The Ship Tavern in Camden - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Had dinner 2 nights in August, the 20th and 21st. Dinner outstanding . Marco and his staff amazing service. Dinner on the 21st Marco was down short handed by 1 staff member. Never missed a beat. A++++

Old tavern from 16th century with good service. Beers were good but the teas were below average. They could get better quality ones

Very beautiful British (very very British ). We had a dinner during our travel in London. Wonderful menu and excellent service. Recommended for a British dinner or easily something to drink 🍺

Excellent! Staff, food, and environment was very nice. Recommended for sure to stop and have a good roast.

Service was great very friendly and helpful. Food was not so good. Chicken salad was tough and smothered in dressing (I specifically asked for dressing on the side). Cheese toastie was deep fried and beer was flat

Excellent atmosphere and delicious food. Service was top notch. London pub food at its best. Memorable.

Enjoyed our first meal in London here. Great service and atmosphere.

The best Sunday roast in London! How delicious everything is, how friendly and how good! We loved the experience, the atmosphere and the food!

Excellent food quality, really helpful staff. Almost zero waiting times. Everything well cooked and well served. I find the cost of the dishes fair both for quality and location

Went here a couple times while I'm London. 475 years old. Wow! Food is quite good with a modern menu, but still having some old favorites. I'd say that it feels more up to date than you'd expect of an ancient pub, so if you're looking for something ancient feeling and acting, perhaps try the Cheshire Cheese. Ancient-acting isn't always better though. 😉 Scotch eggs are great and they make them from scratch to order. This is a good place to grab food and a couple beers.

Lovely very old traditional pub, Sunday roast very tasty (you need to be prepared for the size of portion)huge! Very friendly and nice staff...Will be back

A great bar in Holborn. We always make sure to stop in for a drink whenever we are in London.

Just cool sitting in a place sipping a beer that's been around for almost 500 years.

Lovely fish and chips! Great pub! Cozt atmosphere!

This pub is steeped in history, it is like stepping back into another era, the beer is great, the bar staff were happy and friendly , pretty.much my fulfilling my thoughts on a what a perfect pub should be like. They do food but I only had time for a quick pint which is a shame but I'm sure I will be back at some point in the future.

Great sunday roast...food was delicious.

Great food and atmosphere at this classic pub.

Nice pub with good food. Tasty beers and good desserts. The atmosphere was also very pleasant. If I'm ever in London again, I will definitely come back.

Lovely spot great atmosphere lots of potential with food but not very clean. Tables tends to be sticky and the toilets are always filthy.

Great location, yummy food, very friendly staff

We ordered a Sunday roast. One with chicken and one with beef. It was very good and very filling.

Always a fan of this little pub. A great pint, good food and lovely atmosphere.

The brisket was outstanding along with the Burrata (sp?). The beer selection was plentiful and the Gin drink hit the spot after a long day in the hot sun. I would definitely recommend finding a way to go there. Such a great diversion from the pub food we get back in the states.

Excellent service, delicious food, great atmosphere. This places got it all. Been there a couple times and loved it each time. This is one of the places where you could bring your friends who visiting London. Sadly I don’t have a video of one of the meals which they serve with a domed lid with steam inside, looks impressive! and taste amazing as well. Their desserts are very good too! So, basically anything they serve will not disappoint you. Definitely recommend! The staff is always nice and polite.

Veldig bra! Koselig stemning! Første gang i London og spurte på hvilken øl vi skulle ta! Vi fikk smake på alle før vi valgte! Veldig bra betjening!

This is a wonderful pub with excellent food and service. Would recommend to anyone who asks.

Absolutely delicious ! Thanks Marco and the team for a great night. We'll be back !

Delicious food in traditional English pub

The tavern looks like a fine place and seems like it has good history but the management is absolutely the rudest I have experienced. We had planned a special night with visiting friends. We made a reservation on the website that we had proof of in an email response from the restaurant. We arrived on time (5min early actually). When we greeted the hostess, she said there was no reservation in system. When we asked for the manager, he told us we had missed our reservation. We pointed to the time showing we were in fact early. It became clear during the course of the conversation that they had given our table to someone else and did not want to admit it. When we asked them to honour or our reservation, the manager told us to bugger off. When the hostess finally tried to come to our aid, be helpful, and offer an alternative, the manager growled at her to shut up. This restaurant management is very dishonest. This experience ruined what could have been a special night.

Great traditional pub with a nice clientele. Came here two times today to enjoy a pint and atmosphere with my son. Will probably come again during the next fee days.

Ship Tavern serves some of the best British food I've had. Very flavourful, high quality food at a price which is very reasonable for the location. Service was excellent and the range of alcohol, from beers, wines to spirits never disappoints. I got the pie of the day (steak and Gunness) and my gf got the bangers and mash - both were top tier. We got a sausage roll to share, with the spicy tomato sauce it is served with, probably the best sausage roll I've ever had!

