The Cumberland Arms — Restaurant in London

Confusing. As a pub it's pretty good - slightly better than normal ale selection, reasonable music, plenty of space, the usual collection of car-boot board games and quite a nice crowd. The decor is quite nice too, it looks like a pub.

As a restaurant... not so much. The food is pretty good, and the price matches it. But why would you want to pay £19 for a main course and then eat it in a boozer with cheap cutlery, paper napkins, and the table next to you playing a rather boisterous game of Connect 4? The lighting is kind of harsh. The service is bog-standard pub service, which is fine if you're getting burger and chips for £9.95, but pretty annoying if you're looking at the best part of £40 per head for a three course meal. There was a noticeable smell of fat dryer from the open kitchen door, too...

Ignore the food and it's really a very nice pub. Ignore the price, and it's a nice pub with fancy food. But if you want a nice meal, it's like a...

We decided to have the soup starter and then, for the main course, the burger and the Italian sausages; and we weren't disappointed. The menu looks quite inviting with a cross section of starters along with meat and vegetarian main courses. The pub looks modernized but in sympathy with the old style of pub. So it's actually feels homely. It's quite light and airy with plenty of Windows to give a view outside where there is, at the back, a park which gives something else pleasant to look at. The soup came along quite quickly and was really hot which I appreciate. The main course I think took about 15 minutes or thereabouts so it wasn't quick but it wasn't slow. I can see why the Cumberland arms gets...

A really large attractive pub, close to London Olympia. The interior is nicely appointed with dark wood furnishings, and I’d imagine that the outside space would be very popular on a warm day.

On a mid-week March afternoon it was pretty quiet, although it started getting busier after 5:30pm. Three cask hand pumps but only two on at the time of my visit, which was slightly disappointing given the number of framed real ale pictures on the walls.

The European food menu looked great, and I guess that this is the pub’s main marketing point; definitely more of a gastropub than a boozer. Nevertheless, I liked the place and friendly service, and would definitely return to eat...