Pub

• The Archway Tavern has finally reopened its doors

  

  It's been a long time coming but this weekend The Archway Tavern finally reopened its doors. Archway folk might have thought the day would never come when this iconic (in the true sense of the word) pub, which has been closed for five years now, would open its doors once more. But they are open and the place is looking rather lovely.

  There's been a pub on this spot at the bottom of Highgate Hill since the 1700s, with the current pub dating

  ...
• The O2 gets its first proper pub, The Observatory

  

  Next time you're heading to the O2 for a concert and want to grab something to eat pre or post-event, there's now something new to try. Pub company Nicholson’s are opening The Observatory pub.

  Taking over from the Harvester (which in itself can only be a good thing) they'll be open from breakfast, serving up everything from trad fry ups to buttermilk pancakes or poached eggs and avo on muffins.

  The rest of the day their main

  ...
• Santa Maria opens A Slice of Blue pizza pub in Clapton

  A team-up between the founders of Santa Maria and Firezza, this is bringing pizzas, beer and music under one roof in Clapton - creating a new-style pizza pub in the process. 

• Guy Ritchie's new Fitzrovia pub The Lore of the Land serves beer and venison from his country estate

  

  Film director Guy Ritchie's pub empire is expanding. This Fitzrovia pub serves his beer in the pub downstairs and features an upstairs dining room where venison from his Wiltshire estate is on the menu.

• Mikkeller and Rick Astley are opening the Mikkeller Brewpub in Exmouth Market

  Cult Danish brewer Mikkeller have teamed up with Rick Astley once more, but their second London bar will also feature a brewery and a restaurant.

• Four Legs at the Compton Arms launch their Sunday roast menu

  

  They've already secured a place in the London burger hall of fame, so it'll be interesting to see what Four Legs - the residency at Islington's Compton Arms - do with Sunday Roasts.

  Kicking off this weekend, the mains will be:

  • Roast beef with potatoes and Yorkshire pudding
  • Whole/half
  ...
• The Duke of York in Haggerston is reopening - and this time it's all about the booze

  

  Updated 17/10/19 with menu and images

  If you've been wondering what's going on at the Duke of York on Downham Street (where the old Beef & Brew was) then let us enlighten you.

  It's expected to reopen today under new management. Running the show now is Barworks - the folk behind Mare Street Market, The Well & Bucket and more. Hot Dinners spoke to the company's co-owner Marc Francis-Baum who told us that while in previous

  ...
• Brewdog team up with Biff’s Jack Shack to make BrewDog Dalston their first vegan bar

  

  If beer and burgers are a match made in heaven, then vegan beer and vegan burgers must be the equivalent of nirvana for East London. That's presumably the thought process behind a new collaboration between BrewDog and Biff's Jack Shack.

  The two companies have teamed up to make the brewer's Dalston location the group's first wholly vegan bar. So they'll be serving up vegan jackfruit based ‘junk’ food along with an exclusively

  ...
• Anju is the new Korean food residency at The Gun in Hackney

  

  In Islington's Compton Arms, they have the very popular Four Legs residency (which we Test Drove recently). Now the Compton Arms' sister pub The Gun in Hackney has brought in a long term food residency Anju - which they're hoping will be a similar success.

  Anju - which already has a residency at Blend in Green Lanes -

  ...
• Max's Sandwich Shop is having a Sandwich Fest at The Red Lion and Sun

  

  Updated with new date

  When one of our favourite pubs teams up with one of our favourite food folk, you'd better expect us to sit up and take notice. Next week sees a mashup between Highgate's Red Lion and Sun pub and everyone's favourite sandwich maestro Max Halley from Max's Sandwich Shop.

  Max will be taking over the food for one night only at the recently refurbed North London pub, serving up an evening menu of two epic-sounding

  ...
• The Hunter's Moon is a brand new pub for South Kensington

  This new pub is the first for a new pub group. They've also brought in a Glasshouse/Chez Bruce vet to look after the menus in all their pubs and there's an ex The Coach chef in the kitchen.

• Test Driving Four Legs at The Compton Arms and its gold-standard cheeseburger

  

  It isn't that often that a new London burger blows us away - but this Islington pub has a major contender for the city's best cheeseburger.

• Three London pubs make it into AA's The Pub Guide 2020

  The AA's The Pub Guide 2020 has just come out and this morning they released the details of the new pubs that have made the grade for the first time. Chosen for "their atmosphere, good beer and great food", three London establishments have entered the 2019 guide. They're all in central London and here's what you need to know about them.

   

  The Carpenters Arms

  Legendary pub The KPH is back with food from Henry Harris and Ruairidh Summers

  The KPH (Kensington Park Hotel) has been pretty legendary in Ladbroke Grove for a while, with a big music following and the place of Tom Jones first London gig. Now it's being revived with Henry Harris and ex-St John chef Ruairidh Summers in charge of the food.

• The Green Vic in Shoreditch is aiming to be the World's Most Ethical Pub

  

  What makes a pub, the world's most ethical pub? Well according to The Green Vic, which is opening in Shoreditch and billing itself as just that, it's "where everything you buy and use has a positive environmental and social impact."

  The pub is popping up for three months at Iron Bloom on Great Eastern Street. On their drinks list you'll find libations that, between them, support over 40 individual non-profit charities. So you can sup a pint of Brewgooder craft

  ...