Myddleton Arms

Walk into the Myddleton Arms and you'll find exactly what a good pub should be: wood-panelled walls, a proper bar, and the sort of crowd that's been coming here for years because it's genuinely good, not because it's trying to be. You're in Canonbury, where the Victorian terraces mean real Londoners, and this place feels like the living room of the neighbourhood—the kind where someone's always at the bar chatting to the landlord, and there's proper ale on tap that people actually discuss. The kitchen does elevated pub food without any faffing about, which in this corner of Islington is rarer than you'd think.