London's best Sunday lunches
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Time Out Food & Drink Editors
Updated: Tue Dec 14 2010
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Bull & Last
168 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1QS
This Kentish Town gastropub (sister to the Prince of Wales in Putney; see South) was just pipped to the post for the 'Best Gastropub' award in the 2009 Time Out Eating & Drinking Awards, despite doing Sunday lunches in spades. Some new additions to the weekly changing Sunday menu have been piquing our interest: crispy pig's trotter wontons, say, or octopus carpaccio with crab beignets. But for a slap-up Sunday lunch, you can’t go wrong with their rosy beef roasts (topside) with proper Yorkshire puds, roast potatoes, al dente parsnips and greens, served with lashings of rich gravy and horseradish. Smaller portions of roasts are available for the kids too (£6), in case they haven’t yet inherited your voracious appetite. The bar also offers a great range of draught ales which change frequently: maybe Doom Bar, or Sambrooks. Sunday lunch served 12.30-3.30pm. Sunday lunch for two with drinks and service: around £50. Read more
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Cafe Rex
172-174 Muswell Hill Broadway, London, N10 3SA
This cheerful Muswell Hill café is a welcome spot in an area with not many culinary stars. It’s all a bit gastropubby, a tad coffee shop-esque, and has just a splash of Sausage & Mash caff about it. The food ethos is rooted in British classics – on a regular night you might find diners digging into prawn cocktails then Cambridge burnt cream – and come Sundays, a roast is always conspicuously listed. The menu varies, but you can depend on a meaty roast sourced from top ingredients; Irish sirloin of beef, Welsh lamb and British pork are used, and are served with roast veg (honey-roasted parsnips, carrots, roast potatoes, Savoy cabbage) as well as Yorkshire puddings and red wine gravy. A veggie option may include a vegetable Wellington made with flaky filo pastry. All are a bargain at £9.95. Sunday lunch served: 11am-5pm. Sunday lunch for two with drinks and service: around £35. Read more
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Charles Lamb
16 Elia Street, London, N1 8DE
For Sunday lunch, this Islington local gastropub mainly sticks to the classics, such as rare roast beef and roast duck with all the trimmings – both hitting all the right notes. No bookings are taken, though, and you need to get there early to be assured of a table in one of the charming small rooms. Sunday lunch served noon-6pm. Meal for two with wine and service: around £50. Read more
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Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JB
Sunday afternoons at this Islington whisky bar features a menu of roasts of beef or pork. The kitchen serves up slow-roast Tamworth pork loin with crackling, rare aged Galloway beef with red-wine gravy or ham roasted in root beer with Yorkshire pudding. This is all balanced by an abundance of healthy veg – all three come with spiced red cabbage, green beans and root vegetable purée as well as the obligatory roast potatoes. There’s usually a veggie option too. Sunday lunch served noon-9pm. Sunday lunch for two with wine and service: around £55. Read more
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York & Albany
127-129 Parkway, London, NW1 7PS
Combine a visit to the Camden markets with a sumptuous Sunday lunch at the restaurant of this boutique hotel from Gordon Ramsay Holdings. Along with the regular à la carte of British cooking, a Sunday roast menu highlights the fab four – beef (sirloin), lamb (leg), chicken and pork (loin). Accompaniments for each vary and include, but are not limited to, olive oil mash, Yorkshire pudding, bread sauce and roasted chantenay carrots. The roasts are all priced at £17. Sunday lunch served noon-8.30pm. Sunday lunch for two with wine and service: around £60. Read more
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56 comments
The Black Dog in Vauxhall, SE11.. Roast 11-4, Alan Partridge style pub quiz from 4. Can't go wrong!!
Why not to "Harvester" or "Toby Carvery"..?
even if you can afford it £60 for sunday lunch is a ripe off
How about some entertainment with Sunday lunch? There is a fantastic sunday lunch available at the Chapel Bar, Islington on 17th April and you get to take part in a murder mystery. What better way to spend a sunday afternoon with friends?
Sunday lunch for £60 or more are these people serious.
Roast - £5.95 inc drink - Hackney Wetherspoons - WALLOP
Despite having lived practically next door for 4 years, i've only recently visited the Three Stags - just opposite the Imperial War Museum. I've definitely been missing out - the food is tasty, hearty and delicious, the sunday menu is well varied, with individual roasts of beef or pork and then huge sharing platters. I heartily recommend the shoulder of lamb for 2 - there's actually enough for 4, but the tender meat is so scrumptious, you'll find yourself competing with your partner to see who can finish it first!
The best for Sunday lunch in east London is The Water Poet Spitalfields / Shoreditch. Relaxed dining experience, huge portions.... eat out in the heated garden if you like! Gets busy, but that's because it's good.
If anyone is looking for more extensive reviews of London's Sunday roast pub offerings, check out our dedicated Sunday roast review blog: roastedsundays.wordpress.com
The Best Sunday Lunch in London is at The Cross Keys Chelsea. The Roast Beef is sublime!
The Jam Tree in Kensington has the best Sunday roast ever.... you must check it out! The Beef is so tasty...
the crown and goose in camden cant be beat!!
As usual East is not East at all but central with TO.
The best Sunday lunch by far (and already mentioned!) is the Eagle in Snaresbrook. No gastro-micro portions here just gorgeous traditional roasts, great roasts pots and veg and lovely puddings *if* you have any room left!
The Claptonian Arts Club in East London is an art society that serves a secret Scandinavian sunday brunch. Gravad lax, meatballs, sunny side up eggs, smoked salmon, rye bread aioli prawn and bloody mary to mention just a few.gooey chocolate cake. £12 brunch
Difficult to find if you don't know someone who knows someone, but a real find.
Depot in Barns will satisfy the most demanding - delicious food and romantic view on the Thames. Best place in west London