The Easton

Nice food, very nice staff. Chatty but not too encroaching and they all have quirky haircuts which was fun! We had a lovely evening with 7 other friends as they also have lovely big tables all quite separate from each other so feels quite intimate too.
I know this place gets super busy after work but on a Saturday early eve it was just right atmos.

Absolutely fantastic! A bit off the main road, but totally worth it. We came here based on where we were and what was around via Unilocal.And boy are we glad we did! Group of 7– great service and truly delicious food.
The mushroom gnocchi was the major star of the night. Creamy, perfectly cooked and a wonderful combination of mushroom flavors. The venison and juniper berry pie– also a huge hit. Tender, juicy and delicious.
The vegetable empanadas were a great starter and the crab ravioli was great, too!
We have absolutely no complaints! Really, really delicious food and great service. If you’re nearby, you have to try it out.

Went last night for dinner and drinks. It’s a nicely restored old pub, just far enough down a side street that it wasn’t crowded. We ate well, I had some tasty fish with fried butter beans (all good) and my friend had the pork and chorizo burger, which was a fabulous burger with a smoky home-​made ketchup let down by a stale tesco-​value style bun. The staff were super helpful bringing over beers when they were delayed by needing to change a barrel, and gracefully handled drunk increasingly-​noisy singing from a crowd of women from an office party. The other reason for denying the easton the fifth star (aside from a nasty burger bun) was quite high prices for their scotch. Seven quid for 25ml of lagavulin? Seems steep to me.

Such a brilliant Sunday Roast! Great service and lovely pub overall. Highly recommend.

Went to the Easton with work colleagues tonight after seeing glowing reviews on Unilocal and I can definitely say it was worth it! Very good and varied menu of classic pub meals and the mains were just delicious! Between us we had the sausage and mash, butternut squash pie and pork and chorizo burger. All 3 dishes were incredibly tasty and cooked really well and were good hearty portions. For puddings we had the brownie and sticky toffee pudding — delicious yet again! I would highly recommend this pub if you want classic, hearty pub grub at a good price. Be warned that on this particular Friday night it was quite noisy but we didn’t mind at all, it all added to the atmosphere. Thanks to the friendly and courteous staff too for the good and speedy service.

Went down to the Easton for a trivia night… Ordered a pie and pint for 10 pound, was awesome! Great atmosphere, gorgeous sun light area in the afternoon/​evening!

i actually came here based on the fact that it is dog-​friendly, but that aside, it’s a great place in and of itself.
on a relatively chilly october evening, it was lovely and warm inside with a very inviting atmosphere.
service could not have been better — the girls were efficient and friendly (& were very nice to my puppy!)
the menu is reasonably priced and very yummy. they also give you some bread and oil to start with free of charge which is a very nice touch for a pub. i had the vegetarian burger, which i thought was good. i wasn’t enthralled by the bun, but i normally only eat the bottom half of this anyway, so no big deal. everyone else was really pleased with their meals — ranging from veggie pie, to sausage and mash, and steak.
i especially like this pub as they serve a reasonably priced bottle of gavi di gavi wine which is made by an italian winery that boasts the same surname as my family — a first for us!
will definitely return.

I went to The Easton for lunch last week. As soon as we’d sat down, the waiter bought over the menus along with some warm bread and olive oil /​balsamic vinegar for dipping — a lovely touch. I ordered the pork and chorizo burger with chips, which was tasty and reasonable value for money.
Service was friendly and quick (but not so quick that you felt rushed), and the atmosphere was pleasant.

Last week after work, I wanted to go to a gig in the area. As I was quite hungry, so I looked up a few places and finally went to The Easton. This gastro pub is really a nice place and I quite like the wooden tables. In addition, the staff are very friendly and attentive.
I ordered a glass of wine and the Angus bavette steak. The plate looked nice, the steak tasted great, the fries were good, but most of all I liked the sauce Diane. One of the best sauces I had in London!
For some reason, I got bread after my main and not before. I did not mind, as I can always enjoy a good bread. And I was not disappointed, the bread tasted delicious and came with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, a classy and tasty combination and just what I like.
All in all, my dinner at The Easton was a big success, I like the place and the food was excellent.

met a friend here on sunday. both of us recovering from a heavy saturday night… As soon as I walked in I liked the place. It was busy but not overcrowded, I realy like the style of this place. Sitting down we saw other peoples food around us. as someone was served their food we asked what it was and said we would have 2 of those. It was the pork belly. it was perfect. Realy crispy fat on top with melt in the mouth pork underneath.
great place to spend a sunday afternoon. I will be back.

