I visited this restaurant with some good friends I haven’t seen in a while. The staff were amazing from waitress and even the chef came over to make sure we enjoyed our food. The food and wine was wonderful and I definitely recommend this restaurant if you’re looking for good food and good wine, I will be going back again soon. The staff made me and my friends feel very welcome thank you
Harshita Dabbiru-Patnaik
+4.5
Everything about this place is simply wow! The place has an old world charm to it. Everything starting from the interiors to the location seems to be so frozen in time. They're several vintage guns on display and the entire look is completed by the wooden furniture. The alfresco dining area offers a splendid river view. The menu us quite minimalist yet classy. I went for a dish done with bass. It was quite tasty and beautifully plated too. The chocolate mousse for dessert was amazing too.
If you want to try an authentic classy English pub, do try this place out!
Looking back at the traditions of especially posh Britain, hunting used to be something that was quite important – even if it has now decreased quite considerably. The London food scene has certainly started flirting with the likes of offal (internal organs and entrails) and game, but then again what does it not flirt with? It’s quite nice to then find a restaurant that really does celebrate that sort of cuisine and it fits in well with the atmosphere.
What a quaint restaurant with a beautiful outside area. Food varied from average to the wow factor...so the lack of consistency was a bit disappointing. The mackerel starter was light, fresh and delightful; my main was the duck which was cooked to perfection but was over powered by its accompanying partners on the plate. Dessert was a warm pudding which was okay and syrupy sweet. Service was good at times but unfriendly.
We popped in for what was a few after work beers. Decided to share a few starters: scotch egg, sausage roll... Then out came the oysters and pint of prawns.. They were amazing. So we all decided to have our dinner there. That ribeye i had looked and tasted even better. Simply outstanding food, atmosphere, ambience and service. Had a better meal here than Gordon Ramsays Savoy Grill. Definitely returning soon...
We have been to this lovely pub few times and never been disappointed! The restaurant is first class - if visiting on Tuesday's opt for a fish dish as they get it fresh from the market. Do book in advance though.
There is a nice outside area, with view to the river, where lots of people from Canary Wharf and surroundings get together for a drink in the end of the day.
Price wise, dinner can be a bit expensive but worthwhile :)
Fantastic burger and nice seating overlooking the river. Great bar!
I love this place. It's my favourite pub in east London. The food is immense, quite expensive but actually it's not bad value. Not if you're after amazing food with out the Gordon R price tag. I love going in here just for a drink. Decent ale too. Again the drinks are usual prices. Unless you dive into the wine list!! The Gin is amazing!!
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Food-Delicious, Ambiance-Great, Service-So-So. We found The Gun via Urbanspoon (thanks!).
Quite happy with our visit - easily booked a table for 30 min later via phone.
Nice table in busy restaurant/pub. Plenty busy for Sunday night.
Waiter (not the same gentleman who seated us) was obviously fresh "off the boat" from other places. Not familiar with the menu, the area, the country, etc. Nice guy, don't get me wrong... just very green. Watched the folly as he seated another couple once, then reseated them (albeit a bit brusquely).
Oysters on the half-shell: fantastic. Very fresh and tasty.
Fresh skate wing - Wow. Delicious! I've never had something like this before! A bit tough to figure out how to get the bones off the top, but once that's done... yum!
Ribeye on-the-bone - Cooked perfectly to order. Great flavor. Well prepared. Chips crunchy on the outside, and well done on the inside.
Wine selection - very nice, though the waitstaff could use a bit more help in terms of the differences between the offered selections (give them a taste, will you?)
Overall - A bit pricey, but very tasty and enjoyable experience.
Great location, great beer and ale selection, pub charm right on the river fantastic. It's a posh gastropub the menu can be a little strange for a pub but the food and service is generally excellent. Well worth a visit.
The Gun in London's Docklands is a pub with unique historical pedigree. Literally across the river from the O2 Millenium Dome, it has nautical history in spades. What other pub can boast that it was the scene of Admiral Lord Nelson's secret meetings with Lady Emma Hamilton? It's a lovely old style pub building with wood panelling, beams and wood burning fireplaces.
Happily sitting on the eastern fringe of Canary Wharf is the Gun; a lovely gastro pub with a superb view on the O2. The Gun is the perfect spot for a sunny Sunday brunch beside the Thames. The terrace is really nice, though be careful not to go on a windy day, you might not enjoy the view so much if you’re being swept away. All year round, this lovely pub serves traditional English food (mainly inside), which is well presented and delivered to nicely dressed tables. Though, be aware that your dinner might be interrupted as the drinking side of the pub is very too close to the dining room.
The Food Connoisseur
+4.5
Our eyes met slowly as I walked passed, the slow motion tilt. It wasn’t the person, I had an instant connection to it was the dish on his plate. There it was glowing all in its glory, that massive piece of chunks of minced meat covered in a blanket of crusty pastry. I just had to order the dish, served on wooden chopping board, some greens and of course the HP brown sauce. The size of this baby covered a quarter of the chopping board and was certainly worth the £4.50 price tag. Yes, my friends and me were left satisfied with The Gun’s sausage roll.
