Windmill in City of London, Westminster

The Windmill in Mayfair could benefit from some attention to detail. The pub is in desperate need of redecoration, and a thorough clean wouldn’t go amiss—there were visible fingerprints all over the television screen, which looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in quite some time. As for the food, it was okay but far from exceptional. My chicken dinner was disappointingly dry. What really let the experience down was the addition of a service charge. The menu states it applies to groups of four or more, but there were only three of us. While I paid it without question, it did leave a sour note—I would have tipped more generously otherwise, so it actually saved me a few pounds! Overall, I expected more from a Young’s pub in central London. Unfortunately, the experience felt a little underwhelming.

Ask for Danny…he gave us the perfect guidance for food and drinks from starters to dessert!

NaNa was the best server! So nice and friendly! Service and atmosphere were superb.

My first Pie! Best place to do so. Food was delicious and Ana was an amazing server!

Danny and Maria were brilliant servers. Everyone was very helpful and attentive. Food was delicious, especially the pies.

Such a lovely experience for dinner! Nana was so helpful and we really liked the scotch egg and steak pie recommendations! Would’ve loved to have seen jubel on draft but other options we sampled from Nana were great! Thanks so much.

Fabulous service by Magdalae and the food is wonderful .. the pies are home made and delicious.. would recommend

Luke was awesome and made great recommendations. Highly recommend their venison pie.

Staff were friendly and attentive. Lovely cosy pub and the food was outstanding! Would highly recommend

Relaxing decoration. Good for a catch up.

The best pies in London! Also the service was really good. Definitely going back.

Windmill food is amazing the staff are fantastic would definitely recommend

We were a party of 9 on a family visit before going to the Palladium Panto, cosy pub, great food, we all had the pies, steak & kidney, steak & stilton, chicken & ham and fish pie and we all really enjoyed them, puddings were excellent too especially the marmalade and ginger upside down pudding….delicious! Thank you to the guys serving too who were attentive and friendly, we had a great evening. Bill came to £35 a head including tip which we thought was excellent value for central London.

Food: - delicious black pudding scotch egg -Ok shepherd’s pie. not tasty enough but hearty with lots of ingredients. small portion. vegetables were overcooked, like those from a vegetable stock. very unpleasant and tasteless. - roast beef tough like rubber sole. almost inedible. we finished it anyways as we didn’t wanna waste food. Atmosphere: we were seated right next to the entrance where the door kept being opened and not closed properly. It’s very cold almost like sitting outdoor. would be nice if there’s a heat lamp of something. the place was half empty, should consider not seating guests there. Service: One of the staffs that served us could be considered rude. Teaching us like we were kids that in here we should order drinks first. did not offer choice of how cooked the roast beef we would like. so i would have guessed there’s only 1 delicious option. After I finished my pint, i wasn’t offered a second pint. For half an hour i’d been trying to get the attention of the staffs, but most of them just avoid eye contacts. I finally had to wave and grab one’s attention but that staffs just told me in a bad tone that she’s busy with something else, later on she came back and i decided not to spend anymore at this place ever.

UPDATE - we returned to this pub, this time on a Sunday. The pies again were outstanding but on Sundays they serve it with essentially the same sides as a Sunday roast but all was average, not very hot and didn’t go. We asked for mash instead of roast potatoes (as a table of 8 we all wanted this) and they said no. We were there for over 3 hours because the service was so slow. We had to ask for the dinner menus after waiting ages for them to attend the table (prior to this nobody even came to ask for our drinks order). We had to ask for more drinks again because nobody attended our table throughout. And then when we asked for the dessert menu because again we waited so long we experienced deja vu as they said the kitchen was closing in 20 mins so we had to order on the spot. This is frustrating considering they didn’t clear our table, nor bring desserts menu knowing we would be out of time. If we hadn’t had asked for the menu again we would have missed the opportunity or order dessert. Poor and slow service with staff having no awareness at any stage of our dining of actually serving the table. And then adding 12.5% tip to the bill when nobody once proactively came to our table . . . ! It’s just not worth it The pies are so damn tasty. We had 1) chicken, bacon & leak, 2) pigs cheek, rabbit & prune pie 3) crab, king prawn & haddock pie. All were delicious, their suet pie more similar to a traditional pastry pie. I would however suggest not bothering with the dauphine potatoes which was swimming in oil & butter, literally a pool of it. The only disappointment was weren’t offered the dessert menu and when we asked if they had dessert they did but the kitchen had closed. They did kindly offer to make us something still which was kind but we decided not to knowing the kitchen was closed

Excellent food. Really tasty and hot. Service really so good. Would definitely recommend. Wanted to try a pudding but too full from main course.

Disappointed. Read lots of glowing reviews BUT our experience fell far short of expectations. We only had 'award winning' pies (not sure what awards they achieved). Venison, steak and chicken pies were OK but underwhelming. And as for the fish pie should be re- named mashed potato pie - there was no fish! Yes happily exchanged for the trout but ruined our 'eating together' birthday meal. And the cost was exhorbitant for such basic fare. The tip at nearly £15.00 was the final straw and removed at my request. My recommendation, eat in a restaurant not a pub, (Boulevard Brasserie, Covent Garden is a gem)

This is a wonderful pub restaurant where you can enjoy delicious food and friendly and attentive staff. The deliciousness of Dorset Lamb Shepherd’s pie is impressive. I will definitely give it a try next time I'm in London.

Delicious pies and great service from Danny who was friendly and gave lots of recommendations.

The pies were great and Danny was fantastic!

Food and atmosphere were fantastic. Danny was very hospitable and was on top of everything. Amazing!!

Bosh. Exactly what we wanted. Good pies, decent beer and friendly service. Danny looked after us amazingly well for a busy pre Christmas shift.

