The Old Dairy

Nice pub that looks new from front but you walk out and around and realise it’s quite an old building with a quite beautiful exterior with detailed designs. Good pub for booze and mostly family and a few young professionals. Right near Crouch Hill station and on cross roads of some good shops and in between Finsbury Park and crouch end so Perfect for a stop off pint or two of walking in either direction.

The Old Dairy is a very popular spot in the area. It’s a semi-​hipster pub which shows all major sporting events on a large screen. The food is standard, the drinks reasonably priced. The staff are lovely, really friendly and helpful.
I’d say that if you wanted to make friends here you’d need to be a smoker, however there are lots of sections to this pub so it works really well as a venue for events.

Being my previous local, I like this pub. The atmosphere, food and location are all great. The pub is good for groups to grab a bite or watch the rugby/​football.
The staff area always attentive and the place is great for a Sunday roast — I would definitely recommend for a hangover!

Nice little boozer. Great for families as u can chill out on one of the tables or sofas
Great Sunday afternoon vibe

Lovely place for lunch and a few relaxed drinks. Lots of history to the building as an old dairy.

This is a pleasant, quiet bar. It’s one for talking with the people you came with rather than joining in the scene. You’re unlikely to make new friends here!

We love coming to this large spacious pub with a group of friends for drinks or dinner. It never fails to please and the food is great and filling and service is fab! Great for families too.

A ‘tardis’ looking pub in the sense that from the outside it looks quiet small and moreso like a restaurant but walk around the corner to the large black doors and you’ll be in for a surprise… That surprise being the size of the pub with more than one section to it truly making it a modern day tardis.
The Old Dairy is a pub located within seconds of Crouch Hill Station and either a bus or a 10minute walk away from Finsbury Park Station with a cool, unpretentious and down to earth feel.
The Old Dairy serves not only drinks, but also food with the menus seemingly changing by the day due to each menu having the exact date of the day in which you attend. Although I am yet to try the food, I am very pleased with their drinks and customer service. With one of the only pubs that I’ve visited that serve more than one type of cider on tap (I think there are 5) I happened to be spoilt for choice. With the excellent customer service of a chatty and knowledgeable barman, I was given a recommendation AND a taster of the cider I was considering drinking without having to purchase a full glass and not enjoying it, that is what I call top notch.
**Down-​to-​Earth trendy pub within close transport links of Finsbury Park and Crouch Hill Station serving an array of drinks and food. Clientèle tends to be young but mature with many groups dotted around this pub. With many sections including use of the dining space for a more quiet drinking experience, this pub is certainly on my top 3 of pubs that I enjoy visiting**

The Old Dairy is a great venue and does good food. If you just want a drink, let me know. If you want to want to watch football, let me know. If you want food here, let me know. Anything else, then go somewhere else, but the Old Dairy is a welcoming pub which caters for all.
One Liner: Big pub where you can eat, drink and watch football
Address: 1 – 3 Crouch Hill, London, N4 4AP
Phone: 020 7263 3337

Cool massive pub with lovely explosed brick and large windows looking out onto the street. Fabulous for people watching.
We did not eat but noticed these really big booths in the dining area that could fit up to 8 people. Very cool!

I don’t come here often but every now and again I find myself in Stroud Green in need of a pint, some warmth and somewhere to sit and, most of the time, the Old Dairy fits the bill.
It’s sprawling and has lots of zones including ones that are more suited to dining whilst others are for drinking. There is a reasonably large selection of beers and ales on tap and, judging from the posters in the toilet, they put on events every now and again which is nice to see happening in a local London pub.
My friends had just finished their food when I got here and they were happy enough with it. I wouldn’t go out of my way to come to eat here but with those friends having just moved in down the street, I will probably be coming here more often in future and will update once I taste it.

There are so many different seating areas here, you can visit many times and have a different experience each time. The only downside is that it can get very crowded — testament of the pub’s popularity!
I’ve only eaten here once with a friend — the hamburgers are amazing!

This place just makes me happy and has a warm feeling to it! The Old Dairy is large yet welcoming. There are different rooms and you can change depending on your mood. I prefer to take a seat on one of their cozy couches in the front main room and watch a match or play a board game or two.
I have not tried their pub fare yet but I plan to return shortly. They do have scoops of ice cream available and for a pregnant girl like myself having to join my friends in a pub, this place is perfect!

