Winchester Hotel

Best zombie apocalypse pub in North London

The Winchester pub (though it styles itself a hotel, curiously enough) in Highgate is famed in local legend as the site of Simon Pegg et al's last stand against the zombie apocalpyse in Shaun of the Dead.

I spent a very pleasant birthday celebration there this weekend. Without booking we managed to secure ourselves a huge table in a quiet room overlooking the garden. Three bitters on draught (Deuchers seemed the better bet, and four pints of same went down happily enough over the course of the evening) plus some lagers which presumably taste the same as they do everywhere, this being what I am told is the point of lager.

Decent enough bar food (a plate of several different houmouses was a welcome innovation) and pleasant staff, my first visit to the Winchester marked it out as a decent pub, spacious and not too busy, and surprisingly free of undead hordes.

By Seamus_McC at 14:05 on 21/02/10