This is Olde England, right?

[venta]

Query for Londoners...

Can anyone recommend a good pub for a Sunday roast in central(ish) London ? Having organised a party of eight to go to a pub we'd had highly recommended for such things, I've just discovered it's shut on Sundays (I guess the guy who recommended it is giggling quietly to himself).

So now we're all planned up with no place to go. Only criteria are: must do good roasts, mustn't be too expensive (for example, Roast, near Borough market, has been ruled out on price grounds). Should probably keep decent beer, too. The party doesn't include any vegetarians and has, geographically, a slight north and west bias. I have a personal and mildly irrational dislike of carveries, so would rather it wasn't one of those.

Comments

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Not a londoner - however may I suggest

http://www.theoxfordnw5.co.uk/

near kentish town - so northern. Cheaper then roast but not cheap if I'm honest. Very good sunday lunch. Have to say I have a small grduge agaisnt them as I recently went and got turned away because I did not have a booking and they were "busy" when the place looked half empty.

Suspect it should be held as a "back up" if nobody produces a better choice due to feeling dirty for recomending them.... but good roast lunch to give them there due and nice beer.

[uitlander]

Check what the situation is with the Wenlock Arms. Fantastic beer, friendly and the food has always been good & filling, it's a proper East End boozer - not your fancy 'gastro-pub' mind.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It seems that that pub (which is on my list to check out) only does sarnies and pasties. Which are noble things, but not what we're after on this occasion :)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

There's http://www.sunday-roast.com/ run by the splendid miss_soap (and fellow travellers) of this parish.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Let the journies begin...

Cheers.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Roast looks yummy.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, I do fancy going there. But when I've saved up a bit :)

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

The Crown, N1. vg indeed.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, if both you an miss_soap like it that sounds like a go-er... just trying to work out how difficult Islington is for everyone to get to :)

[kauket.livejournal.com]

Lots of people seem to like The Old Queen's Head in N1 (Essex Road) - didn't stop there long enough for a roast the other day unfortuantely.

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

My local (to work) favourite for atmosphere, price and (I'm advised) Beer would be the Victoria on Strathearn Place nr Paddington. Home cooked food too, but don't know if it Sunday Roasts, and interweb is not helpful. They do answer the phone should you wish to call them and ask, 'though.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

http://www.fluidfoundation.com/venuemap.aspx?VenueID=1710

The Yorkshire Grey on Langham Street. It's a Sam Smith's pub, cheap and, last I heard, still good.

You get to it by going up Great Portland Street from Oxford Circus and then turning right onto Langham Street. It's near heaps of other pubs too.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Damn, I should have said that the one other criterion was "not run by Sammy Smiths" :)

I love Sammy Smiths pubs (mmm, cheap beer) but they are vetoed by our Coke-drinking friend, because they serve extremely nasty own-brand cola beverage-substitute.

Since we all regularly veto pubs on the grounds they serve terrible beer, we've thus far let him get away with this one.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

It's not too far from the O'Conor Don which does great food and excellent Guinness. The main problem with that place is that it's expensive!

There are The George and The Roebuck at London Bridge... Everything in London is so bloomin' expensive!

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

I too was going to suggest the George, which is excellent and modestly priced, but http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-georgeinn seems to suggest it is closed on Sundays. I wonder whether this is where Elizabeth had in mind in the first place?

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Crumbs! I'm sure I found sites which said otherwise, but maybe not.

The Roebuck in Southwark certainly does roasts. Or did them. Allegedly. Reputedly.

The George rocks my socks especially when the weather is nice.