The Hens and Chicken Theatre Bar in Islington

The vibe in the bar is a delight! Sam who was working the bar was attentive and excellent at relating to customers.

As per usual the hen and chickens pulls it out the bag with a perfect night. Staff are incredible, and the vibes are immaculate ✨ THANKS GUYS 💕

Seian was the perfect bartender and such an amazing pub, definitely a must visit :)

This is one of our favourite pubs in Islington. Service (especially from Nadine) is always first class - so friendly and warm. Nothing is too much trouble even when I’m not a theatre attendee. A must visit in H&I!

Great atmosphere, Nadine was super friendly and efficient!

Had a wonderful first experience at The Hen & Chicken. Served by the lovely Nadine and other staff members. We watched the performance “The Kennington Loop” it was amazing! We will definitely be returning!

We did not eat as we were there to watch a play. It was so good, service was excellent and atmosphere was 👏!

Lovely pub. Great pint selection. Everyone was great especially Elaine who served us. Will come again

Hen and chickens is one of our locals and I absolutely love it. The service is great, the staff are lovely and there is always a great atmosphere. Whilst I understand why they do it, its really annoying that on Arsenal match days only ticket holders are allowed in the pub ..... it would be good if they had some allowance for locals to still be allowed in on those days

It was our first visit to this pub as I have moved in close by. The environment and staff Nadine and Lucas are so lovely. Very welcoming, friendly and professional. I will definitely be back again.

Alex and Jack were fantastic bartenders

We love niome!!! She’s the best and has been so nice to us!!!

Great pub, very friendly service behind the bar 🙌🏽 I actually came to watch a show being performed in the theatre above, the intervention - a great show 10/10. Drinks were allowed in the theatre just on plastic cups which is fine, theater itself was great, small but plenty of space between seats so no awkward having to stand up to let people pass 🙌🏽 it was a hot day and the whole place was well air conditioned which I was very grateful for.

Great little theatre and a nice pub too!

I’ve spent the last my six weeks working here. A truly great place. All the staff are lovely and great. I will go here far more often. Thank you for the great memories x

Great atmosphere, traditional pub, staff extremely friendly and helpful. Night we came Nadine and Seian were behind the bar, fantastic service and great laugh.

Only had drinks, but very nice place and friendly staff, thanks.

I was here early on a Saturday night for a theatre visit. I'd had a full day and was carrying shopping. I was early for the show and my phone needed charging. Everything was easily available; charging point, toilet, a comfortable wingback chair and efficient and kind staff. I didn't want food (and that's not available) but perhaps in the future? A very relaxed and pleasant place with good, efficient staff. Thanks. I'll be back!

Great pub and very accommodating! Shout out to Chelsea and Seian who are very friendly!

I wascthere for unrestricted view. Lively theatre pub and managed well during ye football

Fabulous little gem of St Pauls Road, Islington. Very friendly pub and theatre. Staff are amazing and very quick to serve. Don’t walk past and pop in for a drink and let Lucas, Chelsea, Nadine and Ciann look after you and ensure you have a great experience. Five stars ⭐️

The Hen and Chickens is a brilliant pub. Located just at Highbury Corner on St Paul’s Road. Great atmosphere and the staff are super friendly, helpful and efficient. Nothing is too much trouble. Lucas has built an excellent team, with stand out performers Chelsea, Nadine, Alex and Ciann. Love coming here and well worth a visit.

This one of my favourite pubs in the area - great atmosphere, great pint of Guinness and Nadine and the rest of the staff are brilliant. It’s got a really authentic feel to it and attracts a nice and diverse crowd too.

Fantastic pub. Lukas and the crew, including Nadine, always look after us well. Happy to be here all the time! The best in Islington.

The Hen and Chickens is a brilliant pub. Located just at Highbury Corner on St Paul’s Road. Great atmosphere and the staff are super friendly, helpful and efficient. Nothing is too much trouble. Lucas has built an excellent team, with stand out performers Chelsea, Nadine, Alex and Ciann. Love coming here and well worth a visit.

Seian and nadine have been amazing and made our night!!!

If there is a local football match on they only let in people going to the game. Surly locals and people who just want a pint should get priority

Great pub before going to watch Arsenal. It wasn't too busy and got served quickly

Amazing service kaleeia was an angel. Amazing food and atmosphere.

Absolutely lovely pub and theatre venue, staff were so lovely and friendly, service was second to none, atmosphere was so very welcoming, couldn't fault this place at all. Will be back.. definitely worth a visit , infact it's a must!!!

Great place, amazing service and atmosphere

great spot for drinks, very friendly bartenders . and they also have teather above! i would highly recommoned this place to anyone if you are in the area

Great drinks selection, friendly bartenders. Highly recommend

Great fresh beers and amazing drinks selection. Super friendly bartenders. The best Pub in the area. Highly recommend

Great atmosphere, good beers and nice selection of wines. Highly recommend

Feels like an American AI created a pub. Inauthentic and lame.

