The Landseer
The Landseer
37 Landseer Road
N19 4JU
Date of Last Visit: Sunday, January 18th, 2009
The Victims: Gerry, Ben
The Damage: Less than £20 for some beer and a bowl of French onion soup.
The Background: I wrote a while back about how I thought 2009 would be the year of playing games in pubs. So it was that I found myself on a Sunday afternoon at The Landseer in Holloway with my bag of tricks. I convinced Gerry and Ben to play Quiddler and despite Gerry's dislike of word games, she managed to kick all of our butts big time until I squeaked ahead in the last possible round!
The Entrance: The Landseer has a lot of big windows. On a chilly but sunny Sunday like the 18th, this really makes it the most perfect place to hang out it. Really, it was lovely.
The Service: Super congenial. Someone had definitely taken their happy pills.
The Food: I ordered French onion soup and some chips. The French onion soup was pretty bad. Gloupy in a bad way. And there were lots of little sticks in it. Like someone had thrown in the twigs from a lot of old bay leaves.The chips were nice though…nice shoe-stringy frites.
The Verdict: Go back for the windows. And the frites. Also, they have pretty much ALL the Sunday papers, which makes it a nice place to while away a few hours.
Feb 04, 2009
Heh, you know Ben & Gerry. What are the chances. Actually, I’ve no idea, as I’ve no idea how I came across your blog. Could have been on Gerry’s reccomendation
The best thing I found at the Landseer was a rather excellent Bloody Mary – perfect for the Sunday morning after the night before. Makes dealing with the Sunday supplements a mite more entertaining too.
Feb 04, 2009
I thought of your blog when I saw a couple playing backgammon in a West London pub last Sunday…
Feb 05, 2009
What is going on with that French Onion soup? The crouton with the cheese just looks so wrong! At least you had board games to entertain you I suppose…
Apr 30, 2009
Rude staff.
Poor food.
Very expensive