It may be “cheap only by Belgravia standards”, but this elegantly “stripped-back” boozer is now starting to out-do its parent, the Thomas Cubitt, in the popularity stakes; the secret? – a “decent” menu of staples, and a scene that’s always “buzzing”.
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Belgravia was long a pretty deadbeat place to eat, but it’s improved a lot in recent years, in part thanks to the young team that first established the Thos. Cubitt as the area’s always-beating...
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Press Reviews (2)
David Sexton (4th March 2010)
2/5 stars
Oh no, just like Time Out before him, the critic seems never before to have ventured down Pimlico Road, and makes a bit of a meal of the fact that this newish gastropub occupies “the epicentre of super-Sloane décor”. We’re not sure he’s really right about that: surely it’s much more Euro-American-investment-bankerish, a sort of mini-Notting Hill, nowadays? Anyway, he visits this “great creamy wedding-cake of a building”, which is “now a sister establishment to The Thomas Cubitt in Elizabeth Street and The Pantechnicon in Motcomb Street, gastropubs so swishy that they make the finest restaurants blush”. It seems that the food is actually pretty good, but – perhaps because the place is “best enjoyed in the spirit of an anthropological expedition” – it gets rather fewer stars that the write-up might otherwise lead one to expect.
Euan Ferguson (19th November 2009)
5/5 stars
Is it us, or is TO getting a bit 5-star-happy of late? And what’s all this about heaping praise on a gastropub only five minutes’ walk from the square where the infamous ‘Sloanes’, traditionally a hate-object for TO, have their rallying point?
David Sexton (4th March 2010)
Euan Ferguson (19th November 2009)
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