Discovering Industry Bar and Kitchen was a case of wandering past while charity shopping for niche Jason Statham DVDs on Gloucester Road and spotting the dartboard through the window. Since then I have visited several times as a stopover when I have 30 minutes to an hour to waste between work and pub quiz/meeting friends on Gloucester Road. For this purpose it’s an ideal spot. As more of a sports bar it’s quiet in the early evening, before matches kick off, meaning the dartboard is almost always free. If not, there is a back-up dartboard with a slightly worse set-up in the main room of the pub. There is only one cask beer option: Tribute. However, in all my visits so far it’s been well kept and goes down very nicely. For a few years in my undergrad it was my beer of choice in the Highbury Vaults, another pub that won’t feature otherwise in this series due to its lack of dartboard.
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