The Eagle Farringdon in Islington, London

About The Eagle Farringdon

The Eagle was founded in 1991 by restaurant manager Michael Belben, and chef David Eyre, who wanted a restaurant but couldn’t afford it. Luckily for them at the same time the government had decided that brewers had established a monopoly of pub ownership that gave the general public a bad deal. It did. The beer was expensive, poorly sourced wine was an afterthought and the food was rubbish!

The time was ripe for a casual, good value approach to dining using top quality ingredients that until then could only be found in expensive restaurants.‘Big Flavours and Rough Edges’ was the title of the cookbook. It summed it up, The Gastropub was born.

The Eagle celebrated its 30th Birthday in January 2021.