The Drapers Arms in Islington

Wonderful food and service. It was a beautiful dining room.

Always great. The food is on point as is the service even on a very busy Christmas evening service.

Lovely service, delicious food- particularly the steak, and wonderful wine list!

An AMAZING Sunday Roast!!!! Delicious, warm, inviting with a very welcoming staff! it is a must visit in London!

Dinner was magic as always. We appreciate you moving our booking back and accommodating the buggy. The whole operation is really top class.

Wonderful sharing roasts. Has to be one of the best roasts in London.

Absolutely delicious food, friendly service, warm atmosphere, no rush to vacate table, service at a moderate speed to allow you to enjoy a slow paced lunch. Highly recommended!

Excellent food and a really extensive wine list. Real ales also very good. Staff very helpful and are happy to guide you and offer tastings of beer and some wines. Relaxed atmosphere with tables being available for 2 hours. I’d highly recommend a visit. Booking advisable, it’s very popular!

Food was fantastic. Atmosphere was great. Wine list is exceptional for a pub. Service was hospitable but lacked a bit of attention (fork never came for one guest, sat with dessert menus for 30+ minutes, etc). In any case, will be back and already looking forward to it.

Perfect as always. The Drapers Arms is our go-to for a meal out.

Roast arrived warm, if not slightly cold. Took a while to get our bottle of wine, but otherwise the food was delicious and the venue is really nice. Staff are friendly but obviously very busy!

Good service and food but the dining room is very noisy so we had to shout for 2 hours in order to hear each other - so not exactly a relaxing Sunday lunch….

Food was excellent, good choice and wrll presented. Lovely table, efficient service.

Excellent birthday lunch/afternoon at The Drapers Arms for 6. Service very professional and welcoming, slight hitch with one plate (mistaken order)but no qualms about rectifying and correct plate arrived very promptly. Each dish was delicious and obviously freshly cooked. Plenty choice of beer and wine, a very enjoyable experience and celebration. Thanks to all staff.

I think this is, on balance, the best Sunday roast in London. The quality of the roast meats is on a par with Quality Chop House…absolutely delicious (especially the lamb), but the dining environment is slightly better. It’s that close, but Drapers just pips it with room/comfort. But if you only care about food….it’s a tie, and you’ll have fantastic Sunday roast in either place.

Lovely sunday roast at the Drapers Arms. Restaurant is very cozy and great for large groups.

Really great food and atmosphere in a great neighbourhood setting

A neighbourhood classic that serves up everytime. Food superb, phenomenal wine list - with choice bottles either end! Suet crusted pie a perennial seasonal favourite.

Great pub with excellent food, delicious beer and great wine list. Lucky locals!

The place was recommended by our French Guidebook, and we were more than delighted ! The room was beautiful (very quiet at this time of the day) and the food excellent. We plan to come back in summertime to enjoy the little garden !

One of the best food pubs in London. Excellent cooking and an unbelievable wine list. Outstanding service. Made the New York Times recommended list for London for a reason.

Für mich einer der besten Gatro-Pubs in London mit sehr freundlichem und aufmerksamen Personal und einer Küche weit über dem Durchschnitt

Great option in Islington! We had a burrata tomato starter and steak-frites for two. Great wine recommendation from the young man serving us.

Love it! Server super nice too Warm local pub Great wine too

Great food and atmosphere, non touristic. Fantastic service

Everything was great expect there was a couple at the bar aggressively touching and making out for a few hours. The man at one point had his hands in the woman’s pants, a little disappointed the staff didn’t say anything. He literally had his hands in her pants and then was touching the bar top.

Delicious food and excellent service. Patient when we took an age to decide on our order and super friendly and professional throughout the evening.

Great food. Stellar service. So lucky to have this place a 10 minute walk away

The noise in the dining room (which is beautiful), really damaged our evening. It was just hard to speak across the table. The food was fine, the service was a little slow, but when prompted everything arrived on schedule. This is such a nice location And we had hoped that a Monday evening would be a little more tranquil. It was lovely to hear the buzz, but there was just too much of it.

amazing Sunday lunch - great service and discovered white port and tonic! Wonderful!

Good service, good food. Nice open room, not crowded at all. Service was good - friendly, efficient and welcoming. My only quibble - which is in no way the fault of the staff - is that the front door kept sticking. An we were sat by it. So every few minutes there would be a frantic banging and rattling before a staff member could come to let them in. This happened a few times - my dining companion had to do it herself three times... So, in summation, spend a few quid on a carpenter, Mr Drapers manager.

