Eat Out London!The Lord Clyde
Food pub, urban local, garden oasis... ales, bottled brews & gins-a-plenty. Essex Road, London N1
The Lord Clyde
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Lord Clyde in Borough, London Pub Review and Details
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The Lord Clyde is a gem of a pub tucked away on what must be one of the tiniest (and now pedestrianised) streets in London.
An inn has stood on this site for almost 300 years and the current building is wonderfully preserved as rebuilt in 1913, featuring glazed tiles, wood panelling, brass fittings and long leather seats.
The pub has been run by the Fitzpatrick family since 1956, and the landlady offers a menu of home-cooked English fare.
If you need a literary incentive to come here, you might want to know that the Lord Clyde is located close to the original site of the Tabard Inn, where Chaucer's pilgrims started out towards Canterbury.
Lord Clyde in Canonbury, London Pub Review and Details
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It's been a while since the Lord Clyde transformed itself from Irish boozer Kendrick's Bar and remodelled itself as a "food-led pub".
As it happens, repeated visits indicated you shouldn't always believe the hype; there's no cutlery pre-emptively laid out on tables as we half-expected and this is simply a good pub which happens to sell pretty fantastic food.
In addition to a fortnightly quiz on alternate Mondays, they've also started themed food nights which look like they're popular.
It's a big pub, still complete with its lovely original Charringtons wood panelling and parquet flooring.
Happily, they seem to be bringing more punters in than on our previous visits and we certainly enjoy spending our time here.
The Lord Clyde
The Lord Clyde review: A bustling Islington gastropub | London ...
During the day this Essex Road gastropub acts as a quiet place for a drink, a spot of light reading or a bit to eat, but come early evening the Lord Clyde is a popular starting-off point for Londoners planning a night out in Islington.
Busy without being uncomfortable, the pub offers a good selection of ales and premium lagers, an assured menu offering seasonal dishes and roast dinners on Sundays.
As well as a spacious front room, the pub also offers comfortable outside revelling space, with a handsome courtyard open out the back.
The Lord Clyde puts on what they believe to be the ‘best quiz night in Islington’ on Monday nights too.
It’s an all-round good option throughout the week, and one of the finest pubs in the area.
The Lord Clyde, London SE1, pub review: a sultry afternoon spent in ...
My friend Andy, a man so besotted with boozers that he installed an Edwardian mahogany bar in his dining room, maintains that the Lord Clyde is “by far the best pub in London”.
Run by successive generations of the Fitzpatrick family since 1956, the pub is in a Dickensian backwater (just off Marshalsea Road, hard by Little Dorrit Park) not far from London Bridge.
Inside, half a dozen locals lolled round the L-shaped bar and lent half an ear to the sporting murmuration from the telly.
“It’s the heat, isn’t it?”
the friendly bar manager Mary explained the quiescence.
Lord Clyde | Bars and pubs in Islington, London
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A quality makeover, this, a few bus stops north of the spaghetti junction of bars around the Angel.
It’s a big place to keep busy with return custom, with the huge interior supplemented by an umbrella-festooned front terrace (‘The Deck’), but the owners succeed thanks to excellent food, decent ales (Harveys Sussex Best plus a guest, such as Hook Norton’s Old Hooky or Cotleigh’s 25) and a pub-like atmosphere with nods to modern manners.
Lending itself to peaceful newspaper perusal at lunchtimes, ideally in the big armchair by the open fire, the Lord Clyde also suits the pre-party crowd, with music at conversational level, San Miguel, Amstel and Aspall Cyder on draught, and superior, own-made bar snacks (sausage rolls, scotch eggs).
Lunchtime meze, Harveys-battered haddock and chips, and Sunday roasts (served until 7pm) provide further sustenance.