Harwood Arms

Having been recommended the Harwood Arms as a great Gastro Pub, and especially given the Michelin Star rating it has, we were expecting something a little better than what we actually experienced.

The pub itself is nice, and possesses a warm and friendly atmosphere with a small bar which had a welcoming, relaxed ambience. The service in particular was the highlight of our visit, with attentive and friendly serving girls ensuring we were always happy, delivering our food and drinks promptly and efficiently. However the food itself was a huge disappointment.

Whilst we expected a degree of overpricing given the nature of the establishment, the food itself was well presented (with colourful sauce swirls and artful presentation) but generally disappointing in substance (bar the “home-made” bread of course). A smoked salmon starter -given it's constituents it would have to be spectacular to be priced that way…it wasn't. Roast Chicken leg with pressed potato and black pudding, whilst moist, was incredibly average and meagre in portion size, a hugely inflated meal at almost £18. The other meals were essentially the same – acceptable, pleasant but woefully overpriced and miles away from a Michelin starred
expectations.

If the portions had been of a normal size, or the prices lowered and the Michelin starred reputation set to one side in favour of it being a nice pub perhaps that would mark a higher score, but for us the Harwood Arms marked a somewhat disappointing foray into the realm of Gastro Pubs.

We came away thinking of all the better places we'd eaten at, which without such pedigree managed to serve better food at the same or lower price.

However it must be said again that whilst the food and value for money were poor to average, the service was excellent and the serving girls deserve all the praise from any positive reviews.

Go there for a drink…skip the meal.

Being a Michelin star restaurant, I was expecting to be wowed by the Harwood Arms and left thinking i'd had a standard pub roast… the rib of beef was slightly disappointing: the meat was tough, the smoked bone marrow had no flavour as it was deep fried and it came with standard dinner knives and not steak knives making it difficult to carve the meat from the bone.

However the thing that makes this place special is the fantastic service, knowledgeable staff and the presentation of the food. I probably wouldn't go again but the long Sunday lunch we had was enjoyable enough.

Since I moved to Fulham about 6 years ago this place has gone through several different iterations, with varying degrees of success. The Harwood Arms, when I first visited in 2006, was a better than average local serving decent and very reasonably priced English pub-grub that verged on ‘gastro-pub’ but didn’t quite make it and didn’t actually need to. Then it was sold and the new owner tried to be different, introduced a fiddly and rather unappetising menu and alienated most of the regulars. The next (and final) change of ownership saw the place taken over by the Brett Graham of the Ledbury restaurant, Mike Robinson of the Pot Kiln pub in Berkshire and Edwin Vaux from the Vaux brewery. We didn’t know, but dropped in there when our planned lunch venue was packed out with exhibition visitors (the perils of living near Earls Court).
Wow, what a surprise! I seem to remember feasting on razor fish, venison and foraged wild sorrel. And the place was all poshed up with linen napkins and little hessian sacks of foodie bread. If I remember the bill was ridiculously cheap, less than we would have paid at the Atlas, and the place was half empty. What we didn’t know was the heritage of the new owners.
I took a foodie friend there, who interrogated front of house staff as we ate our way through yet another fabulous meal. And we promised ourselves more visits! But, here’s the rub. The Harwood Arms got rave reviews and was awarded a Michelin star, I think within a year or so of its reincarnation. And, when we went back, it was full to bursting, even on a weekday lunchtime and front of house staff were simply ungracious. The prices went up and the service went down. We sat through one lunch of ‘foodie’ but greasy bar snacks because ‘the kitchen was catering for a large party’ and the subsequent two visits we walked out before being served.

So, a year on, I decided to try once more.

