The Flask, Highgate  rated2 pints - click for an explanation of our ratingsCask Marque pub - click for an explanation of the Cask Marque scheme

location:

Highgate

address:

77 Highgate West Hill, N6 6BU

phone:

0871 258 9779*
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nearest stations:

Highgate London Underground station
(910m) - zone 3

Archway London Underground station
(1.1Km) - zones 2/3

bus routes:

143, 210, 271 bus info

how to find it:

Best thing to do is to look this one up in your street guide, but from Archway you can walk (or catch the bus) up Highgate Hill. Once you reach mini-roundabout the top of the hill turn left onto Highgate West Hill and its on the left.

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nearby attraction(s):

Highgate Cemetary (280m)

picture of Flask
For a long time the Flask has been a great traditional boozer - a rambling olde worlde experience in the olde world village of Highgate. Stories of ghosts and Dick Turpin only add to a sense of it being a bit special. Sadly the only ghost you're likely to encounter these days is that of a once excellent pub. Being an M&B's unbranded pub, it does the usual good range of ales and continental lagers. Some of the obligatory loungey furnishings sit at odds with the aged interior, however and the view from the front is now filled with an ugly permanent gazebo, a generator and poorly arranged garden furniture. Its also odd for a pub which is frequently incredibly busy to have apparently permanently closed the larger of the two bars, leading to frustrated customers and long queues; indeed warm summer weekends finds a queuing system in place to cope with the masses. Ultimately, to get the best out of the Flask, visit out of peak times and avoid the poor food, but it really should be performing better than this.

reviewed:
18/12/2008
reviewed by redcat

Eating at The Flask ... we last ate here on 16/04/2007

The Welsh lamb burger was small and of below average quality, with meagre garnish and a sorry portion of chips. At £8.50 we were distinctly unimpressed. We spied equally unhappy customers. The lamb burger at the nearby Wetherspoons is actually better (and we don't say that lightly).
food rating 1 - quality
price rating 3 - price

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