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location:
address:
77 Highgate West Hill, N6 6BU
phone:
0871 984 3784*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
Highgate 
(910m) - zone 3
Archway
(1.1Km) - zones 2/3
bus routes:
143, 210, 271 
how to find it:
Best thing to do is to look this one up in your street guide, but from Archway you can walk (or catch the bus) up Highgate Hill. Once you reach mini-roundabout the top of the hill turn left onto Highgate West Hill and its on the left.
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For a long time the Flask has been a great traditional boozer - a rambling olde worlde experience in the olde world village of Highgate. Stories of ghosts and Dick Turpin only add to a sense of it being a bit special. Sadly the only ghost you're likely to encounter these days is that of a once excellent pub. Being an M&B's unbranded pub, it does the usual good range of ales and continental lagers, but the food is expensive and supremely disappointing. Some of the obligatory loungey furnishings sit at odds with the aged interior and the view from the front is now filled with an ugly permanent gazebo, a massive generator and poorly arranged garden furniture. Its also odd for a pub which is frequently incredibly busy to have closed the larger of the two bars, leading to frustrated customers and long queues. Added to this service is patchy; considering we visited at the quiet end of the week empty pint pots and dirty ashtrays remained uncollected everywhere. Ultimately, to get the best out of the Flask, visit out of peak times and avoid the food, but it really should be performing better than this.
16/04/2007
Eating at The Flask ... we last ate here on 16/04/2007
- quality
- value
regular guest beers
outdoor seating
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