Brewhouse & Kitchen - Highbury
Monday and Tuesday buy a burger, fries and a pint of what they brewed downstairs for 13.95 pounds.1
Why go
The cellar at 2a Corsica Street holds a working microbrewery, a minute from Highbury & Islington station, and the house range rotates through IPAs, pale ales, stouts and lagers alongside guest craft, Belgian bottles and wine.1 The kitchen runs further than most tap rooms bother with: warm sub rolls and small plates on the daytime menu until 5pm Monday to Saturday, then 35-day aged ribeye and a Sunday roast served all day. Three rooms are hireable, and one of them, The Lower Brewery, seats fifteen next to the tanks.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the burger and pint on a Monday or Tuesday at 13.95 pounds, or a brew day on the kit downstairs, which the venue sells as a gift.1
- Avoid: turning up with a beer in mind. The house range rotates and the operator's page names styles rather than beers, so read the board when you get there.
Good to know
- Where: 2a Corsica Street N5 1JJ, a short walk from Highbury & Islington station.
- Booking: worth doing for the burger deal and essential for the hire rooms. The Tap Room takes 70 standing, The Lower Brewery fifteen seated.1
- Daytime: deals run Monday to Saturday until 5pm.
- The record is thin. Everything above comes from the operator's own venue page, and no newspaper or guide has published anything about this door that I could reach.
Verdict
listed — A brewpub a minute from Highbury & Islington station that brews in its own cellar and puts a burger, fries and a house pint on the table for 13.95 pounds on Mondays and Tuesdays. The kitchen goes further than a tap-room kitchen usually does, with 35-day aged ribeye and a Sunday roast served all day. It sits on the bottom rung for one reason: nothing outside the operator's own page describes it, the house beers are named nowhere, and a chain brewpub with no independent account of the beer has not shown a reason to cross London.