The Albany Pub & Dining Room

You know that spot near the bridge where you actually want to sit down for a proper meal rather than just grab a pint? The Albany is exactly that. The ground floor keeps its pub credentials intact—real ales, local faces, the kind of place where regulars have their usual—but head upstairs and the dining room transforms into somewhere genuinely worth booking ahead for. It's not trying too hard or pretending to be something it's not; the food is confident British cooking that takes ingredients seriously, and the service strikes that rare balance between attentive and not hovering.