Results tagged “The Gun”

By Louisa Emery

Gastro pub gurus Ed and Tom Martin have spent more than a decade building a formidable dining portfolio.

They recently picked up The Good Pub Guide's County Dining Pub Of The Year for The Gun and revealed what made the Coldharbour establishment so special.

Al fresco dining can be a struggle in London and with weather forecasters getting our hopes up, a summer of charcoal fuelled meals outdoors looked to be on the cards.

As June promised to be a scorcher, staff at The Gun must have been jumping at the chance to man the Blackwall pub's Portuguese style barbecue A Grelha.

By Jon Massey

The Wharf's crisp sterility hardly seems the place for ghouls and spirits.

Even though, on dark nights, certain passages can seem curiously deserted, it's difficult to imagine anything more terrifying than an estate security guard going bump.

Readers of "street-savvy" guidebook Not For Tourists probably won't be making a bee-line for the Wharf any time soon.

The "urban-manual" for residents in the capital savaged the estate and the surrounding area in its 2010 edition, dubbing it "finance's faltering engine room".

Click here for factfiles of the local haunts in the 2010 Good Beer Guide

If you're a real ale lover, this particular stretch of the Thames hasn't always been seen as a beacon of pint-related pleasure.

Aside from the Grapes in Limehouse and the North Pole in Manilla Street, the E14 postcode is often no more than a footnote in Camra's extensive Good Beer Guides.

Our seas are changing - and it's no coincidence that the offerings of shops and restaurants in Canary Wharf are too.

Last week, The End Of The Line, a hard-hitting film about the catastrophe facing our waters due to overfishing, was released in cinemas.

You've got bills to pay, a growing list of problems to sort out and the on-set of what the little hypochondriac voice inside insists is a stomach ulcer.

What you really need, rather than to be stuck in a air-conditioned, germ-filled office is a holiday.

The traditional Sunday roast is as important to Brits as football and moaning about public transport.

But how do you create the perfect platter for your day of rest?

TRADITIONAL drinkers don’t usually have much time for gastropubs.

In fact, they usually see them as some sort of dining equivalent of 70s cult film Logan’s Run – sniffy culinary “utopias� with no character, cold shiny surfaces and the faint whiff of social injustice.

The Gun doesn’t have that problem.

The Grade II-listed Coldharbour watering hole neatly straddles the gulf between the two warring camps of the modern pub world.