Great pub. Great food. Great service Highly recommended

Very nice place. A historic pub of London. In the floor the classic pub and up the restaurant. We spent a evening in the restaurant. The dishes are very good and the waiters very special people. A place to go. Very easy to arrive. It is good to book.

Atmospheric old pub of great historic interest. Very busy bar (England playing in Euro 2024) but service efficient. Delightful upstairs dining room with moulded ceiling, an oasis of calm where we enjoyed excellent food (pies of the day). We will return!

I’m sure this is a lovely pub six nights out of the week but Sunday roast day is not worth anyone’s time. For reasons I can’t understand, the place was only moderately attended yet the service was slow, the food overcooked, and with no exaggeration took well over an hour and a half for an overcooked carving slice of roast lamb, a burnt Yorkshire pudding, and some braised vegetables to arrive. One person next to us actually received his meal only to immediately send it back and walk out the door without paying. The fried burrata and heirloom tomatoes we ordered on the side were truly delicious, but honestly stick to the beer here.

We were very well received, the food is excellent (the “baked apple pie” is a delight!), the place is very beautiful.

A real historical gem of a pub, and great cask beer.

WOW .. stumbled on to this place .. ate twice in the upstairs dining room .. just a stunning place .. jazz music set the scene.. food was excellent .. highly highly recommend. (did not eat in the more chaotic pub downstairs)

Beef Wellington was awesome, good selection of tap beers…

Great bar, great atmosphere and even better bevvies

I was at the restaurant on Sunday, my family and I were very happy and satisfied with our orders and the service of the staff, we ate the Rost beef wellington share and the Kids burger, the sauces were delicious, thank you and I hope to return soon to try the other dishes, the dessert I highly recommend the toof puding.

I’m super excited to leave a review for the service I have received from this restaurant. It was warm and lovely and welcoming atmosphere. Me and my girlfriend had a really nice dinner. We enjoyed the food and environment. Specially beef Wellington was so delicious. I would recommend this place if anyone looking for beef wellington. Cheers

This Sunday, my family and I had the best dinner experience in the ship tavern, the roast chicken was very good and the roast beef was incredible, we had a great experience with the entire team they were very friendly, I recommend it to everyone, good atmosphere.

I’m quite surprised by the many 5-star reviews for The Ship Tavern. The building is old and charming in an old -building way. Meaning, looks nice in dim light but might be scary in full light (just supposing here, I don’t have proof). My wife and I had dinner on a Sunday evening. My beef Wellington was basically inedible, a small lump of tough super well done beef in pastry. I don’t know how to cook beef to such exhaustion without burning the pastry. Maybe it was microwaved or sat under a heat lamp forever. There was a savory gravy, very herby, but it is a mystery how the gravy was made. Certainly not from the beef Wellington. The gravy was very thick, as if with a lot of cornstarch or agar. I wouldn’t be surprised if the gravy was from a carton. The beef came with two of the saddest Yorkshire puddings. Completely flat, they might never have been fluffy. Hard disks. My wife had the haddock and she reports overcooked. On the positive side my accompanying vegetables were fine. All portions are too huge for a normal person to eat, but this vision of over-abundance might be a plus for some folks. We ordered the burrata starter. The burrata seemed to be charred a bit, which I’ve never seen before but was interesting. The burrata does not come with bread. A big football game was going on while we visited, so there was a lot of positive energy downstairs in the bar. If you must visit, stop by for a drink but don’t bother to stay for a meal.

Very warm welcome from Marco and the team. Delicious food in a beautiful pub. The venison was perfectly cooked. Sunday roast also recommended. One of the best pub kitchens in town

One of the most remarkable London pubs. A gin hub, too.

Nice, tucked out the way pub. Good food, good service.

Love this place! Just stumbled across this little gem as we came off the tube in Holborn in need of a drink! Ended up coming back the following day for the Scotch egg and Pork pie of the bar menu and they were the best I have ever had! Can't wait to come back!

It sounds hard to imagine, but the old cozy pubs in England are dying out. The younger generation drinks Heineken instead of real ale and prefers loud places with booming music. It was all the nicer to come across the “Ship’s Tavern” in the middle of London and completely by chance. It was afternoon. But my sightseeing plans had to be postponed in favor of some English bitters. Nice experience: I told the lady at the bar that I would like to try the ales they served. Then she started filling four sample cups for me. Next nice experience: I got talking to a few old locals, the first thing they did was apologize for Brexit. In such company, the available cask ales were quickly sampled in pint sizes. And all of them were delicious, so I would recommend the one with the lowest price. And: I also met a few Pokémon. So it was a complete success!

