The Bird in Hand
Roman-style pizza, thin and crisp rather than puffed, under a new owner who took the pub over this year.1
Why go
Max de Nahlik took over in 2026, from the team behind The Holland Kensington, and the food went Mediterranean: seasonal sharing plates alongside the pizza, with cocktails on the bar.1 His stated aim is to keep it working as a local while making the food worth travelling for. The first floor holds a private dining room for twenty.
Order this / avoid
- Order: a Roman-style pizza and a couple of the sharing plates, which move with the season.
- Avoid: going in on what you read about the old pub. The kitchen changed hands this year.
Good to know
- Where: 88 Masbro Road W14 0LR, in Brook Green. The pub's own pages name the neighborhood without printing the street, so the address comes from the saved pin.
- Booking: taken on the pub's own site; the upstairs room seats twenty.
- Hours: not published on the page read this pass.
Verdict
could-visit — Max de Nahlik took the Bird in Hand over in 2026 and turned the food Mediterranean: seasonal sharing plates and Roman-style pizza, which is the thin crisp base rather than the Neapolitan puff, from the team behind The Holland Kensington. A private room upstairs seats twenty. He says publicly that he wants to keep it working as a local pub while making the food worth a journey, which is a stated intent he has put his name to. It sits mid-ladder because everything above comes from the pub's own pages and nobody outside the business has eaten there on the record since the change.