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Wetherspoons pub in Highgate, in the Good Beer Guide.

This landmark building at the top of Highgate Hill is inside a heavily wood-panelled pub, with booth and table seating around a large central bar and entrances on either side of the building. There's also a dining room down stairs to the rear. In winter, an open fire warms the building.

At the bar, there are several banks of handpulls, with the usual good range of ale and some ciders. Draught taps dispense Blue Moon, Leffe, Staropramen (£3.45/pint) and others.

The standard Wetherspoon's menu is in operation, and the food is of a consistent quality to other pubs in the chain. Ewan visited on a Tuesday 'steak night' and enjoyed his rump steak (on a two steaks plus a bottle of wine for £16 offer), which was cooked medium rare as requested, and was not as chewy and unpalatable as he'd initially feared. The bottle of wine was also decent.

Upstairs is a theatre holding around 100 which puts on plays and musicals throughout the year. Ewan saw a production of Guys and Dolls there and enjoyed it immensely.

See also:

• Fancyapint review
• Pubs Galore comments
• Beer In The Evening comments
• Barblog review