The Abbey Tavern

Solid pub, food, beer and vibe. The menu is phenomenal and so is the Sunday roast. Service is very casual and friendly.

Un gran pub en una zona muy poco céntrica y conocida de Londres.
Esto queda a unas 10 cuadras ponele de Camden Town para el lado de kentish town road.
Frente a una iglesia (maybe por eso el nombre) y es un pub ENORME.
Una barra enorme de madera en el gran salón, un patio trasero bastante grande, un jardín y hasta una terraza llena de luces re lindas al aire libre para mirar los jardines traseros de Camden.
Buenas birras (aunque las ipas algo chotas), buena comida, eventos deportivos y algunas buenas opciones ciertas noches.
Es una gran opción realmente. Y me sorprendió bocha. Tuve la suerte de quedarme justo enfrente así que fue muy fácil.

I’ve been looking for the best Sunday roast in North/​Central London for a while, and it looks like I’ve found it. This place has such a lovely relaxed vibe, in the winter there is a lovely warm atmosphere, and in summer, there are different levels in the huge terraced back garden to chill in. There are lots of nice ciders (important to me!) and best of all is the food. I’ve eaten here several times and it’s always delicious. Don’t forget to save room for the incredible deserts.

Personally I think it is a great space! Lots of room, love the decoration. The thing that made me walk as much as I did, was that this pub is dog friendly. It makes it a place to come back.
The prices are acceptable and the personnel is really nice. I just don’t give 5 stars because they should have table service, which they don’t, and for the amount of people working there, it would easy, and their payment scheme: if you order food and beverages, the food can be paid in the end, and the drinks must me paid right away. Other than that is a great place to hangout, with lots of nice and beautiful people.

My girlfriend and I just moved here from Australia and are fortunate enough to have the Abbey as our local. The selection of beers and ciders on tap is great (you can actually get a cold well carbonated ale which is pretty rare), not to mention the huge of range of bottled beers.
We have never been disappointed with the food. The décor is very cool and the music is great!

I’m having a great night out I’m really enjoying myself this is is the second last pub on tonight’s pub crawl & I think this place has had the best tasting beer all night there selection is very good & the food is really nice.

Soooo close to 5 stars! The atmosphere is chill, the garden and upper terrace are absolutely perfect with great comfort food and craft beers.
The only complaint I have that they don’t have the option to run a tab, which means you have to close out every single round. Very annoying after a couple of rounds.
With everything else on point, it’s hard to penalize them too much for a failing like this, but hoping they add this ability at some point.

Gorgeous juicy burgers with in house baked buns. Sweet.

I really enjoyed the time I spent at The Abbey and will go back again. The staff were friendly and efficient. The roof terrace is a lovely spot to chill and enjoy some food and a cider on a summer’s day. As a Canadian, I jumped at the chance to enjoy a poutine (chips, cheese and gravy). I regretted it immediately. I am not picky about cheese and gravy on chips in anyway, so I was shocked that I found this version very hard to eat. It was way too salty and the gravy was way too thick that it became this overly thick and goopy version of a poutine, that no one in our party actually enjoyed eating. I really regret not getting the pulled pork. However when the poutine is on the menu in London, a Canadian girl will always jump at the chance for a taste of home.
Another bonus was the live music on Tuesday night. I don’t alway enjoy the live music in pubs, however I really liked what I heard at the Abbey. I will be coming back again to try the pulled pork. I hope it lives up to the expectations from watching other people in our party wolf down the pulled pork sandwiches. They looked huge, so I would say it seems to be good value for the money. I will report back if I am disappointed the next time I visit.

The Abbey Tavern is one of those gold-​standard British pubs that I would meet friends at. It’s not touristy but it’s not such an old man-​pub that I feel out of place by not knowing every bartender’s name. The perfect blend of the two.
It’s also gigantic, with a large open space as you walk in and long wooden bar, a beer garden in the back and a surprise semi-​hidden upper deck of this garden with even more (covered) seating for those warm but rainy days.
The beer selection is good, nothing amazing but nothing horrible either. They can do your basic cocktails but anything fancy, nope, as I once watched a friend try to order something and get a blank look from the man behind the bar. Stick to simple, you’ll be fine.
They have a kitchen and usually a pop-​up will be working hard behind there. When I went last time, they had the amazingly named Phileas Hog (with an image of a pig in a top hat in a balloon) cooking up meat. I got the poutine, yes, poutine, but it wasn’t as wonderful as I had hoped. Great chops, great cheese curds, bad gravy. Ah well. My friends got pork sandwiches and devoured them, said they were amazing. I know what to get next time.
This place also holds fun nights, like open mic nights every Tuesday. There’s a good space up front for live music so if a show or something is going on and you walk by, it’s worth stopping in.
A great pub indeed.