The Old Dairy is a well known pub in the «north of Finsbury Park”/“south of Crouch End area», and a favourite of many locals. Situated in an expansive area, the establishment hosts not just a large bar with tables, chairs and many comfortable chairs to lose oneself in for an afternoon, but also a reputed restaurant, serving mouthwateringly good food, for a slightly above average price, and even a «bring your own bottle» deal for Monday evenings. As well as this, they frequently organise evenings, such as the pub quiz on Tuesdays, which you can certainly expect stiff competition, as it seems most of the pub takes part, and, while the prizes are generous, the questions are equally difficult! One warning, however; this place does get busy, so if you’re considering going for an evening, it’s best to get someone along to bag a table as early as possible, as it does fill up in the evenings.

This place gets kudos for atmosphere, it’s expansive and an ideal place for a gathering, it loses points for the very unsympathetic renovation of the building and also for listing a large number of very palatable ales on a chalk board without actually selling many if any of them. Apparently, they are the beers of which they may sell one or two at any time. When I went it was a trifle busy and I felt that the staff could have used a little help, It’s not a place I’d rush to if I was nearby, but neither would I walk past if I was walking that way.

God, I’ve really tried to like this place.
It’s the closest decent pub to where I now live and, while the pub bit of it I can live with (plenty of choice behind the bar, plenty of tables/​comfy chairs, not too surly bar staff), the restaurant bit flatters to deceive.
You glance over while drinking in the pub bit and it looks so inviting, with low lighting, big booths and a little window in to the kitchen.
But then you go over there and find that the booths are reserved for God and personal friends of the staff, all the tables give you a great view of the ladies loo (I’ll leave it up to you as to whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing) and you freeze to death as soon as anyone opens the door to go out for/​come back from a fag — which is v often.
The menu follows suit, in that, it looks great but all the «interesting» dishes are terrible and all they can really nail are s&m/f&c/the burger — all of which are over-​priced by between 2 and 4 depending on the dish.
When we tried to order dessert, the waitress didn’t have her notepad on her so said she would be «right back» which turned out to mean getting her pad, taking an order from another table, chatting to her colleague for several minutes, checking on another table to see if they wanted anything then coming over when she saw we were waving at her to attract her attention.
The dessert, when it came, was v good rhubarb crumble on the inside of the ramekin but, unfortunately, garlic cheese on the outside.

Yup… definitely worth returning to!
I came here last night as I was «home alone», yet I somehow wanted to be among other people. So I hopped on the #210, which departs right in front of my house and drops me off right in front of this lovely local pub! And when I walked in, I immediately felt completely at ease and welcome.
The very generous space offers a variety of seating opportunities: sofas for a group of up to 8 people; seats in the bay-​window that allow you to watch the people passing by; the bar, which in fact is huge, or the slightly more formal dining area, which appealed to me very much and which is also one of the reasons that I want to return here…
What I like most about the Old Dairy is that this is a truly local pub (who else would come to this remote area), where people like you and I would get together for a pint in the evening, or two… or three?

My luck was out a little bit when it came to the Old Dairy. The respite from the rain and the friendly welcome I received bode well but I was hungry and thirsty and I felt the food was overpriced so stayed clear and my pint from the dregs of the barrel was decidedly below average.

I’ve been to The Old Dairy a few times now since moving to Harringay a couple of years ago and it’s a great local Gastro pub. Beautifully converted old dairy with good food and friendly staff.
We’ve eaten every time we’ve visited and only on one occasion were we disappointed with the service we received (we had taken my parents out on a mid-​week night last year and the Dairy wasn’t particularly busy, but we spent 4 hours in the restaurant for a 3 course meal to be served — too long!), but since that slight slip-​up, I’ve been with family and friends and the service has picked up and the food still delicious — locally sourced and fresh ingredients is the diary’s claim and it certainly tastes good!
The only warning I would make is the price of mains seems to have gone up more recently (last visit chicken sunday roast was near on £15 — a bit of a climb up from prices only a little while ago and pretty steep by comparison) and also book on a Saturday night! I went with some friends recently expecting to be able to get a table for 5 in the main restaurant pretty easily, but they were booked for the whole evening. Disappointing, but understandable given this pub’s popularity. In the end we opted to stay and eat in the bar area. Too noisy really to dine (it was a Saturday after all!), but a good evening all the same.
Would definitely recommend anyone to visit both bar and restaurant. Thumbs up!

The Old Dairy is a large, handsomely decorated pub on the corner of Stroud Green Road and Crouch Hill Road.
The inside of the pub is divided into three main rooms, though within the largest there are various booths and cubby holes. As Claire L mentioned in her review, whilst it is a sizable place it still manages to feel cosy. I imagine this is due to the rather odd mix of comfortable chairs and sofas they have.
The Old Dairy is something of a Gastro pub and, whilst not quite as good as the Noble, the food is very well done. They also have a wide selection of good beers and lagers including Birra Poretti.
A well designed pub with a good atmosphere.