Great place to have a beer and eat something. It's located in a discrete corner with a good decor. It has a lot of local beers of different kinds. The staff is nice and the food good. The price is good, because it's near tower brigde. I recommend it a lot!
Went here on Friday night for my wine fix. Lovely place, buzzing with activity. Tough to get a table unless you go by 7. I went there and my friend had already got one so we were all set for a long night.
Had wine - Merlot, first red on the menu - and chips.
Also tried both the veggie mains, very good. Their pale ale is great too.
Overall, a Happy Friday and a good start to Saturday. :D
This is my favourite pub in London thus far. I had the absolute pleasure of living in Shad Thames for a year - and this wonderful little place was my local. The ales are absolutely great. The food is absolutely great. The staff are absolutely great. It's absolutely great.
They've recently refurbished the first floor to give a better space to dedicated diners. I myself prefer to be downstairs in the thick of it though. We tended to move through the choice of ales, a half at a time, and then grab AT LEAST something from the bar menu - but often a roast dinner. For the sunday visitor be there early or be disappointed on choices. The roasts disappear fast.
I can recommend, with unending enthusiasm, the belly pork roast*.
*I used to be a butcher and so say "belly pork". I reduce to say "pork belly" on principle.
My local pub and I love it! Very good variety of ales, cider and European beers! Only been for Sunday roast once but it was very good, beef was tender, Yorkshire pudding was perfectly made and the gravy was flavoursome though they could have given a little bit more of it. They also host Sunday pub quiz @8pm which is a good Sunday activity, very good vibe.
The best local in the Shad Thames area - the ground floor is the warm and welcoming pub area, with plenty of free seating, and tellies for the football, they serve a pub food menu in here which is actually fantastic - pumpkin ravioli and welsh rarebit anyone? You can reserve a table in here for a larger party as well. The first floor is the acting 'restaurant' with an even better, and heartier menu, it's very informal though, and you probably don't need a reservation, unless it's a busy Champions League night.. This doubles as the scene for the weekly pub quiz, and where they serve Sunday Roast as well, haven't experienced either, but I definitely will at some point! The kitchen shuts at 9.30 pm though, so make sure you get your food orders in on time. The craft beer and wine menu wins big, this place is a winner all round.
Hidden behind the Butler's Wharf complex, few people happen to wander past the Dean Swift, which is a pity as this smart, upmarket pub is a delight to dine at.
The bar serves an astonishingly large range of beers, bottled and draught. The bar menu allows drinkers to enjoy a casual scotch egg or bowl of potato wedges with their connoisseur's beer whilst watching sport on the bar TVs.
The dining room upstairs is nicely furnished with home-style dinig tables and chairs which lend a pleasing haphazardness to the experience. The food itself is excellent and only just identifiable as 'pub food'. A great place!
What a find! Just located off the river, a little gem hidden from the masses of tourists littering the riverfront taking photos of Tower Bridge. Here you will find a traditional open bar with five brilliantly sourced ales and a strong ten more fixed selection plus many bottles. The bar staff will be more than happy to sample beer and help you choose. Which will set you up perfectly for their burger! A real sinker. Lovely pink and juicy. Will be coming back in the summer months!
Lovely small pub, excellent range of well-kept beers (especially given the Institute of Brewing and Distilling is just around the corner!).
Food is good, with a range of smaller dishes (croquettes, padron peppers, chorizo), cheese and meat boards, and larger plates including fish & chips, and burgers.
Unfortunately they had run out of the steak baguette, so we had the buttermilk chicken burger in a pretzel bun instead - very delicious. We also ordered some cod croquettes, and a beetroot and feta salad, however for some reason the feta was swapped out with goats cheese, which we did not enjoy.
Best Sunday roast in London! Dean Swift has over 20 beers so chances are you’ll find something you enjoy. Croquettes, beef and lamb roast are all to die for. Great for meeting up with friends for a few hours as the pub is dog friendly and child friendly and very clean. Can’t wait to go back!
Nice little pub, slightly hidden from crazy crowds near the Tower Bridge. Good food and really great service. Decent prices average to area. Not too crowded and fairly less noisy. Nice place to hang around and meet friends when in the area.
Had Sunday lunch and was not disappointed. Lots of meat, delicious potatoes and giant Yorkshire pudding. The portion size was just right for us, leaving room for some lovely deserts. The beer menu was perfect with about 20 different beers, IPA and barrel beers too. Will love to go back.
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Google maps said I hadn't been here in 5 years, so pre-pandemic, and I can't remember when or why I was in the area. Tucked down a backstreet off Tower Bridge Road, you'd only really find it if you went looking for it. Even more so now with the building works digging up the road as you walk up.
The first time I came here was after an interview I had round the corner, I was suited and booted after being at a client meeting and I wanted to transition into a cool company doing media or something. The hiring manager turned up barefoot and I could see I wasn't getting the job.
Anyway, fast forward to now and we were off for lunch at the excellent Gunpowder. I decided to see if my memories of the place hold up to sun-drenched barefoot nostalgia.
The exterior looks smarter, the interior too. It clearly had a facelift. Brighter, cleaner, spacious and more seating. What's lovely to see is the beer menu is still as vast as ever, with an extensive selection and the trusty London Black by @anspachhobday pouring well.
The only downside was my first drink of Cloudwater IPA tasted like sour yoghurt, and the glass on the second pint of Anspach was filthy. Both were changed without fuss, could've been the first pour syndrome, or age, I dunno. Maybe people aren't as picky as me.
I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, because it's quite fairly priced for the area, the music was decent, vibe was nice, staff were friendly, and the nostalgia box was ticked. Options in the direct proximity are the Brewdog owned ex-Draft House or Spoons, and then you're on the mile in cold archways. So it's a good place to perch and get away from the tourists and traffic.
A great pub with a great selection of beers. The food style here is tapas with some of the typical favourites. Service was quick and it all tasted really great. Fantastic beer food. The dishes that really stood out were the chorizo, pardon peppers and the calamari. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is out for a few beers and a bite to eat.
Excellent little pub on the corner with a very nice and communicative innkeeper and very good people in the kitchen. Best fish and chips we've had in weeks. Very good advice on beer and a delicious selection. The kids like the tasty lemonade and the great dessert selection.
The whole place is very nicely decorated and very, very clean. Neat toilets. Much better overall impression and much cleaner and friendlier than at the pub chain with the W in the name.
Would come back anytime and friends we recommended it to loved it too.
A hearty Sunday roast that left me completely full. The lamb is very good and the price was fair.
I stumbled upon this place for a Sunday roast. It was very tasty! Staff was pleasant and friendly. As I was here on a Sunday, I don’t know what it would be like on a weekend or weekday but it had very chill vibes and I would definitely come back here again. Also had the apple pie with ice cream for dessert. Very good 😊
We just loved the Dean Swift Pub. The best fish and chips that we ate in whole London. The bold guy (so sorry, I forgot your name) was super nice, he even gave me a taste of a less bitter beer just so I could try it. The food was amazing, the pub is super cool with a nice playlist. We were super happy, thank you ♡.
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