Tollingtons
Seafood restaurant · Finsbury Park ·
Spanish tapas fish bar with chips bravas & on-tap vermouth
Spanish tapas fish bar with chips bravas & on-tap vermouth
"If you’re looking for London’s highest concentration of XXL crochet scrunchies, Mescal-mentality short shorts, and Rizla requests, then this Iberian-style fish bar is calling. We have a strong affinity for the imported vermouth tap and the cig-smoking seagull artwork inside, but Costa Del Stroud Green is best enjoyed out on the terrace. Both the garlic aioli-topped chips bravas and the golden flan were destined for a life in the sun." - rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, sinead cranna
"Once a neighbourhood chippy, Tollington’s is now our favourite London restaurant scene to debut a new silly little gilet while trying to remember how to roll a cigarette. This Iberian-style fish bar has a care-free attitude that suits our nation’s favourite warm-weather activity, Leaning & Laughing With Pint. The distinctly yellow sit-down, walk-in bar area offers the best proximity to the imported vermouth tap, but really you want to be out on their pavement with some chips bravas to absorb all the vitamin D." - jake missing, daisy meager, sinead cranna, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley
"This former chippy in Stroud Green has what we like to call The Mescal Mentality—cig glued to lower lip, shorts with maximum quad exposure, leaning on a table, pint in hand, like you’ve never encountered cortisol since birth. Inside is mellow yellow and ideal for those who prioritise pintxo digestion, but the alfresco pavement out front offers the kind of vitamin D deficiency dissociation that can rarely be found this side of Gibraltar. Squeeze in, swig £3.50 vermouth, and promote London’s most beguiling It girl renaissance—the return of the flan. ‘Cool Job’ types who all have tickets to the Oasis reunion Green Rizla rolling papers & XXXL crochet scrunchies Of both the hair and piri piri fish variety, limitless" - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna
"The walk-in-only area of this Spanish-inspired fish bar in Stroud Green is the width of a tube carriage and can be a bunfight. But, once perched, they'll pour you a crisp beer and suggest you eat dinner leaning against the counter. All before giving you a lovely little basket of crunchy, sliced supermarket-like baguette to tear and mop with. De nada." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna
"A reimagined fish-and-chips shop that fuses British chippie traditions with Spanish tapas sensibilities: a linger-friendly room to sip Estrella or cava while small plates of fresh and fried seafood circulate. The signature “chips bravas” unite shaggy-crisp fries finished with the beef-tallow aroma of top English chips and a fearless, garlicky aioli, bridging the best of both culinary worlds and encouraging convivial, lingering meals." - ByAmiel Stanek
