The Peasant

About

One of the original gastro-pubs, the Peasant has a beautiful first floor restaurant as well as a sensational ground floor bar. The restaurant boasts soaring ceilings and huge windows looking out over Clerkenwell and the City University. The conservatory seats up to 18 and during the summer months the roof terrace takes up to 14. What with the mosaic floors and period features of the ground floor bar, the Peasant makes a perfect destination for the many local creatives, journos, architects and city folk alike, not to mention those heading for Sadler's Wells - only a few minutes away. Changes have included a much improved restaurant menu and a wine list which has lead to it being rated among the top twenty gastro-pubs in London by the Independent on Sunday. Try the Mozambique jumbo prawns with rocket & tomato salad, the Marinated beef fillet with potato gratin or the baked aubergine steaks with sweet red onion and pine nuts. Real ale, draught and bottled continental beers and the all-day mezze menu are available in the bar. Terrific vegetarian options.

The Peasant is a beautifully-sited corner gastro-pub with 180 degrees ofwindows gazing out onto lovely Clerkenwell, terracotta-tiled conservatory,low-hung chandeliers, and dotted with turn of the century circuscuriosities. It attracts a cozy mix of laid-back media folk, students,local groovies and dance-lovers headed for Sadler's Wells nearby. The foodis scrumptiously Mediterranean and the wine list has won awards for itsexcellence.What's cooking? Starter of smoked haddock with crispy potato and leek salad, main of grilledswordfish with butternut squash and lemon, shallot and caper sauce, and pudof pear and almond tart with coconut ice cream.

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Accomodation	Thistle City Barbican (0.36 miles) Malmaison London (0.39 miles) Jurys Inn Islington (0.53 miles) Holiday Inn Kings Cross/Bloomsbury (0.55 miles) Travelodge London Farringdon (0.58 miles)
Attractions	Museum of Installation (0.21 miles) London Metropolitan Archives (0.22 miles) Museum of Womens Art (0.23 miles) Laure Genillard Gallery (0.24 miles) Family Record Centre (0.26 miles)
Pubs	Union Tavern (0.53 miles) Island Queen Restaurant (0.57 miles) Islington Tup The (0.74 miles) Ivy House The (1.05 miles) Islington Bar The (1.21 miles)
Train Stations	Farringdon (0.39 miles) Barbican (0.54 miles) Old Street (0.78 miles) City Thameslink (0.84 miles) Moorgate (0.93 miles)