The Junction Tavern, Kentish Town, London

The Junction never fails to impress me.
The staff are friendly, efficient and professional, the food is always prepared and presented to perfection.
Whenever I have been here, I always find they strike the prefect balance between good service and allowing you to really relaxed and enjoy the experience.
Not to be missed..just try it!!

Worse roast ever! Yorkshire puddings burnt and beef looked like roadkill! Could have done better at home! Very dissappointing!

Good food, friendly service. These people know their food and they are generous. Long may it last.

Everytime I went by, the Junction was always busy. After we went for dinner in the restaurant, we knew exactly why. It's now become my favourite gastropub in North London!

The menu changes everyday, ensuring fresh ingredients. Even when something runs out, the chefs will put together something as a substitute. The open kitchen is a nice touch and there's always a feeling of calm in there despite the busy pub. The rilettes are simply amazing, coley and chips always done perfectly. I also recommend any of the lamb or pork. Even the vegetarian options are a hit (my flatmate is a veggie and goes there often).

Go and see for yourself. The staff is friendly and service is not rushed. There is a large conservatory in the back as well as an outside seating area. Last week the sun was out and the place was packed. I highly recommend the junction for fantastic food with a local pub feel.

Though I lived in Enfield and worked in the City during my two-year London adventure, The Junction was pretty much my local pub of choice. A bunch of mates worked nearby, and it was where we always ended up meeting up.

It's a nice, spacious pub with really high ceilings -- none of that grotty pub claustrophobia here! The decor is all nice historical pictures with some interesting modern ones interspersed, and dark wood bar and fixings.

The food is pretty decent for pub grub, the chips are nice and thin and actually offer something to bite into, unlike soggy horrifying chip shop chips.

The selection of red wines here really suits me as I'm a bit of a Cab Sav Queen. The wines aren't super reasonably priced for a pub, but they won't break the bank either.

The staff are always really friendly for a pub, and the selection of ales, bitters and other quaffable liquids is fine and eclectic.

If you're the liquer type, they have a lot of different flavours of vodka, and even had Tequila Rose the last time I went. Yums.

I've not been out into the beer garden, as I was still climatising (or acclimating, if you're from the Land of the Free), but everyone says it's nice.

The locals are all friendly and in my dozens of times here I've never seen so much as a cross word between patrons, which is saying something for the strangeness that is Kentish Town.

Nice bar, service was good. We went for the food though and that was nothing more than ordinary. Which is fine but it's not cheap either. It's not OTT expensive but definitely overpriced for what it is. Will go back to the bar though.

Great, comfortable upmarket pub with good food, a wide beer selection - including special events - and excellent staff. Easily the best in the area.

Nice local pub. Good food, although a bit pricey. Open kitchen can make for noise. Very friendly staff. Extremely nice beer garden at back.

This pub won the CAMRA pub of the year for the area last year but I can’t really see what sets it apart from the others. I mean I liked it but I wasn’t blown away.

It does have some very nice ales on tap, not ones you find everyday, so its definitely high in my estimations for that. I wasn’t so keen on the layout and the décor however, but that’s a question of taste. It seemed more of a gastro pub than anything else.

Apparantly they have a couple of beer festivals here every year so I think that might be one reason they won the aforementioned award. I reckon I will be back to enjoy one of the festivals.

really nice pub, its my after work local. they have a decent selection of rotating ales and premium larger. the drinks are on the more expensive end of things for the area, but the atmosphere is nice and cosy and for the summer there’s a generously sized beer garden…the food is also pretty decent!

