I have written about The Gunmakers Arms before. As regular readers of the beer blogsphere will know, it is run by Jeff, blogging as Stonch.
I brought my family over for lunch when we were in London after our Manchester adventures. Jeff was not in, but we had a wonderful meal.
A fairly extensive menu, including soup, pasta and various meat dishes, but we decided to go for the seafood and vegetarian food on offer.
Pan-fried salmon, stuffed tomatoes, portobello mushrooms with cheese. I had the moulles frites, though the rest of the family seemed to view the chips as a communal dish. Lemonade for the boys, a glass of red wine, a pint of Landlord for me.
Gastro? No, but honest food cooked to order and not dressed up pretending to be something else. Good and friendly service, too, though there should have been one more person helping out while we were there.
It does not come cheap when your kids want proper meals instead of fast food, but we find this a wise investment.
The rest of the menu
Knut, thank you very much for your kind comments on the pub. You’re quite right that the pub was understaffed on that day – I was supposed to be there, working alongside Julia, but unexpectedly was called away and she had to battle on alone. It happens sometimes. I hope it didn’t mar your experience too much (reading the review I don’t think it did!) and I’m very sorry to have missed you.
Kind regards
Jeff
PS. On the photo you can’t see our specials, which are usually the most exciting things on the menu. Also we usually offer three or four homemade desserts.
Cheers!
We were very content. Only thing missing was that my wife wanted coffe. You were probably right in removing the huge machine you had, but it’s about time you found a more compact replacement. I’d think she’s not the only one who want a cup after a meal.
I’m going to offer cafetieres from the kitchen. I just need to buy half a dozen of them! We already have the coffee grinder up there.