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This one is useful to know if you are in the Covent Garden area and want somewhere relatively peaceful, civilised and unrammed. The restaurant is on the first floor of the Marquess of Anglesea pub, which usually is full to bursting but because most people don't seem to realise the restaurant is there the first floor is like another world. The street door does not look like the door to a restaurant - more like the door to a cellar. Maybe that's the reason. It is on the corner of Bow St and something else and the views of the streets below from the big picture windows are wonderful.
The food isn't bad either. I had a good solid soup to start and then steak and ale pie which was first rate. They also do a chicken pie which can only be to the good. My friend had a goats cheese salad and she rated that too. It would be a nice place to take a visitor from abroad - excellent combination of views and pies. The place does fall down a bit on service. We had to ask for water three times and the wait for both courses was longish - but not too long. The napkin under my pie had had gravy poured over it as well but these little lapses were more than made up for by the view and, of course, the pie. Harry
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