Time Out Black
The members' club for Londoners
The Holly Bush
Negotiate the steep steps from Heath Street up to isolated, cobbled Holly Mount to this house built in the 1790s by portrait painter George Romney. It was later taken over by Benskins, a Watford brewery, in 1928, and much more recently by Fuller’s. Three low-ceilinged bar areas carry a lived-in feel, the one bar counter purveying pints of Fuller’s ESB, Seafarers and London Pride, as well as Harveys Sussex Best, Leffe, Beck’s and Blue Moon. Pimm’s and lemonade is a summer treat, as is a spot out front; consult the chalked-up weather forecast should you be pondering another steep climb the next day, perhaps to work off the smartened-up gastropub cooking. See more pubs with open fires in the capital
Venue says: “Monday to Friday is all about lunch in our lovely coffee room. We have sandwiches, sharers and a set lunch menu. Yummy!”
Pick of the week
Cafe Monico
Forget Tardises and DeLoreans. If you fancy a spot of time travel, step through the doors of Cafe Monico.
Disrepute
Members get access to this new members' only bar in soho, offering an enigmatic cocktail list so you can take a gamble and pick a tipple from the lyrical, lusty tale that’s used to sort-of describe each drink.
