Beer: Redemption Hopspur 4.5%A strange but welcome pub, just round the corner from Camden Road train station. Hardly a "must visit destination", though this pub is unusual in NW1 for retaining a local feel. It also manages, just, to carry off its Irish theme (musical instruments and gardening tools hanging from the ceiling, posters of Churchill, L Richard, Presley, Winehouse, J Stewart, Laurel and Hardy, J Wayne, Margaret Hamilton, J Cagney).
A beer towel in the pub promotes Greene King IPA as the English cricket team's beer. Both IPA and England cricket team are poor, though thankfully, the Redemption is fine and the Old Eagle's toilets excellent. Best of all, a good looking black and white cat sits behind the bar, bold as brass. Dogs are often excellent pub additions; cats rarely so. S/he (looked like a tom) was probably enjoying the wafts of Thai cooking.
Lovely pub when it's quiet. I expected it to be horrible on a Friday night. It wasn't.
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