An independant pub in a quiet road in Hackney, here to serve the community as best we can. Open all day every day. Gorgeous food, great drinks and good times.
An independant pub in a quiet road in Hackney, here to serve the community as best we can. Open all day every day. Gorgeous food, great drinks and good times.
The pub is beautiful on the outside and in. Lovely atmosphere and great beers on tap. Everything set up for a perfect Sunday roast. Unfortunately the roast itself was a big let down. The meat was nice, and the roast potatoes were crispy, but that's where it ends. You pay £24 for a roast, and it came on what can only be described as a side plate (have seen other reviews say the same). We had finished it in 5 mins. The gravy was so watery and had 0 flavour, and you had to pay £1.50 for extra gravy water. The cauliflower cheese didn't have any cheese. I had to make dinner as soon as I got home as we were still so hungry. I get the impression the chef is very very capable and the menu not on a Sunday looked delicious and I can imagine tastes great, but I really wouldn't recommend the roast for that price. If you make the portions bigger and make some thick rich gravy, you'll be on to a winner.
Early meal before a local gig. Small unassuming pub, but some crazy capable chef out back. Fell in the door at 6pm. Real sense of community, and friendly staff. Nowhere near where I live, but if there is another gig nearby ... reasonably pricy food, but it was top end ...
Booked an outside table for 5 on Friday evening to try out the new chef (Joe's) new menu. Even though the pub was extremely busy both inside and out the staff were incredibly attentive and friendly throughout, regularly checking back, offering more drinks etc. Good range of beer on tap, strong wine menu and great service from the staff. We ordered the whole menu between us, every dish arrived promptly, was well presented and clearly contained top quality ingredients. The highlights on the menu for me were the crab topped hash browns (which we ordered again), charred peaches with blue cheese, croquettes, raviolo and the ribeye. All of which were absolutely delicious and showed the skills of the chef. Can't wait to return and have it all over again.
Went down to the soft launch of the new menu under chef Joe and his team. The food was sensational, executed perfectly and great value. Those sobrasada croquettes might be the best I've had in London and the whole John Dory swimming in samphire and butter has been in my dreams all week (no picture of that as we scoffed the whole thing immediately). The staff are so warm and helpful, proper old school hospitality that's all too rare these days. The whole vibe is great so will be my regular go to - so glad to have a local independent pub that does it all. Popped by on Sunday and saw a lobster roast that looked out of this world too. Sadly missed out as the kitchen had closed! Booked for next weekend already. Well done team 🙌
Amended - 25/07/23! Came back for a meal on the house - much appreciated! The roasts were no longer on a small plates system which we found so much better. Food was delicious - went for the smoked chicken this time round and it was great. Left feeling full and happy. We also ordered the peach crumble which was delicious and a really decent portion size. Service was really good and they even threw in another dessert on the house that we hadn't ordered. Definitely a much better experience this time round and glad to see the small plates system is no more! Original review: Came for a Sunday roast and booked a table for 8 people. We were aware that their roasts menu had changed to a 'small plates' system for the summer, which we weren't too happy about, but we were intrigued to see how this could possibly work. When we arrived we ordered and were told that the carrots (priced at £12) were a sharing portion, so we ordered 1x plate of carrots as well as 2x plates of potatoes and 1x plate of broccoli between four people, and our own meats each. However when the plates started to arrive, we received one carrot cut in half... We were then later told that the kitchen was running low on carrots, but we felt that this really should have been communicated to us before ordering. Having said that, the roast beef was really tasty, I would definitely recommend ordering it. The dessert was a peach crumble (£9) which sounded delicious, however I didn't order it as I feared it would be absolutely tiny.. There weren't really very many options on the menu in general, and it just felt like a lot of money, for not very much food. The staff were nice and removed the carrots from the bill, and they had given us some delicious pork crackling while we waited for our food. But considering the potatoes and yorkshire puddings were burnt to a crisp, on top of the carrot disappointment, we all just left feeling really dissatisfied with the visit. The small plates system does not work, and the food was extremely overpriced for what you get. I'm not sure I would consider going back to eat there.
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Opening Times
| Mon | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Tue | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Wed | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Thur | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Fri | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Sat | 12:00 – 23:00 |
| Sun | 12:00 – 22:30 |
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