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Fuller's pub in Belgravia, in the Good Beer Guide. Serves good food and good beer. Note that it's closed for refurbishment until 5 March 2008 according to the Fuller's website.

Function room upstairs, available for private bookings. We've been coming here for years. It used to be a truly great pub. Now, the beer is still excellent, but the food is nowhere near the old standard or value.

Quite full till about 9pm most nights.

Can be quite hard to find, but it's worth it for the beer. Easy walking distance from several tube stations: Knightsbridge Station, Sloane Square Station, and Victoria Station. Pint of London Pride is £2.75 (April 2007).

Food is served Monday-Friday, noon-2:30pm and 6pm-9:30pm.

Starters range from £4.25 (bruschetta) to £5.45 (selection of European meats). Mains range from £7.55 (bacon and cheese burger) to £14 (chargrilled ribeye steak with chips, grilled tomato and mushrooms). There are four vegetarian dishes on the menu: Waldorf salad (£7.55); goat's cheese salad (£8); and saffron risotto with wild mushrooms and Parmesan (£7.75). Another item listed as vegetarian contained oyster sauce. Desserts are also available, priced at £3.25-£4. (Prices as of end of October 2007.)

Bob, Martin, elvum, Richard, Jacob and Hannah tried the food on Thursday 25 October 2007. The general consensus was that the steak was small, overcooked, and generally worth closer to £6-7 than the £14 that it cost. elvum commented that approximately 4oz of steak for £14 is not a good deal. Bob also wished the "pie heresy" (puff pastry on top of a bowl of stew) to be noted.

Older food comments: Kake and Martin tried the food on Thursday 12 April 2007. The creamy vegetable pie was supposed to come with seasonal vegetables, but it didn't. It was also somewhat overburdened with potato; as well as the chips that came with it and the mashed potato on top, there were several chunks of new potato inside it as well. Apart from that it was good; well flavoured, with nicely-cooked vegetables, and certainly a sufficient portion. The chips were good and crispy too. Martin will have to give more details of his steak, but we did notice that it was somewhat smaller than the fabled Star steaks of the past, and it also wasn't cooked rare, as had been requested.

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Last visited by Bob, Martin, elvum, etc, 25 October 2007. Food last sampled and prices determined on that visit. Opening hours and food times taken from Fuller's website (February 2008).

GPS data collected by Kake on a Garmin eTrex, 12 April 2007, and released into the public domain: OSGB 528113, 179347


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