The Common Room is a restaurant that offers light, healthy food. Dishes include pan fried skate and tagliatelle. A wine off-licence initiative allows diners to take bottles home.
This is fast becoming a regular spot for my friends and I, it's great if the lads want to watch the sport while the girls gossip and drink lashings of good wines, or for really quite good food! Be quick tho as it gets very busy - the fish cakes sell out fast! The tapas style plates of dishes including chicken skewers, serrano ham with stuffed pepperdew peppers, crayfish tail bruschetta, and all the usual nibbles and sandwiches. There is always a tasty specials board that changes daily.
The clientelle varies of all ages and types but all are welcome posh or not. The staff are lovely, laid back, cheery and helpful. The place has a relaxed, friendly vibe, with tables, sofa's by the window and TV screens or more suitable tables for eating and a bit of privacy in back of the venue. It also has a small beer garden that is open on warmer days.
If you plan to eat and use your Taste London card, you need to call and book ahead first but can do so an unlimited amount of times.
Yeah, nice bar, biggish too. Closes at 12 (at the moment). Drinks are your usual suspects. Seating's reasonable. Unsure about the food, but there are various restaurants opposite and nearby.