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Pub tucked away on a side street in [[Locale Canonbury|Canonbury]], not too far from [[Highbury And Islington Station]]. It changed hands around 2018; see <a href="https://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?id=Compton_Arms%2C_N1_2XD&version=20">earlier version of this page</a> for a description of what it was like before.
Good Beer Guide pub tucked away on a side street in Islington. It's rather untypical of Islington, being small, cosy, and friendly. It looks <i>very</i> small as you enter, but there's another area with seating for about 16 people accessed by going around the left hand side of the bar. It also has a small beer garden (smoking permitted) out the back.
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It looks small from outside, and when you get in you realise that it's <i>really</i> small, though a little further investigation reveals another (small) seating area around the left side of the bar. Out the back there's a part-paved part-decking courtyard beer garden with picnic benches.
[[Bob]], [[Kake]], and Liz visited on a Saturday evening around 5:30pm; we liked it enough that we came back the same evening around 9pm after dinner at [[Le Mercury, N1 1QY|Le Mercury]] down the road. Although the place was lively enough, we had no trouble getting a table either time. The service was friendly anyway, but got even friendlier when the Welsh barman realised that Kake and Liz were Welsh too. Very nice pub, and quite a find for the area; as well as its general niceness, its location on a side street helps stop it getting too rammed, since you have to know it's there.
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The floor is varnished wood, the walls are half-panelled, and chunky (somewhat fake-looking) wooden beams run along the ceiling. Above the muddy brown panelling, the walls are painted an inoffensive magnolia, relieved here and there by framed items including a Penguin cover for George Orwell's <i>Animal Farm</i>. The front windows are small-paned bullseye glass, and lighting is provided by stylised streetlamp heads.
There were 4 beers available. Greene King IPA (£2.80), Abbot Ale (£3), Davenports(£3.10) and Batemans XXXB.
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[[Kake]] visited on a Tuesday afternoon in September 2019. There was just one other customer at 3:30pm, apparently a regular. Retro music was playing, not too loud. The handpumps were clipped for Moor Nor'Hop and Ilkley Summer, and I gathered from the staff's conversation that they also had a Purity and an Adnams ready to go on. A pint of lime and soda was &pound;1.80.
Food served noon-2:30pm and 6pm-8:30pm Tue-Fri; noon-4pm Sat-Sun (no food Mondays).
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According to the Compton Arms website as of September 2019, food is served from 6pm Tue-Fri and from 1pm Sat-Sun, provided by [https://www.instagram.com/fourlegs_ldn/ Four Legs].
Other reviews:
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[http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/3428/ Beer in the Evening comments]
* [http://fancyapint
.com/pubs/pub98.html Fancy A Pint]
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Accessibility: A large step with no handrail to get in. No further steps to the ladies' once you're in. Two steps to the lower seating area, from which the garden and the gents' are accessed.

See also:
* [http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubreviews/23590/ Pubs Galore comments]
* [http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/3428/ Beer In The Evening comments]
* [https://straightuplondon.com/restaurants/four-legs-the-compton-arms-islington/ Straight Up London review]
* [https://whatpub.com/pubs/NLD/5448/ WhatPub entry]

<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]], September 2019. Opening hours taken from the Compton Arms website, September 2019.</div>
<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]] and [[Bob]], 8 December 2007. Opening times taken from the 2007 Good Beer Guide. Food times and details of smoking area verified by phone, 8 July 2007.</div>
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summary='Good Beer Guide pub near Highbury & Islington station, just off Upper Street.' summary='Pub near Highbury & Islington station, just off Upper Street.'
website='https://www.comptonarms.co.uk/'
summary='Good Beer Guide pub near Highbury & Islington station, just off Upper Street.' website='https://www.comptonarms.co.uk/'

Good Beer Guide pub tucked away on a side street in Islington. It's rather untypical of Islington, being small, cosy, and friendly. It looks very small as you enter, but there's another area with seating for about 16 people accessed by going around the left hand side of the bar. It also has a small beer garden (smoking permitted) out the back.

Bob, Kake, and Liz visited on a Saturday evening around 5:30pm; we liked it enough that we came back the same evening around 9pm after dinner at Le Mercury down the road. Although the place was lively enough, we had no trouble getting a table either time. The service was friendly anyway, but got even friendlier when the Welsh barman realised that Kake and Liz were Welsh too. Very nice pub, and quite a find for the area; as well as its general niceness, its location on a side street helps stop it getting too rammed, since you have to know it's there.

There were 4 beers available. Greene King IPA (£2.80), Abbot Ale (£3), Davenports(£3.10) and Batemans XXXB.

Food served noon-2:30pm and 6pm-8:30pm Tue-Fri; noon-4pm Sat-Sun (no food Mondays).

Other reviews:

Last visited by Kake and Bob, 8 December 2007. Opening times taken from the 2007 Good Beer Guide. Food times and details of smoking area verified by phone, 8 July 2007.

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