Horse Bar Restaurant - Lambeth

I booked a table for Sunday lunch but I didn’t get a reply to my booking. We turned up anyway as we were meeting some family from Canada who were staying near by. The staff had no idea I’d booked on line, had poor English, seemed surprised when I showed them the booking receipt and told me the pub was closing at 1pm. Very odd, very poor customer service.

Good atmosphere and service. Drinks and meals are really good, fish and chips was one of the best at this visit. Recommended!

In many respects, this is somewhat typical of a London pub. Good range of beers, spirits and wines and a decent choice of pub grub. My wife had a vegan burger for the first time in her life and was very pleased with it. I was pleased with my meat burger too. Place was busy, early-evening, which is usually a good sign. Would happily return.

It’s a pub. The food wasn’t bad, but didn’t blow us away. The atmosphere wasn’t especially compelling. Service was fine. We visited here our first night in London. We weren’t disappointed when we left. It seemed like a typical pub experience. If we hadn’t been blown away by other pubs later in the trip, I might have looked back more favorably on our time there. But the later places shattered some of our expectations for what a pub experience could be. So looking back, I just think we could have done better. For people with kids, when asked if kids were okay to bring in, the host shrugged and said, “as long as they behave.” It wasn’t nasty or threatening. I don’t think it was intended to be malicious in any way and I didn’t take it as such. I think the question itself surprised him and he just said the only thing he could think of that would make it not okay. But it did make it harder to relax as I was continuously nervous about outbursts (we have a 3 year old...they happen). Again, having had more welcoming experiences later in the trip made this anxiety feel unnecessary.

Great food and very friendly staff who supports you all the time , I would definitely come back to this pub again