Great experience Beautiful food, keenly priced, and very friendly staff 👌

I am a big fan of the Drapers Arms. The beer, food and service are always very good. The only criticism I have is that I don’t like being charged service on drinks served at the bar. We had a tab set up, but then left the table and continued in the bar. The final bill failed to adjust for this. I would have expected a member of staff to suggest settling the tab after we’d eaten. That aside, I will happily go back.

Service wasn’t amazing but the food was great! Had a roast

Wow - considering we tried to get in a number of times and finally got a reservation - we were very excited to experience the Drapers Arms. Unfortunately, we took the advise of the waitress and upgraded to a sirloin steak to share between me and my partner and what a disappointment. We should have stuck with the roast. The sirloin was very undercooked, we ordered medium, it came blue. And the waitress never returned to ask how our meal was. It was not good. The steak beside being blue, had a lot of fat, and the potatoes were tough - yes, tough. They were roasted and looked amazing - but they were cold and were very difficult to cut. Our friends potatoes were the same. Would go again for a pint, but I will certainly not go for the roasts again :(

It's always nice when I bring guests for special occasions, we have a lovely time. I love coming! Plus the creme caramel was just as it should be - super! Thank you team, you are great!

Great food and lovely service. Excellent cocktails.

Really friendly staff, great food, will be back again as I’m new to the area!

The Drapers Arms is one of my favorite restaurants in London for drinks or a meal. It is next to a lovely square in Islington in a beautiful refurbished pub. The food is creative, contemporary and fresh, with hints of British and California cuisine. Really yummy! The people working there are friendly with attentive, but not over the top, service. We went for my birthday and they added a thoughtful touch to make it special. One aspect I especially love is the back terrace, great for drinks or dinner in the summer. A knowledgeable server at River Cafe recommended Drapers Arms last year and it was an exceptional discovery for us.

Service outstanding, small plates excellent. Mains good but rather on the heavy side. Deserts enormous and a bit mass produced. The garden is delightful. Indoors is lovely but very noisy. All in all an excellent place to meet friends and have a gastropub meal.

Great pub in a great location. Food, drink and service was excellent.

Delicious food and drinks on a very hot evening - thank you!

Incredible. I adore the Drapers: divine food and exceptional wine list.

The food is incredible. Great atmosphere too. Highly recommend it

Firstly the food was very good, as was the service! Efficient without being intrusive! Started ,with roasted Aubergine with hummus and crispy chickpeas! Delicious! Both had fish, skate wing beautifully cooked! Cod with creamy cucumber ribbons, fennel and dill was amazing! Washed down with a Vinho Verde! Quite reasonable price wise considering the quality of the food! Wii go again!!

Very great food!!! We had roast lamb. Taste amazing. Great place for meeting friends

Friendly and considerate staff, good food and lovely surroundings.

Refreshingly unpretentious. Great value for the quality of the food and wine with excellent service.

very warm and friendly welcome at the Drapers Arms - helpful on GF beer options- and we both enjoyed our Sunday roasts . clearly very family friendly - good atmosphere

Great back garden - food was good and service prompt

Lovely! Our favourite local pub/restaurant. Relaxed atmosphere. Nice staff. Good food.

Excellent Sunday Roast and as always friendly, efficient service. Extensive and carefully curated wine list. Lunch in the garden was a thoroughly enjoyable moment with friends.

Great roast dinner and really quick service in a lovely setting

Beautiful local gastro pub with nice garden area. Food was original and well prepared and presented. Roast hake was great but portion was very small so sides should be recommended.

The Drapers' Arms was absolutely perfect as always.

We loved our Sunday roast at the Drapers Arms. The staff were accommodating as we were running about 15 mins late but were still able to seat us. We were welcoming by a lovely member of staff who was very helpful and the sharing roasts were delicious - especially the lamb!

Extremely good food and great service. A lively atmosphere, a bit noisy, but it comes with the pub environment. The steak and ale pie was absolutely amazing! A place to visit!

Great spot, friendly staff, good food! Out of the way but worth the effort

Perfect Father’s Day lunch. We were sat upstairs by a window in the sunshine, it was lovely. Roast dinner was yummy and quick. We will be back!

Careless service, slapdash food, noisy ambience, wholly without charm.