Sometimes you just want something that does the job well. No frills, nothing fancy, but ruthless efficiency in the persuit of delivering one single product or experience.
The Easton is an example of pub in extremis.
It’s plain, it’s named after the street it’s on and it is ace. Massively spacious, with a long well staffed and stocked bar and plenty of tables it is a ruthless machine dedicated to serving excellent food and drink.
Stark walls, unencumbered by pictures don’t really matter when the windows are huge. Furniture is spartan, but comfortable and functional.
But none of this really matters. What matters here is food and drink.
First up — food. I ordered lamb chops. Which were amazing. It’s not often you find me franticly trying to scrape the last remaaining bits of meat off the bone so I can have more, but I did. Embarrassing, and a bit silly, but worth it. My friend ordered a steak, which was huge and devoured in its entirety by a girl who was only just bigger than the slab of meat. Testament to tastiness. Even the simplest thing was ace. Chips were perfect, thick, but not too big, with a crunchy thick coating and fluffy middles and served burning hot. Portions are big and service is fast. What more could you want?
Only having had the house wine, I can’t give an informed review of the wine list — but the house white was absolutely fine. And house wine that’s fine is a good sign. (check out the rhyme!)
Towards the end of the night the spacious bar is heaving with customers. But service was never slow. the bar is almost as long as the pub itself, so theres plenty of space and you wont be elbowing people to get served.
Bad points? Not much to speak of — it might be a bit busy late at night, but that’s because it’s popular. Maybe, just mabye the staff could be friendlier — but they’re not unfiendly.
Want a pub that does pub well? Hit The Easton.

Oh my god. The Easton — where have I been all your life? I live 5 minutes away and work even closer. It could’ve been my regular. My mistake — years ago — was to try going on a Friday when it was wall to wall pub and noise… if only I’d tried going back on a night earlier in the week when it’s mellow as you please. Anyway, I finally got around to going tonight — and it was some of the best gastropub food I’ve ever had. Rich, yes — but hell, I’ve got my size 4 figure to maintain — so naturally I didn’t leave a scrap.
Anyway. back to the food itself. The sunken chocolate cake! More on that later. First off, after some rather nice scraps of focaccia with olive oil — I had a generous plate of fabulous home made gnocchi with an obscenely rich cream, sage and wild mushroom sauce. Wow.
I grudgingly offered a tiny bite to my friends, who were making short work of some pumpkin and chilli risotto and a beef and ale pie. I should, by rights, have stopped there… but did I mention the sunken chocolate cake? Ah, the cake. A squidgy, collapsed looking thing oozing with chocolate… again, wow. As a gesture towards some kind of token self control, I suggested the three of us split it, although in the event I seemed to be scoffing rather more than a strict third — in fact I think I polished off way more than half. Totally worth it.
In fact I immediately booked to go to the Easton again next week. They say the menu changes frequently but to be honest, I’d be more than happy with the same again. Plus I could’ve enjoyed about 90% of the things on tonight’s menu, which is rare for me. And did I mention the chocolate cake?

Sunday roast was excellent today. Friendly staff, bug portions, and fine Cornish ale.

The Easton is a very nice pub near Farringdon. The interior is spacious and light with quite a few tables. The Sunday roast is not bad, the pork especially is very nice and the portion is large enough to keep you stuff for a while, but it’s the weekday food that is the star of the place. I had steak and chips with gorgonzola butter which was very nicely cooked and the the sunken chocolate cake for dessert. Both were very tasty and very generous portions.