Just popped in for pint on a Sunday, really nice comfy pub, great service and good beer, did not eat but it looked very good. Would recommend , great location also.

Thoroughly enjoyed dinner here. The burrata & calamari appetizers were both fresh and delicious. The Beef Wellington and Sirloin dinner entrees both came shortly after and were top-notch and pipping hot! Exactly the type of dinner spot I was looking for. Will definitely keep this in mind the next time I am in London!

Last stop of the night.. the bartender wasn’t familiar with my drink request so I asked him to just make me whatever he would like. It was a light, not too sweet gin martini. So I am celebrating World Gin Day a few hours early. I’ll be sure to be back tomorrow.

Went in here for lunch,lovely old bar, the staff were very good. We had sandwiches, but the steak sandwich was a bit tough. Had a good time and will definitely return.

Great boozer on a Saturday afternoon. Not too busy so a good time was had

Fish and chips were perfect. The fish is so light is practically floats above the chips. Very friendly staff.

This is a great place to take your friends and family who are visiting London and want a great meal in a charming place. I’ve had a lot of mediocre pub meals, so I was wary when I booked a table, which I did because it’s convenient to where we were staying. The food was so good! Delicious fish and chips, and the smoked brisket was amazing. The upstairs is very pretty, and it’s tucked down a narrow alley, which is fun for tourists. Totally recommend.

Very nice reataurant with excellent food, good atmosphere. Would definitely go again

The roast chicken dinner was absolutely delicious, the cocktails were great, and the atmosphere was historic and comfortable. Definitely worth a visit.

Very expensive food was a little greasy.

Spoiled by loud Eurovision on TV.

We actually wandered into this place on accident for lunch. We had a list on local "British food" we wanted to try on our two week adventure. I would eat here every day if it was closer to our hotel. There isn't a wrong thing to order on the menu.

Great atmosphere, happy to be here :)

Oldest Pub in London (established 1549). The fish and chips was amazing! The atmosphere and beverage selection was excellent. Highly recommended!

Fantastic food, brilliant staff and atmosphere. Highly recommend!

This place is a little gem. Took the entrance at the back straight upstairs. Service was exceptional. Polite and informative. Efficient. Food was great. I had the chicken breast and it was like a posh roast. It was very very tasty. The gravy was quality but the star was actually the chicken. It was cooked with a nice crispy skin. It was high quality food and I was pleasantly surprised. Downstairs doesn’t seem to have quite as much class as upstairs just by looking. Go upstairs and eat. It was fantastic. Would definitely go again

A lovely find, great service, friendly and personal. Fab beer and wine too.

Great place,lovely staff,yummy food

Crispy squid appetizer and onion rings were delicious. My fish and chips were tasty but the portion was massive, and if I had known, I would not have ordered a starter. DH enjoyed his steak sandwich which came with chips. If you want food, make sure to reserve a table and get your order in by 8:45 because they stop serving at 9pm. Cozy atmosphere.

Really great place. Food was brilliant, service was excellent and the atmosphere was superb. Thank you.

Classical English pub, just like it should be. The cask and draft selection is good, the staff is excellent.

Exceeded expectations. Great service. Friendly staff. Highly recommend. Beth is a rock star!

Excellent bar food. Quaint atmosphere. Great staff.

Nous sommes arrivés avec quelques minutes de retard mais en ayant informé le restaurant par téléphone auparavant, ils ont refusé de nous servir car « les cuisines fermaient ».

Probably my favorite pub in London for food. The fish in Fish & Chips actually tastes of fish (and is delicious), instead of generic fried thing. The Beef Wellington is also fabulous. Highly recommended!

Great restaurant, friend staff, and the food is fantastic

Perfect place, perfect food, perfect staff.

Amazing spot. We had the beef wellington, had to wait a while but the food more than made up for it! The service was perfect too. Would recommend 👏

4 stars as it’s a great old-fashioned pub but the service isn’t great.

Superb food, amazing service, fascinating history. Top, top pub.

I took my family to The Ship Tavern for a proper Sunday roast and we had a great experience. Just walking up to the Ship is an experience, as it emerges from its hiding place down narrow alleyways. This is beautiful old pub, with a nice bar downstairs (along with casual dining) and a beautiful dining room upstairs. The staff was very accommodating when we asked for a specific table, and our server was helpful with the menu. The food was excellent - I had the pork belly, my wife had the beef and my kids both had fish & chips. The roasts came piled high with roasted potatoes, vegetables and Yorkshire pudding. I recommend it highly - great for families or for just a drink.

Best Sunday lunch ever …. I read this review, thought I’d try it and they were right, fabulous food and super friendly staff !

