The Highgate Inn — Restaurant in London

PLEASE READ - Nice pub with great staff - unfortunately I was in there one evening and had a lock in with some friends who know Dennis (The guy who runs the pub) there was a lovely lady there who was off shift. After 1 round of drinks I was listening to what Dennis was saying to her, quite aggressively I might add and persisted to make her cry - she then openly said “that’s it break me down and build me back up again Dennis” she then went on to say “im leaving” she didn’t do so (I’m not sure if she was scared she may lose her job) Dennis response to this was “Don’t go anywhere, sit down and have another drink. You know the difference between the Irish and the English? (I thought there was a joke coming) The Irish can have a drink and a laugh and get over a joke” which in itself is a laughable remark to make, considering half the table was English and half the table was Irish. I’d like to think I have a semi decent sense of humour but at no point was their even a-bit of flirtatious banter between Dennis and this lady - it was emotional manipulation and abuse. I hastily snuck off to the toilet to compose myself and my thoughts. When I got back I put on my jacket on and told Dennis a little bit about himself and that everyone around that table shouldn’t hang out with a man that emotionally bully’s his own friends/staff/people he knows and makes them feel as small and Dennis’ brain in other words absolutely minute. If this was in the 70s it would and probably should have been handled differently. Lovely pub with lovely staff but the owner is nasty, abusive, openly racist towards a nation where he lives and...

I am not allowed to use the words I would like to on here to describe the owner, here are some that may suffice: rude, loud, vulgar and intimidating. We went there for a leaving party of our friend in a group of maybe 8-12. The fight was on that night and we must have spent at least £20 per person on drinks, probably more, in spite of this the owner thought it was appropriate to shout at us for not buying enough drinks despite how much we had already spent. As a result of this I can only give the place a 1 star review. All the other staff looked sick of the way he was running the place and one actually came and apologised for it. Do not come...

A group of 6 of us walked in, the first three (all white male & female) had walked in no problem. But when the rest of us (not all white) walked in, we were immediately racially profiled. We were immediately stopped by the owner and told to leave until we could prove that we were of age. Aggressive and confrontational, it was clear he was trying to impress his mates at his table. Balding and in normal clothes, the owner made a massive fuss of not allowing us to even enter his premises, without even asking us to prove our age (of which we were all legal).

He’s clearly racist and has been operating an unlicensed...