The Blackbird

A wonderful hotel in a beautiful London neighborhood. The hotel is new, small, and charming. Everyone is very polite and always ready to help. The rooms are warm, clean, and the beds are very comfortable. The bathroom is equipped with everything you need. The hotel is located near a metro station, making it quick and easy to reach the city center. There are shops, restaurants, and a pharmacy nearby. There is also a restaurant under the hotel with delicious food.|Highly recommended!

What a find it was! The Blackbird is so brilliantly located next to Earls Court tube. All the staff were exceptional, courteous, friendly and helpful. The beers were at the right temperature and they did Fuller proud (it’s a Fullers pub with excellent London Pride!) Our room (Arnold) was brilliant. Bed was super comfy, sheets were crisp and I love the auto blue lighting in the bathroom, fantastic! Although it’s next to the main road, with the sound proofing windows you could hardly hear it. (Be aware there are some steep stairs, but they do have a lift!) Breakfast was plentiful with a great selection and the yogurts were delicious! Full English, eggs Benedict, veggie and vegan options, you name it! If The Blackbird Earls Court is the standard, we’ll be using Fuller’s accommodation in the future and we’ll be back to The Blackbird next time we visit London.

Great little pub, very friendly staff, great service, great pub food , and have eaten the pie that's on the menu comes with mash greens and gravy or chips if you prefer. Fish and chips are great as well. I would recommend it to anyone

A great little pub. Lovely food, lovely atmosphere and service. Will definitely return when I'm in the area again.

This place was great. Service staff were accommodating. Asked if we had food allergies and allowed me to substitute. I ordered the 2 person pie plate which was plenty for me and my wife. The board had 4 small pies and they were very filling. I loved the steak pie. I ask ordered a vegetarian one and it tasted great. The meal came with variety of veggies like peas, roasted root veggies, roasted cabbage and potato’s as well as mashed potato’s.

I went to this pub on a Wednesday night for food, drinks and reading my book. When I entered I was ignored by all staff, so I sat down and looked at my menu. After 15 minutes no one came to take my order, so I decided to order at the bar. The woman I ordered from seemed to have had a very bad day and was utterly lethargic. She prepared my drink and noted where I sat. As I sat down again, both tables next to me filled with couples and they were immediately greeted by servers to inquire if they wanted food and drinks or just drinks. So there was service, just not for me it seemed. Miraculously my food was brought to my table, but I wasn't asked if I wanted condiments. That that option existed I only learned when the people next to me got their food. Fish and chips was decent, but expensive and could have profited from more chips and tartare sauce. The wait staff spent most of the evening standing to the right, flirting with each other, gossiping about the patrons and pulling pranks on each other. When I wanted another drink I ordered at the bar again, since no one had come to pick up my empty plate since I cleared it 15 minutes ago. There I was greeted by a very tall waiter who seemed the only one that evening intent on working. He prepared my cocktail for me and was friendly. Service seems to really vary, as written in other reviews. All in all a charming pub with ok food, but be aware you might have to wait on yourself.

Nice pub in the hotel with a cosy atmosphere. Delicious classic dishes and very friendly and courteous service. Highly recommended despite the slightly higher prices.

Visited for a Sunday Roast. Meal looked very good, but enjoyment was lowered by the bef being around 40% fat, and the tiny amount of gravy made the meal way too dry to me. Never once did anyone check whether or not my meal was satisfactory.

Went in around 5:15pfor a drink and to split fish & chips as a lighter dinner to share. Service was quick and efficient, drinks were delivered promptly, and food came out quickly and hot as well. The atmosphere is relaxed, but there was a bit of competition for tables around 6pm, with some less than courteous guests grabbing a table when others were waiting first without checking in with the server on staff. If there are plenty of tables, it may not be an issue to simply take a seat, however, if tables are in short supply- best to check and make sure no one else is waiting first before grabbing the next available table. Otherwise it's a lovely atmosphere and a relaxed setting for an evening meal or gathering with company.

