Maggies Bar, Kensal Rise, NW10

Visited 31/03/25 No cask again. Keg offering of Guinness, Moretti, John Smiths, Cruz, Fosters, Carlsberg, SB original, K1664, Stella. This is yet another long, away from the front entrance, rectangular Irish bar, bare boarded throughout. The bar counter is yet again mid venue on the left-hand wall and stools around the bar counter the order of the day here also. The bar counter has some intricate carving, and a rope style edging facing punters. Front part of the venue has some red velvet fabric banquettes and some small leather bucket style armchairs, or small leather backed chairs. Along the left-hand wall to the back of the pub is a series of small round tables with stools leading to a dartboard on the rear wall. Quite a few TV's here showing sport, but nothing live on my visit. Was a bit lacking in ambiance on my later evening visit for the type of venue.

I didn't know this sort of place still existed round here. A fairly spartan bar in a long narrow room with an Irish flavour, although not noticeable in the punters and certainly not the barmaid. A random selection of seating is arranged along the edges, leaving a space down the middle, with a fairly ornate wooden counter towards the rear and a dartboard right at the back. A couple of screens presented horse racing for the benefit of the ancient cor blimey regulars, while a gentle whiff of cheap disinfectant didn't do much for visitors. Just John Smith's Smooth crap as a bitter amongst the mundane lagery stuff, but the Guinness was unsurprisingly very good. I can't say that I will ever return but it fills its niche admirably.