This was the first so-called ‘gastro pub’ in London started by one of the Eyre brothers. That is the main reason I like it. It looks much the same as all other gastro pubs but being one large room with the bar along one wall and lacking any nooks and crannies it somewhat lacks an [...]

77 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, London, N6 6BU
020 8348 7346
Monday – Saturday 11am-11pm Sunday 12pm-10.30pm Food served 12pm-10pm

http://www.hollybushpub.com/
22 Holly Mount, Hampstead, London, NW3 6SG
020 7435 2892
(Bar opening hours) Monday -Saturday 12pm-11pm Sunday 12noon to 10.30pm
(Kitchen opening hours) Monday – Friday 12pm-4pm and 6pm-10pm
Saturday, 12pm-10pm Sunday 12pm -9.30pm

It’s a pub although it doesn’t look like one. The scattered Louis XIV style furniture and chandeliers are more reminiscent of a posh French restaurant, but don’t let this put you off as it’s really very relaxed and the food is great. I like to come here occasionally for Sunday Lunch. Today I feel like [...]

If Broadway market with its thick abundance of pushchairs and the middle classes, in what was not so long ago a very working class, east end neighbourhood, makes you nauseous then The Dove is the bucket in which to be sick. It’s totally bourgeois and full of smug locals who read The Observer and The [...]

The best kind of gastro pub is the kind that doesn’t try too hard, essentially serving up modern day comfort food just A LOT BETTER. A word of warning: the bread here is so delicious you are likely to fill up before your meal even comes. Despite being tucked away in a wholly residential area [...]