The Harwood Arms format is pretty much unchanged. The flowers on the table are cultivated, not wild but the ‘country comes to the city’ look and feel is still there. The menu is still very much in the same style. The little hessian sacks of foodie bread are still there. But, on Tuesday lunchtime the place was very, very quiet.
My friend is something of a wine buff and ordered a bottle of 2010 Isabel Estate Sauvignon Blanc. Yum! He happily told me that the vineyard was next door to Cloudy Bay and that for a while, they had sold their surplus grapes next door, until someone realised the quality of the stuff they were producing themselves. It was fabulous and a great match for my starter of crab, apple and peas with raw fennel. It was a truly pretty dish, with a light apple mousse, pea shoots, crab roe on toast and a perfectly dressed crab salad.

My companion chose the faggots of wild rabbit with prunes. Now, that sounds like a hard number to make look nice! But it arrived in a pretty white bowl looking almost like something you might get from an upmarket Chinese. We swapped tastes – and it turned out to be a very light rabbit mixture with just a hint of prunes.

More wine, Luigi Bosca, a full bodied 2008 Argentinian Malbec to go with our main courses. The special of the day was a roe deer platter and, I was keen to see if it was as fine as it had been when we first went to the Harwood Arms . I wasn’t at all disappointed with the plate of sausage, chops and rissoles accompanied by roasted new potatoes. There were no complaints from the other side of the table either, my friend was very happy with an elegant but generous plate of lamb with roasted fennel.

It’s tribute to the food that we went on to eat puddings, something I try to avoid at lunchtimes. But they were pretty fabulous too. For me a lovely coffee and nut ice cream with nutty praline thins, it was really light and a perfect end to the meal for me. The cherry fool was richer, but there were absolutely no complaints!

I’m VERY pleased to say our service was impeccable and the French lady who looked after us was both charming and knowledgeable, helping with the extensive wine list and explaining that the original Harwood Arms chef, Stephen Williams had left, but his replacement, Barry Fitzgerald, had been the sous chef working under him. That explains the heritage and style, there are changes (at least this time, less foraged and wild food) but they are subtle and I am guessing will provide a more consistent experience. Hopefully the Harwood Arms has cut its teeth now and we can look forward to more superb meals in this ‘country brought to town’ pub.

Doesnt get much better than this. Lovely beer, good wine list. Started with the scotch egg and a plate of asparagus, followed on with poached cod and a lamb dish. finished up with sticky toffee pudding and rhubarb doughnuts. you'd be splitting hairs to fault any of it, and all at pub prices (albeit top end pub prices). Service very attentive. Spot on.

Dined at the Harwood a few times, the food is amazing, leaves me wanting more every time, I especially enjoy the Roe Deer steak and their venison scotch egg is to die for. Shame they don't have a garden, makes this not an ideal summer venue, the restaurant area is quite stuffy, but lovely and cosy in winter.
The waiting staff are ok, sometimes a bit cold. It is really difficult to get a table at weekends so do book well in advance.
I always book on the phone and miraculously I always get a response first time (quite unusual for busy restaurants and one of my pet hates).
The prices are ok, the drinks are quite pricey and really, I would eat there a lot more often if it was a touch cheaper. They have a daily specials menu but they are not actually cheaper than the usual menu and aren't generally that different from the usual menu. A real shame, would deffo eat there more frequently if there were cheaper lunch options at least.

It’s Friday evening and I haven’t booked. My date Alicia is tugging at my sleeve in complaint, making her irritation known. The Fulham restaurants of stature are glowing with busy diners and those I wouldn’t be seen dead in are not worth my consideration; however at this rate Chicken Go Go may be our evening setting?

We walk towards the Broadway and Alicia suggests we try the Harwood Arms. “Without a reservation?” I reply. “Harwood Arms in Fulham? With the Michelin star? Who serve the venison Scotch egg?” So, with no other plan we threw caution to the wind and turned into the quiet suburban road where the famed gastrobub sits (depressingly coloured) and entered, praying for a tray and seat in the toilets at the most.

As expected, the sparsely decorated room (“painted pale Farrow & Ball shades” said Giles Coren) was full of romantic couples, with upscale French families and the odd pick of neighbourhood natives, no doubt surprised to find their local wrapped in euphoria and out-of-towners since January walking on their patch, sitting on their stalls and drinking their ales.

