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location:
address:
2 Essex Road, N1 8LN
phone:
0871 984 2962*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Angel 
(550m) - zone 1
Essex Road 
(560m) - zone 2
Highbury and Islington 
(1Km) - zone 2
Caledonian Road and Barnsbury
(1.2Km)
King's Cross Thameslink
(1.4Km)
bus routes:
38, 56, 73, 341, 476 
how to find it:
Leave Angel tube, turn right and walk along Upper Street for a few minutes. When Essex Road begins, you will see the pub on your right.
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nearby attraction(s):
Business Design Centre (350m)
Sadler's Wells Theatre (860m)
With the unimaginatively titled, 'Bar & Dining House' a distant memory The Winchester has settled into being one of Essex Road's less frenetic bars, compared say, to the perpetually rammed Old Queen's Head. Agrarian style old floorboards have been nailed to the walls, creating a look not dissimilar to the nearby 'Elk in the Woods' and on the evening we visited, the food and cocktail menus looked interesting enough and were tagged at the usual Essex Road prices. Musically, they were playing it safe with pleasant but unexciting middle-of-the-road music, but perhaps the DJ Bar in the basement may have served up something more challenging later. Incidentally, the very same basement also offers up a free post-ironic Monday night film club (Transformers, anyone?). We can't imagine their description of being a 'boozing lounge' will impress Daily Mail readers much, but the twenty somethings lounging on the leather sofas seemed happy enough.
12/06/2008
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