{"id":6133,"date":"2026-03-25T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:20:54","slug":"gastropub-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/gastropub-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastropub awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite lean times in the pub trade, London venues did well in this year\u2019s Estrella Damm Top Gastropubs competition.&nbsp; The competition, now in its 16th year, is organised by the <em>Morning Advertiser<\/em> and sponsored by Damm, the Spanish family brewery who now, of course, have a British dimension in that they have started brewing at the Eagle Brewery in Bedford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-16-1024x762.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-16-1024x762.png 1024w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-16-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-16-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-16-1536x1144.png 1536w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-16.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The much praised <a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/devonshire-london-128803\"><strong>Devonshire<\/strong><\/a> in Soho topped the list for the first time, which is very good going for a pub that only opened in 2023.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/red-lion-sun-highgate-124855\"><strong>Red Lion and Sun<\/strong><\/a> in Highgate moved up from 6th to 3rd while the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/canton-arms-south-lambeth-1401\">Canton Arms<\/a><\/strong> in South Lambeth moved up from 22nd to 11th.\u00a0 There were two notable new entrants.\u00a0 The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/hero-maida-vale-128966\">Hero<\/a><\/strong> (formerly the Hero of Maida) in Maida Vale featured for the first time at 24th, followed by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/kerfield-arms-camberwell-159286\">Kerfield Arms<\/a><\/strong> in Camberwell at 25th.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if the events are connected but, shortly after the announcement, the owners of the Kerfield put the freehold on the market.\u00a0 There is however no threat to the pub, which is operated by the same people who run the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/baring-london-124684\">Baring<\/a><\/strong> in Hoxton which was 17th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, there were 13 London pubs in the top 50 plus another 11 in the \u201951 to 100\u2019 section.\u00a0 These included old favourites such as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/anchor-hope-london-158442\">Anchor &amp; Hope<\/a><\/strong> in Waterloo at 64th and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/eagle-london-156361\">Eagle<\/a><\/strong> in Clerkenwell (EC1R 3AL) at 77th.\u00a0 The newly opened Allsopps pub, the Blue Stoops in Kensington came in at 88th.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t space to list them all but full details can be found on the competition website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top50gastropubs.com\/\"><em>https:\/\/www.top50gastropubs.com\/<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite lean times in the pub trade, London venues did well in this year\u2019s Estrella Damm Top Gastropubs competition.&nbsp; The competition, now in its 16th year, is organised by the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pub-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}