Pub

  • Mayfair scores a new Ben Tish pub and restaurant: The Barley Mow

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    There’s an impressive new dining destination about to hit Mayfair. The Barley Mow is a pub and restaurant set in a Grade-II-listed building on the corner of Brown Hart Gardens and Duke Street. The building was snapped up by pub group Cubitt House a while back, after closing down during the pandemic. Now you can admire the refurbished surroundings and sink an ale with the likes of haggis Scotch eggs or battered pollock,

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  • The Starman, a David Bowie-inspired bar, opens on Heddon Street

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    Ground control to David Bowie fans: Heddon Street will already be familiar to you as the location for the Ziggy Stardust album photo cover in 1972, which is commemorated by a blue plaque. Now, just a few doors down, the tribute to the musician continues with The Starman, which opened in early July.

    Taking over the old Strawberry Moon bar/club site, The Starman brings some ch-ch-changes (sorry; we’ll stop this)

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  • Mayfair's Guinea Grill landlord Oisin Rogers is on the move

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    Six years ago we ran a news story about the move of top pub landlord Oisin Rogers, who was taking over The Guinea Grill in Mayfair. In the intervening years, Rogers has turned the Bruton Place pub into one of the best known drinking holes and steak restaurants in

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  • Notting Hill’s Walmer Castle to reopen as a Scottish restaurant and whisky bar

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    While there was a lot of buzz about David Beckham and Guy Ritchie buying Notting Hill’s Walmer Castle pub in 2018, it was quietly taken over by entrepreneur and hotelier Piers Adam in February 2022. Adams already co-owns The Punch Bowl with Ritchie and is probably best known for his clubs like Mahiki.

    The pub will reopen in collaboration with Scotland’s oldest whisky hotel, The Craigellachie, to feature

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  • Test Driving Upstairs at The George - a Michelin-starred take on pub classics

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    A dream pub team - JKS restaurants and chef James Knappett - shows a new food and wine-led future for London pubs in their revamp of this Fitzrovia boozer.