Tufnell Park Tavern

Massively OVERPRICED for what you get. It's on a goldmine here but lazy cooking and ridiculously overpriced menu means that an average family meal with 2 under 5s can reach £100, without alcohol.

The TPT looks very nice but it vastly overpriced for what it is.
Tufnell Park is full of young families who can't stray very far. The TPT picks a lot of these people up and charges them through the nose.
£4 for a run of the mill lager and £6.50 for soup and a roll (they charge a pound for the roll - nice).
Or how does a Roast Beef on a sunday for £15.50 grab you - these are West End top end prices and the food and service is variable at best.
Its cynical. Which is a shame as it is in a nice spot and as I say it looks and feels like a good gastropub.

Great food, ambience and value for money, especially the £11 weekday deal. The 'daycare' atmosphere mentioned below is only applicable on weekends - come on a week night and it is a friendly and relaxing place in which to while away the post-work hours. Agree they could do with having a few more ales on tap, but the food more than makes up for that. Recommend their patatas bravas with aioli (bar snack) and have had good fish and stews (not always elegant looking but taste great!).

No complaints about 2 courses for £11! Great food...Seabass on the new menu a real winner and choc dessert a perfect finisher...light and just lovely! Real summer flavours...just a shame about the weather! Keep it up, TPT! You've new fans and we'll be bringing friends next time...!

A pub that serves pizza "all day" but that runs out of dough at 5pm on a Sunday!?!?!

A pub that runs out of Diet Coke ever....


Come on... surely that's bad management??

Today's experience only supports my opinion of the TPT based on previous generally negative experiences at the TPT.

Huge , lovely refurbished buidling but with expensivefairly sub-standard food, expensive drinks, a general feel that it doubles as a daycare centre, total lack of intimacy when sat at a table and previous statements about the lack of attentiveness of staff certainly mirror my experiences.

The "Deli" is a great idea, very poorly executed. I've been in 3 times now... coffee is particularly poor... (surely if you're going to serve coffee in this kind of environment you must realise the difference between good coffee and bad coffee and train your staff to make the former?),

On all of my experiences of visiting the "Deli", staff have appeared to be either chatting amongst themselves and seemingly ignoring customers who are waiting to be served or ignoring the mountains of tables that are begging to be cleared.

The TPT has the potential to be awesome. Its management (or lack of) appears to be missing the opportunity such a fantastic location offers.

Try the junction Tavern 200 yards up the road. MUCH better environment, food and drink and really fantastic staff.

I live across the street from the Tufnell Park Tavern and was very excited in the run-up to its opening. Would like to reiterate the last comment re children and breast-feeding mothers...this place is a day-care! If you don’t mind screaming kids running around then you may be able to enjoy a meal in this pub. Food is expensive for what you get, although the all day pizzas served are reasonably priced and very good. I find the regular pint is overpriced compared to other pubs in the area.

Have been here several times since it's refurb, & each time have been struck by how many small children & breastfeeding mothers there are - even at 8pm on a Friday evening!! Would go more often if I felt it was a more 'adult' environment & that I could enjoy adult conversation & drinks without crying babies or screeching children!

I've eaten at the TPT twice now, always found the staff lovely and friendly, the wine good and the food great. Really enjoy the pizzas, and the bread and butter pudding is amazing. The atmosphere is friendly and cozy, ideal for a winter evening!

Great effort with such a big room to fill but the food is very poor for the prices. The service is also slow and unhelpful with the exception of the friendly barman. Head for the Junction Tavern up the road- better food for the same price.

We live over the road and enjoy going to the Tavern as a local pub. It just can't do food in any decent or consistent way. The front of house staff are nice and polite but the kitchen takes an age. And they're not good at fifty per cent of the things they attempt. That said some of the things are great. This inconsistency would be forgivable if the pricing was fair. But if you pay £75 for a dinner for two, you expect it to be all at least ok. Half of it should not come out of the kitchen poor. It happens too much at the Tavern for it to be a one-off. It's too close to us not to eat there again when we're feeling lazy, I just won't have any hopes of it.

