Gastropub

• A model makeover - we Test Drive The Cleveland Arms in Paddington

  It's always nice when an overhaul of a lovely old pub manages to retain its character while bringing new talents to the table - we went to check out The Cleveland Arms in Paddington.

• Test Driving The Red Lion and Sun in Highgate - a gastropub with a cracking wine list

  Up in Highgate there's a gastropub with a serious wine list that you need to put on your must-try list

• Test Driving The Coach: Henry Harris's triumphant return to London

  A historic London pub has been reinvigorated with the arrival of top chef Henry Harris. We went to check out the new look Coach

• Test Driving The Walnut Tree in Abergavenny - Shaun Hill's inn lives up to high expectations

  Shaun Hill's Abergavenny inn is THE place to visit if you're in the area - so we popped along to check it out.

• The Truscott Arms returns with Racine’s Henry Harris leading the kitchen

  It was a tragic day when The Truscott Arms was forced to close, and not just for lovers of its famous roasts. Now, the upmarket boozer is back to great fanfare, and not least of all because the former head chef of top Kensington French restaurant Racine will be leading the charge…

• The George & Dragon in Fitzrovia brings The Truscott Arms' chef Aidan McGee back to the kitchen

  Irish chef who made a name for himself at the late lamented Truscott Arms is back cooking at another London pub

• The Eagle lands back in Notting Hill

  

  What: The Eagle

  In a nutshell: Traditional beer and British-Bavarian pub food in Notting Hill

  Summing it all up: Notting Hill’s newest refurbished pub will have unpasteurised beer served straight from the tank, and a menu packed with Bavarian dishes which should go down a treat with the intense flavours of the beer.

• Deptford gets a new gastropub The Brookmill

  

  Down in Deptford the food scene is going great guns - and now there's a cracking new gastropub to entice locals. The Brookmill, which opens just after the August bank holiday, is the sister pub to The Great North Wood.

  For a gastropub its foodie credentials are impeccable with the kitchen headed up by chef Olly Marlowe who was previously sous chef at the Michelin-starred The Glasshouse and Chez Bruce.

  Olly's menu sounds pretty amazing with sample dishes

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• Hibiscus chef Claude Bosi and his brother have bought The Swan Inn in Esher

  

  We hear that Michelin-starred chef and his brother, Cedric, have just bought a new pub. They're take over the Swan Inn in Esher which will be welcome news, we expect, for the locals.

  Head chef will Justin West, who has previously worked with Claude while the pub manager will be Joseph Hendriks who was at the brothers' previous west London pub, The Fox & Grapes in Wimbledon Village.

  The food sounds pretty lovely;

  • Crab on toast with spring
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• Hackney and Highgate head list of London boroughs with top gastropubs

  

  Looks like Hackney and Highgate are your best London neighbourhoods for boozers with particularly good grub. That's the verdict anyway of the Top 50 Gastropub list (put together by the Morning Advertiser and Estrella). Both boroughs have top pubs each among the 10 London pubs on the list published this week.

  The London pubs are as follows:

  • 7. Harwood Arms, Fulham
  • 11. The Marksman, Hackney (new)
  • 19. Anchor and Hope,
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• The folk behind The Grafton are opening The Gipsy Queen in Kentish Town

  

  Kentish Town is about to get a new pub. Well actually it's an old pub, given a new look, but an old name. Confused? Let us enlighten you.

  What was most recently The Bluebell and before that The Westport Inn on Malden Road, was for years before that known as The Gipsy Queen. Now the couple who run popular nearby gastropub The Grafton, Susie Clarke and Joel Czopor, have taken it over and are planning to reopen it at the end of June. And they're giving it back its

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