I had time to kill before meeting up with some friends so I stopped by The Blackbird for a beer. When in London, I have to try to hit up as many pubs as I can while I can, right? The pub had a nice upscale ambiance. It's first come, first serve on tables. FYI, you cannot order food standing at the bar when there are no vacant tables. You only can order food sitting on a table. For those who know, I'm not much of a beer drinker. Since I don't know what to order, I told the bartender to surprise me with something local. She poured me a Fuller's London Pride Outstanding London Amber Ale. It was perfect because earlier in the day, while heading to Stonehenge, we passed by their brewery. The beer was good and easy to drink. Since I had time to kill, I looked at the food menu and saw that they offered a Haggis Scotch Egg. It's a dish on my list of things to eat in London so I ordered it. The kitchen didn't take long to get it out but it took time for me to finally be able to flag down a server to order it. It was delicious and the yolk was perfect. My brief visit was good and I enjoyed the local beer with Scotch Egg.

I was drawn to this place because of the building. It was beautiful and unique- dropped in and had a beer and an old fashioned. Was delicious. The service was great and the beverages were good. It is a good idea, obviously to make reservations for dinner everywhere in this area.

Amazing authentic British pub! Great atmosphere food and service! We opted for the charcuterie board with local cheeses and delicious chutney.

My wife and I had Sunday Breakfast here in September 2024. It was a 15 minute walk from our AirBnB and so very worth it. The pub/inn has a traditional vibe in the interior with some modern twists. Kind of the best of both worlds. It was very cool. Staff were friendly and professional. We did not book reservations and were able to be seated right away. The food was excellent. The perfect way to start a busy Sunday in the city. I had an eggs benedict, my wife had a full english breakfast, with a pot of tea each. Portions were good - filling but not wasteful. Flavours were delicious. I'd say this is worth a trip out of your way to grab breakfast, of if you're lucky enough to be staying in one of the rooms, its an easy trip downstairs. Next time we're in London I'd like to try lunch.

Excellent pub food! Nice place and was walking distance from our hotel. We all tried something different to share. The chicken pie and macaroni and cheese were my choices and amazing! Dessert was fabulous as well. Our service was excellent too

French martini was on point. The fish and chips did not disappoint! Would come back again!

We stopped in for lunch after arriving from Paris. The Blackbird did not disappoint. We had the most incredible sandwiches and chips. The fried coronation chicken sandwich with curry mayo was out of this world. The triple fried chips we also amazing. My husband had the fish finger sandwich..also wonderful.. but the chicken curry sandwich is one I would come back for. The service was also wonderful and the ambiance the perfect English pub atmosphere.

We came here for breakfast and it is a nice local spot with a lot of options. Service was just ok, but we overall still had a good experience. Would suggest trying this spot out.

Best steak ale pie I ever had!It came with side of mashed potatoes,peas and most importantly generous serving of gravy.My husband had Cornish Pasty with same sides of me.He gave me a bite,so good! We both agreed my Ale Pie was better and we'd order that again. My husband had a Fuller ESB beer and I had a Chardonnay. Great service too.

I really went in to try the Sunday roast and we also go the fish and chips and I have to say the fish and chips is one of the best I've had in London in all my visits to the country. It was fresh, the batter was light. The Sunday roast was alright. A bit tough but it was fun to try the food. The ambiance of the pub is quieter and seems more like a cafe because it wasn't too noisy. Would def. Come back to get their fish and chips again.

When in London this is a must stop for dinner. The fish & chips lived up to the English reputation, and the Shepard pie was equally as good. I finished off my meal with some sticky pudding that cured my sweet tooth for the evening. If you need a beer, they have over 20 on tap. The service was excellent, and my food came out supper fast. The dining area and the bar area are both really comfortable.

Great pub food and beers. Try the Steak and Ale Pie. Very convenient to the Earls Court tube station.