Had Sunday dinner at TPT. Had a few issues. 1. Made a booking over the phone and were made to wait on the phone while they asked the chef if they do roast dinners. When we arrived we were told we were the only booking which I also found strange as unusually go to the junction tavern which is always fully booked.

Secondly service was strange, two bar staff taking one persons order while others were waiting. Dinning area not staff while people where eating. It was difficult to get attention of waiting staff. We had to get up to ask for steak knifes (as the roast beef was very fatty and difficult to cut) We were not asked how we wanted out beef cooked and it arrived very rare. (I prefer medium) I order English breakfast tea and was served earl grey. Again my partner had to get up to find a member of staff for a replacement.

Thirdy I was not impressed by the value for money. £7.50 for a cheese plate consisting if 6 very thin slivers of 2 Brie, 1 blue and a cm block with 6 water crackers. This had to be a 200% Mark up. Not even a selection of biscuits. Our main courses tasted great but the meat was overly fatty. My partner ordered pork belly which arrive ontop of chive mash and sauté onions no vegetables or parsnip mash as advertised. He felt the mash had a 'washing up liquid' taste to it.

Considering 3 of us only one had starter and the only desert was the pathetic cheese board. 3 mains and 2 glasses of house red along with the 'wrong' tea cost over £80 with service included. Way to overpriced for what we recieved. I am happy to pay high prices when presented with substance, quality and great service. We will not be returning in a hurry. It's a Shame as the Decore and design is beautiful, the dinning area is very comfortable. MoreMature service staff and a consideration that it is unreasonable to charge hiked up prices for mediocre food and service.

I've eaten in TPT twice now and have enjoyed both the food and the atmosphere on both occasions. As a local I was very pleased to see it refurbed and reopen under new ownership. The facelift has really smartened the place up and added another great option on the gastro pub circuit. The wine list could be improved but did have a couple of pleasant surprises. Staff are friendly and helpful. Overall a good value dining experience.

I've eaten in TPT twice now and have enjoyed both the food and the atmosphere on both occasions. As a local I was very pleased to see it refurbed and reopen under new ownership. The facelift has really smartened the place up and added another great option on the gastro pub circuit. The wine list could be improved but did have a couple of pleasant surprises. Staff are friendly and helpful. Overall a good value dining experience.

Visited the TPT last night. Had a great meal, the prawn and puy lentil starter very fresh and tasty. Lamb steak for main was perfectly cooked, all washed down with a nice bottle of Malbec. Pricing is very reasonable and service very friendly and efficient. Will be back again soon.

Already a big fan of The Fox in Shoreditch, eight of us decided to try the latest addition to the group. We hadn’t been to the TPT previously, but really liked the refurbished layout and especially the big gaps between dining tables. The atmosphere last Saturday night, inside and out, was buzzing and I think we were about the last to leave. We found the restaurant menu refreshing and really different from what’s generally on offer in a city of gastropubs. However, one or two of my friends did initially struggle with the eclectic menu (which I believe changes every fortnight or so), not wanting meat, nor an exotic fish dish, but all thought that what they did have was superb. One friend, who had the lamb, particularly enjoyed the accompanying couscous and unusual pomegranate molasses. Five of us had the beetroot soup and all loved it (not borsht). My wife enjoyed her swordfish (maybe one boring plain white fish might not go amiss – like the coley they serve on Fridays with the amazing fish & chips). I think I am spoiled at The Fox with that extra bar menu (I didn’t look to see if there was one at the TPT), but, of course, TPT has the extra pizza (they looked good) and deli menus. Little things I noticed were that there was only one type of mustard available for a friend who ordered the steak and there was no artificial sweetener for a friend who ordered a cup of coffee. The staff were brilliant.

Having eaten at the TPT on many occasions since it's reopening I have found the food to be simple but very tasty. It seems to me that your reviewer favours style over substance which is clearly evident in his writing style

Having eaten at the TPT on many occasions since it's reopening I have found the food to be simple but very tasty. It seems to me that your reviewer favours style over substance which is clearly evident in his writing style