location:
address:
891 High Road, N12 8QA
phone:
0871 984 3830*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Woodside Park 
(550m) - zone 4
Totteridge and Whetstone 
(1.2Km) - zone 4
West Finchley 
(1.3Km) - zone 4
how to find it:
From Woodside Park tube, walk East up Woodside Park road until you reach the High Street, at which point, turn left. The pub is a few minutes walk along, on the left.
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Malt & Hops, along with the Elephant's Head, is the closest thing to a proper pub around these parts. It even looks like a pub, having once been a coaching inn, rather than popping up as a shop conversion. There's a pool table, big screen sports and lager aplenty, which makes this pub a rather blokey proposition. That said, a beer garden (complete with boules, if you ask nicely) can provide respite if the football is on. There are a couple of reasonably kept ales, a pool table and a generally good-natured atmosphere. Even though, in the overall scheme of things, it's somewhat unexceptional, the lack of good alternatives means this is one of the best pubs in the area.


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