The Only Running Footman, Mayfair

pub details:

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location:

Mayfair

address:

5 Charles Street, W1J 5DE

phone:

0871 984 2683*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

Green Park London Underground station
(330m) - zone 1

Bond Street London Underground station
(670m) - zone 1

Hyde Park Corner London Underground station
(790m) - zone 1

Oxford Circus London Underground station
(790m) - zone 1

Piccadilly Circus London Underground station
(880m) - zone 1

how to find it:

Come out of tube station onto Piccadilly. Head east in direction of Piccadilly Circus, turn first left up Berkeley Street and walk up to Berkeley Square. Turn left and walk along the south side of the square. Charles St. is the road leading off the Square straight ahead of you.

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nearby attraction(s):

The Royal Academy (450m)

Buckingham Palace (890m)

picture of The Only Running Footman It's perhaps surprising that they aren't more places in Mayfair like this one. How best to describe it? Gastropub? Pub and Dining Room? What's easier to define is how much of it is actually a pub. In floor space, it's half of the (small) ground floor: a couple of tables, tall stools around the windows - the rest is tableclothed dining space. So, even with a decent drink selection (including 3 real ales) there's just not that much room to enjoy it in. Upstairs is a first floor restaurant, there's a function room on the second floor and a chef's table on the third. If that wasn't enough stress on this one's foodie credentials, there's even a cookery school in the basement (honest). The food here may well be a knockout - whether made by the staff or the cookery school's pupils - but as a pub, as somewhere to relax over a couple of drinks, we're not convinced. (New photo to come).