The Gunmakers Arms frontage on Eyre Street Hill, Clerkenwell

The Tavern & Inn Company

Our Story

History deserves a proper drink.

The Tavern & Inn Company was founded on a simple conviction: that Britain's most characterful buildings — the ones with crooked beams, worn flagstones and stories in every wall — deserve far better than neglect, or reinvention as yet another restaurant chain.

We seek out premises of genuine historical significance: coaching inns, Victorian gin palaces, forgotten tap rooms and Grade II-listed buildings hiding in plain sight. Then we do something unfashionable — we restore them, celebrate them, and fill them with simple honest food and the kind of warmth that made British pub culture the envy of the world.

No gimmicks. No fusion menus. No mood lighting imported from Shoreditch. Just extraordinary places, properly kept.

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The Charter

  1. 01Everyone’s welcome.
  2. 02Look after our people.
  3. 03A community, not a brand.
  4. 04Beer kept properly. Coffee taken seriously.
  5. 05Old buildings get to look old.
  6. 06Honest food. No theatre.
  7. 07Fire in winter, garden in summer.
  8. 08Dogs: yes. Egos: no.

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The Gunmakers Arms
Clerkenwell, EC1

The Gunmakers Arms

A proper London pub in old Little Italy.

A corner of old Little Italy on Eyre Street Hill — dark panelled bar, gilded mirrors and a hidden garden out the back. Honest food and a proper welcome.

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