We came here for Sunday Roast. It was delicious! Welsh rarebit was a treat you don't see on many menus. It was all good. My wife had the beef and it was good, but I thought the roast pork belly was really good (and enough for a sandwich later). The pub was close to our hotel and the Tube station so we were back later in the week for drinks and it was packed. This is what I expected/hoped a London pub would be like.

More of a lighthouse than a ship, in a sea of nasty chain restaurants. We were relieved to find this pub when we were looking for a really quick meal before rushing off to an event nearby. Great interior, friendly servers, good ambience. We both had fish and chips and it was very nicely cooked. If I'm being critical I would have preferred the chips to be served on the side, rather than underneath the fish, as some of the chips were really oily as a result. A more generous portion of mushy peas too, because they were lovely. We were in and out in about 40 minutes - the food was cooked and served pronto! No complaints and I would happily visit here again when I'm next in the area and feeling hungry - but hopefully with enough time for a more leisurely experience.

Visiting London for the week from California quick Google search and we happened upon The Ship Tavern- had the absolute best meal of our trip- historic pub, gorgeous ambience, excellent service from Camila. Fish & Chips were fantastic also had the mushroom risotto also delicious- Camila made us feel so welcome and shared her recommendations for food and drinks and also shared the tavern history with us. Thanks for a memorable evening! Def recommend 10/10

Quintessential British pub tucked away behind Holborn. Cozy, warm, and a must visit for gin drinkers. They do a decent Guinness pour as well. You’ll see a horde of people outside when the sun comes out.

Dinner with friends in the 1st floor dining room. Service and atmosphere were great and the food diverse and plentiful.

Decent old school boozer. London prices

Lovely old pub where you can sense the history. Love that it is a bit tucked away. The food was very good. I had a mackerel starter that was lush and a shared beef Wellington for main. Dessert was a bit of a disappointment as the custard most likely was the packet type, but it is a pain to make that fresh. The fish and chips passing our table looked good. Will have to return to give them a try.

Not so good beef. it was supposed to be medium rare but was tough and fried potato was too hard to eat. Not recommended especially if you are from Asia because you will feel obvious racism by servers and whole atmosphere. Definitely not welcomed.

Very good atmosphere!!! On the ground floor, busier and noisier, bar atmosphere. The upper floor is much calmer, quiet music, a restaurant. The service was exceptional, in English, Spanish, Portuguese... During our short stay, we went twice and were pleasantly surprised both times. Very good food, we tried the famous Beef Wellington, Pot Pie, Risotto and Chicken breast. Our favorite was the Beef Pot Pie. We liked the wines served and the beers, remembering that in London they drink beer at room temperature or not very cold.

Go here often good beer and nice location

It’s a nice old world pub with a lot of history and over the years have visited the establishment. The only quarrel is not looking after the beer on tap. Had a bad pint which was off. Test the beer every day. Rant over. Worth a visit.

This hidden pub is really the best kept secret of Holborn! Such great atmosphere, true London vibes here. Good beer 🍻

Good atmosphere, drink is good.

We found this pub on the off chance when we found the restaurant at our hotel was closed. The pub was a traditional 16th century inn with original mahogany panelling and stained glass windows.The restaurant was on the first floor. The staff were amazing and found us a table straight away although we had not booked. One of us had the fish and chips - a huge portion served with mushy peas and I had mushroom risotto - absolutely lovely. We shared a dessert and again really good and sizeable portion. The atmosphere was unique, low lighting, candles on the table etc. Downstairs the pub was busy and sold real ales You could also eat there but would probably have to book. The bill was given to you in a book which outlined the history of the building dating back to the 1640's. Can't wait too go back !!!

Nice little pub, which is dog friendly

One if the best Fish ‘ chips I’ve tried! Make sure to order. Choice if beer and other liquors are plenty as well.

Proper old school boozer. Go there!

Appena si entra nella stradina che porta al pub, ci si sente trasportati in un’altra epoca. Il The Ship Tavern è aperto dal 1549, ed è annoverato tra i migliori 5 pub più antichi di Londra. Il posto è super caretteristico, ricco di storia e suggestione (il conto viene portato al tavolo all’interno di un libro che ha fatto la storia della letteratura inglese, ho adorato il dettaglio). La cucina è davvero deliziosa. Abbiamo cenato qui di domenica, approfittando del Sunday Roast (piatto tipico delle domeniche londinese, ma abbiamo anche gustato dell’ottimo fish&chips. Da bere abbiamo preso dell’acqua. Il prezzo è in linea con i pub londinesi (£57) Un’esperienza davvero unica.

The food was excellent, the staff were lovely and the ambience of the old pub was great. It's not cheap, but it is in a tourist area.