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The Carpenter's Arms

Address:91 Black Lion Lane, London W6 9BG
Tel:020 8741 8386
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Website: Visit The Carpenter's Arms website
Price: £40.00Wine: £15.00 Champagne: £37.00
Opening Hours:Mon-Sat 11am-11pm Sun 12N-10.30pm

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The Carpenter’s Arms is indubitably still a pub, but one with an admirable skew towards bistro-style refinement: framed continental prints & elegant furnishings blend vintage wood-floored charm with moodily lit elegance, & the menu sharpens up new-wave gastropub dishes with a few eclectic tweaks. Starters could embrace half a dozen oysters with shallot relish (a steal at £9.50 with a glass of Guinness), grilled octopus with radish & sesame, or chicken livers with globe artichokes & sage. A demure selection of well-executed mains includes steak & chips with Café de Paris butter, or a juicy pork chop with vibrant chilli butter beans & clams. Beer drinkers receive short shrift, although the well-priced, interesting wine list puts on a more impressive show. A pleasant garden does duty on sunny days & warm evenings. From the same stable as The Union in Paddington & The Pig’s Ear in Chelsea.

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Sophie D.
Reviews: 1

Sophie D. ( 30s, Female, London )

Quite disappointing. Booked a few days in advance and were advised that we could have our table (for 6 people) from 8.30, however our order wouldn't be taken until 9pm due to “congestion in the kitchen”. On the night it was nearing 9.45 before our order was taken, so we decided, as we'd consumed quite a lot of wine by that point and it was getting late, that we'd skip starters and head straight for mains to speed things up. After numerous prompts and requests for ETA's our mains finally arrived until 10.30pm!! The waitress was lovely and very apologetic but it is extremely irritating when we were hungry and all had the additional expense of babysitters at home. I calmly complained to our long suffering waitress however she explained that they could not offer a discount as the manager was not authorised to deduct items from the bill to compensate our delay, so they removed the service charge instead…an optional charge in the first place?!? I complained that surely it wasn't fair to penalise the waitress but the response was that this was all they could/ would do. The food was good but surely a professional kitchen charging £13-17 for mains should get thier act in order.

December 2008
Overall:3
Food and Drink:6
Service:5
Atmosphere:6
Value for Money:5
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