Finalist in the CAMRA North London Branch 2025 Pub of the Year Competition.

Three constantly rotating cask beers, typically a best bitter and a pale ale, alongside an amber, rye beer or porter from Redemption, Howling Hops, Dark Star, 5 Points, Thornbridge, etc. As an example, on a visit at the end of Jan 2026 there was the following - Southwark Brewery Borough Market Brown Ale, New River Brewery Chadwell Best Bitter, Walthamstow Beer Project WPB Green Hopped Pale Ale. Plus 12 keg lines, 10 of which also feature local beers.

Music sessions every Tues (traditional Irish) and Sun (folk), with Blue Lion bluegrass session aprox every 4 weeks on a Wednesday. It has a beautiful interior with handsome wood panelling and skylights, as well as the painstakingly stripped back original green tiles on the facade. Food provided by Sorrento Pizzas.

Presented with a CAMRA Lockdown Hero Award in Sept 2021.

Highbury Brewery's tap, taken over by Taylor Walker in 1912. Allied until 1985, when it became the Flounder & Firkin. The Firkins were sold to Punch, under whom it was the Beer House from 2000, then the Tank (an Urban Bar) 2002-4.