A country pub feel close to the bustle of Oxford Street sounds unlikely but this pub-with-rooms with its popular pavement terrace in a quiet backwater manages it with unpretentious style. A first-floor dining room of beams and stripped floorboards, Georgian sash windows and giant lampshades is lively and relaxed, ‘not for an intimate occasion’. While our Guide insider found the menu ‘a bit limited’, the modern pub dishes are ‘perfectly cooked and presented’ and might include fresh oysters, steak pie and mash with Guinness sauce, and fish and chips as well as smarter options such as bream with pistachio and mint pesto, and a range of steaks. Staff are ‘exceptionally pleasant and efficient’. Bedrooms, spread over three floors, are neat and ‘perfectly comfortable’ with oak-wood floors and panelling, pale-coloured walls, a king-size bed and industrial-style lighting. Bathrooms, with bathrobes and botanical toiletries, are compact and shower-only. Breakfast, charged à la carte, offers ‘lots of choice’ including home-made granola and yogurt, flamenco eggs with nduja, plus three versions of a full grill. (See also London sister pub, The Orange.)