Our beef was over - we asked for medium and it was definitely over. Nonetheless still very tender and we ate it. The food was also not served hot enough for me we should’ve sent it back but we were both too hungry. Love this place but a little bit more attention to detail would’ve gone a long way.

One of my favourite pubs. The food is excellent and the service is great.

i love this place as its so relaxed and like a proper pub but also has excellent food - the service and attention is superb - Ill always go here in preference

Yorkshires soggy, potatoes old (not crispy), gravy too thin and half the menu out of stock. Very expensive and super grumpy wait staff. Such a shame as was so highly rated!

Fantastic as always, love it here. Just one thing about the food, the beef was raw, not rare. I understand it’s better to have it under done, but it was barely sealed off and as the sirloin has quite a bit of fat, if it’s not properly rendered, it can be very chewy and stick in your mouth. It was tasty, I’d just seal it off and render the fat more.

Lovely staff and amazing whole roast chicken platter 🤤🤤🤤

Went on a Thursday lunchtime and we were one of only a handful of tables occupied which was surprising. Ironically the noise level was quite high as one party was quite loud and the floors/walls are very plain and hence there is no sound deadening. So a bit lacking in ambience and a bit loud at the same time. My friend and I both had one of the Drapers Arms home made salt crust pies and they were very good indeed. And very reasonably priced. The wine list is outstanding - a really wide choice from all over the world. Against that there are very few bargains - we had an Albarino at I think £42. Service was prompt and friendly. If the place was fuller I can imagine the noise level might be really quite intrusive.

We had a lovely time with delicious food. I can highly recommend this pub and will be back.

I've been trying to get a table for the Sunday roast for yonks and finally got one. It didn't disappoint. The roast chicken was so tasty, the gratinated leeks were a revelation. The room upstairs was beautiful with the natural light.

Love The Drapers. Great selection of draught beers, great food and refined bar snacks. Lovely little sun trap of a garden. Service is always friendly and excellent.

Never disappoints- one of our favorite places in London to dine.

My favourite pub in London! We had the most wonderful evening and absolutely delicious food. Would like to mention our lovely and very attentive waiter. Didn’t get his name but he was American and just so sweet! Thank you!

Lovely lunch! Food was brilliant, lovely service too - felt at home. Great wine list for those who are into wine (and got help when we didn't know what to pick!)

5 stars every time. Best pub in London for every occasion; drinks, snacks, lunch or dinner. Thank you!

The meal here was basically inedible . The potatoes tasted like they came off of plate from last nights dinner . Yorkshire pudding tasted like it was sitting for days . The Sunday roast tasted like they threw it in a microwave and sent it out . What a disappointment !! Locals that took us were embarrassed by the food .

Such a lovely place. Great service, really chilled but everything handled perfectly. The food was great. Flet like a little slice of heaven for lunch.

Beautiful pub with friendly and helpful staff, delicious food!

Booked last minute, an hour or so before, and they had a few tables ready to accommodate me and my partner on a busy Bank holiday. We were greeted on arrival by the lovely bar staff, who led us to our table. Non-fussy but attentive service, brilliant wine and food knowledge; the set up is exactly what you would want from a pub that not only serves amazing drinks but beautiful, seasonal food cooked with an eye for detail. Always recommended. Can’t wait to revisit Thanks Drapers Team

A lunch time visit to one of tge best gastropods around. It wasn't without stress as my partner had gone away to visit a friend. Unknown to me she had left her phone at home and couldnt confirm when she had returnedto London. I spent 2 hours calling and fretting about where she was before biting the bullet to find she'd been in the pub and was being well taken care of. Food was good and the service was exemplary. What more do you want from a lovely place.

Consistently my favourite roast in London. Amazing food, great wine list, fantastic pub setting on a beautiful street.

An enjoyable evening. Good food. Lively atmosphere. Noise level very high so not advisable for elderly relatives.

Totally enjoyable evening. The food was excellent. We had Toulouse sausage, lambs kidneys, chilli cabbage and leek gratin. My husband had the confit duck fat potatoes and said they tasted wonderful. I had a Sicilian light skin contact white wine and my husband had the Sussex bitter - both tasted great. Service was friendly and efficient and the bill was very reasonably priced, particularly since this is an Islington gastro pub. We probably chose things from the lower price range, but the quality of what we ordered was excellent.

Really tasty food, lovely staff, beautiful pub. We're looking forward to returning.

hidden gem as neighbourhood gastropub. will come back.

