Pub

• Dan Doherty's pub The Royal Oak is about to start serving Saturday brunch and Sunday roasts

  Back when it opened in June, Dan Doherty's Marylebone pub The Royal Oak kicked off with a tiny menu, while the chef and his team went about putting useful things like a proper kitchen in. Now, almost three months down the line they're about to kick things off.

  This week sees them launch a proper a-la-carte menu as well as Saturday brunch and Sunday lunch and, well, we thought you might like to take a look at what's on offer.

  Test Driving Plaquemine Lock - a Cajun and Creole pub in Islington

  Tucked down a residential side street in Angel is a canalside pub turning out Cajun and Creole food. We along for a taste of the Deep South.

• Islington's Compton Arms reopens with a new landlord and refined pub classics menu

  The pub that inspired George Orwell's famous Moon Under Water essay has been taken over by the landlord who runs The Gun in Hackney and he's brought in help to serve up some interesting bar food too.

• Plans to turn The Archway Tavern into a wine bar AND nursery are rejected

  

  In a story so crazy you couldn't make it up, an Archway pub has had its application to open a wine bar/nursery rejected.

  The Archway Tavern has been closed for four years now, but an application by leaseholder Dr Imtiaz Sarder was proposing to put a nursery in the back of the building whilst changing the pub to a wine bar.

  Unsurprisingly that didn't cut much mustard with the planners who turned the drinking and daycare combo down, saying: "The

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• The Naturalist at Woodberry Down is Manor House's newest pub

  The huge new Woodberry Down development by Manor House now has its own pub. The Naturalist will be open all day and is setting itself up to offer a mean weekend brunch and Sunday lunch.

• The Blue Posts is about to launch a contender for best pub lunch in London

  

  London's gastropub scene has been getting a real injection of creativity of late, what with Dan Doherty and Tom Oldroyd both opening their own boozers and Henry Harris bringing his skills to a range of pubs

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• Test Driving The Duke of Richmond - Tom Oldroyd becomes a publican

  Tom Oldroyd has followed up his first restaurant by turning Landlord at the Duke of Richmond. We head along to the pub to find out more...

• Belsize Park’s newest pub is The Belrose, and they’ve got a south-facing beer garden

  Whether you’re after brunch, lunch, pizza or charcuterie, the Belrose should have you covered. And while you wait for your food, you may as well quaff a pint of their homemade IPA in their south-facing beer garden… 

• The Newman Arms reopens with a pie menu and downstairs snugs

  

  It's always a worry when any central London pub closes its doors, ostensibly to be renovated. So when The Newman Arms shut a year or so ago to have the upstairs section turned into flats, the chances that this historic pub, which had been a popular spot for foodie pop-ups more recently, would ever reopen seemed pretty bleak.

  So we're particularly pleased to see that not only is it remaining a pub, but the 18th century boozer has also had a bit of a

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• Tom Oldroyd is opening The Duke of Richmond pub and dining room in Hackney

  Tom Oldroyd's follow-up project to his neighbourhood restaurant in Islington will be a Hackney pub serving up French dishes created with British seasonal produce and he has serious plans for a Sunday roast too.

• The Bluecoats pub is taking over The Pride of Tottenham with burgers by Lucky Chip

  A top bar team and food by Lucky Chip are turning this Tottenham landmark into a pub worth travelling to. It'll also be bloody handy for match days.

• Chicken and Gochu take over the Friday night residency at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose and Crown

  

  We don't know about you, but the idea of a Friday night pub menu devoted to Korean and Japanese style 'anju', or bar bites sounds EXACTLY what we'd want to stave off a Saturday morning hangover.

  And if you live in Walthamstow, that's just what you've got as Chicken and Gochu become the latest folk to take over the Friday night slot at Ye Olde Rose and Crown. This is the first time the Highams Park-based husband and wife team have popped up anywhere. Korean

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• Camden boozer The Good Mixer gets a makeover from The Magic Roundabout team

  Expect live music, top beer and plenty of pies at this iconic North London pub's revival.

• Smoking Goat wins the 2018 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Islington pub The Canonbury Tavern was packed out last night with chefs and foodies all keen to discover who would be turn out this year's winning entry in the 8th Scotch Egg Challenge.

  23 restaurants and gastropubs were in the running this year and the judging panel facing all those eggs were new Sunday Times Magazine food editor Lisa Markwell, Guardian and New Statesman writer Felicity Cloake, Restaurant Magazine

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• New Liverpool Street pub Lady Abercorn’s Pub & Kitchen serves up bottomless Yorkshire puddings

  City hotel the Andaz London Liverpool Street has just opened a public house brewing its own beer and serving up a roast every day of the week