Les Associes

Everything about this restaurant is authentically French, from the menu to the old fashioned decor to the curling script of the cartes. The mood is sympathique, cozy at lunch, intimate at dinner, and there are a few tables outside where you can dine well en plein air and watch the smoke for your Gauloises twist in the breeze. The homemade fish soup, Breton style en croute, is delightful, and the confit of duck with grenadine sauce is also a favourite. Wine list is unsuprisingly French, as is the charming welcome daily specials."Good French cuisine in a Crouch End semi? It can't be true. But it is. Good, robust, beef-in-red-wine-style main dishes, plus lots of smelley cheeses you can't pronounce, pair well with decent, muscular wines. Where else in London can you find a Chateau Patache d'aux, cru bourgeois, 1996 at £26.50 a bottle? - © Evening Standard 2003 / Steve Pryer" - Critic reviewAverage price - Under £24King's Head 2 Crouch End Hill Crouch End N8 Nothing unusual about this bar until you go downstairs where there are range of entertainment evenings held in the cellar, inparticular a comedy club on Sunday Evenings. Small admission fee.