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Charles Lamb
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There’s a no-booking policy and few tables at this thriving local, so if you’re not ensconced by 7pm forget about ordering anything but a drink. The good news is you’ll have plenty of tipples to choose from: frequently-changing ales, bottled beers and a Euro wine list featuring around 12 by the carafe or glass. Swish bar snacks might include goose rillettes, bacon fries and cornish pasties. In the adjacent dining room (order your meal at the bar), a blackboard menu mostly trolls around France, making occasional forays to other parts of Europe and the Med. Vegetarians are welcome, and could be offered red pepper and flageolet casserole with fried polenta, a quail egg and caper salad, or tart of rocamadour cheese with onion and olives. We relished an unusual soup of spinach and preserved lemon with feta before launching into hearty stew-like mains of poulet estragon and provençal daube of beef. Apart from the Portuguese custard tarts, the dessert list brought things back to Blighty.
Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
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- 16 Elia Street, Islington, N1 8DE
- Area: Islington
- Tel: 020 7837 5040
- www.thecharleslambpub.com
- Category: Gastropubs
- Travel: Angel tube
- Times: Open 4-11pm Mon, Tue; noon-11pm Wed-Sat; noon-10.30pm-Sun. Lunch served noon-3pm Wed-Sat; noon-6pm Sun. Dinner served 6-9.30pm Mon-Sat
- Price: Main courses £8-£12
- Credit cards: MC, V
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Fantastic little place with great food! 100% recommended!
I was really really let down by this place... i went there with all my family who had come up to london to see me and my wife under the assumption that it was in guardians top 10 sunday roasts. From what we tasted it couldn't have been. The beef was really chewy and the meal itself was quite underwhelming. This was 6 months of so ago, so it may have changed but i don't think i'll go back any time soon.
a fantastic roast with fantastic staff. faultless.
I have visited this pub twice and after my last visit there will be no more further rounds bought here. Myself and friends found the staff to be unhelpful and the landlady lacked any manners or class that you would expect of a pub attempting (and falling short) to be a top notch Islington pub. I have concerns that the main menu finishes at 6pm on a Sunday and the only 'snacks' left are pies that are heated in a microwave! If you want manners and food cooked properly then walk back towards Islington tube and try the Angelic on Liverpool Road.