The Easton’s a good pub for hanging out and eating with a bunch of pals. It’s spacious, airy and light, and well situated near Exmouth Market. They have decent beers (I noticed Tim Taylor’s Landlord as, I think, a recent addition), a very reasonable wine list, and it’s always good for getting a decent bite to eat. In the past I’ve had really good pork belly, not-​half-​bad côte du boeuf, and various other things that usually feel like they’re about £1.50 to £2 too expensive, but which are good enough, and in pleasant enough surroundings, for me to feel like I’m not quite being ripped off. Most recently I dropped in for Sunday lunch and plumped uncharacteristically for the roast chicken which was very tasty, if certainly not enormous.
The one issue with this place, which I find is the same pretty much every time I go, is that the staff just never seem particularly bothered about serving the customers. OK, sure, if I worked in a pub I probably wouldn’t be exactly effusive, but by contrast I go to plenty of places where a friendly smile will at least be returned. Here, I can never tell whether it’s that I’m just not cool enough, good-​looking enough, rich enough, local/​regular enough or whatever else it would take for me to raise anything other than a completely flat expression and «that’s thirteen pounds fifty-​eight». It’s not that they’re unpleasant, unhelpful, or even particularly slow — though it’s not the fastest service in the world, but that fits the relaxed atmosphere well — they just aren’t particularly interested in you, and you can’t help but feel a little like you’re something of an inconvenience which will eventually, inevitably, cease to trouble them come closing time.
Hence the 3-​star rating; the food’s pretty good, the setting is enjoyable, and getting there and back is easy — but you just don’t feel that the extra few quid you threw in the pot was particularly merited, meaning the feeling I have about the place is on balance fairly flat. «Oh, you want to go the Easton? Yeah, sure, let’s go there, it’s fine.» It’s fine. No problem. It’s just not going to set the world alight. Which is a shame, because the décor and the space really are quite good.

Hidden away to the side of Exmouth Market, The Easton is everything a gastropub should be, unpretentious, accessible, with good ale kept well (Black Sheep, Yay!), a reasonable selection of lagers (red stripe pub), a reasonable wine list, and stunning comfort food.
The menu changes from day to day, but I have yet to have anything that didn’t leave me drooling, Sunday arrives and with it one of the best roasts in London, but this is my weekday lunch oasis, letting me escape the stresses of work to chow down on delicious British style dishes, with an occasional Spanish twist; the bocarones on toast are one of the greatest starters I have come across in London (such garlicky goodness). One of my friends swears the food here is so good it made her cry!
The layout is large and airy, a couple of tables perch outside on the pavement around which you can puff away to your hearts content (but only until 10pm).
The prices are reasonable without being cheap, about £10-£15 for a main, starters from around £4. Worth EVERY penny.
Don’t take my word for it, go… (now)

The secret Exmouth Market destination. The Easton has been around for years and knows it. It is relaxed and for some reason its backstreet location has remained a secret to the hordes despite its consistent excellence.
Came here today for my first meal back in the City after being away and it was the perfect comfort meal (with food to match). I have been going here on and off for years and understandably the quality has gone up and down but today it was really really back to its peak. Perhaps a new chef or perhaps just a general rejuvenation. Combine that with the solid unfussy boozer atmosphere where you can get a table for 10 or sit on your own and read and you have a perfect destination.

I came here for a little reunion with my friends on a weekday night and it was the perfect place as it’s hidden off the main drag in Clerkenwell so stays relatively underground. I had a lovely chat with the bar man who helped me decide what I wanted to drink — Star — as I was pretty flustered after 20 minutes trying to find the place (Easton St is very small indeed).
The big tables were large enough for our whole party (there were 10 of us) but the main thing we came here for was the food, which was exceptional. I had good old fashioned chicken pie with mash, and although it was around £12 or £13 it was worth every penny.

Just a hop, skip and a jump from Exmouth market, and you’ll find The Easton tucked away in a much quieter street.
This gastropub is a great place to go post work drinks, or during the weekend for a spot of lunch. The open plan interior is quite bare, you have the bar on one side and the space is filled with plain wooden tables and chairs added with the spaces’ natural features, from narrow the wooden beams dotted around the room, the large windows.
Apparently they do a great Sunday roast and food in general is meant to be good. I have only ever come for a drink. But when I did see that their snack menu did roast potatoes with aioli I just couldn’t resist. I had to have it. And the potatoes were done just the way, in my opinion, roasted ones should be like. With crispy bits on the outside and soft and hot on the inside.