St John's Wood, Lebanese Restaurant Guide

This “stunning and ornate pub” in St John’s Wood with a “high-ceilinged, intricately decorated and chandeliered” dining room is the perhaps-unlikely setting for “delicious Lebanese food from the Maroush group” (who have owned it for over a decade now). The monumental, late-Victorian Renaissance-style building was originally intended as a railway hotel for a mainline London terminus that ended up being built half a mile away (in Marylebone) – hence the ‘folly’ of the name.