The Union Tavern — Restaurant in London

We came for Sunday lunch on the 11th Feb and left really disappointed. we came at 12.30 in the afternoon, so even though they were busy should have been early enough for us to have decent food (it did get very busy, so I guess they must be good usually).

We ordered 2 roast dinners, 2 burgers, a steak and short rib.

After waiting for an hour for food (tables around us getting served much quicker) both burgers were cold, the £35(ish) steak was over cooked and the roast pork belly was inedible. Roast chicken and short rib were both nice. Though short rib was also over done, a bit chewy to be considered slow cooked. Oh and the one starter that was ordered calamari, was also over cooked and chewy.

Everyone ate due to waiting so long, but I wish I complained about the pork. Meat was so over cooked I couldn't chew and swallow, and the fat and glaze was the opposite, uncooked and also inedible. left the whole thing on my plate.

When we came to pay there was desserts on the menu we hadn't ordered, and waited way too long for coffee. Waitress was nice, but could see she was stretched by the time we left. Every corner of the pub was being...

Lovely pub, shame about the food. An excessively broad menu and what felt like an understaffed (and possibly under skilled) kitchen. We had mussels (overcooked), calamari (ok but bland), a potato rosti (unwisely spiced, clashing flavours). We held out hope for the mains, but were still more disappointed. The pheasant was charred into an inedible grey mass, the majority of which was bone or fat. Given that they charge +£6 for pheasant or duck, one would have expected that to go on buying a decent cut of meat. The burger was dry and disappointing, the best part being the chips. The least disappointing dish was duck, which was tasty and still a little pink, but still somehow unimpressive.

Much to their merit the serving staff were lovely and when I mentioned the over cooked pheasant they brought us a free creme brûlée. However, perhaps unsurprisingly by this point, the yoghurty vanilla mass was also a disappointing.

“Gastro pub” is not the correct term for this place. It’s more like an aspirational Wetherspoons.

Lovely serving staff and the fact that they eventually didn’t even charge us for...

A classic, elegant, beauty of public house tavern hidden & worth finding. This old corner pub in the hidden borders of Clerkenwell is a Victorian beauty. A large hall bar with central round cornered, square bar sitting central. There's a well identified dining area with open kitchen separated from the rest of the bar by a vintage, decoratively cut glazed partition & carved wood arch. The drinking hall is embraced in decorative etched & pattern painted glazing & original cut glass mirrors in vintage frames. There high low seating & a calm atmosphere of local friends. An excellent selection of beers are served with grand 70esque tunes & a very rare excellent, understated pleasantly helpful, engaged service, under antique cut glass droplet lamps & complementary modern chandeliers hanging from an elegant patterned ceiling. The corner stairs echo to when this was an edge of London tavern, last stop in or out of the city. This cultured, handsome cut glass gem is a haven of calm worth exploring past...