I came to this pub some time ago to watch a friend play on an open mic night. I remember it as a nice place, but perhaps short on decent options to drink. That had definitely changed recently with Redemption Trinity and Adnams Lighthouse now available. My friends were strongly against the refurb the place has had which surprised me as I didn’t notice too much difference from my first visit. It is obviously a cleaner looking, shinier place today.

A really nice pub, one of the best I’ve been to in Camden. Was here for the Camden Crawl and it accommodated lived music well too. I shall be going back!

Yay! I’m a fan, as my star rating suggests. This funky pub is enjoyable at all hours. Serves good pub grub so you can pop in for lunch or boogy till the early hours in the evening. The staff are friendly, the atmosphere is alive and the beer garden is large enough to fit plenty but intimate enough to feel like you’re chilling outside in the garden at a house party. A great pub all round.

I seem to get trouble when I write reviews on here… they show up on my Facebook and I get told off… I like it.
The Abbey Tavern. Must have been past the place millions of times, on my way to cash converters or the job centre… I never noticed it until one lovely summer evening my friend said to come down to Kentish Town… «KENTISH TOWN» I always seem to echo someone when I have a certain displeasure about somewhere… YES I am a Post Code snob, even though I was first chasing the ladies in E17 (don’t go there)… where was I… oh Kentish Town, lovely place, NOW, but it always had a very bad rep, kids from school would say they were from Kentish to seem «well-​hard» and even the biggest of fellows would take a chill pill… or sniff tippex, I’m not sure. Nowadays due to the expansion of Camden, Kentish is getting a more positive name for itself…
I really liked it. the reason I was there was a secret but I got free food, and boy do I know how to abuse a friendship, in the nicest possible way. The was an acoustic night on in there and that was pretty sweet, quaint little technical problems that are just adorable. The quality of mostly everything was good and the staff very relaxed and not stressed about numbers or had to be concerned with the local dregs.
I was and still am confused about the garden. as lovely as it is, something within me tells me that I shouldn’t go to the upstairs bit and chat to whoever’s there, so next time I will venture up there, as for the rest of the garden, spot on. enough tables, chairs, standing space, a little canopy, lights twinkly enough… the bogs are a maze, but all part of the fun. It is what you would call a «Tardis» bar, very unassuming on the outside, awesome on the inside… The only thing is for me, getting home is actually a mission. what would be a 15 – 30 minute walk is not possible because of Hampstead Heath, the hill around it, no more busses, and a sleepy cab controller, which means a walk to Camden to get two buses… but that’s not the Abbey’s fault.
Anyway… Enjoy!

Wanna know how much I love the Abbey Tavern?
I was recently there for a show (Ahab, I love you. Marry Me. All of you.) and in between songs I managed to slide up to the bar. Noticing that they did have a few interesting cocktails on offer, I quickly switched from a beer mood to a spirits spirit, so I asked for a whiskey sour, to which the bartender replied: «Hmm? A whiskey what?»
That’s funny… it’s not loud in here… maybe it’s that Americaness in my voice. so I tried again:
«No worries, just a WHISK-​EEE-​SOW-​AH, please.»
«What’s a whiskey sour?» the bartender replied, completely straight faced. I gathered myself, did another check to make sure they do, in fact, offer cocktails, and rattled of the ingredients. I even broke down sweet ‘n’ sour, just in case. But as soon as I saw the spoonful of sugar drop into the glass and the lemon being cut up, I had to stop this eager bartender as the whiskey might have just jumped out in rebellion upon first drip.
«Actually, I’ll just have a whiskey ginger beer, thanks. So sorry for the trouble.» This also caused confusion.
But you know what, I was so in love with The Abbey Tavern by this point that it didn’t even phase me. The staff is hilarious, kind, chatty and good spirited and the bar is the type we all wished we lived near. Whiskey-​sour-​ineptness just became their ‘awwww, cute’ factor, as something annoying always does with those you love.
Maybe I should have asked for a whisky sour instead… (arg… those blasted Scots triumph again!)

Un bar spacieux avec de la tres bonne musique et des groupes ou djs presque tous les soirs. Les tarifs sont raisonnables, il faut compter environ £3 pour une pinte ou un gin tonic.
L’autre plus, ce sont les deux grandes terrasses (un Beer Garden et encore une sur le toit) avec des grandes tables, lumieres cosy et du chauffage. Un bon plan pour sortir a Camden et etre sur de pouvoir soit s’assoir, soit danser !

The Abbey (124 Kentish Town Road) is actually really pleasant. I say ‘actually’ because nobody I know goes there regularly, although, on the rare occasions when we do, we will inevitably comment on its red-​lit, wooden-​floored, rather elegant long bar and interior. Its winning card is a very shady secret garden, with hidden treehouse and private heaters.
They need to sort the food out though. It’s not terrible, but you’d never actually go there to eat scran is always a default option. But there are other pleasures: live music nights and other arts-​based events, and a chilled-​ish KT crowd.

