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- The Highbury Barn is getting a brush-up
We've had a lot of news about pub openings and revamps recently, and now here comes one a little closer to home (well, our homes anyway). The Highbury Barn, a large pub right in the middle of Highbury village, which dates back to 1840, is getting ready to reopen after a £500,000 revamp.
Anyone who's been there will know that it's a big old space and now they're adding a new bar at the back, while also
... - Cult Hoxton pub The Macbeth now has an ex-Four Legs chef in charge
For more than a century, they've been pulling pints in the Hoxton pub The Macbeth. More recently than that, the pub forged quite the reputation as a live music venue with everyone from Florence + The Machine to Fontaines DC playing there. Now the pub's got a new owner and it looks like the food side of things is about to take a sharp turn for the better.
Jamie Allan has been best known for being part of the Four Legs
... - The Shaston Arms in Soho is being relaunched by The Watermans Arms team
Back in 2023, the founder of Patty & Bun, Joe Grossmann, got into the pub business, opening The Watermans Arms in Barnes. It turned out to be an excellent pub, blessed with a fantastic view of the Thames and with a great menu by chef Sam
... - Queen's Park pub The Salusbury is hoping to be The Devonshire of North West London
To open any really successful pub in London, you need a dream team. The Devonshire in Soho has that in spades, so does the group behind The Pelican and The Hero. Entering the fray next, in Queen's Park, are the group behind the reopening of neighbourhood pub The Salusbury.
First up is co-owner Gareth Cooper who might not have done pubs before but knows a thing or two
... - Duck and Rice is opening a new place in Battersea on its tenth anniversary
Updated 16/6/25 with opening date
It's been almost 10 years since Alan Yau took over a Soho pub and transformed it into Duck and Rice. A decade on, it seems it's time to expand as it's the latest place to find itself making its way to Battersea Power Station with a new location.
If you're unfamiliar with the Soho original, they describe themselves as a "Soho
... - Tom Kerridge's Butcher's Tap is being relaunched as The Chalk Freehouse
Earlier this week, there was news that Tom Kerridge's Chelsea pub, The Butcher's Tap and Grill was closing, with the team behind it saying it gave them "an opportunity to regroup, rethink and rebuild".
It turns out that they didn't need that much thinking time, because there are already plans to reopen it as a new pub, The Chalk Freehouse.
The new pub will be
... - The team behind The Pelican are opening The Hart beside Chiltern Firehouse
It's been a busy few months for The Public House Group. The company, who are behind The Pelican and The Hero pubs, pulled a double in Notting Hill, opening Canteen and The Fat Badger there in quick succession.
Now we hear that they've set their sights on a new pub much closer to the centre
... - Molly Mc's singing pub is coming to Southwark
9/4/25 - updated with new pics and an opening date
You may have spotted videos on your social (or maybe it's just our algorithm) of a rise in London pubs offering proper sing songs, whether that's trad Irish tunes or music with a broader appeal. Now it's Southwark's turn as the team behind Mc & Sons in Borough and Vauxhall are opening their very first singing pub in Southwark.
Molly Mc's is
... - A Cornish fisherman's pub has landed in London outside The Ambassadors Theatre
Covent Garden has a new pub, but this isn't any ordinary pub. It's a little slice of Cornwall come to town, themed with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button play currently on at The Ambassadors Theatre.
The Pickled Crab is a custom-built Cornish pub that can be found in the street outside the theatre, and is based on the fictional boozer on the Cornish coast where Benjamin "meets the only woman he will ever
... - Alfie's at Belgravia pub The Alfred Tennyson will offer tableside theatre and a 'black book' of wine
2025 continues to be a year of dining well in London pubs. The latest central London boozer to take things up a notch is Belgravia pub The Alfred Tennyson, which is just getting ready to unveil a new upstairs dining room.
Alfie's will offer a very different menu to the general pub food downstairs, with a series of dishes created by the pub's Executive chef Ben Tish and Head Chef Stevie Phillip
... - The Pocket pub in Canonbury is the new pub from The Southampton Arms team
London's pub scene is thriving in 2025 and this latest news from Islington is very good indeed. If you're a north Londoner you'll probably know of The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. It's a gorgeous, old-school (and tiny) spot up near Parliament Hill that specialises in ale and cider.
Well. the same team behind that are responsible for taking over a long-closed site on Canonbury Lane in Islington, where they're
... - Test Driving The Knave of Clubs - an instant-hit pub arrives in Shoreditch
A classic Shoreditch pub is reborn in the modern age, backed up with a great pub menu from ex-Allegra chef Patrick Powell. We tried out The Knave of Clubs (and didn't want to go home).
- The Baring team to open The Kerfield Arms pub in Camberwell
The team behind highly-rated Islington pub The Baring, are heading south of the river for their second opening, The Kerfield Arms in Camberwell.
Taking over what was The Crooked Well, which closed at the end of last year, it sounds like they'll be taking a lot of what worked very well at the Baring (it was the highest new entry in the Top 50 Gastropubs list last year) and bringing
... - Test Driving The Prince Arthur - the fresh prince of Belgravia
The Prince Arthur is a new pub in Belgravia that's doing things a little differently, with a Basque food menu and lots of (own brand) caviar on offer. We went along to check it out.
- UK's Top 50 Gastropubs announced - Unruly Pig at no 1, The Devonshire straight in at no 2
The first big awards of the 2025 season are here as the Top 50 UK Gastropubs list has been revealed. For the second year in a row (and its third time in total), Suffolk pub The Unruly Pig has claimed the top spot. We visited The Unruly Pig last year and can definitely see what all the fuss is about -
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