By public transport take a tube to Archway or Finsbury Park. From either take a 210 bus and ask the driver to put you off at the Hanley Road/ Hornsey Road junction (bus stops just before the junction in both directions) or the closed Hornsey Rd Job Centre. We are a small shop located next door to the pub (curently called The Blarney Stone but has had the following names since we opened The Railway 'Hotel', The Saltbar and All Points West) opposite the job centre (now closed) at a set of traffic lights. Bus route 91 also passes the shop. Buses W7 and 41 pass about 10 minutes walk away. Mainline Gospal Oak - Barking passes by but the nearest stations are 15 minute walk from either Holloway Road or Crouch Hill (or bus 210  2 stops).

By road from the north take the A1 to Archway. As you pass down the hill towards Archway watch for the speed camera and don't come down the bus lane (Also has cameras). At the bottom of the hill there will be some traffic lights on a kind of roundabout with pub and shops in the middle. Take the first left exit and travel to the end of the road ( watch out for the sharp double bend). Then take a right turn and again to the end of the road. You should now see some shops and a park, go right at this junction onto Hornsey road. Travel past the main shops to the next set of lights, we are located to the left just before the lights. The junction is Hanley Rd. If approaching from the South travel North from the NEW ARSENAL EMIRITES STADIUM and we are the opposite end of the street. 

PARKING

From 7th November 2005 some local streets have adopted controlled residents parking. By far the best parking solution is to park in Hanley Road on the pay and display spaces provided just a few yards from the shop on both sides of the road (plenty of empty spaces). The charge is 20p for every 10 minutes you stay so 40p will be enough for most customers, in exchange for either your ticket (at end of your parking) or the receipt stub I am happy in most cases refunding this cost against any goods purchased over the value of £20 for the time spent in my shop i.e. if you go to the cafe for 1hr we will not be refunding this portion of your parking. Do Not Park on the one disabled bay unless you are permitted to do so- vehicles are lifted by the council at regular intervals.

Parking is still free in some surounding residential streets. Spears Road used to have plenty of spaces but much harder to find spaces since controlled parking in the neighbouring streets came in, Spears Rd is 2nd on left before the shop if approaching from the North (At the end of the first group of shops). If you are not familiar with London do not attempt to stop on red lines around Archway not even for a cashpoint- your car will be gone in minutes and it will cost a lot of money to get it back. Outside the shop are yellow lines, wardens visit here seemingly at random sometimes with clamps or removal units so you park here at your own risk. Congestion charge does not yet apply here.

 

 As you can see the shop is quite small next to the pub

so don't drive too fast or you will miss us!