The Flask

Went for lunch on a Saturday with 4 adults and 2 children. Very busy and certainly somewhere to book in advance. Small selection on menu but I enjoy not having 20 dishes to choose from so this is a positive for me. Food was excellent with an excellent range of beers and ales. Service was also fantastic. My only complaint is that it’s probably not a place to take children. Overall though, very enjoyable lunch.

I visited The Flask on a miserable rainy day, the garden was deserted and everyone snuggled into the pub which is made up of lots of small areas, so you never quite get a feel for quite how big it is. You also completely forget that you are actually still in London — it feels a lot more than a remote country pub. Actually, it is quite remote if you don’t live locally. The walk from Highgate station is long and uphill all the way …
Still, well worth the effort, this pub is worth it. I remember stopping by here regularly years ago when it was still possible to rent a flat in Highgate — after a visit to the famous cemetery or back from a long walk around Hampstead Heath and back. The food menu is a tempting selection of comfort food.
Good selection of beers and wine, too — what’s not to love! Well, table service was a bit slow but if you’re in the company of good friends this doesn’t spoil the experience too much.

The garden is the best part of this pub — big courtyard and heated lamps in the colder months. They have a good selection of beers and wine. Pretty standard food fare. Perfect spot to spend around the table with friends and some beers — bottle (s) of wine.

Great neighbourhood pub in Highgate. Seating indoors can be a challenge and when I went there was no service, so you need to queue up for a beer at the bar.

Love this place and great food. Cosy and small so great for catching up with friends. Dog friendly too.

Great summer pub for a sunny pint. So many nice people drink here. Great area for walks x

Sometimes you find a pub with a great selection of craft and independent beers, but in not so great a setting. Sometimes you find a pub with a cosy fire, dark woods and a nice staff… but terrible beers. Tonight we discovered everything you could wish for including the craft beers, warm open fires, friendly staff, and good food. A country type pub in a village type area… yet only a few miles from central London.

A great garden for sunny days! Armed with a jug of Pimms and sunglasses, you can relax and enjoy the day here. Bonus points for lots of water bowls out for furry friends. I don’t have a dog, but I like businesses that lool out for their health/​safety too in hot weather. :)

Unimpressed. Ate at The Flask the afternoon of Easter Monday. In need of some proper pub grub we were all disappointed. It was busy but we managed to get a table outside and enjoyed the nice setting but the food was pretty terrible.
Two of my group ordered sausage and mash which came served with mash potato that reminded us of school dinners and not in a good way, a tiny serving of kale and two dried sausages. I ordered fish and chips which was awful. The chips were just warm and the fish was undercooked, soggy and wet. Yuk. We didn’t stick around. Not a cheap pub lunch with each dish £11−13.

What an unusual and beautiful pub in the heart of Highgate! Quite big as well, lot’s of really atmospheric rooms too, apparently the place is haunted! I had the fish and it was gorgeous! Their red wine is also very good!

Just luv, luv, luv The Flask!
I’m residing nearby here in wonderful Highgate for the summer and stop here daily after walking the dog for a late afternoon Pimm’s Cup on the lovely outdoor patio. Cool vibes, impressive menu and very dog friendly. They provide doggie water bowls for the canines…

Great location, spacious beer garden (but good luck getting a seat when the sun is out). Great value and great tasting food. The bar staff can be abit slow at times, good choice of booze.

Great pub to get drunk @ in the summer on a Saturday afternoon. Good beer, average food, awesome outdoor area. Worth a visit.

One hungover afternoon in London I was in search of something dank and cozy for my belly. After scouring Unilocal for about 20 minutes I stumbled upon The Flask. I read all of the reviews and decided that this was the place I needed to be. I put on a comfy sweater, shot my friend a text and told him to meet me there. Best decision of the day even though it was a bit of a hike for me to get there.
This is such a quaint and cozy little country-​style pub and I loved everything about it! The patrons here were mostly older gentleman having a few pints. It was quite without any music, but just a gentle hum of conversation, which I really enjoyed.
I have to admit, I did choose this place based on their burger review and it did not disappoint. This was a slammin’ burger — I could only eat half of it, that’s how huge this thing was. My only complaint was that I asked for it medium and it came out medium well (but I won’t hold it against them). Lots of beers by the bottle (even Brooklyn Lager, which I was amused by), cask beers and my good and trusty hangover cure, Bulmers (or Magners as we call is in The States).
Awesome spot. Would come again in a hearbeat!

