Jolly Butchers Pub

An unmarked venue with no name over the door, the interior is a small hall of tables with a long bar serving food and drinks along the left side. The decor is very minimalist and almost dirty, undoubtedly attracting a trendsetting crowd. The drinks are a good selection however and the plates food [...]

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Rain Bar

Slightly off the beaten track, Manchester’s answer to a gastro pub is “Rain Bar”, a venue which suited well for lunch within a short walk of the hotel at which i was staying. The interior offers seating either side of the small bar, which, like an overcrowded counter at a corner shop is packed with [...]

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The Ox and Gate Pub

Unfortunately not every trip to a Pub, Bar or club is in the highest of spirits or for the party scene and in this case my family and I attended the wake of a family friend - Roy Ballance. This was my first trip to Neasdon and this pub really my [...]

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Market Tavern Pub

Most of the pubs in Mayfair are not places for the Rich and famous, they are local squats for aging drinkers, those on Monopoly pub crawls and those looking for lost bars. The Market Tavern - one of the newer additions to the Mayfair scene is actually a surprising Gastro-treat in the heart [...]

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The Stag Gastro Bar and Restaurant
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A fresh Gastro-pub just before Enfield town, sitting next to a small village parish, one or two old style cobbled narrow lanes with the eye sore of a bus garage opposite. With fair notice from our party before entering we encounter a heavy male population inside, and although there is [...]

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The Three Compasses Pub

Just a hop skip and a jump from Farringdon tube station is the strangely named Three compasses pub. One would wonder why on earth such a new age pub has such an old style name with no obvious reference inside as to its orgins but I guess the name is lost on me. Inside [...]

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Bell and Compass Bar
 
The Bell and Compass sounds like the name of an old pub but in fact it is a rather new age gastro-style venue sitting on the strand in Central London. So what can be said about the Bell and Compass? Well to start off with its very pricey, I happened upon a [...]

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The Red Lion and Sun

No longer the smokey dungeon of its dubious past, but a gastro-pub restored to some level of glory - a proud feel about the place with well dressed clientele in a mess of twenty-somethings and OAPs. The barmen are a huddle of gents in their thirties serving the growing crowd with some haste [...]

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The Priory Bar

When modern gastro meets industrial pipework in the back streets of trendy-as-you-like Farringdon. It becomes obvious why the venue is filled with beautiful and wealthy people. The building is quite well hidden off of a couple of more prestigious factory style offices near clerkenwell road and yet in its own courtyard set back [...]

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The Champion Pub

Towards queensway along the nothing hill high street sits the champion. The rather unusual pub pulls off the gastro imagine with style and ambiance which rival the most popular among pubs. The seating is arranged in differing table and exotic sofas sit in the centre of the low red light bulb lit venue. [...]

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