Arsenal

@Club (The Arsenal Tavern)

175 Blackstock Road N4 2JS

Date of Visit : 5th October 2005
Approx. Time of Visit: 7.00 pm

Route Used: Piccadilly from Holloway Road
Distance Traveled : 0.46 miles

Guests: None
Clientele: Down and outs
Pub Number : 080

Characteristics	Rating	Comments
Ambience	0	Devoid of
Facilities		4 x SKY TVs
Ladies		Chinese barmaid, drugged up girl and old Irish hag

OVERALL

Disappointing all round, (couldn't even get an 'ar888se' gag into the review)

This was the pits... and it took a good ten minutes of walking to find it! A left out of the tube, past the soon to be bulldozed Highbury stadium and via the backstreet terraced housing we encountered the @ Club. This was formerly known as The Arsenal Tavern but someone must have had the great idea to reinvent this hell-hole. And reinvent it they did by scaring off most of the punters and covering the ceiling with maroon lino! Still, it progressed my mission to make JJ drink at some of the ponciest pub names possible (within the rules of Marathon Drinking). It is likely that this pub is crowded on match-days with Gooners desperate to watch the Sky TVs, but on this particular night (and I'm sure many others) the pub was less than a fiftieth full! The only chink of amusement came when an old Irish guy (let's call him Paddy) wandered in, ordered a pint of Guinness and plonked a large bag of potatoes on the bar. Neither we or the Chinese barmaid had much to add to the ensuing banter which ran along the lines of "by Jaysus... there you go with your bag of potatoes". There simply was nothing left to say so we started the trek back to the station in search of a final beer (and hopefully some food) at Finsbury Park...

A hint of what this place might have been once....

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