Housed in a Grade II listed building and winner of the Good Pub Guide's award for 'London's Best Dining Pub', The Gun brings a unique combination of traditional elegance and contemporary charm to the Docklands. Following a fire accident in 2001, this popular pub-restaurant emerged from the ashes and owners Tom and Ed Martin with a little help from the English Heritage have helped The Gun bounce back to life. There is now a spacious dining area, a dark wood bar, two private dining rooms and a riverside terrace that would get the average developer gibbering with emotion, with serious views of the Thames, Greenwich Park, even the Millennium Dome.

The kitchen team places much emphasis high quality British food, fresh fish daily delivered from Billingsgate and delicious game dishes in season. On the dinner menu expect to find starters of brown shrimp and bacon croquettes with sauce gribiche, or pork and green peppercorn terrine with fig chutney. Main coursers inspire with a salt crusted Cumbrian chateaubriand for two, and seared loin of Yorkshire venison. Puddings steer much the same course, offering a classic chocolate truffle cake, a well-balanced coffee and Bailey's pannacotta, and some really interesting British cheeses. A comprehensive wine and beer list signals the wide social appeal of The Gun.