The best of Chelsea by the people who know - Cadogan

63 | FOOD AND DRINK | Pubs, bars and nightlife
walk through a large 1930s apartment
building until you come to a black door
with a lantern and an inconspicuous
sign.
Inside, the bar is decorated with quirky
and antique ornaments, and there’s a
fancy dress box packed with wigs, costumes
and hats. Barts plays ‘Prohibition
era’ music and has a Cuban-themed
garden. Cocktails, snacks and canapés
are served, including sharing cocktails
served in teapots or top hats.
Monday-Thursday 6pm-12.30am,
Friday-Saturday 6pm-1.30am, Sunday
6pm-11pm.
Sloane Avenue, SW3 3DW
T: 020 7581 3355
www.barts-london.com
Beaufort House
(see Restaurants for brasserie)
The ground floor cocktail bar and
brasserie are open to the public, while
the upper floors are part of a private
members’ club. In the evening it’s much
more of a bar, with mixologists creating
signature and classic cocktails.
Members have access to the members’
lounge/bar/restaurant, the club
The Botanist
room and the Penthouse Champagne
Bar. Contact the venue regarding
membership queries.
Brasserie and cocktail bar open
Sunday-Wednesday 10am-12.30pm,
Thursday-Saturday 10am-1.30pm.
354 King’s Road, SW3 5UZ
T: 020 7352 2828
www.beauforthousechelsea.co.uk
The Botanist
The Botanist, sister site to Tom and Ed
Martin’s The Cadogan Arms, nods
towards Sir Hans Sloane in both its
name and the backlit drawings of flora
and fauna on the restaurant wall. It’s a
popular drinking spot for locals and has
a great selection of signature cocktails.
On the breakfast menu, The Botanist
pays special attention to hot chocolate in
honour of Sir Hans Sloane’s invention,
here made with chocolate flakes and
served with a chocolate stirring stick
from Rococo Chocolates. The choice
of tea for breakfast is also impressive.
The lunch and dinner menus feature
British/modern European dishes with a
seasonal angle, including a good showing
of fish, steak and oysters. There are
also menus for Saturday brunch/lunch,
Sunday lunch, afternoon tea and pretheatre/post-theatre,
and a substantial
bar menu.
Monday-Friday 8am-11.30pm,
Saturday-Sunday 9am-11.30pm.
Breakfast Monday-Friday 8am-11.30am,
Saturday-Sunday 9am-11.30am. Lunch
Monday-Friday 12pm-3.30pm, Saturday-
Sunday 12pm-4pm. Afternoon tea
3.30pm-6pm daily. Dinner 5.30pm-11pm
daily. Pre and post-theatre menu
5.30pm-6.30pm, 10pm-11pm. The bar
menu is available 12pm-10.30pm daily,
and bar customers are also able to order
from the restaurant menus during lunch
and dinner service times.
7 Sloane Square, SW1W 8EE
T: 020 7730 0077
www.thebotanistonsloanesquare.com
The Builders Arms
A gastropub serving predominately
British cuisine, the Builders Arms is in
a Georgian building with a main bar and
a dining area. It has a trendy, relaxed
ambience similar to the other Geronimo
pubs in the area, the Phoenix and the
Surprise.
There are roasts on Sundays and
the wine list has been put together by
Master of Wine John Clevely.
Lunch: Monday-Friday 12pm-3pm,
Saturday-Sunday 12pm-4pm. Dinner:
Monday-Wednesday 7pm-10pm,
Thursday-Saturday 7pm-11pm, Sunday
7pm-9pm.
13 Britten Street, SW3 3TY
T: 020 7349 9040
www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/thebuilders
arms/
The Cadogan
Arms
You can play pool upstairs on the first
floor – there are three American eight-ball
tables available to play by the hour – and
the room can be hired out. A £10 deal
includes an hour of pool, a glass of wine
or a bottled beer and mini cheeseburgers,
fish and chips and sausage rolls. There’s
a pub quiz on Mondays at 7.30pm
(teams of up to six people, £2 each to
play, £100 bar tab for the winning team).
The pool and quizzes might be
traditional pub activities, but the food is
definitely more of a brasserie style and
ranges from about £12-£23 for mains.
There’s a lunch and dinner menu and a
Sunday lunch menu too.
The selection of beers on tap is quite
small, but there are some interesting
bottled beers, including Dark Brewery
Sunburst and Samuel Smith’s Organic
Lager, and there’s also a cocktail list.
Monday-Saturday 11am-11pm, Sunday
11am-10.30pm. Food: Monday-Friday
12pm-3.30pm and 6pm-10.30pm,
Saturday 12pm-10.30pm, Sunday
12pm-9pm.
298 King’s Road, SW3 5UG.
T: 020 7352 6500
thecadoganarmschelsea.com
The Cadogan Arms
The other Chelsea gastropub owned by
brothers Tom and Ed Martin (along with
the Botanist), the Cadogan Arms mixes
the feel of a proper English pub with the
style of a brasserie restaurant.