Brewpub Near Me in Highbury: Brewhouse & Kitchen's Microbrewery Beside the Bar

On Mondays and Tuesdays, £13.95 gets you a burger, fries and a pint of beer brewed on the premises at Brewhouse & Kitchen Highbury, 2a Corsica Street, London N5 1JJ. The pub has a full working microbrewery and sits a short walk from Highbury & Islington station. It opens at noon every day, stays open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and serves food until 9pm most nights. Among the brewpub near me options in north London, this is the one where the brewing kit, the kitchen and the beer garden crowd are all in the same building.

Brewhouse & Kitchen calls Highbury North London's neighbourhood microbrewery, and the brewing kit is part of the pub rather than a separate building. The house range rotates between American pale ale, IPA, tropical IPA, lager, pilsner, best bitter and a nitro stout. All of them are described as vegan and unpasteurised, and each dish on the main menu is matched to one of them, marked with a small symbol so you can order the pairing the kitchen intended.

The brewery is not just for show. The lowest of the three private hire rooms is called The Lower Brewery and seats an intimate group of 15 right next to the working tanks. The Tap Room takes a party of 70 standing, and The Snug is the third, smaller option. Above the pub there is a flexible workspace called The Hub @ Highbury, and the pub itself takes pre-booked workspace tables with wifi and power.

The main menu leans on beer in the cooking. The flatbread uses beer cheese, the pretzel at £5.25 comes with beer cheese sauce, and the half BBQ beercan chicken costs £17.95 with a beer-b-cue glaze. The Double Brew burger, two British beef patties with craft beer cheese sauce, is £17.50. The Spicy Mac adds craft beer mac and cheese and an IPA-battered onion ring for £18.50. The 35-day aged nine-ounce ribeye comes with stout-roasted onion for £24.95.

For small plates, the panko mozzarella sticks are £8, the blistered padron peppers £6 and the beer-battered fish tacos £9. Any three small plates cost £22.95. Desserts are a flat £5, including sticky toffee pudding and an Eton Mess cheesecake. If you only want one thing, order the brewers' mac and cheese at £14.95. It is made with a three-cheese blend and the house beer cheese sauce, and it is the clearest example of the pub's cooking style.

Weeknight deals make this one of the cheaper ways to drink fresh house beer in Islington. Monday and Tuesday are burger, fries and a brewed pint from £13.95. Wednesday is large wings, fries and a pint for £13.95. Thursday is a ribeye or rump steak with chips and a pint for £19.95. On Fish Friday, beer-battered fish and chips with a pint costs £18.50, and on Saturday the steak and ale pie deal costs £17.50.

On Sundays roasts are served all day with all the trimmings. Desserts drop to £4, and children under six get a free roast with each adult main. From Sunday to Thursday, two of the same cocktail cost £16. You can swap the pint in any deal for a Juicy Crush cider, a glass of house wine or a draught soft drink. Weekday daytime deals with subs and small plates run until 5pm, Monday to Saturday.

For a deeper look at the beer, book the Beer Masterclass. It is a two-hour tutored tasting of eight beers, some brewed only on site, led by the in-house beer specialist. It costs £30 per person, or £40 with an academy meal. Groups of eight or more should email the pub directly instead of booking online. Gin, rum and whisky-and-beer pairing masterclasses use the same format if someone in your group doesn't drink beer.

The biggest experience is the Brewery Experience Day, a full day brewing alongside one of the pub's brewers in the middle of a working bar. Breakfast and lunch are included, there is plenty of beer to taste during the day, and you finish by choosing a five-litre mini keg to take home. All experience bookings need a card pre-authorisation, which is only charged if you don't turn up without notice.

The pub pitches itself at three groups: weekday lunchers using the subs and work-friendly offers, Friday night groups of friends, and families coming for the Sunday roast. The bar stays open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Well-behaved dogs are welcome in the bar area, but they must stay on a lead and off the furniture, so bring a mat if your dog likes to climb onto the benches.

If you want a table for food on a deal night, book through the website rather than walking in. The best time for a quiet look at the brewery is a weekday between noon and 5pm, when the daytime menu is on. If you want to taste the whole house range, skip the deal pint and book the £30 masterclass instead, because a single pint only shows you one of the seven house styles.

The pub describes itself as a stone's throw from Highbury & Islington station, which is served by the Victoria line and the Overground, so you can get there easily from anywhere in London. After a pint, Highbury Fields is close by for a walk across the grass, and Upper Street runs south towards Angel if you want to keep going to another pub or have dinner somewhere else.

Brewhouse & Kitchen runs brewpubs around the country, from Portsmouth and Dorchester to Cheltenham and Chester, and Highbury is the only London pub on its brewpub list. For anyone in the capital, this is the branch where you can see the house beers being made. Christmas 2026 menus and private hire bookings are already open.

Address: Brewhouse & Kitchen Highbury, 2a Corsica Street, Highbury, London N5 1JJ. Bar hours: Monday to Thursday noon to 11pm, Friday and Saturday noon to midnight, Sunday noon to 10.30pm. Kitchen: noon to 9pm Monday to Thursday and Sunday, and until 10pm on Friday and Saturday. Gluten-free and vegan menus are available. Dogs on leads are welcome in the bar.

If Highbury is fully booked on a deal night, Karpo can find you another pub with a free table within a short walk.