Another fabulous evening - great atmosphere, top staff and a fabulous wine list. Very good food and in generous portions. A top venue.

Not my usual experience as I was part of a large birthday dinner however I am looking forward to returning in a small group.We were served huge dishes of whole sea bass & a mountain of beautifully cooked tender roast lamb. This was all great fun but reveals the fact that many friends had no idea how to cut a fish well & on other occasions how to carve a joint of meat or a fowl However good fun excellent wines but as a guest no idea of costs.

I always recommend The Drapers to friends and family. I have eaten here many times and can honestly say I’d give them 5/5 stars every time. This weekend they fell short on service, a number of times food was bought to the table without cutlery. Two diners had to send their food back to the kitchen twice to be cooked to the their liking so this wasn’t ideal. However having been so many times and had a faultless experience I would still book here again for any occasion. Nobody’s perfect.

Awesome pub! Great atmosphere on a Saturday lunchtime. Lovely staff, lovely customers, lovely food. Duck magret for 2 to share simply wonderful. Well done to all involved , keep up the great work !

Having searched for “best Sunday lunch in London” I don’t think this place comes close. Firstly, the staff are really very nice and attentive: can’t fault them at all. However the food is a let-down: Sunday lunch for us is the traditional roast beef and trimmings. If “trad” nowadays means mass-catered, then the very soggy and limp Yorkshire pudding and the roast potatoes - unpleasantly overseasoned with a knife-challenging chewy crust - accompanied by a thin gravy and stewed red cabbage probably meets that description. One major plus-point, however, was the beef: a single, though thick-ish slice of good quality rare beef with a nice fat rind was in danger of rescuing the meal. Starters were good though the smoked mackerel rillettes were too salty. Ambience-wise, it’s bookings only and they will turn you out for a second sitting. It fills up quickly with an aspirational crowd that gets steadily louder in a high-ceilinged room, and by 2 o’clock the place resembles a crèche.

Party of 4 for a Sunday Roast. We had a glorious time enjoying a traditional English Sunday Roast at this wonderful neighborhood pub. We thoroughly enjoyed the family atmosphere and delicious rib roast and roast chicken. Food was incredibly tasty, accompanied by yummy wine from a very approachable wine list. Staff was very inviting and attentive. Overall a great experience.

At the end of a great day of culture in London I had gone to The Drapers Arms with my wife and my son and his wife. The Drapers Arms came recommended; however my initial reaction was a degree of uncertainty as we were led to a room on the upper floors (I feared it would be cold and soulless) however the room was fine and already filled with a number of patrons. The guy who showed us to our table really friendly (from San Felice on the edge of Milan where I also lived at one time) and recommended the Cote du Boeuf for 3 of us while my wife had the slip sole. As starters we had the bread, Camembert with Bone Marrow and the broccoli. When the food came everything was excellent, good flavours, perfectly cooked and good portions. We finished the meal with the sticky toffee pudding and the chocolate brownie. So, great food and service but the other lovely thing was the vibe in the restaurant, which was lively and friendly, it seemed to be full of great people enjoying friendship and a good time.

This time we shared beef rib (2-3) and a chicken (2-3) between 5 of us. We much preferred this beef to separate servings of sirloin we had last time. All delicious!

We went on Saturday for lunch. The food is great, truly. This means that we forgive a lot. We waited for over 1 hour between our starters and mains. Not so easy with a 3 years old! Apparently there was a big party at the back, but we had no proactive updates, we asked a few times about our food before it finally arrived. It was excellent and worth the wait. In addition, we love dog friendly restaurants and we love animals in general. Nevertheless at the table next to ours there were 2 small dogs which were allowed to walk on the table and drink from the owners’ water glasses. That’s a bit too far for me. Look, the food is great and we’ll be back. There’s definitely room for improvement on the service side though.

Great food in a lovely setting with obliging and helpful staff.

Great lunch venue and room for dogs. Lovely food and good sized portions and a warm welcome.

Food could have been a bit warmer

Food always tasty, ideas innovative, notably starters; source I don't know but hopefully good! Offered us what we requested- and we were able to have an intimate and happy evening!

Great bistro pub, delicious food, great ambience. Will definitely return.

Very good food and friendly service. We went for the magnet duck which was deliciouss

We literally never have a bad night out at the Drapers. Great food, lovely atmosphere and great friendly service. Our Springer gets a warm welcome too.