Best pub out of our 6 day stay in London. Best fish and chips that we tried in UK. Service was amazing.

For a pub, this is 5 Star. We have been to probably 10 pubs this trip, and this was our favorite. We didn't get food at every pub, mostly beers. highly recommend this 2 person pie sampler. No picture, but we have had fish and chips at 2 other pubs, this was our favorite. Service was good, and unlike many other pubs, there was a server who took order at the table. (For drinks only, still order at bar) By the way, a stroll down this street after a visit is a nice walk.

Enjoyed this immensely four years ago, and returned today during our first trip to London since then, and it was as fine as ever. Fish & chips, beef and ale pie, and a sharable fruit crumble were a wonderful meal. Service was fine, wonderful pub atmosphere, and it wasn't too crowded at 12:00 on a Friday.

The staff were very welcoming when we came in for Sunday roast in the mid-afternoon. We had made a note in our reservation to please have space for our stroller, and we were given a nice table in the back where our son could continue to sleep while we ate peacefully. The Duo was amazing and I'm so glad I didn't have to choose between the chicken or the beef. My husband and I each got one because we didn't want to share. The sides were great as other reviews noted, from the potatoes to the roasted carrots and the cauliflower. We shared one sticky toffee pudding, immediately ordered a second, and promptly finished that, too. Service is great, and it was probably our favorite meal in London this week!

Great lunch at the Blackbird! The steak and ale pie and chicken and liek pie were excellent.

Excellent experience at The Blackbird! We loved their fish and chips. The tartar sauce was heavenly. Delicious cocktails. We also had a sweet potato curry pie as an appetizer and it was wonderful. Service was outstanding. Would recommend for sure!

Excellent everything on a previous visit... this visit not as amazing. The fish and chips could have been a little more done. It was a little undercooked. I wish we had gotten the Apple & Blackberry Crumble. It looked amazing.

I ordered a Steak & Ale Pie while my husband ordered Fish & Chips. Overall, the meal was very good and comforting. I would definitely recommend to anyone traveling through London. As for my drink, I ordered a Very Berry Spritzer. It was very refreshing, almost like a seltzer. Not so much sweet.

I went to the Blackbird 3 times during my stay in Earl's Court in London. The pints, fish and chips and burgers were delicious! The ambiance was great and the service was excellent! I love that I could order from the scan code or in person.

Excellent service and yummy food. Our family of 6 really enjoyed it. Traditional British food.

Good service! The fish and chips are great, and it's a large portion, bus they allowed us to split the meal. I also had a summer cocktail (a spiced rum mojito) that was really good! I would definitely eat here again.

This place is right around the corner from our stay and I'm sad that the first time I went was our last day. That being said, it was really great. The staff is super sweet and attentive, and the full English breakfast was really good! Definitely stop by for breakfast! Also I saw they had live music on Sunday nights and the place has been packed, so that looks like a lot of fun too!

I had made plans to have an English Breakfast at the Blackbird restaurant on Tuesday June 25th after seeing many favorable reviews. I tried to make a reservation at this restaurant to secure my reservation but was told that that was not necessary. On the morning of June 25th my family and I arrived a few minutes later than planned due to traffic caused my road works. The minute we arrived at the Blackbird restaurant a male member of staff mouthed to a female member of staff no breakfast. As I approached the female member of staff she rudely told us that we could not order breakfast. We explained that we had travelled a long way to eat the English breakfast at this restaurant and asked if there was anyway we could order it. The female member of staff once again rudely told my family and I that we could not order breakfast. My family and I were deeply disappointed that we couldn't order the English Breakfast because that was the only reason we went to the restaurant in the first place and because we traveled a long way and time to eat at this restaurant. There is nothing worse than looking forward to eating something that you can almost taste it and then dealing with the huge disappointment of not being able to order what you have been dreaming of eating. What made me the most disappointed with the Blackbird restaurant on Earls Court Road in Earls Court in England is the rude manner my family and I were treated. They say that it is not what you say but how you say it. All the other restaurants that we ate in England were very polite and accommodating and we ate at a lot of restaurants. It is just unfortunate that this one restaurant treated my family and I so badly. Thankfully the other restaurants my family and I ate at were so polite and accommodating to my family and I that it made up for this extremely disappointing experience.

