspoons in Potters Bar caters the whole community. Living in the area would mean seeing a thousand well known faces every weekend- It is a good size and the toilets are very well kept. There is a short queueing and waiting time with lots of parking in the surrounding area, with good access from kings cross via overground station. On a friday night it can become too crowded and the bouncers will happily deny you entrance based on the colour of your skin or the colour of your trainers.

Overall a 7/10 because it can very accomodating.

The Builders Arms (Potters Bar)

The Builders Arms

In the car park behind this pub there is a gap in the fence and thats where one of my friends lives. Therefore I spent a lot of time in this pub knowing I could stumble out into the thicket at the back come closing time for a kip. This place is a nice kind of old-man pub. A lodge like glow with some good ales and a fine atmosphere. Very few young people are accepted inside by I thought it was a genuinely nice pub even if it was a bit out of the way.

Overall 6/10 for this one.

The Bridge (Potters Bar - Hertfordshire)

The Bridge



Okay I have no pictures of the actual pub but this is the view from the pub on the day of the potters bar rail crash as its on the bridge parralell to Potters Bar train station. It a Small pub, big car park, overlooking the potters bar overground line. Yes the average age range in here is about 19 and theres plenty of boozing and race hate going on all round. Its got darts and snooker table, music and a Barman who sounds like he gets penetrated every night by a stampede of sabertooth tigers that maul him to pieces and spit out just his voicebox. No no No.

Overall 1/10 so go on in if your looking for a fight and a floater in your fosters top!

The Strafford Arms (Potters Bar)

The Strafford Arms

This place used to do a mean double vodka and slush puppy but since has stopped doing it and instead specialises in Schnappz shots and video jukebox music as well as lots of pool tables. Its a big pub and a good one to spend a saturday afternoon in whiling away watching the football, its a bit out the way for a friday night though. Expect a crowd of school children of as lunchtime from owens just down the road and old men at all hours peaking with trendy youths at about 10pm.

Over 8/10 because the drinks are splendid and its does food.

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