Results tagged “pub”

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.

The redevelopment of the City Pride pub has been thrown into doubt after Irish property company Glenkerrin went into receivership.

The popular Canary Wharf pub was earmarked for demolition after Glenkerrin received planning approval two years ago to build a 62 storey tower on the land.

The Ledger Building will open its doors tomorrow with a new look, inside and out.

The Lloyds No 1 pub on West India Quay is being treated to a facelift worth more than £175,000, which features new furniture, a mahogany bar, a DJ booth and a fresh paint job.

PUB GRUB
Slug and Lettuce, South Colonnade
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
It's noisy and there may be school-disco necking nearby, but the Slug and Lettuce offers a range of uncomplicated dishes in generous portions

The long wait came to an end two weeks ago when the Park Pavilion in Canada Square, finally saw its first leisure venues open their doors.

The frontage of One Canada Square has been transformed, and paying customers have been sampling the two newest additions to the Canary Wharf restaurant and bar scene, the Parlour and Canteen.

By Victoria Clayton

After sampling plentiful beers, lagers, and ciders on a TV road trip across Britain and Ireland last summer, double act James May, co-host of BBC 2's Top Gear, and wine expert Oz Clarke decided that tea was the drink that defines modern Britain.

Settling on your perfect local is often as tricky as finding Goldilocks a suitable breakfast.

Maybe the beer is too warm, or the decor is too cold... and is someone seriously playing rap on that jukebox?

A DISUSED Isle of Dogs pub was damaged by fire late on Sunday, despite being next door to Millwall fire station.

Four engines crewed by 20 firefighters were called to the blaze at the Anchor and Hope on Westferry Road at 9.53pm and had the fire under control by 11.24pm. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.