Great place to catch up with friends, quiet enough mid week so you can hear each other easily. lots of tables, booking might be required around weekends but unnecessary during the week. Food was very tasty and lots of beer on tap as well as a good wine selection. Plenty of on street parking too.

We heard all the hype of newly opened Winston's, so had to check this out.. The Sunday Roast! It did not disappoint. For just $35 pp on a Sunday, you can get a traditional Sunday roast with all the trimmings. This particular Sunday, there was a selection of slow roasted lamb shoulder, crispy pork belly and a beautiful whole sole fish, also a vegetarian dish too. These proteins change weekly.. Hubby and I chose the lamb and pork. Yum! Beautiful accompaniments, gravy, apple sauce for the pork, crispy potatoes, Yorkshire pudding (I'd never tried one before) carrot purée (delicious) and beautifully cooked green beans. We were satisfied but not stuffed. The atmosphere was great and I got a wave from Nelly on the way out! Made my day! ☺️ Highly recommend and will be back! Thank you for the great hospitality!!

Smearing sourdough crumpets with chicken fat butter dotted with crisp nodules of skin is just what I want to be doing in a British-themed gastropub. They slide down a treat with a pretty pint of Akasha Super Chill Pacific Ale ($11) that tastes flowery from its all-Australian hop flowers. We're seated in Winstons in the recently updated rear section of The Nag's Head hotel: a quaint corner boozer in Glebe that's been operating since 1836. The seven dish menu ($85/person) is the work of chef Nelly Robinson, who opened his upmarket Nel. in Surry Hills a decade ago.

While Nel. is contemporary, at Winstons the eating is more nostalgic. The snacks include a Scotch egg spruced up with curried lamb mince wrapped around a mostly-set quail egg with a good tingle of spice, and a coronation chicken sanga with curried egg mayo. The latter eats like proper British finger food you'd be happy to serve at a party at your digs. I'm less enamoured with the milk-poached prawn tart in charcoal pastry, because the Avruga 'caviar' smells fishy from herring without any fish roe. However the vividly green pea soup dotted with quail egg, herb oil, leek fritters and fox flowers just wanted for someone to heat the plate on a night that felt more like the return of winter than the start of spring.

With some disparity between the wine prices listed on the menu and what was displayed online we unnecessarily climbed up in price point to find a markup that felt fair. The 2022 Stefano Lubiana Chardonnay ($130) was worth the extra spend, elegant enough for lighter dishes like the pea soup, but stretching all the way to the beef Wellington, which, made on beef cheeks with peppercorn sauce poured at the table, kind of ate more like a beef'n'pepper pie. A spike of ginger in the 'melting ginger parkin' wasn't enough to convince me I wasn't eating a chocolate lava cake albeit with fancy trimmings like jersey milk and honey parfait and butterscotch sauce poured in situ. Service is youthful but well-intentioned.

Great bar food by Chef Nelly Robinson, well executed and some nice twists to classic counter menu.
Will return very soon to check out "winston" the soon to be launched restaurant at the back of the boozer.

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Returned to visit the fine dining area, for $80 the set menu is good value, service is young and enthusiastic with great potential
Kitchen is still finding its feet and will only get better.

New Nelly Robinson menu = winner!

Cheese & leek croquettes were perfectly crunchy with a molten centre, the beef cheek pie pastry was phenomenally flaky with gorgeous chunks of meat throughout and the smokiness of the roast chicken sung through a plate filled with delicious trimmings (those roast potatoes were next level!!).

We finished it off with the ginger parkin (cake) that had just the right amount zing and a stunning caramel milk!

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon with seats outside to enjoy the warm winter afternoon, and a fully dog friendly pub with pups allowed inside and out!