Featured Article — Cork and Bottle, Hampstead, NW3

[ewan]

Welcome to another week in the company of your randomness guides.



Chances are you may have come across the Leicester Square basement wine bar original, but now there's a former pub in Hampstead renamed as Cork and Bottle, NW3 2QX and it's our featured article. Expect a range of furniture, a larger range of wines (and even some beer), and also some food, though that's likely to be the weakest element of the ambience.

No new pages, but significant updates to Mestizo, a longstanding Mexican on Hampstead Road alongside Euston which doesn't just do quesadillas but also caters to vegans et al., and The Windsor Castle in Carshalton, where all the cars live. They used to prohibit the use of mobile phones, but I wonder if they still do...

One possible closure is The Coach and Horses in Soho, which may even be closed right now. One definite closure is The Wallington Arms in Wallington, another failed experiment by Antic.

In positive news, The Cartoon Museum has reopened on Wells Street in Fitzrovia. We haven't been yet, but expect... cartoons?

Comments

[nou]

I wouldn’t say the food at the Cork & Bottle is the weakest element! I’d definitely eat there again, and the menu looked interesting enough that I had trouble deciding what to order. I did try to get across in the writeup that I thought the dish was good even though not entirely to my taste.