For at least a decade I’ve been boring friends and family with the opinion that a small bar on the Crouch End side of Harringay station was a potential nice little earner and finally someone with more nous and energy than me has acted on that rather obvious opinion.

Thank God.

Bonne Route had been open for a couple of weeks when we visited and seems to be thriving, by half an hour after opening it was packed to the gills. Good thing.

The offer is an excellent variety of wine by the glass (and bottle) with sliced raw meat/cheese/olives/bread. And it’s done well, which is not always the case. (I’m talking about you La Viña.)

James played a game of guess the wine on us and it turned out his was from Wiltshire rather than the Jura. The breadth of the offer can be divined from my notes saying that we also had an Austrian Orange and a Pugliese Primitivo. Food was a high quality cheeseboard, monster olives and bread.

As I intimated, the room is tight so this isn’t necessarily a place to take your latest flame. Service is friendly and excellent, the prices slightly high for these parts (though I guess Crouch End prices are creeping ever Eastwards) but that’s forgivable in a place that gets things right.

8/10

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