This was my favoured local before I moved away from the area out east. It was the favoured local of all my friends who lived local. We’d invariably end up in here of a Sunday afternoon. I remember when this place was dripping with busy lizzies on the outside and cheap beer on the inside. And so many of us threw our hands up in the air when yet another old boozer was to be gentrified and turned into just another Gastro pub. But I’ve spent many a good rolling afternoon/evening here and had some really good food. And having had some great conversations with perfect strangers about great food and travel, politics and dogs rather randomly. It’s always packed. The food is expensive but reserve a table in the dining area and you’ll have a sense of occasion and feel your money has been well spent. Or just treat yourself to a big slab of fish sitting by the fire or in warm weather out back in the garden. And even if you are penny pinching have a starter and fill up on the mammoth basket of bread dipped in the oil and balsamic vinegar. What ever you do, go home happy and go back, go back, go back.

This is a large and accommodating pub on Fortess Road, with a big conservatory at the back and a paved garden with plenty of seating. There are big sofas to sink into too.

Inside, there’s a dedicated dining area with table service. Or you can order food from the bar for a more relaxed (and cheaper) meal. In summer, it’s nice to eat al fresco in the garden.

It’s a good place to have lunch and meet friends. And there’s a lively atmosphere in the evenings.

The bar staff are very friendly and acknowledge you if you’re a regular.

The Junction Tavern on Junction Road is equidistant from Tufnell Park and Kentish Town tube stations. The wood panelling and its selling feature – the wonderful conservatory at the back – make this pub and eatery very homely and cosy indeed, especially in autumn and winter. The food is good and the menu changes regularly, although there is usually only one choice for veggies and it is a little pricey for the area (£10+ for a main course). Strangely enough for a gastropub, the sides available do not include chips, but since they are served with their Fish & Chips, you can ask nicely and the waiting staff will probably agree to make an exception. Definitely worth a visit for the conservatory alone, but also for the food if you have the cash to spare.

What looks like a normal old-fashioned bar from the outside is actually a gastro-pub with a traditonal but elegant and delicious menu.
The large conservatory at the back is a great spot any time of year and, what’s more, the prices are very decent for London (and trendy NW5 in particular). Expect £10 for a main course and £15 a bottle of wine.

Ah the marvellous Junction Tavern. I’ve just moved in Kentish Town and I’m a lot closer to the Junction now - which is good news as it’s very good place, if a bit of a hotch potch of things.

The main bar is a big wood panelled room and it’s split into a restaurant area and a small 'pub area’ next to the bar with tables and chairs. It then expands out into a sort of big conservatory out the back with a load more tables and chairs and then finally it has a decent sized beer garden out the back with plenty of tables and plenty of cover.

As already noted it has a good and frequently changing selection of real ales and also hosts a mini beer festival over the end of May bank holiday weekend which is always entertaining as the usually fairly young crowd runs into the beard scratching gang testing out the Dragon’s Toenail from Dobeg and comparing it to the Badgers Facial Warts beer from the isle of Egg.

The food is pretty good on the whole, though a little bit over priced in my view for what it is, and a little bit over complicated at times as well. The beer isn’t the cheapest either but its not too bad. However, the service on the whole is friendly and pretty efficient.

All in, it may be trying to do a bit too much and be a few too many things to a few too many different types of people - but on the whole it works and the mix of people you get coming along can be entertaining in its own right. Well worth a visit.

My local, and it's great.

Just down the road from Tufnell Park tube, The Junction is a nice, big, wood-panelled pub, split into restaurant and bar; though food is served throughout. I've not eaten there - it isn't cheap, and I am - but it does look tasty. I would recommend this pub for smokers and / or those who hang out with smokers, as the large outside area is covered and speckled by heat-lamps. I would also unhesitatingly recommend it to people who are fond of their real ale, as its selection is wide, and changes frequently. There is always a flyer detailing which real ales are on tap at the time, and the bar staff are generally very knowledgeable. The selection of ciders is also notable for being good, and you can usually get fruit beers too. Just be warned, they aren't cheap.

It's a pretty young crowd you'll tend to find in the Junction; quite a large crowd, too, as the pub is popular, but despite this it's big enough that between the bar, the conservatory, and the garden it rarely feels uncomfortably crowded. Overall, a fantastic place.