A pub with a roof garden in W1? And you can reserve a table in the sun on a Friday lunch time - what more could you ask for?! Well worth the walk for those who work in Soho where kerbside drinking is the best you can get.

I booked the 'function room' at The Grafton Arms on a Tuesday at 7pm. The room wasn't actually separated from the rest of the pub in any way and our tables were unreserved - subsequently we tried to have a quiet meeting in a heaving mass of drunken people! The upstairs room is also meant to be fashionably smoke free but staff made no efforts to enforce this rule. The chief barmaid appeared drunk in charge but attempted to make amends by offering us a round of drinks for free. I won’t be going back to The Grafton Arms.