The Carpenter's Arms

Carpenters Arms - Carpenters Arms

Enjoyed a very good Saturday lunch here.

The food was good.

Very good selection of drinks of all types.

The ales were in very good condition.

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Carpenters Arms - Carpenters Arms

Enjoyed a very good Saturday lunch here.

The food was good.

Very good selection of drinks of all types.

The ales were in very good condition.

The Carpenters Arms - London - 91 Black Lion Lane London W6

The Carpenter’s Arms first opened its doors as a public house in 1871 owned by the Thomas Salt and Co Brewery.

In 1973 Chris Blackwell founded Island Records and opened their offices in St Peter’s Square.

We like to think that many of their roster of musicians including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Aswad, Cat Stevens, Robert Palmer, Steve Winwood, Grace Jones and U2 would have enjoyed a lock in at the Carpenter’s Arms.

Shortly after we reopened The Carpenter’s Arms as a pub in 2007 the hard to satisfy AA Gill awarded us his maximum five stars.

In 2015 the Carpenter’s Arms was awarded Best Local Restaurant Hammersmith by Time Out.

The Carpenter's Arms review: A great independent pub in ...

The Carpenter’s Arms is tucked away down the affluent Black Lion Lane, and represents a great independent pub in W6.

It’s an unconventional setting, and at first glance the unassuming white building looks more like a high-street grocers than a pub.

However, the interior is all about understated style, with simple wooden surfaces and comfy leather sofas taking up most of the room.

There are also wooden benches outside if you fancy a pint from the small, but well-chosen beer line-up, or a pick from the tastefully-selected wines.

Restaurant review: The Carpenter's Arms, London | Life and style ...

For a few doors down from this building stands the house in which, some 15 years ago, the man then scheduled to be her husband met his maker, orange in mouth, fishnets on legs and ligature around neck.

Stephen Milligan's death did such damage to John Major's fightback at the time that you half-suspected this government loyalist of having misheard the new mantra as Back To Base Sex.

And the Carpenter's Arms is certainly that, serving outstanding food with unaffected charm rather than the brash self-regard of the Eagle or the franticness that makes ordering so much as a pint in the Anchor & Hope a test of will.

So we lingered over coffee, reflecting on the parallels between the political situation of the day and that of 15 years ago.

He may be best remembered as the artist hired by Margaret Meldrew to paint a portrait of herself and her own deceased husband (a brief he carried out to the letter, apart from the small matter of substituting Alastair Sim for Victor), but it suddenly occurred to me that he belongs to the same Cecil family that has been intriguing in national politics since Elizabeth I; and that his cousin Viscount Cranbourne, at the time Tory leader in the Lords, managed the successful re-election campaign John Major had to endure the year after Mr Milligan strangled himself - "Don't tie my hands!"