We wanted to check out a few pubs and this was close to our flat we were staying in and had gotten some good reviews. It did not disappoint. The food was great, some had the meat pies and some the fish and chips and everyone liked what they had chosen. The server was very nice and took time to ask where we were from and answered all of our questions. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit there!

Everything was great, loved service and food! It was a repeat many different days! Breakfast, lunch dinner and drinks!

Food was good Service was good Atmosphere was good Had never tried the blood sausage and to be honest it wasn't bad at all. Would return!

Thank goodness for the food. Went for dinner based on reviews. Asked about seating and sat at an open table. Server proceeded to ignore us. I mean blatantly ignore us to the point of waiting on two tables right next to us and ignoring our attempts to catch her attention. Started to order ourselves, from the bar, and thankfully another server helped us after pleading for service. Should've gone down the street. Maybe it was a rough night but it made our experience unpleasant.

Had breakfast while visiting London. We had the full English breakfast, pancake and eggs Benedict. My daughter, who's never had pancakes she didn't like, actually complained that it was too chewy, so I would not recommend it. The full English breakfast came with Heinz beans (although I didn't know that was a selling point) and was pretty good. Eggs Benedict was also decent. Food-wise, this is probably 3 stars but the attentive service gets it another star.

This a fun pub in the Kensington area and it appeared to be very popular with the locals. I had a beef pie and mashed potatoes - it was very good! They also run specials and have seasonal offerings. The service was slow but it was typical for London. It was also very busy! I didn't have and beer but they did have a large selection. I would go again!

We came in for the Sunday roast, it did not disappoint. Had the duo of beef and chicken, Cornish pie , and rabbit casserole, it was a ton of food. I would probably just do the beef next time. The place was quite busy with good options for children as well.

Had an eggs Benedict here and sausage for breakfast. It was definitely good and the place is very convenient if you're saying nearby. A little pricey and gets packed at night

Felt like a classic British Pub to me! Excellent service and delicious Pies... Enjoyed the Mac and Cheese Croquettes and fried Squid for starters, then Hubby had the Steak and London Pride Pie and I had the Chicken Tikka Masala...both we're absolutely scrumptious and can easily see why they have won the awards! When In Kensington, pass all other Pubs and stop here!

Blackbird is a corporate run establishment posing as a small traditional old style pub. They're owned by Fuller's. Dead give aways include a quick Google search and poor, mass produced meat pies. The interior is dim and charming. We sat at the bar until our table was ready. I asked if they had a cocktail menu. I was rudely told that they did not by the bartender but then later, when we were seated at our table, was handed a pretty extensive gin and tonic menu. As per usual, I inform servers about my nut allergy, which unfortunately is a little complicated. I can have peanuts, almonds, and coconut but no other nuts. And traces of nuts are fine. The server told me that I couldn't have any of the meat pies because they all contain every single kind of nut. I questioned him, which I don't normally do, but that sounded a little ridiculous and we had come to Blackbird specifically to eat their meat pies. He returned with a huge corporate binder and showed me how every single nut was checked off for all of their meat pies. Logically, I concluded that they do not make their own meat pies and that the dough is processed in a factory whose machinery may contain traces of nuts. Because no one grinds up every single kind of nut and puts it in pie crust unless they really have a disdain for nut allergy sufferers. Pie crust doesn't even have nuts! I appreciated their thoroughness and how seriously they took my allergy (really, I did) but felt they were pretty uninformed about their ingredients. So we decided to play with fire and order one anyway as an appetizer. Just one mini pie instead of the 3 pie sampler we had wanted to get. Not surprising, I was perfectly fine. And it was a blessing in disguise that we didn't order 3, because the steak and London pride pie was terrible. It was super salty and had no steak in it, just gravy. The meat pies I've had at stadiums were infinitely better. For our mains, we shared the traditional fish pie (that one apparently doesn't have nuts since there's no pie crust) and the fish and chips. The traditional fish pie was also super salty and highly processed. It was like a fish chowder you'd get from a can with mashed potatoes on top. The fish and chips was good and probably the only thing we ordered that they actually made in house. The fish was crispy and huge and served with mushy peas, tartar sauce, and lemon. The chips were good as well. I was between 2 and 3 stars but leaned toward 3 due to friendly and attentive service (at the restaurant, not at the bar), really good fish and chips, and good gin and tonics (but how hard is it to get those right?) However, I would definitely save your meat pie craving for somewhere else.

