New featured article — Holly Bush, NW3 6SG.

[kake]

Image © Kake

This week's featured article is Holly Bush, NW3 6SG, a Good Beer Guide pub in Hampstead.

It was acquired by Fuller's early last year, but they didn't really change much about it. The interior is all nooks and alcoves, candles on the tables, lots of wood, exposed floorboards, and wines written up on a blackboard on the wall. It can get crowded at times, but if you can get there off-peak, it's well worth a visit.

Recent additions to RGL include Laksha Bay, an Indian restaurant in Shadwell, and Ping Pong on the South Bank, another branch of this cocktails-and-dim-sum chain.

Reported closures are Benjys in Earl's Court and Great Harry in Woolwich, the latter of which was set on fire by criminal toerags during the recent riots. (Various other businesses are temporarily closed due to said riots, but we won't be marking them as closed on RGL unless this state of affairs is likely to continue for more than a week.)

Comments

[muiraingeal]

Sorry to hear about that pub being burnt down. It just sickened me to see those beautiful old buildings go up in flames like that. Shameful it is.

[kake]

There were 28 people made homeless in my part of London alone. A family-run furniture business that had been going for nearly 150 years had half of its premises burned down — I could see the clouds of thick black smoke from my living room, and my house still smelled of it the next day since I didn't close the windows in time. Several small independent businesses near the station were still closed and cordoned off yesterday afternoon. It's senseless.

[muiraingeal]

Stupid and senseless for sure! I'm feel so terrible for the people who've been affected by this.

I hope healing and peace come to the victims of these awful crimes and to London itself....

((Kake))