Oisin Rogers: I run ‘London’s best gastropub’ — it’s the people that matter, not the food

High steaks: The Guinea Grill is famed for its exceptional meat

(Picture: Guinea Grill)

I’ve been in London ever since I popped over from Ireland for a weekend in 1989. I found a pub I liked, and decided I’d do a stint behind the bar for a week or so — I’ve been at the heart of a pub in the capital ever since. It’s what I live and breathe.

There really is nothing like slipping from the winter gloom into a glowing orange pub, sitting on a rickety barstool and soaking up the history, because you can be sure that in just about any historic pub in the centre of town, famous writers have discussed ideas, aristocrats have had affairs and murderers and diamond and art thieves have plotted.