...Although it was a bit too fancy and too clever for its own good, the scallops were cooked perfectly with a feather light texture as you bit into them. And it was a novelty having cooked oysters to go with it - usually I alw
"The Gun" gastropub in the Docklands is indeed a rare place. With several awards attached to its name, its has a fascinating and tangible history. It was Nelson's local, won the best dining pub title by the Good Pub Guide 2010 editor, beating about 6,000
The Gun, one of London's most celebrated gastropubs, has much going for it and I don't recall ever seeing a bad review of the place, and as such, following a summertime visit there, we thought we might be the first. However, that was not our first visit t
If you’ve never had bone marrow before, you have no idea what you’re missing. It’s like a rich, smoky, concentratedly meaty jam that you spread on some crispy toast, well balanced by the sharp, slightly bitter herbs. Amazing.
Having opened with a blaze of glory in 2004, it's great to see The Gun is still showing the way to so many young pretenders in the gastro-pub world. But, saying that, with gastro-pub maestros Tom and Ed Martin at the helm, quality was probably never going
Great river views from the outside seating and dining. Screen for winter and cool evenings. Food and wine quite reasonable pricing. More formal inside dining room without river view. Private room available. Nice selection of beers. Private garden area. Service excellent.
Lovely pub in Isle of Dogs with a great view of the East side of the river and a great atmosphere. The food is only above average, but I'm guessing noone really goes to pubs for the culinary experience and the little spoiling of the taste buds.
If you happen to be in E14 or do live thereabouts, The Gun is always a great drinking hole to be enjoying grubs, ales, and most importantly the east side of the river with it's unique social feeling.
I do recommend it.
Firstly, I liked the walk from Canary Wharf, through the docklands, to this place. Pie of the day (chicken) was superb! Fresh, crispy outer layer, and absolutely yummy inside! The Terrine (Rabbit, pigeon, and black pudding) was not bad; usually I am not too fond of cold foods, perhaps that is why I could not appreciate the taste much; but my colleagues seemed to have loved it. Dessert for me was a chocolate terrine with Hungarian (sweet) wine. I rounded it off with a Guiness, at the back side of the pub, with a refreshing view to the O2, over the Thames.
Recommended!
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This gastro pub, is a bit of a secret to me, having grown up and living in docklands most of my life. I have never even heard of it, until it came up in food conversation with a fellow foodie friend.
We were supposed to go together, however being 2 busy people it never happened. Last month on Good Friday, I managed to drag my friend with me to lunch. The gun is one of those places that are well hidden behind residential areas even with Google maps it took a while to locate.
Staring at the menu, one side was full of British grub pub food and the other with more bistro compilations.
We choose some oysters for our starters, knowing it’s from Wright brothers I couldn’t resist knowing they are fresh, juicy and delicious. The drinks we ordered took a very long time to arrive; my fresh orange was being freshly pressed in the kitchens.
I finally decided to opt for the smoked salmon, and haddock fish cake, poached egg with chive butter sauce. The pairing of both smoked salmon and haddock hit the notes right, and the silkiness of the fish with the poached egg balanced the saltiness perfectly.
My friend also opted for a fish mains, her one came beautifully presented, full of vibrant colours.
Having looked at the menu I was eager to have apple donuts and cinnamon vanilla ice cream, I was extremely happy that the donuts had a ring of a real apple inside and not filled with dough. The ice cream was velvety and sweet.
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There are three main reasons to visit The Gun. Firstly, if it is good enough for Admiral Nelson then it is good enough for you (he ‘entertained’ his mistress, Emma Hamilton in the River Room, and I don’t think they were playing backgammon, if you get my drift). Secondly, this quaint Docklands pub, lovingly restored after a destructive fire in 2001, has one of the best river terraces in the whole damn city.
The terrace, a low-slung affair that brings you to almost eye-level with the Thames, has a commanding view of the river looping around the Greenwich Peninsula, affording you majestic views of the O2 and, well, some kind of factory that seems to manufacture sand or grit. Still, there are few better places to spend a summer’s evening after work.
Unfortunately, these draws make The Gun a rather popular place to go – coupled with its ‘snuggly’ size, it all adds up to a usually chocablock terrace and pub. And it was exactly this way when a mate and I visited last Friday night to immerse ourselves in reason-to-visit number three – The Gun’s beef shin burger.
There is a lot of food to be had at The Gun – as you enter, you are left standing in the restaurant, which serves a hearty British menu (and Sunday Roast menu) that is star-studded with quality such as oysters, bone-on rib eye of beef and exciting-sounding things such as beer-battered seaweed or olive crumble. Feast menus subject groups to voluminous grazing, such as whole suckling pig or a log of Beef Wellington. Jars of snacks – a true test of a proper pub – are plentiful. Soon, an open-air English-buffet-bar called the Gin Garden will open for the summer, as well as the intriguing ‘Slider Decider’ event on 16th May. That sounds a bit good.