The Michelin-starred gastrobub is one of a kind in London. It was a new entry for the prestigious award in 2010 along with The Pipe & Glass Inn in Beverley, Yorkshire and Michael Parkinson’s The Royal Oak in Paley Street, Berkshire.

The food is good rural pub grub, served cleanly and simply. My deer and walnut terrine (£6.50) was served with a salad of chicory and pickled prunes and warm crunchy toast. Presented on a tree trunk – okay, modernist wooden plate – it was a decent size for a starter. The terrine was powerful in flavour and soft to cut but there was a clear outweigh between pâté and toast, as there always is, it must be impossible to achieve – there is never enough bread, pita, chapatti, naan, damper or bagel to accompany and spread-on or mop up with.

Air-dried Cumbrian ham (£4.50) from the Bar Menu was again served on a tree trunk (a littler flatter and lighter wood this time) and there was plenty of it for two people. The thin slices had a fraction of smokiness and importantly, weren’t over-salted. There were a few pathetic lettuce leaves nipped and thrown on top that appeared pointless and added nothing, but some hearty apple slices were a nice sweet addition.

On a separate blackboard from the Bar Menu was written “Pigeon legs £3”. So what the heck, we ordered some of them as Alicia had never tried them before. I’m not even sure I have? Pigeon breast certainly, but their scraggy little legs…? They arrived snapped and caramelised on a small white plate. Easy to pick up and finger but bony little buggers, and not much meat. Still, what they did carry was good and a well-priced delicacy at £3.00.

A lovely blonde waitress named Sophie reintroduced the wine list after we decided that we did need something to wash this feast down with, and we ordered a bottle of Albariño at £29.00. It’s expensive but one of the cheapest in their wine list and it’s one of the freshest whites I’ve had, with notes of soft peaches, and I believe a much nicer choice over Chardonnay. It was Sophie’s birthday on our visit and she found an Aussie sister in Alicia and they hit it off. Fine for me, while they nattered about yearning for home luxuries (Vegemite and Tim Tams), I covertly finished the last few pigeon legs. Everyone’s a winner… except the pigeon.

And so to the Scotch egg. The venison Scotch egg to be precise, priced at £2.50. I’ll be writing more about this (and others) at a later date, but to continue with the review of this celebrated one. I’d asked Jay Rayner where he thought the best Scotch egg in London could be found, “Harwood Arms,” he replied, “no contest”. This is how I had known about the accolade when Alicia suggested the Harwood Arms. She suggests a pub and all I’m aware of is that they produce a spankingly ace Scotch egg!

The first thing you notice is that it’s deep-fried and crispy and has a sprinkling of Maldon salt on top. It sits proud and spherical on a square of grease-proof paper, just wooing me to sink in and release its runny yolk. ‘Egging’ me on, if you will.

The breadcrumbs are warm and light and the venison meat holds perfectly the inner-casing of comfy white and fluent yellow yolk. Surprisingly, it isn’t overcooked and the centre is not a rubbery texture of gooey compound. Like a Dime bar it’s ‘smooth on the inside, crunchy on the out’. There’s a warming crunch before the meat and then you’re layered into the egg. For a product which appears almost inconspicuous on the Bar Menu it’s a real gem and the Harwood Arms have rightly become famous for such a thing.

Having visted the Harwood Arms many times prior to receiving it's Michelin Star and enjoyed it very much as a good London gastro pub, it's price level in relation to the quality and quantity is now unacceptable. Highly overpriced and diminutive dishes for what is still a pub has become unacceptable. It appears that the Harwood Arms owners are trying to cash in as much as they can for the short time it'll last and the customers accept the inflated prices normally applicable for regular proper restaurants. It's days are counted by the numbers at lunch there today.