Country pub in London? HUH?!
As a local highgate dweller, this is, i think my favorite city pub. Its situated 100m away from highgate high street, heading down towards hampstead. The pub is a Fullers pub, but it must be the flag ship venue.
There is a lovely Beer garden, which i would heavily recommend on a nice sunny day for a laid back session. For the colder (more common) wintery days/​nights, there is a period interior which is modern and very nice to spend a couple of hours chatting and eating away.
The food is very nice, there is a varied weekly menu, lunches are fantastic, i would highly recommend a steak sandwich (comes with chips) for the weekend definitely go for the roast. The prices are around restaurant prices, but the quality of the food is high enough to warrant the prices.
Now all i need to do is find a new girlfriend who will let me take her to places that she wont like, but i can eat my food and hers, then write a review =)
I would definitely recommend this place!

My immediate reaction to stumbling upon this pub went something along the lines of… ‘What the frak — how did they hide a giant-​ass big ol’ mother of an outdoor patio here?!’ To be fair, I didn’t really say that out loud, but it was amongst some of the more colourful inner monologue I’d had with myself that day.
And though I can’t speak to the food from first-​hand experience, I can say that the burger in particular looked massive and mouthwatering. Instead, I downed a pint or two of Blue Moon (on draught, no less) and enjoyed being outdoors during the brief London summer days.
Though there’s more outdoor seating than you’d find virtually anywhere else around these parts, you’ll still having to be somewhat cut-​throat in order to grab yourself a table on a nice evening. However, it can be done… and it’s wholeheartedly worth it!

A very nice pub with a lovely patio.
They have a good selection of beers in bottles and on draft. The pub has a lot of authentic small rooms and doesn’t have the touristy feel some other London Pubs have.
A nice location for a pint or two…

I’m originally from Boston, Massachusetts, a city that prides itself on it’s history. And yet, when you’re sitting at a bar, fresh in from America, in a pub that’s older than the damn country you just left, all history is put to shame.
The Flask now holds a place in my heart for being the first English pub I went to after moving to London. It’s the local of my colleague and I was psyched to go try it out.
This is an old, giant pub with a beautiful wood interior and stone patio outside. Drinks are at the bar and you then can take them to one of the medium sized rooms throughout the building or to a wooden table outside.
Now, I can’t accurately judge the space since I was there on one of London’s legendary nice days, where the sun was shining and it was hot, meaning it was too warm inside and everyone was outdoors. The patio was filled with people everywhere, which I loved, but made it a little hard to grab a table. Still, we happily stood, drinking, until one opened (and then pounced on it.)
They serve food here and the burgers are monstrous creations (they were so big they looked hard to hold.) Next time I’m trying one for sure.
And yes, it’s crazy old. The stonework said it was created in 1663. If a bar has survived that long, it has to be doing something right, right?
This is clearly an after-​work bar. People had come right from the office chatting, eating, enjoying a summer night in Highgate. I couldn’t have been happier on Day 2 in London.

I love the Flask… it’s as close to the idea of a German beergarden as you can get here in London — although I doubt that they would be amused if I decked the table with my red-​checkered cloth and my home-​made sandwiches — which is a staple of any good German beer garden.
In any case, the Flask is a great place to meet up with friends during the warm London days; but it is equally pleasant to come here during the colder season. The inside of this ancient pub (AD 1663) offers plenty of seating, spread over various medium-​sized rooms.
Now, as for the food I can only give three stars — its solid pub food, but nothing to rave home about. I usually go for the burger, but the sausage and mash doesn’t disappoint either. (If you’re looking for a gastro pub, I’d recommend St John’s Tavern down in Archway or The Wells Tavern across the Heath in Hampstead Village.)

I have a confession to make. I have long said that this is may favorite pub in Highgate. I call it my local even though you have to walk past a total of four pubs to get to it.
The place has just about everything you want from a pub, and I don’t just mean horrendous Korsakkov’s inducing levels of beer. There are warm helpful staff, a good tasty, if not a little heavy seasonal menu (try the duck confit, double nomnom), a labyrinthine set of wood paneled rooms, a fire, a wonderful beer garden (thats eternally packed) and the Heath a few mins walk away. Everything one would need come rain or shine.
If you walk there from Highgate the pub hides round the corner facing Hampstead, urging you to stop as you make your way to the Heath playground, it almost always wins. It’s a place where I always take friends keen to be impressed, drank the night away with the local Hash House Harriers chapter (def’ no running after that!) and taken refuge from the cold snow by the warm fire.
You, my old friend, how can I not give you 5 stars.