The Hawthorn
Peter Creed and Tom Noest run five upmarket gastropubs in the Cotswolds, and in 2025 they reopened this dark Uxbridge Road site under a new name.1
Why go
The layout splits the room: drinking at the front, a dining room at the back.1 CAMRA's surveyor calls the food simple and the drinks list straightforward, and notes that the beer stayed tied to Brakspear, who ran the pub before the change, so the two handpumps are not the new management's pick. Nobody has written about the relaunched kitchen yet.
Order this / avoid
- Order: a Sunday roast or a steak night, which are the fixtures a pair of Cotswolds operators would build a London week around. Confirm against the pub's own menu before you plan a meal on it.
- Avoid: going in on what you knew about the old pub. It closed, and this is a different operation.
Good to know
- Where: 434 Uxbridge Road W12 0NS.
- Hours: not published in any source read this pass.
- Beer: two handpumps, tied to Brakspear.
- Booking: worth it for the dining room at the back.
Verdict
could-visit — Peter Creed and Tom Noest run five upmarket gastropubs in the Cotswolds and this Uxbridge Road site is where they landed in London, reopened in 2025 with a new name after the address had gone dark. Drinking at the front, dining room at the back, and CAMRA's word for the food is simple. The two handpumps stay tied to Brakspear, who ran the pub before, so the cask list is not the new pair's choosing. It sits mid-ladder because the pedigree is real and the plate is undescribed: no dish, no price, and nobody has reviewed the relaunch in anything this project accepts.