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The Harwood Arms
• Gastropub• Fulham
About the restaurant
The Harwood Arms is owned by Australian chef Brett Graham, most notable for elevating the two-Michelin-starred Ledbury in Notting Hill to legendary restaurant status. Running the kitchen day-to-day is Head chef Sally Abé, who made her name at The Ledbury and under Phil Howard and Gordon Ramsay before taking the reins here.
Food shows the kind of refinement you’d expect from a team so versed in Michelin-starred cooking, although it’s still identifiably gastropub food: the scotch egg is an iconic dish, and there’s a commitment to showcasing British game alongside seasonal vegetables.
Tucked away in a Fulham backstreet, The Harwood Arms has a relaxed, country pub-style atmosphere, with comfy tables and taxidermy stag’s heads adorning the walls. As you might expect for a venue with a Michelin star, though, service is attentive without being overly formal, and food is reliably excellent, with a kitchen team and waiting staff who are nothing if not serious about what they do.
Reviews from the Web
Critic reviews
The Infatuation
The Harwood Arms in Fulham is about as close as you can get to being an upmarket restaurant whilst still being a pub.
The Guardian
With a couple of minor quibbles (a 35-minute wait for two uncomplicated starters was a bit daft), this restaurant - presided over by a seriously talented young chef, Stephen Williams, brought in from the Ledbury but with top gastropub experience at the Anchor & Hope and the Sutton Arms - is a triumph, with a strong zeitgeisty feel.
Standard
Set in the sleepy backstreets of Fulham, this attractive gastropub - complete with leather-clad seating and antique wooden fixtures - draws diners from across the capital, with quality and provenance the watchwords in a kitchen that excels at gutsy dishes of game and wild food.
The Telegraph
It is a very handsome conversion, austere and aristocratic, of a Victorian pub on a quiet residential street.
The Independent
The Harwood Arms looks like a pub both inside and out, complete with bare wooden tables and chalked-up specials. It calls itself a pub on Twitter, and has a pub quiz, for goodness' sake.
Time Out
An upmarket Fulham pub with a very serious restaurant (and wine list to match), showcasing prime British produce through skilled, imaginative modern cooking.
The Nudge
The Harwood Arms has a markedly casual feel for a place serving top nosh. The scuffed leather chairs and blond wood gives it a humble gastropub vibe…
- Walham Grove
- SW6 1QP
- London
- +44 20 7386 1847
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