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?
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!
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.
*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.
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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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.
*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.
Although to the best of my awareness, even they don't drink in the Larrick.
ADGS - an email shall be winging it's way too them.