Already knowing how good Brett Graham’s kitchen skills are, we were unsure of this coupling with the disfavoured (for us ) Mike Robinson of Pot Kiln where our meal was quite below par. So after a few attempts to book a table (demand always a good sign) we were about to find out whose influence was the stronger.
What we ate and drank :

Rabbit & Prune Faggot – Satisfyingly flavourful
Venison Scotch Egg – “Pie hot” with runny yolk
Sea Bream & shrimps, roasted tomatoes, long slivers of runner bean & saffron potatoes – Excellent combination and great textures Roast venison, mushrooms & remoulade – Divine flavours and meltingly tender
Sticky Toffee Dessert of date ice cream & brown bread wafers & sticky toffee – Purrfect End

New World Pinot Noir – good quality and reasonably priced

Reading between the lines, it appeared that Harwood could have been at risk of becoming a victim of its own success if the neg-reviews are accurate, and if that was the case, then it has dramatically pulled things back. We liked everything about this place including the service – the subject of most complaints. The Antipodean touch has triumphed again and maybe we should have been comforted at the thought that a Graham-mentored man was at the helm. However, perhaps Mr Robinson is the one who should be given credit for including so much wonderful game on the menu.

With pedigree such as the Pot Kiln in Berkshire and the much-lauded Ledbury in Notting Hill overseeing its re-launch, The Harwood Arms was always destined for great things, becoming the first London pub to achieve a Michelin Star in the 2010 guide. The interiors are simple and rustic, but the distinctly British cooking, including favourites such as venison scotch egg, is at the top of its game.

On reading the other reviews here it is clear that there are a lot of undeclared interests involved – on both sides, so I didnt know what to expect when I went there last night. So here is my unbiased summary:

The Food: Was amazing, some of the best I have had. Starters were delicious , I had the special, which was venison, while my wife had the scotch egg from the bar menu – the egg was still runny – quite a step above the marks & spencer version.
For mains we had the Duck and the Pork Belly – which could not have been nicer. The Duck was my favorite of the 2 – the Pork portion was a little large for my wife, which was another plus for me. I had a glass of Tempanillo with it, which again was very nice – I plan to buy some for home. Desert was also great – simple coffee ice-cream with choc biscuit – delicious.

Service: Was good, not silver service, but this is a pub – and it was fine – attitude was positive and helpful which is important for me. The waitress brought my wife a sample of one of the wines to help her decide – nice touch.

Atmosphere: No problems, again its a pub – one large group at the far end was making some noise – but not too much, and we have all been part of one of those large groups.

Value for money – 3 courses (shared desert), 3 glasses of wine, 1 port & 15% tip = £69 – which is great value for food of this quality.

I will be making the trip again – probably this week!

The previous comments made here have clearly no idea what a michelin star is for or for that matter what a really great establishment is. I am astounded to hear about average at best comments regarding the food, which was off the scale on each on my previous 7 visits to this epic PUB. The staff are appropriately dressed, always hugely welcoming and exactly what is missing on the London food scene. I would suggest the other ‘reviewers’ pathetic attempts to slander the PUB are ignored and disregarded. They clearly have their own issues to deal with that have no place in association with this remarkable pub. The Harwood nails it on the head every time, I can't wait to revisit. Keep it up, Harwood!

Goodness only knows how this place got a Michelin star!! (It must be owned by a friend of an inspector!) It is a disgrace. The staff were untrained and ill-mannered and we waited ages without a drink or food. When the food finally arrived it was very average and uncomplicated ‘pub grub’ at michelin prices. The new ‘Assistant’ Manager was rude and unhelpful and freely admitted that the michelin star had raised customers expectations way beyond the service and quality the pub was able to deliver.

I have just had a wonderful meal at the harwood arms and completely disagree with the previous review. The food was outstanding, the service was very personable and the staff friendly. The Harwood in my opinion is the perfect combination, Michelin star food whilst still maintaining the charm of a British pub. Definitely an experience not to be missed.

