The Flask, Highgate

The Flask, Highgate is a pub and restaurant in Highgate, North London, described on its official site as a North London institution with a history dating back centuries. It is presented as a Fuller's pub, offering refined pub classics made from fresh, seasonal ingredients, a bar with modern craft beers and cask classics, private event spaces, and a garden. The pub's oldest part, the stable block, dates back to 1663, with the main body of the pub dating from around the 1720s. Its name comes from the tradition of selling flasks from the pub, which were used to collect water from springs around Highgate and nearby Hampstead Heath. Wikidata describes it as a Grade II listed public house in Highgate, London, UK.

The Flask, Highgate is a pub and restaurant in Highgate, North London. Its official site states that the pub's history dates back centuries and that it has been frequented by famous authors, playwrights and rockstars. The stable block, the oldest part of the pub, dates back to 1663 and still has two 17th century horseboxes in place; the main body of the pub dates from around the 1720s and boasts the original shutter-window bar with bullseye glass panels. The room housing the main bar is from around 1800 and was originally a separate outhouse. The pub's name comes from the tradition of selling flasks from the pub, which were then used to collect water from the springs around Highgate and nearby Hampstead Heath, and a natural spring to the rear of the pub may also have been used for this purpose. The official site also recounts stories of hauntings, including a Spanish barmaid and a figure in Cavalier uniform, and notes that Dick Turpin is reputed to have spent time in the wine store, that the Committee Room was allegedly the scene of one of the first-ever autopsies, and that Byron, Shelley and Keats were reputed to be regular visitors when visiting Coleridge, who lived opposite. Wikidata describes The Flask, Highgate as a Grade II listed public house in Highgate, London, UK.

A historic North London pub and restaurant, described as one of the best pubs in Highgate.

Product categories. Refined pub classics · Modern craft beers · Cask classics

1. 1The Flask - Fuller's Pub and Restaurant in Highgatetheflaskhighgate.com
2. 2About The Flask Pub and Restauranttheflaskhighgate.com
3. 3The Flask, Highgatewikidata.org