Opened in 2004. It had been a pub a century previously, but it closed in 1920, serving as offices and then as a restaurant. Small and modern inside. Polished wooden floor, green and cream décor, large windows, outside benches. First floor bar, gallery and function room. Important sporting events such as Six Nations are shown on TV. Tasteful background music can be heard. Some picnic benches are located on the pavement outside. The gents (mind your head) is downstairs and ladies upstairs. Relaunched as a tap room/bottle shop in September 2024. Ten taps and a fridge.
Historic Interest
Grade II listing:- Formerly known as: Fox and French Public House CLERKENWELL GREEN. Former public house, now restaurant. 1860-1865 added to, and ground-floor extensively altered C20. Possibly by Charles Gray. Different hues of yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with stone dressings; Welsh-slate shallow pitched roof with projecting bracketed eaves. Ground-floor open-plan cafe; house door to extension leads to upper floors (now restaurant). Quasi-Moorish/Venetian Gothic Style. On curved corner site. Three storeys; 6 bays wide including full-height 3-bay extension on left (2:1:1:2:2:2 windows). Windows diminish in height as they go up; broad expanses of plain brick to intervening bays. 1st floor gauged-brick flat-headed ogee arches to paired 1/1 sashes with engaged columns between each pair; gauged-brick round-headed triple 1/1 sashes to 2nd floor articulated by colonettes and projecting bracketed sills with cast-iron guards. Stucco floral roundels below 2nd-floor sashes. Modillioned cornice to ground-floor; the good brackets are recent additions. Extension with similiar but plainer details. INTERIOR: : denuded and reworked ground-floor with no pub features evident
Green, London