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We are delighted to announce that we are the Winners of the TOP 50 Gastopubs 2022 Best Front of House Team and have just made it into the TOP 100 Gastropubs for 2023.

Opening in 2015 we wanted somewhere in St Albans that we would want to eat and enjoy a drink within walking distance of home. We found a former pub in a beautiful 15th Century building on George Street which is in the Cathedral Quarter of St Albans. They pub had been closed 15 years prior to us moving in and was operating as a restaurant. We decided to bring The Kings Arms back to the street. The pub has a lovely Tudor bar and a restaurant to the back.Simple food, excellent ingredients and a focus on small family producers, food matched with beers and excellent wines and above all a local neighbourhood pub restaurant.

We have a Craft Beer wall offering a great selection of beers and Sam looks after our bar with the beers also listed on untapp’d.

Josh Searle heads up the kitchen with his team and we continue to offer our famous Dairy Cow Prime Rib, beautiful Fresh Cornish Fish and our snacking menu is also available in the bar.

And who is Dylan? Well Dylan was Séan’s dog, a naughty chocolate Labrador well loved in St Albans and beyond. Sadly we lost him in 2019 but his legend lives on.

Please note that bookings will now only be available via our website.
We will not be accepting telephone or emailed bookings.
Please click on the “BOOK” tab to make a reservation.

Séan, Josh & The Team