Pub

• Jeremy Clarkson is opening The Farmer's Dog pub in Burford in the Cotswolds

  

  Updated 21/8/24 with opening date and pub name

  Having had his plans to run a restaurant at his farm scuppered by local planning restrictions, presenter Jeremy Clarkson has responded by buying a pub instead. Announcing the news in his weekly column for the Sunday Times Clarkson said he's just bought The Windmill - a pub/wedding venue just outside the picture-postcard town of Burford.

  The

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• London's best pub gardens for foodies

  

  We look at some of the best pub gardens in London, where the alfresco space is more than matched by a great food menu.

• Test Driving The Waterman's Arms - excellent riverside dining in Barnes

  

  The Waterman's Arms is a riverside pub in Barnes with an excellent team behind it. We went for a lunch overlooking the Thames to try it out.  

• The Hound is the next JKS pub, opening in Chiswick

  

  9/7/24 - Updated with opening details

  It's no secret that a lot of pubs are closing across the UK at the moment. However, we are seeing some of those snapped up and brought back to life. There's the upcoming The Pig's Ear (once The Chelsea Pig) which is being reopened by the

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• Test Driving The Hero - style and substance at this gorgeous Maida Vale pub

  

  The Pelican team have scored another huge success with the opening of The Hero in Maida Vale. We pulled up a chair for a pint and a pie to see what this gorgeous new pub has to offer. 

• The Black Dog in Vauxhall gets namechecked in Taylor Swift's new album and very, very busy

  

  Updated with merch info 22/5/24

  Up until last Friday the staff of The Black Dog on Vauxhall Walk were probably mostly concerned with making sure everything was geared up for their popular Sunday roast. But all that changed when Taylor Swift dropped the second of two albums featuring a track specifically named after the South London boozer.

  The track, widely thought

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• The Devonshire is doing bar food now AND it's opened the roof terrace

  

  Unless you've been hiding under a very capacious rock you'll know that getting a table at The Devonshire in Soho is currently one of the hardest restaurant reservations to secure in London right now.

  So we're happy to bring you news of two changes at the pub that have radically enhanced your chances of

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• The Marksman

  Hackney pub and restaurant

• The Pig's Ear in Chelsea is the Gladwin Brothers' first pub

  

  10/5/24 - updated with the opening date

  In March, after just over two years in business, The Chelsea Pig closed. But a pub has been in that space for a very long time,  it's coming back in another form pretty sharpish. The Gladwin Brothers have announced they're getting into the pub game, opening The Pig's Ear. 

  The Gladwins are behind restaurants like Rabbit in

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• The Hero in Maida Vale is the latest pub from The Pelican team

  

  They've had huge success with The Pelican in Notting Hill, as well as The Bull in Charlbury. Now, Public House Group are getting ready to open another London pub, The Hero in Maida Vale.

  As locals will know, this was recently known as The Hero of Maida, when it was revamped in 2018 with a

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• The Tipperary, London's "oldest" Irish pub in the City is reopening with a complete makeover

  

  26/3/24 - updated with opening details

  It's been closed since 2020 but now the pub that's touted as being London's oldest Irish pub, although that claim is contested, is coming back.

  Long a City haunt - there's been a pub on this spot since the 15th century with the current building dating back to just after the Great Fire of London

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• Trying a Mayfair breakfast upstairs at The Barley Mow

  

  Mayfair has a new pub breakfast offering we think you're going to want to know about. We took the stairs to The Barley Mow's first floor dining room to find out more. 

• London pubs with great upstairs dining rooms

  

  We love a good gastropub, but sometimes it’s nice to step away from the noisy boozer into a more calm dining environment. And that’s where the upstairs dining room comes in. Here’s our pick of London’s best.

• The Guinea in Mayfair has just got a lot bigger

  

  While there's been a LOT of attention on the opening of The Devonshire, there have also been some changes at Oisin Rogers' old Mayfair haunt The Guinea. During Rogers' tenure, we'd heard about some very big plans there and now those plans have finally come to fruition. 

  The pub has managed to nab an extra building next door, so the pub has significantly increased its dining space. However,

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• Nancy Spain's Irish pub is opening in Shoreditch

  

  If there's one date you want to open in time for if you're a new Irish pub, it's St Patrick's Day. So Shoreditch pub Nancy Spain's is coming in just under the wire with the intention of flinging open its doors a few days before the big day.

  The folks behind it are Kerry-born brothers Peter and Nicholas O’Halloran and they're hoping their pub will bring something new to Shoreditch. Interestingly,

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