This is a lovely classy bar in the centre of St Albans, and has easy access to nearby cash points…read moreand taxi ranks. It is decorated in a classic American diner style, with American posters etc on the wall. The food there is really good and is not too expensive (around £15 for a meal for one with drinks). The bar is really nice as well with a wide range of choices. The staff are really friendly and welcoming. The bar does get quite busy at the weekend, but I have heard tales of a few celebrities and footballers frequenting there!

A nice pub with bags stuck to most walls, a load of different beers and lagers. has a restaurant…read moreand fucntion room for, you know, functions. They do chicken with Louisiana Hot Sauce on it, very nice, very hot. Also a nice load of cocktails. Takes a while to get served sometimes though, so erm, wait a bit? You'll get served in the end so relax yeah?

Excellent food and service. Recommend the Bradan Rost salmon.read more

Stopped in to have a half pint at the oldest pub in England !!…read more I'd missed dinner by a bit. They close early on Sunday so the kitchen gets a cleaning. The bar keep was very friendly !! Based on my description of liking Guinness but wanting something local, he recommended Farr Brew bitter and offered me a sample. He was generous and upon my liking it- he poured a proper 1/2 pint.

great food great service…read morelots of ambience, plenty of seating spaces Beer was great too and in a wonderful setting of St albans

SUMMARY Great food…read moreand great service from a team that really care about burgers. Fantastic flavours. Highly recommended. Great job! REVIEW: THE MEAT OF THE MATTER! Date: 7 June 2014 Location: The Meating Room, St Albans Burger: Cheesburger (Emmental) Burger Price: £7.95 Overall Score: 8/10 Bun: 8/10 Sweet but light, seeded brioche bun. Normally I don't like too sweet a bun but this had a lovely sweet contrast to the tasty patty and was a good compliment to the overall flavour. It's a great choice of bun. Sauce: 7/10 The sauce was good, but a little light for my taste. It would have been great to have an American mustard to lift it but unfortunately they only had English would would have been a little too powerful. American mustard would lift the overall flavour and give a more rounded sauce, especially given the fantastic taste of the patty. Patty: 9/10 This is the centrepiece of the whole meal. I thought I was eating a piece of steak at times, it was that good. The owner tells me that they use a secret blend of cuts, including topside, and they buy direct from the abertoir. The grain of the mince was excellent and it is clear that the patty has not been overworked, keeping it tender and moist. Flavourwise, this was a sublime piece of meat. Well done chaps. Amazing job. The only reason it wasn't a 10/10 for me was because the burger was still incredibly moist when it arrived which caused it to drip a lot, saturating the bum. Perhaps it hadn't rested for quite long enough, it would have been a flawless 10 otherwise (and since when was a juicy burger a bad thing anyway!!). Garnish and Construction: 7/10 A nicely put together burger with the patty and cheese sitting atop the salad garnish. Sauce is only applied to the top bun (which is sensible because the bottom bun is at serious risk of flooding with a burger this juicy. For me (and this is personal) but a burger isn't a burger without a pickle and there wasn't a ghurkin in the house, sadly. My plea to the owners is please give us the option. The taste of a pickle dipped in burger sauce is the essence of burger-flavour (try this experiement at home, it works) so please let us add one to your fantastic burger if we want. Otherwise, great! The garnish was excellent. Too often we see limp and lifeless ingredients lurking under the patty but not so here - buoyant, vibrant salad with good crunch and colour. Try the tomato on its own. It has flavour. Who would have thought that was possible in the UK these days. Service: 9/10 Warm, fast, super friendly and extremely knowledgable. These guys really care about their customers and are happy to have a chat too. This is the great value of independent restaurants. They aren't filled with salaried employees supplicating to a stock-market-listed corporate deity. They are sparsely decorated with human beings with passion, interest and a genuine desire to see people enjoy the fruit of their labour. Long may it continue. Decor: 8/10 Despite being small they have brought an interesting industrial twist to their dining room which works well. From the tiled opening that looks straight onto the grill, through to the network of shiny copper trunking linking the glowing filaments of their incandescent bulbs the whole concept works well and makes for interesting viewing whilst you wait for a delicious meal.

