Bleeding Heart Tavern, Farringdon

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location:

Farringdon

address:

Bleeding Heart Yard, EC1N 8SJ

phone:

0871 258 8474*
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nearest stations:

Farringdon railway station London Underground station
(170m) - zone 1

Chancery Lane London Underground station
(290m) - zone 1

City Thameslink railway station
(410m)

Barbican railway station London Underground station
(640m) - zone 1

St. Paul's London Underground station
(860m) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Farringdon, turn right out of the station and go straight ahead across Farringdon Road into Greville Street. Cross over to the left side of the road and it's about 30 yards up on the left. From Chancery Lane, take the Gray's Inn Road exit and cross the road. Carry on down Holborn until you get to Holborn Circus with it's statue of Prince Albert tipping his hat to the commuters. Turn left into Hatton Gardens and carry on down until you get to Greville Street. Turn right into Greville Street and Bleeding Heart Yard is about 50 yards down on the right.

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nearby attraction(s):

Museum of London (740m)

Sir John Soane's Museum (760m)

St. Paul's Cathedral (870m)

This Adnam's house has kept its standards high over the years, and is a great place to try their range of beers. If you're looking for lager though, they only do Bitburger in the smaller continental glass - they won't pour you a pint due to its strength (4.8%!) - or bottles of Beck's and the like. That said, the wine list is pretty good, and potentially more of their customers are drinking wine or bubbly. It's a pretty reasonable place to go if some of your friends want a wine bar and some of them want a pub. The all-French staff perform as if they've been running the place for years and they're always polite and efficient. As a result, it's not a surprise that the place feels quite a lot like a continental establishment and the somewhat gastro menu reflects that, too. We can heartily recommend the lamb burger if you're feeling peckish, and the chips are superb! There's also breakfast, from 7.30 until 10.30 - and we'll be back to check this out at some point. It does get busy of an evening, with punters spilling out onto the pavement, but it quietens one most of the customers have commuted their weary way home.

reviewed:
14/7/2008

Eating at TheBleeding Heart Tavern ... we last ate here on 9/8/2006

Good gastro-continental food sourced from organic and free-range suppliers at reasonable prices. Proximity to Smithfield doesn't hurt, and they open for breakfast from 7.30 until 10.30. Food is available most of the day, until 10.30pm.

- quality