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Dan Woodall is assistant manager at the Camden Head, which is part of a Michael McLoughlin is lessee at the Admiral Taverns-owned Parrs Head,
small chain owned by local entrepreneur Michael Nicholas near a group of housing estates away from the centre of Camden
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How much will a drink cost me?
AMDEN HEAD
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How much will a drink cost me?
A standard pint of lager such as A pint of Carling is £3.10 and John
HEAD
ARRS
Foster’s is £3, premium lagers are Smith’s is £3. A bottle of Coke is
£3.50 a pint. A pint of Adnams is £1.40 and wine is £3 for a 175ml
£3. It’s £1.80 for a Coke and £3.60 glass.
for a 175ml glass of wine.
Do you do food?
Do you do food? No, we are 100 per cent wet apart
We are now just starting to and it is from selling a few nuts. I don’t have
proving popular, but the split is still the space for a kitchen.
about 80/20 wet/dry. We do
standard pub grub such as baguette Who are your customers?
and chips for about £5.50. Burgers Most people live on the estates
are about £7. around here, but times have been
hard with the recession and people
Who are your customers? are not coming out as much. A lot of
We get a mix with a lot of tourists the flats have now been sold for
and a lot of locals. We have student accommodation and they
benefited from the pound being don’t tend to come here.
weak and people coming here for
their holidays. A lot of people from maybe for people who are a little bit What attracts people?
different parts of London also come older, if not more mature. This is a local community pub and
to Camden for a night out. that is the appeal. Sky Sports is
What are the issues affecting trade very important to our business as
What attracts people? in Camden? well. Of course it is expensive, but work but a lot of my customers are
We have an excellent selection of People have not had the money to we can’t do without it. broke and haven’t worked for a
music and we get good-quality live go away so we have benefited from couple of months. They haven’t got
bands. We also like to see them staying here. More places are What are the issues affecting trade money to spend in a pub and are
ourselves as a friendly pub, we are opening up in Camden than closing in Camden? more likely to get drink from
not for the skinny jeans brigade, but down. The recession – people want to supermarkets and off-licences.
Tony Crotty is the manager of the Enterprise Inns-owned Oxford Arms on Henry Conlon is licensee of freehouse the Dublin Castle on Parkway.
Camden Town High Street – near the tourist-trap markets The renowned music venue has been in the Conlon family
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for 35 years and has given acts such as Madness
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and Travis their big break
How much will a drink cost me?
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It’s £3.40 for a pint of Foster’s and
ASTLE
£3.50 for a premium lager. All our How much will a drink cost me?
real ales are around £3.25. Coke is It’s about £3.50 a pint of standard
£1.30 and a 175ml glass of wine is lager. But the key thing with us is we
£3.50. are part of a local discount card
scheme where people who live or
Do you do food? work in the area are entitled to 20
We do, but the split is still about per cent off.
70/30 wet to dry. We do all sorts of
pub grub such as breakfast, fish Do you do food?
and chips and lasagne for about Not a bite. There are 35 places
£6.50. competing for the food market on
this street alone. People come in people do it, but that’s a good thing
Who are your customers? here for a drink and for the live because with live music there is
There are a lot of tourists, but we music. never any trouble. We have three or
have also had a theatre upstairs for four bands on every night of the
25 years which brings in a lot of Who are your customers? week. The A&R men come along to
people before and after shows. They are generally between 18 and check out the talent to see if they
There seems to be a lot of people What are the issues affecting trade 40, but it is not unknown to have a can find the new sound and look.
about 40-plus re-living their youth at in Camden? few grannies in here who like to
the moment too. There used to be more people come and have a dance. We also What are the issues affecting trade
coming in from the suburbs but with get people from the music industry in Camden?
What attracts people? the economy the way it is, that’s not watching the bands. We are feeling the pinch like
The theatre is a draw and we also happening. Camden is not immune everybody else in the world. But
have Sky Sports. Tourists love the to the recession, and even though What attracts people? being a tourist magnet, Camden
real ale and the food is good quality the tourists keep coming, there’s The live music. It is no longer a does have its own little micro-
and reasonably priced. been a negative impact. niche for us because so many economy.
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