Bourne and Hollingsworth Buildings

Bar in Clerkenwell

8 / 10 from 1 review

Address
42 Northampton Road
Clerkenwell
London
EC1R 0HU

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History

Telephone
020 3174 1156

Region
Clerkenwell

Nearest Station
Farringdon
0.38 miles

Category
Bars

Website
http://www.bourneandhollingsworth.com/

Opening Summary
Monday-Thursday: 10am - midnight
Friday & Saturday: 10am - 1am
Sunday: 10am - 6pm

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Bourne & Hollingsworth provides Londoners with all their social, drinking and eating pleasures.

Having begun as a small basement bar in Fitzrovia, Bourne & Hollingsworth now offers diverse spaces for all types of socialising in Central London. This includes; cocktail bars Reverend JW Simpson and Bourne & Hollingsworth Bar, unusual pop-up events such as Kitchen Party and The Fourth Wall, and regular large-scale parties like Blitz Party, Prohibition, Dark Circus Party, SS Atlantica and Chap Olympiad.

Opened in September 2014, Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings, an all-day modern brasserie and bar in Clerkenwell, is the newest addition to the family.

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All In London Review

The decor features an eye-catching statement bar and plenty of furniture you’d be happy to own yourself.

We’ve long been fans of the original Bourne and Holingsworth in Fitzrovia. While the new location is dramatically different, its style is still strong enough to seduce us on our first visit. From the logo (fresh illustrated green palms) to the slightly incongruous location on an Angel backstreet, Bourne and Hollingsworth Buildings gets it right – no surprise to us since it came from the people who brought that original basement bar, still one of the few genuinely original, independent drinking spots in Central London.

If there’s one rule to follow in life, it’s that when someone offers you an all you can drink brunch date, you take it. And take it we did. And drink. Plenty. Sampling a selection of food from the brunch menu: pancakes, maple syrup and crispy bacon (to start!) followed by eggs Benedict (a true yard stick with which to measure a brunch spot), we were impressed. The portion of pancakes was generous, the bacon properly crisp and it all came swimming in a healthy (it comes from a tree) puddle of maple syrup. The Benedict was… fine. It was your classic eggs Benedict done to a standard that was satisfying but not quite enough to dispel the coveting of the hash with duck egg that sat in front of someone else. Oh well, you can’t have it all… except you can. You can drink all of the bellini, well, all that you can drink in an hour-and-a-half. And that happened to be quite a lot – just be up on your waiter-beckoning game.

This is a refined brunch spot and restaurant that pleases with the food and drink and seals the deal with its aspirational white washed interior, liberal spattering of plantation, country-house chic, eye-catching statement bar and plenty of furniture you’d be happy to own yourself.

Reviewed by T.A.O anonymously
Published on Dec 20, 2015