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St John
St John
26 St John Street, EC1M 4AY 020 7251 0848
www.stjohnrestaurant.com
Open
Monday-Friday bar 11am-11pm, restaurant 12-3pm, 6-11pm, Saturday bar
and restaurant 6-11pm, Sunday bar 12-5pm, restaurant 1-3pm, closed Bank Holi-
days
Tube
Barbican, Farringdon
Bus
17, 45, 46, 55, 63, 243
There is disabled access to the bar and conservatory dining area, but not the first-
floor restaurant. The use of mobile phones is not permitted in the dining room
The high-ceilinged white rooms of this bakery, bar and restaurant used to be a meat
smokery for nearby Smithfield Market, and you can still look up into the huge tower
where gammon and pork were hung and cured until the late 1960s. As well as hav-
ing a great bakery, selling rye loaves, seed cakes and soda bread, the restaurant
serves flavoursome food in season, so the menu changes throughout the year. In
the autumn, try their woodcock or grilled ox heart with rape greens and mustard, fol-