A nice little theatre pub! It’s a bit small, not suitable for larger groups. The seats in the theatre have very narrow space for your legs so if you’re a tall person try and sit on the edges by the stairs.

Had a great time with pals. J was on top form, you know how he gets, and Jack was let out of his box. Barmaid Nadine was off the chain. Can’t recommend highly enough!!

Beautiful ambience, super great place before and after a show upstairs! Don’t get me wrong as a show was phenomenal and Nadine on bar was too!

It's a fun pub to go to, with a great little theatre

A really lovely place to meet with a good vibe and good drinks and to make it even better seeing a theatre show as well, was an absolute gem

Nice enough but very rough around the edges. Barmaid was very dismissive when I asked if I could charge my phone up… “android round here”, so a very blunt NO! Very average.

Nadine was an absolute delight and is a credit to the establishment. Will be back purely for her.

Lukas is a soul of this place 😃✌️

Lovely small corner pub, great beer selection, team very friendly and helpful, big shout to Aleksandra for being w star of our night out. Highly recommend

Great place, good beer selection, friendly team, especially a big shout to Alexandra! Highly recommend

Hen & Chickens is one of the best pub theatres in London! The staff are incredible, attentive, and make the pub a great home for us the week of our show! Couldn’t recommend it more to both performers and punters!

Just a great pub. Friendly, clean, everything I wanted

NADINE!!! Absolute hero, 1 man band sorted us out all night

Incredible Guinness and Nadine's gaydar is unrivalled

Had a great night here and Nadine was brilliant

Great little gem of a pub! Shout out to Chelsea who looked after me all night. A pub not to be missed.

As someone that spends an unhealthy amount of time at this pub, I can honestly say that it is a wonderful place. It’s not a huge establishment or a place that plays loud music and has vast crowds, it is instead an intimate, quaint pub that has an abundance of character and something akin to a zen vibe. It’s located a stone’s throw from Highbury and Islington station so you’d expect it to be heaving with an overcrowded energy, but instead it exudes a lovely relaxed atmosphere. The staff behind the bar are all top notch, particularly the manager, Lucas who charms with an easy humour and also Nadine, who has such a lovely vibrant energy. This is the ideal place for when you’re having a bad day and better yet, a perfect place for when you’re having a good one. I’d say it’s a hidden gem and I encourage you to NOT visit, because you could very well take my favourite seat of one of the comfy leather, Chesterfield arm chairs.

A really vibey place with a great selection of beers and non-alcoholic cocktails! They have a theatre space on the 1st floor, which shows comedy on most nights, so if you're looking for a place to see a show and have a drink it's a really good shout. The service was quick and friendly, so we'll definitely be coming back!

Great place! Much better than the other bars around Highbury Corner. Big shout out to Nadine who looked after us all night!

Lovely atmosphere ! Saw a show upstairs which was great. Nadine was so lovely on bar and really looked after us. Definitely will be coming again.

Brilliant venue. Good music, really pleasant atmosphere and friendly helpful team. When I managed to lose my wallet by letting it fall out of my pocket they couldn't have been more helpful - searching everywhere until they found it! Fantastic place.

Met a friend here on 23rd December for a pre Christmas meet up and a few drinks. I'd always passed it on the bus and always thought 'i must pop in' well I'm really glad I did. Really cosy venue with a great atmosphere. I met a really lovely bar server called Nadine who mad the evening even better. She was so friendly and offered a really warm welcome. Drinks are a reasonably priced and they offer a range of bar snacks. Will definitely be in again as we were made to feel so welcome. Thank you so much!

Always a great experience with lovely staff and a great buzz.

Great service from shineane made a it a great experience. Highly recommended

A quality pub for everyone. Good beer and friendly staff.

Great pre-football pub, friendly staff, good service.

No ales on today, but been assured this is temporary and look forward to trying on my next visit.

I put 1 star for food because there is none but they have snacks, I got served by Lukas. Nadine and I believe Alex brilliant service with a smile and a little chat, Atmosphere is nice chilled if packed you might need to stand but other then that I will be coming back again with friends. Thanks

Has a great little theatre as well

Great pub, Chelsea was great behind the bar

Love this place! Friendly staff and the show we saw upstairs (Hungry Animals) was excellent! Looking forward to many more evenings out here to come.

How on Earth this place survives with so few folks for some of the shows... who knows? But the shows are great, the cocktails tasty, and the selection of other bevvies diverse enough to please any palate. Go. See a show. Support local theatre.

As always, very hard to review a theatre without also reviewing the show you saw there. I saw "Yoga and sex...for women (over 40)". The show was superb! Side splittingly funny! See it if you get a chance. The bar was good, with relatively quick service, even though it was quite busy. You can take in drinks, but they need to be in a plastic cup. One star off because they don't offer food.

Nice pub and theatre, visited for a show and found it very welcoming, staff lovely as well.

