Results tagged “pub”

Amid the misery of pub closures across the East End, Limehouse's Old Ship has weathered a storm that threatened its 184-year existence.

Two representatives of the paper spent the night at The Gun in Docklands hunting the ghost of Lord Horatio Nelson ahead of Halloween

A piece of Isle of Dogs' history will be closing its doors for good on Friday.

The popular City Pride pub, serving the Island community since the 1950s, has proved to be no match for the developers and will be torn to the ground to make way for yet another tower on the east London skyline.

GASTROPUB
The Mall Tavern
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
This paneled pub in Notting Hill falls just on the wrong side of giving too much weight to the food. Excellent smoked salmon though.

Hollywood actor and Limehouse resident Sir Ian McKellen has long harboured an ambition to open a little tea shop.

This month, in partnership with his old friend the theatre director Sean Mathias and Evening Standard chairman and one-time owner of Sake No Hana Evgeny Lebedev, he took over historic pub The Grapes in Narrow Street instead.