Prince Albert retains its charm

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With great exterior tiling, original leaded glass, fireplaces and wood panelling all in place, it looks very nice indeed.

The furniture compliments the interior, there's three well-kept ales and a nice little front garden. Our last visit in 2007 found a distinctly unrelaxed hard-sell on food, but happily things seem to have calmed down since then.

As for the food, that's improved too - upstairs is a proper restaurant, while downstairs is currently introducing a tapas bar menu.

We were lucky enough to visit during a tasting session and it was uniformly good. Shame that they feel the need to add 12.5% service charge - it might make sense upstairs, but the downstairs pub should dispense with such things.

Nevertheless, with a good atmosphere and charming service, a three pint rated pub this certainly is.

FOOD REVIEW: 'Global tapas' food in the bar interesting and tasty - but you'd need a few of them to get your fill, though. Prices in the restaurant around £15 for main courses but we've yet to eat there.

FOOD RATING: 2 FOOD VALUE: 3

CLIENTELE: mainly young, affluent locals
NEAREST STATION: Camden Road station
PHONE NUMBER: 020 7485 1523
FEATURES: real ales, outdoor seating, separate restaurant

Prince Albert
163 Royal College Street, NW1 0SG