Thoroughly enjoyed our meal here. Stopped in late and the place was busy. That's a good sign. We all enjoyed our meals, the beer and the atmosphere. Definitely recommend. Staff were friendly and helpful

Great atmosphere, tells the story of the pub and the history! Their pies are a must eat, peas with home made and warm welcome.

Our first meal in London. We hopped off the London Underground from Earl's Court station and walked a little ways (a couple blocks) to find this quintessential British pub. Husband ordered the fish and chips - half of a fish fried beautifully (not heavy) and a pint of cider (so refreshing)! I ordered the popular steak pie with mash and side salad. Mash was alright but the pie was a crusty beauty with sumptuous gravy, tender medallions of beef, and mushrooms.

We came here seeking out a full English breakfast, And we were not disappointed! I was surprised to be heading into a pub for breakfast in the first place, but I think this is how the English do things! Upon arrival, I see they also offer a full vegetarian English breakfast, a very pleasant surprise! Our waiter was very friendly and offered us breakfast in a quick and pleasant manner! Everything was delicious, the hashbrown, the beans, the eggs, the vegetarian sausage, the spinach, the grilled Portabello mushroom! All awesome! Highly recommend this place! It looked like they had beautiful rooms too. Would definitely consider staying here in the future!

Great pub! I think we lucked out and came at just the right time since all other tables had reservation signs on them. The place was packed, so just to be sure you get a table I would probably make a reservation. I had the beef pie. It was delicious. The beef inside was tender and the gravy and mushrooms were delicious. The pastry outside was so good and the pie itself wasn't too heavy. I had veg with mine and mashed potatoes. The beer was also good, lots of slow pour options on tap. It was a good stop, I would recommend it!

We really liked this pub. The food was very good as was the drink. It was air conditioned on a very hot day and the service was very friendly and attentive. The interior was cozy as well.

Super happy with this place. The selection of beers is great, all very nice. Friendly staff, fun crowd. Steak and ale pie was terrific. A very solid choice for a traditional British pub dinner.

If I could give zero stars. We went on a weekday evening, they were about half full. Most of the empty tables had dirty dishes on them. Asked the server if he carred where we sat. No he didn't. Then spent the next 20 minutes being ignored. Started to get up and leave and the older couple sitting next to us said "the service isn't very good but the food is." No English food is worth being treated like your invisible.

Food was very good, choice of the bar or quieter dining room. We chose the bar. The wait staff was very helpful, pleasant and patient with our allergen questions.

Service was incredibly slow. We were practically ignored. The table was restocked for new customers before we even finished eating

Had the Sunday roast and Father's Day special. The Father's Day steak special was excellent. The Sunday Roast was standard. Fish and chips were good.

Of course we had to get fish and chips and beer at a tavern in London on our trip and we were not disappointed with this place The fish and chips was wonderful and the beer was even better Really good tasty food and a fun experience

Stayed for 5 nights in a room above the pub and everything was perfect. Staff friendly. Complimentary breakfast a pleasant surprise. Food and drink at the pub above par and what a great location so near to the tube. Would highly recommended for a stay or to stop and eat/drink