The Baring, Hoxton

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location:

Hoxton

address:

55 Baring Street, N1 3DS

phone:

020 7359 5785

nearest stations:

Essex Road Railway station
(690m) - zone 2

Old Street London Underground station Railway station
(1.2Km) - zone 1

Angel London Underground station
(1.2Km) - zone 1

Canonbury London Overground station
(1.3Km)

Highbury and Islington London Underground station London Overground station
(1.4Km) - zone 2

bus routes:

21, 141, 271

how to find it:

If you've got the route worked out you can get here fairly quickly from Angel tube. The easiest way though is from Essex Road BR station: head down New North Road (past Le Montmartre) and keep going. At the turning onto Baring Street take your first left and you'll see the pub. The buses mentioned all go from old street and take a couple of minutes

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picture of The Baring After an unsuccessful attempt at being a gastropub a couple of years ago we were pleased to see The Baring return again into pub territory. Happily, every subsequent visit confirms this was a change for the better. The bar's still on the small size but the upstairs has been opened up to offer a 'games room' with a pool table, a dartboard and table footy. Its an odd space, not unlike a student rec room and it includes a big screen for the sport. There's a small, simple menu (at a reasonable cost for a pub in N1) and a couple of ales on tap. Service was distinctly friendly and its always nice to report on a pub trying out something new to bring in the punters: in this case a fiver gets you admittance to the quiz and a curry on Thursday nights. Just shows that imaginative thinking in the pub game can extend further than closing off half the pub and getting in a named chef. It does need more customers though - we've seen it quiet on a number of occasions and it needs more than half a dozen punters on a Friday night to survive in the long term.

reviewed:
21/03/2008

Eating at The Baring ... we last ate here on 30/3/2007

Everything seems to be home-cooked and prefectly edible, but not exactly outstanding. In the past we've had average sandwiches and overly salty mussels. Still, you can see they're making an effort and we're confident things will only improve.

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