Sunday Roast Dinner Suggestions

Buckingham Arms
https://www.buckinghamarms.com/

In the South Kensington neighbourhood, the Hereford Arms is very popular, and close to the Gloucester Road Tube station. Reservations recommended on Sunday.
https://www.herefordarms.co.uk/

Thank you so much Claudia. That looks perfect.

Be aware that roasts can start at, say, noon on Sunday, and when all the meat’s been carved and served, it’s gone. Hopefully there will still be plenty around after 2:00, but you may need to get pork instead of beef, or other options, if something’s sold out.

Buckingham Arms https://www.buckinghamarms.com/

£7.45 for a pint!!!!

Admittedly the food menu looks good but those beer prices! It's been a few years since I've gone drinking in London and I think it'll be a few more before I do again.

JC the OP asked for a Sunday Roast suggestion. I offered an option. Did you?

They didn’t ask “ fancy a pint?”

If they had I would have suggested another pub, far from the maddening crowd.

£7.45 for a pint!!!!

Admittedly the food menu looks good but those beer prices! It's been a few years since I've gone drinking in London and I think it'll be a few more before I do again.

There are plenty of other pubs with prices below that. That's an outrageous price for a pint, IMHO. We had Sunday roast after mass at The Windsor Castle (right near Westminster Cathedral) and it was delicious!

I was looking for a particular roast dinner Youtube video I recalled and there are lots, so you might want to do some vlog viewing

$7.45 for a pint of beer is a bargain compared to what we pay in California for beer! I'm from England and yes, beer used to be a cheap drink, inflation has been high there so it's gone up, but it is good beer! However in California a US pint (16 oz) of beer is around $9-10. At least a pint in England is 20 oz!

To take the OP's thread further off track (sorry OP and Claudia) -

£7.45 is $9.30 USD, so about the same as California.

I thought £7.45 was an average price for a premium beer in Westminster. That's for a Beavertown, a local craft ale. Craft beers and beers from the continent are going to be about that price on tap. I see their Young's Original is £5.60, which is a more representative price of a standard beer in Westminster. I'm disappointed they don't have a lager on tap at a reasonable price. Pints of the really strong Belgian beers can be a bit much for me. I'd prefer a half anyway.

Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea and The City of London are the most expensive boroughs to buy a pint. There will pints at under £5 all over other boroughs in London. Claudia is probably good for some recommendations on this score :)

I did a Google, and this article pretty much sums up what I was thinking -
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/revealed-london-priciest-places-pub-pint-wetherspoons-greene-king-b1045912.html

JC the OP asked for a Sunday Roast suggestion. I offered an option. Did you?

No need to take it personally Claudia, I was merely commenting on the price of a pint, I'm sure those prices aren't confined to the Buckingham Arms.

Besides, the OP might want a pint with his lunch, after all, why else would you want lunch in a pub? Therefore the price of a pint might be a deciding factor.

when I was pulling pints they varied between 1/10 and 2/6 depending (or maybe it was 2/3). A bit less than what we are speaking of here...And I knew who had which drinking vessel (they used to hang from the rafters), and had to know what they wanted in it, and how many they had had. .

For the young ones, the slash is read as "and", left of the slash is shillings and to the right is pence. 2/6 is read either as two and six, or as half a crown or a half-crown.

JC didn’t take offense.

OP asked for a recommendation. I offered one.

I’m still curious why you haven’t answered their question.