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.

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[marjory.livejournal.com]

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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.