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Pub near [[Locale Regent's Park|Regents Park]], serving tapas all day plus gastropub food at lunchtimes and evenings.

The decor is shabby-chic standard-gastro [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/3423959945/ photo]. Tables are laid for service downstairs, and there's also a couch area to the left of the front entrance. Behind the island bar is a small, thin beer garden with some couches as well as tables with cover. There are also tables outside on the street, on both sides of the pub.

[[Kake]] visited on a Monday afternoon in April 2009.  It was empty when I arrived a little after 4pm, but when I left an hour later there were a couple of dozen people in despite it being right at the start of the week.  Music was playing &#8212; reggae, Pink Floyd, instrumental jazz &#8212; though not too loud.

Beers available were Adnam's Bitter (&pound;1.40/half) and Marston Pedigree.  They have a range of standard and premium lagers, including Lowenbrau (&pound;1.60/half), though the main focus is on the fairly lengthy wine list (two sides of a laminated A4 page).

They do gastropub-type food [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/3424353267/sizes/l/ photo of menu as of April 2009] at lunchtimes and evenings (and there's a restaurant upstairs if you don't want to eat in the pub part), plus tapas all day [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/3425157308/sizes/l photo of tapas menu]. Food is served 12:30pm-3:30pm and 6:30pm-10:30pm Monday to Friday, and 12:30pm-10pm Saturday and Sunday.

In April 2009, [[Kake]] tried the paprika pork belly skewers (&pound;4) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/3425184556/ photo]; these were fine, fairly moist, and tasty enough, with a reasonable tahini sauce on the side. The staff had no problem with me ordering just a single item, which suggests this might be a good stop for a tapas crawl.

In June 2009, [[Ewan]] tried the mixed tapas plate (&pound;8.50 for vegetarian only, &pound;12.50 including cured meats) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/55935853@N00/3676047519/ photo]. It was a reasonable selection, served with some rather nice toasted flatbread, and included a decent hummous and a rather less interesting baba ganoush (lacking the full smoky aubergine flavour of a really good baba ganoush), a couple of stuffed vine leaves, grilled courgettes, marinated wild mushrooms, cannellini bean salad, and some lettuce leaves. In all, it was a large and reasonable selection for the price.

[[Kake]]'s verdict: I'd come back.  The Food And Drink In London review linked below recommends their soupe de poisson, and I do hope it's on the menu next time I come here.  I also note that their website advertises a cocktail menu including amaretto sour, which I'm keen to try as I've never had one in a bar as good as the ones I make myself.

See also:
* [http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/5481/ Beer In The Evening comments]
* [http://www.fancyapint.com/pub/1630 Fancyapint review]
* [http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/reviews/12590.html Time Out review]
* [http://londonfood.typepad.com/stuff/2008/01/soup-a-hero.html Food And Drink In London review]
* [http://anotherfoodblog.com/?p=2470 Another Food Blog review]
* [http://www.pryordurkin.com/2008/05/28/queens-head-and-artichoke-30-32-albany-street-regents-place-london-nw1-4ea/ Pryor Durkin review]
* [http://tomeatsjencooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/restaurant-review-queens-head-and.html Tom Eats review]
* [http://www.london-eating.co.uk/3402.htm London Eating comments]

<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Ewan]], 29 June 2009. Opening hours and food times taken from Time Out website, June 2009.</div>

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