Surprisingly delicious. Hungry after an interesting trip to the Imperial War Museum, a friend and myself decided to randomly stop somewhere nearby for dinner and ended up at The Three Stags. While having a pub appearance it certainly did not have the typical "pub grub". Instead, I was surprised to find offerings that were both reasonably priced (even inexpensive) and tasty. In trying to classify this type of food, I decided that the best match was "gastropub".
I shared an order of bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, followed it with the roasted beetroot, butterhead lettuce, fennel, goat's cheese & pomegranate salad, and two Pimm's lemonades.
Everything was delicious and service from their friendly and conversation staff was great. The bread and drinks were brought out promptly and let us snack while waiting for our mains. The salad was bright with the tart pomegranate flavour cutting through creamy goat's cheese. The second Pimm's after the salad was enough to finish the job the first one started, making the walk to the tube just slightly off.
Overall, a nice location I would love to revisit.
Many years ago this place had terrible food. One Dutch tourist describing it to the unwise owner who asked him how his meal was as serving the worst burger he had ever tasted.
They have either changed hands or have had a foodie road to Damascus. I think it's the former.
I and my wife popped in for Sunday lunch and despite them being busy with many reserved tables managed to fit us in.
We both had the roast beef sunday lunch and very good it was too. I'm not a huge roast beef fan but the bait of Yorkshire pud and horseradish sauce did the trick. The veggies were of a particularly good quality and plenty of them. The Yorkshire pudding as it should be and the Horseradish nice and creamy and with a pleasant kick. I had banoffee pie, and my wife chocolate brownies to follow. They were described as home made and they tasted it, in a good way.
They lose a point on not having the veggie roast option as advertised on their web page and being a miser it was perhaps a little bit more than I would normally pay. That said the quality was very good and I have paid more for less elsewhere. We will be back!
Wood fired pizza was excellent as well as the fish and chips. The mushy peas could have been better and the prices were a little high. Very convenient to the Imperial War Museum. We are outside on the picnic tables, nicely shaded.
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