The Old Dairy on Crouch Hill will relaunch as a pop-up cabaret and comedy venue with a series of Saturday night events under the banner of Finsbury Park Cabaret.

Food and drink will also be served at the nights with a “high percentage” of money raised going towards community projects and charitable causes.

Martin Besserman is a Crouch End resident who has run the Monkey Business Comedy Club at various venues around Camden including the Sir Richard Steele pub in Haverstock Hill.

Posting on Facebook he wrote: “We’re incredibly excited to announce that Finsbury Park Cabaret will be taking over the whole pub at The Dairy.

“We’ll be bringing you a series of exciting Saturday night pop-up comedy and cabaret shows, with fabulous performers, great entertainment, food and a fully stocked bar.

“The Dairy has been closed for the past few weeks, so we’re thrilled to be bringing this fantastic space back to life with a series of one-off pop-up nights.”

The first events will take place on Halloween – October 31 – followed by November 28 and December 12 with more dates to be announced.

For many years Besserman also ran the Camden Cabaret programming a mix of entertainment from from drag to Burlesque and comedy.

Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock, Lee Mack, Katherine Ryan, Sarah Pascoe and Harry Hill are among the big acts he booked early in their careers.

According to the Campaign For Real Ale, The Dairy has been closed since early May – some three years after it underwent a major six-figure refurbishment under owners Greene King.

The Grade II listed pub has decorative panels illustrating traditional milk production methods.

That’s because it originally served as a shop and creamery for the Friern Manor Dairy Farm Company – dating back to 1890.

The building once housed stables and cowsheds and features seven ‘sgraffito’ panels showing scenes of grazing, milking, cooling, butter making, and milk delivery.

The Friern Manor Dairy Farm Company operated multiple shops and farms around London supplying ice-cream parlours and milk bars across the city.

It was taken over by United Dairies from the 1920s to the late 1960s before being bought by Regent Inns in 1997 and converted into a pub.

The 2023 refurb paid tribute to the building’s history with exposed brick walls, wooden floors, and a restored skylight, while also adding modern touches such as a redesigned bar and new furniture.

More details about the cabaret events, including line-ups and ticket information, are expected to be released soon via the Finsbury Park Cabaret Facebook page.