The Old Red Cow is your 'local beer house' in Barbican EC1. Serving up some of the finest craft beer in London, alongside a food menu that includes our highly rated Sunday roast dinners and other great flavours and carefully sourced ingredients.
The Old Red Cow
Pub in The City
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Opening Times
| Monday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00 |
| Tuesday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00 |
| Wednesday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00 |
| Thursday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 23:00 |
| Friday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 00:00 |
| Saturday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 00:00 |
| Sunday |
Open 12:00 - Closes 22:00 |
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All In London Review
Great beer, great roasts, great service... we'll go back in a hurry.
Set over two levels on Long Lane, this is a pub that doubles as a dining room. On the ground floor, where you’ll find high tables, elevated sofas and stools, the space is tight. Good looking and tidy, the bar is busy most nights during the week but becomes a more quietly appealing place for those tourists and Londoners soaking up the area’s history on weekends – and there’s plenty of it to see.
The pub’s first floor is regularly fully booked out on Sundays by anyone who has had a whiff of the rumours of the quality of the Old Red Cow roast. So book in advance if you’re coming for food. For the rest of the time, the room provides extra drinking/eating space for the pub. Branded as a ‘craft beer pub’ – like so many these days – the Old Red Cow has an enviable selection on tap. But what really impressed us was the beer knowledge of the staff behind the bar. We drank Kernel IPA (at a whopping 7% and £7.50 a pint) and Neck Oil Beavertown Brewery from the keg, and there are further stouts, real ales, lagers and wheat beers to choose from. It clearly takes its beer seriously, in much the same way as its food.
We booked in for Sunday lunch and tried a selection of the pork belly roast and the Lancashire hotpot. Each meal was as good as the staff promised – yes, they’re confident – although I would go as far as to say that the hot pot eclipsed the roast. Not cheap, but hardly expensive either, the Old Red Cow is a worthy place to take a group. During the week, the food menu extends to burgers, sausages and sauerkraut, steak and fish and chips.
On our visit the service was faultless; friendly and educational, we’d go back in a hurry.
Reviewed by T.A.O
Published on Jan 22, 2015
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