Nice little placed packed with a nice atmosphere. Chelsea (?) made it a lovely evening for us

A pooular pub with an upstairs theatre.

Very nice pub and great selection of drinks. The staff were very friendly and welcoming, especially Seian she was very professional and accommodating!

I had such a great time here last week. I was served by Chelsea who was so lovely. She pointed me in the direction of the Camden Stout, which I was hesitate to try, but she knew I would like it and I did. Will definitely be coming back again.

Popped in after a visiting friends, was served by a lovely person called Chelsea, explained the different wine options and Rum choices to my partner, lovely atmosphere and drink choice, can’t wait to pop by again soon

I had a wonderful experience last week and Chelsea was a really friendly bartender who delivered incredible service and the whole atmosphere of the bar was brilliant.

Lovely little find! No hot food but a great range of beers and a few snacks to make up for it. Chelsea was super helpful in recommending which of the craft beers to try!

Nice pub but the staff are the most miserable people I’ve ever encountered. If you fancy spending £7 on a pint to have the staff look at you like you’ve took a dump on their kids Christmas dinner then this is the place for you. Don’t be in hospitality if you can’t give good service with a smile. Miserable people

I came to watch a South African Comedian as a recent expat to the UK myself. They wouldn’t except my South African driving licence as a form of ID, a rule that seemed to be made up on the spot (I’ve used it many times before and never had a problem). I felt the staff were pretty dismissive and I was unimpressed. I did enjoy the show though, great comedian and cute stage area.

Always a lovely venue :) great vibe.

Went to see a play in their little cosy theatre above the pub. It is great. It accommodates around 50 people (maybe 40?). Seats are very close to the stage and if you want or not you feel like you just become a part of the play. Definitely worth to experience once if you are looking fir non commercial, old school, trendy little theatre with its own charm! Personals behind bar very friendly, always keen to serve you fast. Unfortunately didn’t get chance to try food, but be back there for sure! Pub very clean and welcoming. Loved their old fashion Chesterfield’s high back arm chairs. Could sit in one for hours 😊

Great vibe, one of the first pubs I visited in london and wasn't disappointed! Chatted with harry at the bar and he was very friendly, will visit again!

I had a great time at the Hen and Chicken’s today, Harry was such a great bartender

I love it here, the theatre is lovely and the bar is great. Shout out to Harry who I chatted with today and was brill!

Having a great pint before the Codeine show at The Garage, Islington. Harry the barman is super helpful and friendly too.

Lovely pub on a nice corner in Islington. Perfect place to sit outside when it's nice out. Great staff, especially Harry, he pours a phenomenal pint 👌

great atmosphere, and the drinks were yum! special thanks to harry for making our night exceptional!

We usually really enjoy this pub and go there semi regularly as it is not far from where we live and a change of scenery! My friends and I were there the other day and playing a card game in which there were occasional levels of excitement/cheering. The group by us was consistently at a loud level, so the pub was not quiet and it was late enough that a play wasn't going on upstairs. A woman (i think the manager, geometric glasses) gave us a hard time upon ordering earlier in the night but came up to us as we were playing the game and told us she could hear us from the cellar so we had to be quiet. We were confused as the group by us was loud the entire time compared to our bursts of noise and otherwise relatively tame levels of speaking. Not sure what was bothered down in the cellar from a card game level of excitement but we all felt it was handled aggressively and we will not be returning unfortunately! (We want to point out that the young man working alongside her was incredibly lovely and helpful, very efficient, very kind!)

Small but decent pub, comedy / theatre upstairs and tables / leaning space available outside.

A wonderful pub with friendly, efficient staff. Great atmosphere.

Fantastic venue with a great little cabaret space upstairs!

We use to be regulars but for the past couple of years it went a bit downhill. Now it has become our local once again. Lukas has done an amazing job and turned this place around with efficient staff and personalities to match. I really can’t remember waiting any longer than one minute to be served, even with the theatre crowd. It really has got its vibe back and most of the time, has a great atmosphere. It is nice, early Sunday evenings, being quieter. We have noticed new regulars coming into the bar, which is great and haven’t seen that for quite a while. A testament to the way this bar is ran.

Delightful pub, and cosy fringe theatre. A welcome break from the hussle and bussle of Islington

Excellent, their service and treatment is excellent

Pop in for a few drinks Lovely atmosphere Bar staff was very nice Will defo return

Lovely theatre and pub in the heart of Highbury and Islington.

Am a local but got a half pint not filled to the top. When I remarked on it to the bar lady, she politely declined to deal with it as she couldn't be sure that I’d already drunk from it (or not). Why would I return to the bar in this way… people behind the bar should aim to provide good customer service, around the clock and not get weary when shifts are ending.

I was attending an event in the cinema upstairs. I had a drink at the bar. Nice location, nice seating area, good windows for people watching.

Very good place to pre drink before the football! COYG

Lovely pub and theatre. Very good value too