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What Has Happened To The Larrick?

Martin 23Martin 23
edited May 2010 in Local discussion
Hi this is the first I've post on this forum, I have been living around Stroud Green for the last 8 years.
Does anyone know what has happened to The Larrick as it was shut on Sunday and hasn't been open since. Has it shut down?
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  • Ails39Ails39
    edited 12:50PM
    It is reopening today, Thursday. I think there was a problem with the owners etc. not paying bills. They had run out of lager, couldn't pay their Sky bill, so closed down last Friday evening. I noticed that there was a poster in the window to say reopening Thursday and looking for some bar staff. I hope they have got rid of the rank leather sofas!
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  • Gas Powered NinjaGas Powered Ninja
    edited 12:50PM
    So what was the logic of leasing the pool tables if they can't pay the staff or the bills? Crazy.

    It does seem like the ill-defined 'name' pub of the area:

    Dairy - Familys (day) Eating and well-to-do (evenings)
    Noble - Food and quite drink
    Fullback - Sports
    Worlds End - Punch ups and Pikeys

    The Larrick kind of falls inbetween the cracks.
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  • ADGSADGS
    edited 12:50PM
    In my experience it's *the* place to go if you want an atmosphere of despair. Your other half says 'we need to talk'? The Larrick's the pub for that conversation.
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  • Gas Powered NinjaGas Powered Ninja
    edited 12:50PM
    ADGS - oh I see! So other Larrick-like events:

    *Birthday drinks where no-ones turned up
    *Post-sacking hang out
    *"I have an incurable disease" party

    The potential is endless. Larrick owners! Paint your pub black, rename it "The Gloomy" and have a steady stream of The Cure, Leonard Cohen and Portishead on the jukebox. Hire lots of sad, darkhaired and pale staff.

    It'll be popular with the post-punk crowd at least.
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  • Martin 23Martin 23
    edited 12:50PM
    So that's why the broken window on the first floor hasn't been fixed.
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  • ADGSADGS
    edited 12:50PM
    There's possibilities here, as the guys who run <a href="http://www.feelinggloomy.com/">Feeling Gloomy</a> are SG locals.

    Although to the best of my awareness, even they don't drink in the Larrick.
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  • Gas Powered NinjaGas Powered Ninja
    edited 12:50PM
    Good that someone got my reference.

    ADGS - an email shall be winging it's way too them.
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  • badkittehbadkitteh
    edited May 2010
    It looks as if the new owners have other ideas: <http://www.gumtree.com/london/49/58560849.html>;
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  • benben
    edited 12:50PM
    This sounds quite promising. The Dogstar in Brixton and The Bowls Club in Balham are both nice, interesting places.
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  • ActionVerbActionVerb
    edited 12:50PM
    So it'll basically be exactly like the Old Dairy then?
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  • ADGSADGS
    edited 12:50PM
    The Dogstar does (or at least did last time I looked) have genuinely interesting stuff happening - not necessarily all to my taste, but they were DJs people wanted to see, not just one of the barmen making a racket on his night off. If the Larrick goes that way, then good luck to them.
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  • ArkadyArkady
    edited 12:50PM
    Looks good to me. I approve of the (almost) restoration old name.
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