What a shame for the great chef ! Amazing how the front of house can destroy a great dining experience. After hearing so much about this great new eating establishment myself and my group were really looking forward to a great evening. What met us was an arrogant server (don’t know his name – tall with a goatee) who waved in the general direction of a table we could sit at. Not ones to be put off – we reminded ourselves we were in a pub – we sat down and waited ! and waited ! Eventually our server arrived back and gave us menus and pointed to a board – hidden by a wicker room divider – and told us “that’s the special” given that we couldn't see it we had to ask him to tell us what it was ! Mind boggling – there was only one item and he couldn't take the trouble. We ordered and took his advice on the beef on the bone for two, as a main. The starter we choose was really great – full of flavour. The main course eventually arrived and looked quiet nicely presented – however you can imagine our disappointment when we found the plates and the food was actually cold. I called our server (tall with goatee) and asked him to test the heat of the food – he did so and apologised – reclaiming the platter as he very deftly removed the dish and the plates. The rest of our group dug into their main courses whilst we waited -about 5 minutes later lo and behold our server appeared with another platter of food and informed us “here is a whole new fresh serving”. I was impressed by the fact it was so fast – I really was prepared to wait and was happy to sip our wine and chat to the rest of our party. However 5 minutes for a "whole new fresh serving” was a bit fast and a bit suspect. We happily accepted it and began to serve ourselves from the platter when to my amazement – here was one of the pieces of meat I had cut into originally and eaten when I first discovered the dish was cold – they didn't even bother to remove the already cut into piece of meat. Only this time it was a shade of grey (no longer rare) after very obviously having been, I can only assume, microwaved and served back up to us. When the female server cleared our plates she paid absolutely no heed to the very obvious large amount of food going back to the kitchen and in fact just sniggered when I told her we did not enjoy the meal.
To say I was disappointed is an understatement – I heard our server (tall with goatee) say to the equally unperturbed female serving with him “lets play it by ear” !!! Having years of experience in the same industry I would advise that unless someone deals with the “faces” of this eating establishment and removes some of the very obvious arrogance – the chef’s credibility will suffer.

This pub has just been awarded a Michelin Star, but don’t expect a first class service!

The staff were totally out of their depth, extremely inattentive and quite unprofessional. Upon arrival we weren’t shown to our table and no one took our coats. Some bar staff and waitresses were hanging around in the bar area, and one was actually biting his nails. When we sat down, our waiter referred us to the daily special on the special board without reading it out. The problem was that from our table the view was restricted so we couldn’t actually read the board without getting up. There was one special on the board, which made it even clearer that the waiter just couldn’t be bothered to read it to us.
Then a pitcher of water was just plonked on our table without pouring our glasses, condiments weren’t replenished and when we finished our wine we weren’t offered another – we were just left with empty glasses until we ordered another bottle. Even at Pizza Hut you would get a better and more attentive service!

As for the food, for starter I had Poached salmon with laver bread mayonnaise, boiled new potatoes and watercress. It was quite nicely presented but quite bland in taste. For my main I had the Roast Cornish cod with chanterelles, sea purslane, salsify fritters and garlic mayonnaise. The cod was undercooked and the fritters dripping with oil. The only seasoning I could taste was salt. Again, I found this dish average at best and without any flavour.
For dessert I went for the Buttermilk pudding with pears and golden raisins poached in mead. This was the nicest dish of the evening, sweet and creamy.

In summary, I was expecting delicious food and outstanding service – a Michelin Star Experience – but what I got was a very average meal with a terrible service.

Worst meal and dining experience I've had in a very long time.

The staff were hopeless (particularly the tall shaven haired guy with the little goatee and the French sounding girl).

Starters were decent – the terrine and prunes were good. The butternut soup was very average. The poached salmon was bland.

Main course was dire. The “beef on the bone for two” was embarrasing. The beef arrived cold on cold plates, the vegetables were soft, the yorkshire puddings were stale on top and soggy on the bottom, and the potatos were so salty it was ridiculous. We sent the dsh back only to have THE SAME ONE come back five minutes later, with microwaved veg, staler yorkshire puddings and the beef had gone from med rare to medium. Utterly ridiculous.

The tbone of roe deer which was the day's special and described by the waiter as “well yeh it is what it is, a tbone of roe deer” was totally average and bordering on undercooked.

