Name: Churchill Arms
Item: Churchill Arms
Rating: 3
Author: Harden's editor

Churchill Arms

Price*

£39

Food

Good

Service

Average

Ambience

Exceptional

Fun Notting Hill Gate pub with cheap Thai food

119 Kensington Church St, London, W8 7LN, 020 7792 1246 Website

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Summary

Price*

£39

Food

Good

Service

Average

Ambience

Exceptional

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Top-value Thai food with personality – love it!”. This slightly “bonkers” pub near Notting Hill Gate looks normal enough, until you discover its “quirky butterfly conservatory at the rear”: “a hustling and bustling” venue serving “tasty”, spicy scoff at prices that are “amazingly low for the area”. “Still a winner” after over thirty years’ service: in particular it’s “a great choice for eating with friends”.

Summary

Price*

£35

Food

Good

Service

Average

Ambience

Exceptional

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Stunningly good-value, cheap ’n’ cheerful” Thai food is served in “portions which might prove a challenge even for the very hungry” at this one-of-a-kind boozer near Notting Hill Gate. The whole set-up can seem “as mad as a box of frogs” but is “always a fun night out” – you eat in a “a cute, butterfly garden conservatory at the back of a totally normal Irish pub”. “You only get an hour at the table but service is very fast.”

Summary

Price*

£35

Food

Good

Service

Average

Ambience

Exceptional

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Unbeatable value for a very good nosh-up” is to be had at this “quirky-but-real pub”, just off Notting Hill Gate, whose “butterfly-themed conservatory” makes a feature of “great, simple Thai food”, and provides “a good deal in a normally expensive area”. “Service can be brusque, but the place is so busy it’s hard to see how it could be otherwise”.

Summary

Price*

£37

Food

Good

Service

Good

Ambience

Exceptional

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Such a cute, little quirky place at the back of a pub” off Notting Hill, and “unbelievable value”; this “fun, butterfly-filled conservatory” (“the floral display is worth the trip alone”) “never fails to deliver some of the tastiest Asian scoff this side of Thailand” and is so damn “cheap”. Meanwhile “the pub itself is always cheerful with an authentic pub atmosphere” that’s “popular with locals and tourists alike”.

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