The Flask
A Grade II-listed pub on Highgate West Hill with a tavern recorded on the site since at least 1663, its name taken from the water flasks once sold there to collect spring water from Highgate and Hampstead Heath.
- Nightlife
- Price: £ · Budget
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Did you know
Byron, Shelley and Keats were all reputed regulars, visiting to see the opium enthusiast Samuel Taylor Coleridge who lived across the road for the last 18 years of his life, and painter William Hogarth once sketched a fight he witnessed between two customers on the premises.
Local tip
The pub's small, split-level rooms each have a different character, so it's worth wandering through more than one rather than settling in the first room you find.
Famous dishes
Finding it
- Address
- 77, Highgate West Hill, Highgate, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, N6 6BU
- Nearest station
- Highgate (Tube), 992 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Highgate CemeteryA Victorian cemetery split into East and West sections on a wooded Highgate hillside, the burial place of Karl Marx and numerous other notable Victorians, known for its overgrown monuments and catacombs.
- Waterlow ParkA hillside park in Highgate with three spring-fed ponds, Lauderdale House (a house dating to around 1580, now a cafe and arts venue) and wide views over the City skyline.
- KenwoodA neoclassical mansion on the northern edge of Hampstead Heath, free to enter, holding an Old Master collection with a Rembrandt self-portrait and a Vermeer, plus a glowing Adam-designed library.
- Hampstead Heath800 acres of ancient wild parkland with swimming ponds, woods, and meadows, feeling far larger than its distance from central London suggests.