The cod was very average. When the waitress came to collect the plates she asked if we enjoyed the meal – we said “no” – she asked why – we explained as above and she just smirked and cleared the plates.

Desert was decent if unadventurous – we had one of each of the four choices… they ranged from average to good.

The bill came – 4 people with wine ~£200 and they included the “optional” service charge of ~£20 which I simply couldn't be bothered to argue over.

Overall – a service and food quality totally undeserving of a Michelin Star – very, very poor.

I have lived around the corner from The Harwood for 5 years and have always loved it there… until now. The food is excellent yes but now the staff are incredibly stuck up whereas before it used to be warm and friendly and I would quite happily go in on my own and have a glass of wine. I raved about the bar to friends and we went in last night and the staff were so so so rude, they all stared instead of coming over to ask what we wanted. The barman “tutted” when we didn't know straight away which wine we wanted even though there was no list on the bar and he hadn't offered us one. I travel extensively for work and I am also a mystery shopper in my spare time for fun and never have I been in a bar/restaurant with such awful staff. What a pity.

My office used to be housed in a semi-industrial unit on the site of a former car park, right next to the Harwood Arms. I moved out just before the latest Incarnation, having seen every previous attempt fail I had started to regard the site as cursed. I was wrong.
The pedigree of the team behind it is plain for everyone to see as soon as you walk in. The revamp concentrated on the stripping back the chintz and getting everything to look ‘pub’ again. The cutlery, the tablecloths, the chairs and the napkins are all just right for a country pub in London.
The food is outstanding. I have been back many times and had many great dishes and some outstanding ones. My standout out winner was at christmas last year – Glazed ham hock, roasted parsnips, brussell tops and mustard sauce – it came presented on a small wooden board with a sharp knife. The knife was redundant as the hick was meltingly tender and could barely keep itself attached to the bone.
Other dishes that have made me drool over the last 15 or so months since the rebirth have always seemed too intelligent and more restaurant, but you find me complaining :

A trio of partridge, kiev – leg – rissole – well executed, each element did exactly what it said on the tin
Apple Doughnuts in a Spicy sugar – were better than anything you would find at an artisinal bakery
A fish finger sandwich! – homemade fingers of course, drop of tartare and home made roll

I regularly have meetings in Fulham and always try and find a way to make sure that they are around lunchtime and near Farm Lane. The menu changes, as it should, with the seasons, so you are always presented with a great range of dishes, always inventive and always tasty.

The Harwood Arms is excellent but…
The food is excellent and the new and interesting dishes they provide is great. The prsentation of the food is outstanding and the quality exceptionally high. Recomendations are the pigs trotters, pork belly and snails. We are regulars at the Harwood Arms and live on the adjacent road, so it is with regret that we have to write this report. So the food is fantastic but however all of this is let down badly by one thing – the staff. The bar staff are miserable, we were last served by an Aussie or Kiwi couple who openly argued with each other in front of us, they did not smile once and served us begrudginly. For a client facing role, they were truly appalling. This is not a one off as previous bar staff have been the same. The waitresses are not unpleasant but they are not welcoming or do not go that extra mile to make your meal special. The one redeeming member of staff was the male manager who seemed to appreciate what good service is, but he is one person in a team of 6-8. If the Harwood Arms wants to live up to the reputation they seem to have built up, they seriously need to review their hiring policy when it comes to the staff. Pat

This is the third time my girlfriend and I have been to Harwood Arms, and it just gets better. It's one of those rare places where you would happily eat everything on the menu – it all sounds incredible. And you know that whatever you order will be exceptional.

Service is exemplary too – my partner asked if she could have something off the bar menu for a starter and they had no problem with that (some places can be funny about hopping between menus!). The Scotch egg from said bar menu is, by the way, out of this world.

My venison steak was perfectly done, extremely tender and full of flavour, like it had been prancing around in its natural habitat 24 hours earlier! Portions are generous, though not over the top, and the accompaniments are all perfectly matched with the rest of the dish and just as tasty.

