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Bald-Faced Stag

69 High Road, N2 8AB Full details & map

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By Time Out Editors Posted: Oct 31 2011

Weekend breakfasts are a clever new addition to the line-up at this likeable neighbourhood gastropub. The Bald-Faced Stag is large enough to suit many occasions. Its pleasant garden, featuring a huge sycamore tree, welcomes diners, drinkers and smokers (the latter doing little to diminish the atmosphere, given the traffic on the A1000). Effort is put into the draught beer selection, with Cornish Trelawny and Sambrook's Wandle on tap during our visit. Many customers, though, come for the interesting choice of 16 wines by the glass.

The capacious, purpose-built dining room apes classic gastropub decor; the bar is more cheerful. Curiously, the set lunch menu showed better cooking and greater generosity than our à la carte options, which unanimously disappointed. Nicely cooked, fresh-tasting pollack was let down by gritty spinach and an over-mild sweetcorn velouté. Much better was the crisp-topped slab of pork belly with ham-hock potato cake and red cabbage, preceded by tender chicken livers on balsamic-flavoured toast. Sticky toffee pudding was a good rendition, whereas a slice of blueberry cheesecake (meagre, ugly, broken) was outclassed by its accompanying raspberry ripple ice-cream (not a good flavour match either). Service needed a giddy-up to show its friendly efficiency.

Tags: Historic, Outdoor : Drinking, Speciality beers, North, East Finchley, Gastropub, Gastropub

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Bald-Faced Stag details

Address

Bald-Faced Stag

69 High Road N2 8AB

Transport East Finchley tube

Telephone

020 8442 1201

Bald-Faced Stag website

Open noon-11pm Mon-Wed, Sun; noon-11.30pm Thur; noon-midnight Fri; 10am-midnight Sat. Breakfasrt served 10am-2.30pm Sat. Lunch served noon-3.30pm Mon-Fri; noon-4.30pm Sat. Dinner served 6-10.30pm Mon-Sat. Meals served noon-9.30pm Sun

Main courses £11.50-£18. Set lunch (Mon-Fri) £9.90 2 courses, £12.90 3 courses

Credit cards MC, V

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 10, garden; 10, patio ), Babies and children admitted ( until 7pm ), Separate room for parties ( capacity 25 ), Disabled ( toilet ), Entertainment ( quiz 7.30pm Wed; jazz musicians 1st Tue of mth ), Wireless internet

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Comments & ratings 4/5 (Average of 1 rating)

By annoyed at critics with no clue dot com - Dec 3 2011

this person who is ( really a journalist) needs to get facts before writing rubbish not even opinion..!!!! My wife and I know the staff well and dine at least twice a week, did you take the time to ask about the venue, methinks not..... The Stag is a wonderful place, outsiders are great but please get your facts right before you try and tarnish a place you have no real concept of....shame on you Time Out!!!