{"id":12131,"date":"2010-09-25T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2021-11-01T23:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T23:45:13","slug":"the-old-brewery-good-enough-for-johnny-depp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=12131","title":{"rendered":"The Old Brewery &#8211; Good enough for Johnny Depp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we walked through the grounds of the Old Royal Naval college in Greenwich we passed a sign from the <a title=\"Artical on Film Shoot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurls.co.uk\/U13901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Producers of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 apologising for the inconvenience caused by the filming<\/a>, not sure you can be inconvenienced by Johnny Depp filming next door!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Old Brewery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldbrewerygreenwich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Old Brewery<\/a> certainly has the look of a venue that would suit an A list celebrity. It has justifiably won the <a title=\"Time Out Awards 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/feature\/519\/time-out-eating-and-drinking-awards-2010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Out 2010 Eating and Drinking Awards for Best New Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a lovely location, with great outdoor space, a stylish bar and a large restaurant that somehow manages to be cool and artistic as well as warm and inviting. This is acheived by using very effective lighting and a having\u00a0 huge artwork made from beer bottles hanging from the ceiling (sounds naff but it works). Even stranger is that by day, the restaurant space acts as a cafe\u00a0 for the <a title=\"Discover Greenwich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org\/discover-greenwich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discover Greenwich tourist attraction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12131 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2733.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2733-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2734.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" 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size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2740.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2740-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2741.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2741-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2743.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2743-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2744.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2744-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2745.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2745-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2747.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tn_IMGP2747-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The food is British and each course can be matched with a Beer. The Old Brewery is owned by <a title=\"Meantime Brewing Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meantimebrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meantime Brewing Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a bowl of Devilled Whitebait with caper mayonnaise. My companion had a beautifully presented pork dish (it looked rather like an ice cream wafer), and a steak cooked exactly to order. For my main course I had mutton served with new potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>The service was a bit weak, we brought our drinks in from the bar and only ordered one other glass of wine with the meal, they missed several opportunities to sell more alcohol, but I am being picky here, as on the whole I really rated this place.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the question of cost, the meal here was actually about the same price as <a title=\"The Mayflower Inn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=11891\">Fish and Chips in the Mayflower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food 6.7<\/p>\n<p>Service 5<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 7<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to Top Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we walked through the grounds of the Old Royal Naval college in Greenwich we passed a sign from the Producers of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 apologising for the inconvenience caused by the filming, not sure you can be inconvenienced by Johnny Depp filming next door! The Old Brewery certainly has the look of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=12131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Old Brewery &#8211; Good enough for Johnny Depp!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,356,8],"tags":[399,398,401],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-out-door-seating","category-uk","tag-johnny-depp","tag-the-old-brewery","tag-time-out-restaurant-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30145,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions\/30145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}