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Anchor & Hope
The hope is that you'll get a table without waiting hours, because unfortunately you can't book at this quintessential gastropub. The anchor is the gutsy, unashamedly carnivorous British food. The critics love this place but with dishes like duck hearts, pink lamb's neck and deep-fried pig's head, it's decidedly not for vegetarians. There is a second restaurant at Great Queen Street in Covent Garden.
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Atlas
This cosy Victorian-era pub attracts a younger local crowd with its real ales, excellent food and with a lovely side courtyard. The gastropub menu features essentially Mediterranean-inspired dishes.
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Brackenbury
The Brackenbury is very much a neighbourhood restaurant, with a friendly vibe and a relaxed atmosphere. Its modern European menu is enticing, with some imaginative starters and a good selection of wines at reasonable prices, ensuring the Brackenbury stands out from the many gastropubs in the immediate vicinity.
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Bumpkin
This faux rustic outfit is good for an unpretentious helping of old-fashioned comfort food. Wash down everything from dorset crab bruschetta, to beef pie and huge steaks, with a glass of Guinness, Adnam's or some very unusual whisky cocktails. The cooking's not fancy and it does get noisy, but there's something uncomplicatedly pleasant about the experience.
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Coach & Horses
Just around the corner from London's original gastropub, the Eagle, this upstart is giving the competition a run for its money. Despite this, it's still easy to get a seat within its traditional walls and absorb the menu, which will include such things as a salad of duck hearts, beetroot and orange and braised ox cheek.
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Cow
Owned by Tom Conran, the son of renowned restaurateur Sir Terence, this gastropub's vintage top-floor dining room has long maintained its reputation as one of the best in west London. Fresh oysters with Guinness are a speciality. Despite its fair share of trust-funded Notting Hillbillies, it's still a great hangout.
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Duke of Cambridge
It may feel like a typical London gastropub, with bare wooden boards, tables and sofas, but the Duke can lay claim to being the only certified organic pub in London and the first - wait for it - in the world when it opened in 1998. Indeed, everything, right down to the lager is produced without chemicals or pesticides (though the cider is better). The Italian-/French-/Spanish-influenced menu is reliable enough and the idea of eating healthily a bonus.
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Eagle
London's first gastropub is still going strong after all these years. Even though the original owners and many chefs have left, the customers still come, at lunch or after work, for dishes that tend to nod in the direction of the Mediterranean. The atmosphere is nicely relaxed and chatty.
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Empress Of India
This exquisite, much welcomed pub conversion on the western edge of Victoria Park belts out excellent modern British cuisine, with such fine dishes as sorrel soup with Cheddar scone, saddle of venison and roast suckling pig. We love the elegant bar, the Raj-era murals on the wall, the chandeliers made of mussel shells and the seamless service. Breakfast is available daily from .
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Engineer
One of London's original gastropubs, the Engineer serves up consistently good international cuisine - from Moroccan roast lamb chump and coq au vin to miso-marinated cod - and is hugely popular with impeccably hip north Londoners. The splendid walled garden is the highlight.
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Garrison
The Garrison's traditional green-tiled exterior and minimalist (distressed, rather) beach-shack interior are both appealing and it boasts an actual cinema in its basement, but it's the comfort food (shepherd's pie, kedgeree, lentil and pumpkin vegetarian loaf) that brings the punters to this evergreen gastropub. If you don't fancy nearly bashing your neighbour's elbow every time you lift your fork, though, come for breakfast (weekdays to ) or weekend brunch ( to ).
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Gun
At Docklands, Gun is a restored dockers' pub that has Georgian fireplaces and a riverside terrace with front-seat views of the Millennium Dome. Modern British fare is on the menu.
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Lots Road Pub & Dining Room
No one has a bad thing to say about this tucked-away gastropub, aside from the minor affectation of listing prices in hundreds of pence. Light floods through the windows into the high-ceilinged, wood-lined curved dining area and onto the black and chrome bar, where choice wines are sold by the glass. The regularly changing menu reads as pretty standard fare - roast pork, salmon, lamb - but it's all delicious and dependable.
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White Swan Pub & Dining Room
A gastropub that everyone wishes were in their neighbourhood (and kept weekend hours), the White Swan has a convivial bar downstairs, with everything from fish and chips to lamb burgers (and a stuffed swan in a glass case) and an upstairs dining room with a more ambitious menu.
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