The Old Crown

4 Reviews on “The Old Crown”

• Paroma Bhattacharya

  This is one of my favourite pubs in London:) I lived in London for a year & visited this place very often. A snug little pub with an amazing cosy vibe, friendly staff, decently priced drinks, good food, great location & awesome dance nights:) I really love the Old Crown:)

  January 19, 2017, 2:24 pm

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• Sofi Lee-Henson

  If you’re looking for a super central, easy to access, reasonably quiet place for Sunday lunch, look no further. Close to the British museum, ultra friendly staff welcome you in and make your stay well worth it. Great decor too, somewhere between a decadent mansion and a sticky floored traditional pub, nice. The roast was delightful, mixing in a twist of the Mediterranean. Flan style Yorkie was slightly undercooked but still delightful. The roasties and veg were perfect, nice malty gravy and perfectly succulent meat. Great portions and superb price. Would recommend to anyone.

  December 29, 2013, 6:27 pm

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• Food Over London

  3 months after his successful Pop-up at Chad’s Place, Dave Ahern is back with a permanent, and even more adventurous, venture in the heart of London, a stone’s throw from the British Museum. The foundation of the menu is built on those burgers at the pop up, so the whiskey beast, swine time, the Bambi Bought it, and the baa-baa baby. In addition to these are the OC burger (with Devon Long Horn patty), the camilla burger (chicken burger), and the ‘I don’t need your bull’ veggie option. Each comes with it’s own bespoke sauce befitting it’s own meat. The choices don’t stop there though with steak, chicken wings (10 different sauces!),… each dish has it’s own unique twist, with undoubtably a lot of labour (and love) required to go into each of them.With our burgers we also got 2 lots of chicken wings, I’d been recommended the thai green curry, and also the guinness flavoured, and also onion rings for good measure. The burgers eventually came up from the depths below, presented on little wooden boards. Well beast by name beast by nature, these were not made in half measures, technically challenging to eat. Each Beast has a sourdough bun, whiskey mustard, 2 pieces treacle cured bacon, strathdon blue cheese, and of course the dry orkeney aged beef patty. Each burger comes with fries with horseradish salt. Didn’t really get much of a hint of horseradish from these at all, which even in small doses can be quite powerful. The burger itself was epic, if perhaps too much mustard for my liking. The patty is perfectly cooked medium rare.However, consistency is obviously hard to come by and while on occassions have marvelled in there monsterous burgers, other times have been a tad underwhelmed, particulary with the vension burger, which was far too rich and the patty very packed making it difficult to finish.Burger breakout is definitely worth going along to so you can chill out with mates have some good sharing food.Read more on: http://www.foodoverlondon.com/2012/10/you-make-me-wanna-breakout.html foodoverlondon.com

  April 29, 2013, 4:25 pm

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• Mike T

  Great Food, Location and Staff. I went in expecting heavy, and overcooked food but found a great gastropub meal. I had the Sunday Roast which was perfectly cooked pork belly, crisply steamed vegetables, roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding with a light gravy. My wife had the fish and chips which was also excellent. Good beer. Helpful, friendly staff and just a couple of blocks away from the British Museum. Best British food of my trip.

  April 22, 2012, 2:53 pm

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