“Underwhelming on all fronts”, say critics of these Notting Hill and South Kensington pub-conversions; fans insist, though, that they’re “congenial” places, and that, if you “stick to the basics” of the “staple” menu, you’ll have “a nice time”; “epic” English breakfasts are a highlight.
Keep your own review of Bumpkin using our diary service.
Occupying the large premises of a former pub, two minutes’ walk from the All Saints Road, Bumpkin incorporates a lively ground floor "Country Brasserie", a first-floor "Restaurant" (with private ...
more
Press Reviews (1)
Matthew Norman (11th January 2010)
Oh dear. The critic visits the Notting Hill outpost of the English bistro mini-chain, and finds it “melds irksome bucolic sloppiness with rigorous West End prices”. This might, he concludes, be “Dante's missing tenth circle of hell”.