The George

My first visit was few days ago around 5pm when after we made the order they asked our id as we looks younger than 25. My friend is 35 and me is 25. (we ordered only food)
When I showed my Europian union identity card, they told me that is not acceptable with an attitude.
I couldn’t believed they said that as I never had any problem before anywhere in London.
They said its a «company policy» which I doubt it, it was obviously againt me !
I wouldn’t be that upset but all the bar staff were unbelievable rude and made me feel uncomfortable just because I am a foreigner.
Well, I wouldn’t recommend to anyone especially for tourist as they made very clear the foreigners not welcomed in this pub.
Shame on them!

Get in early. Young pub in the evening. Quite village pub in the evening. Lovely staff

Had a great night out here, lovely friendly people and affordable prices.
Will definitely be going back!

Is pretty mellow during wk, and then is packed with underage crowd wkend nights. alright if you like that sorta thing.

This place was packed with people when I visited on a Saturday afternoon. I could see why people woud take time out of their shopping or day to come here. Draft beer is pretty good — Bombadier, Abbot Ale, Speckled Hen (only the 4.5%) London Pride and the ubiquitous Greene King IPA. The beer is cheap with guiness only 2.70 a pint!
The food was good value for money especially here in Enfield where the high street seems to be abit lacking of places to grab a lunch or a drink for that matter.
It is a big pub with plenty of comfy seating. I ordered a jacket potato with piri piri chicken for only 2.95. It was a bargain.
They also serve hot drinks and have a cappacino machine serving all the usual coffee and tea choices. Good alround! Stop here when shopping in Enfield town centre for cheap beer, food or hot drinks.

The George, Enfield Town — 5 The Town, EN2 6LE.
An Incomplete Review.
This place has reopened after a 6-​week refurb with new ownership, namely Welcome Freehouses. M&B have left the building and taken their Goose with them. Welcome Freehouses are a new group and the George is only their second pub, in fact they’re so new that as of this date I can’t find a website and there’s no company information online.
Draft beer is pretty good — Bombadier, Abbot Ale, Speckled Hen (only the 4.5%) London Pride and the ubiquitous Greene King IPA. However, they are all slightly frothy which I have come to expect from most pubs selling ales from hand pumps these days; (sighs) it really shouldn’t be like that; I’m ordering beer, not horrid creamflow. They did actually taste okay though, maybe the pumps will settle down. The usual range of lagers are available for other drinkers. Yes, I’m biased.
Beer prices are fair in comparison to other drinkeries, between £2.25 and £2.50. Guinness is £2.70. I think the lagers are cheaper.
No idea about the food, I might give it a go sometime, but after a cursory glance there’s nothing unexpected on the menus even though the general idea is a ‘family oriented gastro-​pub’… which is hell for drinkers, particularly the ‘family’ bit. That means no escape from children — a pub should be a boozer, not a crèche. And if I want ‘good’ food (as opposed to good ol’ pub grub which I’m happy with) I’ll go to a restaurant.
Staff have the now-​accepted aura concomittant with both ‘yoof’ and current corporate beverage brand appearances but I won’t hold that against them. They’re managing at the moment and if the ale was less lively and more like ale they’d be better at pint-​pulling.
On to the subject of racket: patrons are also treated to another current trend, big flat screens everywhere. Come on, nobody needs these and if they’re serious about this place they aren’t going to be screening football matches or music videos. The panels were in place previously and I was hoping they’d go missing during the refurb but no such luck. They were showing the BBC news channel in the afternoon which at least was more interesting than Neighbours or some insane idiot mewling hip-​garage or whatever, but as there was thankfully no sound there should have been subtitles on all of them, not just one. I and many others find these damn televisions an intrusion on our boozing/​socialising time. I don’t recall hearing any background music, which is a Good Thing.
I was nonplussed at the sight a daytime bouncer on the door! What do the management think is going to happen on a Thursday lunchtime? Are they expecting the Vulgars to return night and day instead of only at weekends?
Unfortunately, Welcome have missed a massive opportunity. They’ve failed to create any atmosphere beyond the warehouse effect it previously had and, allowing for the new bench seating (which is too soft & low), left the George internals pretty much as they were. That means not enough of a change to make a change, if you see what I mean. Given the size of this place, they could have refined it into two or three bars and actually made something interesting, like a pub for instance but I suppose the budget wasn’t there at this stage of the company’s growth. And not a dartboard in sight. Can’t really call a building a pub unless it’s got a dartboard.
The place is also a bit confusing, are they selling it as a gastro-​pub, a party place or a TV lounge?
However, I do wish Welcome Freehouses all the best, as a presumably fairly new company in a saturated gastro-​pub market they’re going to need it. That is unless they’re not new at all and are in fact a mature chain masquerading under a new name.
I’ll end with a moan: why can’t we just have good old-​fashioned PUBS anymore? I miss the curly sandwiches. And the peace and quiet. And staff with frayed braces holding their baggy trousers up.
This country needs a retro-​revolution in the boozing industry.