But the Gun is a pub, and therefore it has a pub menu. Correction, the pub menu. A pub menu with a sub-menu of cheese. A pub menu that serves oysters. There is a ‘Coldharbour sausage roll with HP sauce’ which, despite sounding a bit Greggs-y, you just know would be awesome, as will the black pudding with Scotch egg and English mustard. One day I will get around to trying the macaroni and cheese, but that beef shin burger is addictive, and it is the only thing I seem to eat when I visit.
Served pink or cooked-through, the burger itself is a fist-sized hulk of flaky, chewy shin, swathed in ‘proper’ cheese. There are few burgers better in London, and those that come close don’t have chips that walk the talk (the comparator here is the Goodman Burger – watch this space). The Gun’s chips are exactly how they should be – crackly-covered fluffiness. The burger is more plentiful than the usual, to the point of dangerous instability (don’t even try to attack one without a knife and fork) and the bun is a little dry, but you’ll be too busy losing yourself in the little-appreciated wonders of cow shin to care.
The burger defines The Gun. Sumptuous but simple, inexpensive but bedecked in quality and care. The staff are representative of such – one night on the terrace last October started off warm but gradually degraded into traditionally more seasonal weather – it was saved with a complimentary round of blankets from the waiter.
In a way, it’s a shame – The Gun was once my local. Now I am stuck with The Narrow – a pub of similar concept and history. However, whereas the former is famed for Eighteenth Century seafaring dalliances, the Narrow offers an emotional and quality-driven experience on a par with a quick grope behind the bins of a nightclub in Milton Keynes. And their terrace is rubbish.
For full review visit http://www.thefunkytruth.com/2013/05/11/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-burgers/
I have been to the gun many times now and with this inclement English weather, the fireplace is the perfect magnet to attract patrons. There are 2 rooms, one with a very comfy sofa. This room is often booked for events so if you have a party to throw, it's the right place. Else if its not booked, it a nice place to relax with a pint by the fire.
The second room is the main pub, is a bit crowded but has its own charm. Outdoor used to be open but now is completely covered with plastic so is comfortable even on a windy cold night.
Mondays are pub quiz nights with both rooms fully packed. If you happen to wonder around with a parched throat looking for a pint, you would be better off trotting a bit yonder towards canary wharf.
The restaurant attached to the pub is good but a bit over priced in my view.
The Gun is a great place to chill out with the papers on a Sunday morning whilst enjoying a Bloody Mary.
The log fires are a bonus on winter days and evenings and there is a covered and enclosed terrace which is a great out door space if you want to take in the view of the Thames and the O2 whilst drinking or dining.
Sunday lunch is one of the best I've tasted and I also highly recommend The Gun for a romantic evening meal or a get together with friends and family.
We have never been disappointed
Lovely location, great views of the Thames. Perfect place to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon. Decor was laid back and unpretentious matching the menu. Had the Sunday roast, which was a good portion and tasty. Service was great and very welcoming.
We came across this gem of a pub on our last visit so this time we took our friends as we knew they would love it too!
A wonderful view of the O2 across the Thames. A great outdoor area with an outdoor bar and plenty of seating.
The pub is oozing in history and has wonderful character throughout.
The staff were welcoming and friendly which always makes a difference.
We shall definitely be returning!
The best sunday roast in the area. It can get quite packed so be sure to make an advanced booking to guarantee a table to avoid disappointment. The food was great and we had a table with a bit of river view which was lovely.Everything a proper sunday roast should be. Food arrived quickly after ordering, the meats were tender and flavourful and the yorkshire pudding was big and fluffy. Delicious and satisfying.
The Gun is an great spot for Sunday roast around Canary Wharf, and is the pub with the best food in the area. I highly recommend the roast beef or roast pork, especially when having it outside in their outdoor seating area on a sunny day.
I also had dinner here and the food was also really well nice for a pub.
Finish off the meal with a serving of sticky toffee pudding. That’s what I call a great meal.
An overall good experience and quite unique in the area, but quite expensive so makes you challenge how good the value you get is.
Fish and chips was nice - albeit a bit too oily.
Staff was nice, yet they do seem more keen before food is ordered, being a bit hard to find afterwards.
Premium food and service in a waterside location. Great view of O2 arena. Limited parking nearby. Lamb was well cooked and juicy on the inside.
Came here for drinks on the bank holiday weekend. Nice chilled atmosphere with an outside bar and really lovely staff. Speaker system playing music. Can't fault this place. Have also been previously for a Sunday roast which was incredibly!
Yet another nice traditional Sunday roast/pub place in London, with a nice inside atmosphere, nice outside view to Thames. Good selection of cocktails, friendly staff
Lovely pub in cross harbour area - you can’t beat the view here especially in the summer. Price is a little bit higher than others (I paid over £20 for two G&Ts). I guess probably the extra’s for the view!
Very friendly staff when I come usually there’ll be an Italian bar tender who’s super friendly and attentive.
5stars for the staff and the view!! We was served by Ivo and polish bartender, and we was impressed by Ivo.
We felt so welcome.
The view is lovely, and in sunny days they have suitable nice yard, perfect for chilling with friends.
Normal food, a bit expensive.
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