The Saint

Situated amid the plate-glass financial monoliths of Paternoster Square, The Saint does a particularly effective job as an energetic, box-ticking boozer for Friday-afternoon office fugitives – although it also pleases camera-toting tourists throughout the week (St Paul’s Cathedral is close by). It boasts a better selection of whites & reds than many corporate wine bars in the neighbourhood, although there’s a paucity of interesting beers on tap & cocktails are mostly middle-of-the-road classics. The lunch menu canters through an assortment of regulation dishes in these parts – think sausages & sarnies at lunchtime, followed by a somewhat diminished evening menu built around nibbles & nachos. Enjoy it all in a buzzy, post-industrial setting of bare brick walls, woodwork & ceiling girders.