The Lansdowne serves breakfast, lunch and dinner in the 'pub' and a more fancy restaurant lives above it. Pizza is a staple but you don't get a menu for the mains, just a big chalk board to read from.
They call themselves a traditional British Pub, utter nonsense. They are a restaurant disguised as a pub.
I've been a few times. The pizza is good (ranging around a tenner). They also offer things like Rib Eye Steak, Grilled Tuna, Lamb and Chickpea Stew and Smoked Haddock with Wild Garlic. Bear in mind however that the menu is ever changing because it's seasonal (which I appreciate as a food junkie). Expect to pay around £15 for a main course.
I'm saddened a little though because the days when you could pop into your local and have a pint and a pie are steadily disappearing. Now it's fancy. Heston Blumenthal had it right in his show 'Heston's Fantastical Food.' He constructed a pub in a pie with homemade beer and an edible pool table. He was doing this because he was aware that the old British pubs are closing down at a staggering rate of around 18 a week. He was trying to make a drastic point (and rightly so).
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with gastropubs, the food at The Lansdown is decent. I simply think they should call themselves a restaurant and not a pub.
The Lansdowne
7/10
7/10
90 Gloucester Avenue
London NW1 8HX
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