{"id":772817,"date":"2026-09-16T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772817\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:28:13","slug":"crouch-hill-pub-old-dairy-to-reopen-as-comedy-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772817\/","title":{"rendered":"Crouch Hill pub Old Dairy to reopen as comedy venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamhigh.co.uk\/topics\/food-and-drink\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Food and drink<\/a> will also be served at the nights with a &#8220;high percentage&#8221; of money raised going towards community projects and charitable causes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamhigh.co.uk\/news\/23375262.monkey-business-comedy-club-returns-sir-richard-steele-pub\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Posting on Facebook he wrote: &#8220;We\u2019re incredibly excited to announce that Finsbury Park Cabaret will be taking over the whole pub at The Dairy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We\u2019ll 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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The Dairy has been closed for the past few weeks, so we\u2019re thrilled to be bringing this fantastic space back to life with a series of one-off pop-up nights.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first events will take place on Halloween &#8211; October 31 &#8211; followed by November 28 and December 12 with more dates to be announced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For many years Besserman also ran the Camden Cabaret programming a mix of entertainment from from drag to Burlesque and comedy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock, Lee Mack, Katherine Ryan, Sarah Pascoe and Harry Hill are among the big acts he booked early in their careers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamhigh.co.uk\/news\/23488335.old-dairy-pub-crouch-hill-reopens-bank-holiday-major-revamp\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the Campaign For Real Ale, The Dairy has been closed since early May &#8211; some three years after it underwent a major six-figure refurbishment under owners Greene King.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Grade II listed pub has decorative panels illustrating traditional milk production methods.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That&#8217;s because it originally served as a shop and creamery for the Friern Manor Dairy Farm Company &#8211; dating back to 1890.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The building once housed stables and cowsheds and features seven &#8216;sgraffito&#8217; panels showing scenes of grazing, milking, cooling, butter making, and milk delivery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Friern Manor Dairy Farm Company operated multiple shops and farms around London supplying ice-cream parlours and milk bars across the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 2023 refurb paid tribute to the building\u2019s history with exposed brick walls, wooden floors, and a restored skylight, while also adding modern touches such as a redesigned bar and new furniture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Old Dairy on Crouch Hill will relaunch as a pop-up cabaret and comedy venue with a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}