A funky bar and pub with a great patio, cool music nights, and nice food. They have good, interesting burgers with a wide variety of toppings – the Kentish burger with horseradish sent shivers right up my spine, it was so, uh, horseradish-​y (but the beets were a bit weird). Chips are so-​so. Bartenders have always been nice and chatty with me.
I’ve been here when they have open mic night during the week and you get a really interesting mix of contenders from outstanding vocal artists plugging indie singles to odd, eccentric locals singing self-​penned romantic ballads that make you want to laugh (but that would be mean). The DJ nights are also a lot of fun, though people won’t start dancing until well into their third or fourth beer past 11:30.
And did I mention the cool roof patio?

Inside and out, this bar is my go-​to when anyone comes a-​knockin on my Camden town door! Far enough away from the bloody tourists, it offers some amazing food, like burgers, jerk chicken and other caribbean-​ish food.
I brought co-​workers here one friday night and now it’s officially become our ‘work pub’ as everyone always suggests we come here, even if it’s further a walk than the other nearby pubs. The staff are really good about reserving areas if you call ahead, and there’s no charge for doing it.
The garden is quite swanky, with its mismatched chairs and low-​hanging foliage everywhere… very shabby chic. There’s also an upper bar, decorated in hawaiian themes, that I haven’t been to but shall endeavour to go and write back! It’s usually a fight for seats from about 6 pm on, so get there early or put your fightin’ gloves on! It’s totally worth it!

Oh Abbey! You’re like a mirage in the desert… the desert of Kentish Town… I always think there’s going to be more going on up here since there’s an HMV venue closeby and you’re on the outskirts of booming Camden Town, but the bars seem to be a bit sparse. Luckily, I found exactly what I want out of a pub here. They do pretty massive burgers and have a great relaxed but trendy vibe.
I haven’t made it out back yet because it was quite chilly when we were up there, but I do want to see this garden I keep hearing about!

I am a hardcore rocker trapped in a sporty, ravers, love to shake my booty body. There is a goth rock guitar legend waiting to burst out of me I tell you.
I thoroughly enjoyed my first visit to The Abbey Tavern. The darkened surroundings of this well designed shotgun bar are lit up by red spotlights and a long line of lampshades giving off a warm orangey glow. Atmosphere is cultivated by the deep rock tunes that seemed to resonate with a decidedly hip and cool crowd I have never until now witnessed in Kentish Town. With cheap drinks on offer behind the well stocked bar, free wifi and a guitar enhanced track list played at the perfect volume, the Abbey Tavern has the potential of becoming a regular haunt of mine.
Oh I didn’t mention the garden and West Indian inspired food menu did I? I only caught wind of these tit bits of information as I left. I stopped briefly to grab a takeaway menu and salivated all the way home. Plantains, goat curry and the fabled jerk are just a few things that may make The Abbey Tavern my new-​found best friend.
Great bar, great tunes, great crowd and seemingly great food.

The Abbey Tavern is one of my all-​time favourite pubs in all of London. A cool, funky vibe, wonderful ambience, great service, and really killer food all combine to make some sort of shimmering, invincible robo-​pub where everything rocks.
The garden in back is my very favourite things about The Abbey. They’ve got a wonderful, large street-​level area with big wooden picnic tables and umbrellas, and some gigantic trees also provide some lovely, cool shady bits as well. Heat lamps are plentiful, and the shared tables make it easy to meet some new friends if everyone’s had a few pints. There’s also a lovely roof garden as well, with shade, sunshine, and a bit of a tropical vibe going on. A warm, lazy evening out in back with a pint and a group of friends is a seriously wonderful way to spend a night.
The food is great, especially for those of us who prefer our chips nice and crunchy. The Abbey Chicken Sandwich is my particular favourite, though I’ve heard that the Jerk Burger is also especially nice. They also have posh-​pub fare as well, such as salmon fillets, pumpkin soup, grilled halloumi, and mussels. I’ve never gotten more adventurous here beverage-​wise than a pint of cider or a glass of white wine, but they do both of those just fine.
The service is friendly and efficient, and they do a great £10 plate-​and-​pint deal which the bar staff helpfully remind their customers of in order to help save them a few quid. Catchup and mayo can be a bit hard to come by at times, but I’ve never really had a less-​than-​pleasant experience with the service.
While my husband was out of the house all day yesterday, I took myself out for a little treat. I went to Owl Bookshop just up Kentish Town Road and bought myself a wonderful new book, then meandered down to The Abbey to grab a table under a tree and read over a delicious lunch. The combination of my really exciting new book, my crispy-​crunchy chips, icy-​cold pint of cider, and having a few moments to myself to sit under a tree made for a deeply satisfying and decadent afternoon.
A+, Abbey! You rock my heart and my soul.