It's great value too – we had three courses each, champagne, two glasses of red and two glasses of white wine and it came to £110, including service. And when you taste the food, it seems like even better value. Can't rate it highly enough.

I'm not a massive dessert eater, but the ginger eton mess was superb and the bag of six hot mini donuts devoured by my other half also extremely good.

You get the impression they have given great thought to their menu, which changes frequently according to season, and this is reflected in the quality of the dishes they serve up.

The wine list is excellent too – the house shiraz is delicious.

This is exactly what you want from a top-level gastropub; unfussy but exceptional food, reasonable prices, warm atmosphere and service and a decent drinks menu. We'll keep going back again and again. And again… and again…

Booked several weeks ahead for a special occasion but were placed at a table in the centre of the bar with intolerable noise levels. There were fourteen people sitting round a table for eight inches away from us. We could not hear ourselves speak. Mike Robinson was in and was totally indifferent to our distress when we spoke to him. One hour fifteen minutes after arriving with no food in sight we left. It is a greedy landlord that sits diners in the middle of a packed bar with noise at an intolerable level and then ignores them.

27/05/09
Second visit – this time stayed for the most special, relaxed and magical evening ever thanks to Brett Graham and the staff of The Harwood Arms – David thank you. I won't list menus, prices, wines or describe the decor – these have been annotated here in abundance, I will just say that from the minute myself and my two daughters set foot in the Harwood Arms Saturday night 23 rd May to the moment we reluctantly left and set foot in the real world we had the most exquisite eating experience ever granted to womankind! Ambience – tremendous, wit, charm and attentiveness of staff – tremendous – food – tremendous, wines – tremendous. I am being boring – sorry but if food be the music of love (sorry Shakespeare) – play on!

Have just returned from sunday lunch at the harwood arms. What an excellent meal. It is a canivore's paradise. Probably the best roast beef you will ever have. Its not cheap but then my mantra of hopefully you should get what you pay for does apply here. Its £17 each but you share a haunch of beef served on a huge block of wood accompanied by veg, yorkshire pudds and a little jug of real gravy. If you have seen john candy in the film the great outdoors eating the 96 0z steak it will give you some idea. go hungry very hungry to this place. The other meals are really tasty, such as belly of pork and a deer shank. Its proper food for proper meat eaters. Having been to st john in farringdon which is incredibly pretentious, the harwood arms is warm, friendly and tucked away in fulham. The desserts just get better the doughnuts I had were reminiscent of the freshly prepared ones you got a blackpool pleasure beach, as a kid – just grown up with lemon sherbet inside and whipped cream to dip into.This place is all good, a good mixture of trendies and normal people. Would make a detour to visit again.

Had a wonderful time. Friendly staff who were more than happy to help. We stayed for quite a few hours and were not harassed to move or order more food. We enjoyed nice wine which was recommended by the staff.

Once we had walked off our lunch we then went back that night to enjoy more tasty food and invited friends to join us. As they were very popular that evening we had to wait a while which was no problem although they were so apologetic…

I would recommend this for good food, good atmosphere and good wine.

Everything from the bread to deserts were great. Generous and tasty portions. Well worth a visit!

Bags of bread on the table were very appetising, but the menu was not so much so (very gamey) and vegetarian options were not listed, Instead I had to askif any were available.
Very crowded and very loud. At some points I felt forgotten by the serving staff. and bar customers often stood round my table to talk and it was difficult to have a conversation where I was seated.

The food was nice though, even though the choices were not what i would have ordinarily chosen.

I visited the Harwood Arms only a couple of weeks after it had opened. I was exceptionally impressed by the lovely atmosphere and the really nice staff, who could not do enough for us. While I have never been to the Ledbury, I have eaten at the Pot Kiln and was delighted to see so many of Mike Robinson's game recipes on the menu. As someone who used to live around the corner from what was just a boozer, it is so nice to see that the essential elements of the pub have not been ripped out, but just modernised. The food was first rate, the service really friendly and I highly recommend.