Cross Keys
Cross Keys
Central London, London | View on map
Popular pub with a friendly bar, airy back restaurant, real ales and modern bar food
Features
- Separate restaurant
Bar food times: 12-3, 6-10; 12-4, 6-10 Sat; 12-9 Sun
Typical main dish: crispy battered haddock and chips
Typical main dish price: £14.00
Average two course evening meal price: £20.00
- Speciality beers
- Cask ales (3)
Price of cheapest bitter: £4.25
Name of cheapest bitter: Youngs London Original
Child restrictions: Children welcome but must leave bar area by 7pm
The good pub guide review
In a quiet street midway between Chelsea Embankment and the Kings Road, this gently civilised, bright Chelsea pub is popular with a lively crowd of customers for both the up-to-date food and good choice of drinks. The central counter has bar areas to each side with simple furnishings: distressed panelled walls, some exposed brickwork, a couple of open fires, framed tobacco postcards and display cases of butterflies, tankards on a rack, mirrors, industrial-style ceiling lights, and a mix of cushioned wooden dining chairs and wheelbacks around scrubbed tables on bare boards and stools against the counter. Friendly staff serve ales from Brakspears, Sambrooks, Trumans and Youngs on handpump, eight wines by the glass and 18 whiskies; background music. At the back, the airy conservatory-style dining room has button-back wall seating and similar chairs and tables.
The good pub guide food review
Well presented, tasty food includes pork and apple sausage rolls, truffle mac 'n' cheese fritters, chicken, tarragon and leek pie with buttered greens and mash, tagliatelle with morels, asparagus and poached egg, Moving Mountain vegan burger and chips, roast cauliflower with Persian-spiced lentils, spinach and chickpeas, duck breast with confit leg pastilla, fondant potato, savoy cabbage and chicory, and puddings such as lemon tart with crème fraîche and peanut and chocolate stack with praline foam and vanilla ice-cream.
2021 Awards
Name of Licensee
James Hardesly
