The Elgin Food Pub and Music House is described as a gastropub for Notting Hillbillies, a play on where it is in North Kensington; with its very own Gin Palace that has 22 gins to tickle your fancy, the mood is loungeability against a background of relaxing music, comfy sofas and a mix and match décor.

It is brought to you by Geronimo Inns, who are the people that have proved if you stop bothering about your more self-expressive inclinations and give the customers what they want instead, you can open revitalised pubs and stay afloat provided you create a warm home from home atmosphere where real food at affordable prices is available seven days a week.

Front of house offers major bay windows; look out and you might see Hugh Grant looking in. More to the back is the 70 cover music room which will also accommodate larger groups, and offers regular live accoustic music sessions. 'If music be the food of love, play on' ,said Shakespeare and what is aptly described elsewhere as 'the weird and wacky world of W11', whose domain this is, does not disagree.

In such circumstances lunch is not a meal, but a staging post long the road to survival for something a touch grander in the evening. So look for basics such as Oxfordshire bread with Netherend farm butter. Soup of course, or some roasted beetroot and Cashel with a Blue cheese salad perhaps. For the desperate there's fish and chips with tartar sauce and mushy peas, or The Elgin's Caesar salad in which anchovies are an item. But if you missed breakfast there's bangers and mash, or a very cool beefburger with bacon, cheese, relish and chips

The evening brings a stirring amongst the smart houses of W11, still worth colossal sums of money, and it's down to the pub time for maybe a game of dominoes or bar billiards over a pint or so of some succulent brew, before moving on to a few of John Clevely's well chosen wines as the world moves from red to blue through green, which is not meant to be a political statement.

A spot of roulade of smoked salmon and salmon mousse with yoghurt-dill dressing, or devilled lambs kidneys and yellow split pea dhal sets the stage for a Yorkshire venison casserole and parsnip puree, or a rump steak with skinny chips and bourguignon sauce. The Elgin fishcakes arrive at table accompanied by spinach, a poached egg and warm tartare sauce.

But for sheer indulgence times two, share a 22oz Scottish T-Bone steak with two kinds of chips, a mixed salad and green peppercorn sauce. Desserts to follow may or may not be just, but honey, thyme and yoghurt parfait with roasted fig seems to me the sort of dish that will nestle up well with almost anything.

Beyond a degree of excellence nothing stays the same for too long at The Elgin with the food. So check on their Website for specialities, as well as great music from aspiring and established musicians alike.