We went to the berkhamsted meating room but my was it lovely the staff are great support them…read moremassively will definitely be back !!!

I've been to Relish Real Burgers a number os times, in St Albans and Potters Bar and the food has…read morealways been top notch! The burgers are juicy, the chicken stack is tender - it's just mouth-wateringly good!

First, the positive points: Cute, retro decor with a great mid century modern vibe that really…read moremakes you want to come inside. The waitstaff are attentive and do not hang about. Now on to the incredibly unfortunate part: My breakfast. I ordered the Lebanese breakfast plate, which is avocado toast zhuzh'd up with hummus, fresh cream, feta, eggs, and purple cabbage (yes, the addition of this brassica should have been a red flag). What I got was a cute turquoise plate with a mound of what was my order covered in bright pink sludge masquerading as hummus. I'm guessing the chef thought that pink hummus would be an inventive choice against the plate color? Aside from the color, the taste was horrific and most-definitely not homemade. Hummus is at its core essence a 4-ingredient situation (chick peas, water, tahini, lemon juice) but this tasted like only the first two items were used). Underneath my "hummus" was a shed load of boiled cabbage and the lightest of smatterings of old brown avocado which tasted like avocado when it's gone brown and should, therefore, be binned. So two stars for the quaint ambiance and take my warning seriously and steer clear of what I ate. Hopefully, their other offerings are better.

This isn't part of the famous breakfast club chain but it's just as yummy and half the price…read more We were looking for venues to eat in in an unfamiliar area and stumbled upon breakfast club. With just half an hour to spare before it closed (it's only open till 3pm) we sped to the restaurant to find it bustling with customers. The menu is extensive with what must be around 50 items including a specials menu and loads of veggie options. I ordered the grilled cheese sandwich (£6.50) which was dripping with a ridiculous amount cheese. The order also came with a pot of slightly salty tomato soup to dip the sandwich in. Overall the breakfast club has amazing hangover food in a homely environment. Portion sizes are huuuuge too!

The restaurant is in a unremarkable location. But the food, service and ambiance is great. Found…read morethe place on Yelp and if I lived near I would definitely be back as the locals seem to. Sunday breakfast was busy!

From the owner: Local breakfast/brunch and lunch cafe by day and pizza restaurant in the evening.read more

My coworker and I live in the South, so we know BBQ pig. My coworker is from Georgia, and admitted…read morethat these were some if the best baby backs he's ever had. So, after we checked into our hotel, we headed off to Billy's. The ribs here completely fall off the bone like they should. Normally, I like a smoky sauce, but this one was AWESOME! It was a perfect harmony of sweet and tangy...and smothered all over the ribs! We ordered the half-racks, but craved more. The staff was also great. They offered some very good drink selections to accompany the ribs. Definitely hitting up Billy's again.

I think Billy's is pretty consistent. The ribs ares are great as are the burgers which they will…read more(mostly) cook to order. The fries are good and the Cobb salad is huge (good but not a stand out). The service is pretty good but it can get crazy busy. Late Sunday afternoon is a nice time to visit. I have been about a dozen times over a few years and it's not changed much.

This isn't somewhere I'd spend the evening but is a great place for a quick beer when in the middle…read moreof town. The Courage Director's was good it's a fun busy pub handy for the restaurants in the middle of town. The bar itself has been refurbished recently but still has it's old beams and low ceiling.

This is not a bad pub. You can get a nice pint of ale from an attractive barmaid, so no problems…read morethere. It looks like a proper old fashioned pub too, outside and inside (low roof!). They have live music nights etc I just think it suffers a bit due to its location. Let me explain There are a lot of very nice pubs in St Albans so for a start; there is a lot of competition for a start and many of the good pubs in St Albans have a small town/villagey feel to them, which is very appealing so close to London. The Boot to me feels too much like the busy city centre pub that has never particularly appealed to me and that I am trying to escape.