We ate for lunch on Saturday, I suggest booking because as it is very good you risk not sitting down immediately given the waiting list. Their PIEs are excellent, delicious, they have a wide choice of beers and the staff is friendly and knowledgeable. A real treat for those who want to try the real English pie. Great!

Great food + service. Ate upstairs in the dining room which was lovely. Brilliant Mayfair pub/restaurant

Wanted a place for a bite to eat and a beer after an afternoon in the West London shops. Great atmosphere. I drink ales and bitters and on both counts the beer is well served. Service staff very helpful and seemingly unflustered by the volume of customers. Recommend it.

Absolutely brilliant, on a packed friday before Christmas, service, food, atmosphere could not have been better, the staff made it, massive congratulations

Great food and excellent service. Steak and Stilton pie was on point.

Friday before Christmas, place was packed, people milling around waiting, drop ins etc. The team were incredible, friendly, cheerful, fun, the food immaculate, service amazing and the atmosphere brilliant. Highlight pre Christmas event for me.

Well organised Made very welcome on arrival Really good setting Great food and wine Most importantly fantastic service from Ana and Rey

We came for our company Christmas dinner and party and hired out the upstairs room. Date was Wednesday December 11th. Julieanne and the team serving us were amazing. Fast, efficient, fun and dealt exceptionally well with a large group of people who had all had their fair share of drink!

We attended the windmill for our Christmas party and what an amazing pub and the service was fantastic. l would like to specially thanks Julianne for hosting us. I would come back. Highly recommended.

The perfect place to meet with friends for a few drinks and I highly recommend the pies which were delicious. All the staff were welcoming and Danny our Waiter was excellent. If you haven’t been I recommend a visit to The Windmill.

Our table was booked for 1315 - by which time there was no steak and stilton pie, no duck leg confit, no lemon tart. I had game terrine with kohlrabi remoulade and soda bread - there was no butter for the bread, the game terrine was dry and flavourless, the kohlrabi remoulade was crunchy but very little dressing. I chose the potted pie: fisherman's pie of smoked salmon, king prawn and Atlantic haddock. The pie was very watery as if it had been cooked from frozen, there was no colour on the mash which was rapidly dissolving into the accompanying liquid, one piece of salmon (not smoked as far as I could detect) one piece of haddock and the single prawn was certainly not king. The accompanying spinach was neither creamed nor wilted and looked and tasted like it had been waiting a long time on a hot plate. dessert: cheese and crispbread. No optional butter, the crispbread was tasty and crunchy, the Stilton was very good as was the Bath soft. However, the Pitchfork cheddar was conspicuous by its absence and we were informed they had run out of that as well. The pub was busy and only one person serving on the first floor.

Fantastic pies and sides - not one to miss!

Danny is a superstar! Thank you for a brilliant evening

Danny was a really brilliant waiter. Couldn't recommend enough!

Amazing service. Pies were delicious and would 100% come here again. Great service was really nice! Danny was fantastic.

We ate a vegetarian pie and one with chicken, very tasty

Very friendly, helpful staff & a warm atmosphere. But the shepherd’s pie was disappointing for the £20 price

Danny was a great hard worker, and served us what we needed, nice home style cooked food. Cheers Danny

Farcical Christmas lunch. More akin to a scam. Fortunately our server was fantastic and sorted us a round of drinks. But fundamentally poor. O-na-na I would not eat here again

A perfect Sunday lunch and atmosphere during Christmas! Danny’s service was fantastic

DO NOT ORDER THE CHRISTMAS LUNCH! The beef came our raw, then asked for it to be cooked a little bit, it came back looking like a clarks school shoe. The veg was clearly out of a packet, and we had to ask for pigs in blankets even though it was on the set menu. Stay away at all costs.

Food was amazing but our experience was made with Danny! Great recommendations for food and super friendly

Julianne really looked after us, we were a rowdy crowd and she handled us exceptionally.

Lively atmosphere, good beer, okay food

Very delicious food. It was a busy day during the Christmas time I was a bit disappointed as we came at 7pm and they did not have half of the pies anymore and we really wanted to try their steak and mushroom which was not available anymore. I get that it’s busy but 7pm is not that late and we had a reservation which is needed. The service was a bit slow but fitting to the amount of people. I would visit again but earlier or not on a Saturday as they might lack at calculating and planning

Great pub great food - the pies!!, the beer!! And so central.

Lovely staff but unfortunately the kitchen is serving awful food now. Used to be a top pub for food in London but today we (about 10 of us) sent back most of the turkey or beef roast lunch we ordered. Really sad demise and startlingly poor food.

A fantastic dinner! Staff is very warm and genuinely happy to be there, they were chatting to us like we were best friends and they were rushed off their feet. Pies recommended were divine, pastry was the best I ever tried in UK!!! We had the chicken and steak pies. Definitely worth a visit, the place is packed and we were lucky to get a table without reservation in the upstairs room. Our waitresses Veronica ( Victoria?) and Juleanne truly made our experience. We will come back in 2025 for sure!

Spectacular food and atmosphere. Recommended if you come to London. Authentic London atmosphere Now, be careful with service charges. Make it clear when you receive the bill that you do not want to pay the fee, which is nothing more and nothing less than 12.5% This is already a recommendation for almost all restaurants in London. I lowered it to 3 stars because after asking about the rate, even knowing what it was, they tried to convince me that it was something inevitable in the city. Food, attention and atmosphere of 10, a shame that because of these things you have an inferior experience.

There's no denying how sublime the pies are. However, on the two occasions I have been to the Windmill, I've ordered (and paid the extra £3 for) the venison pie, and instead been given the steak and mushroom. Hard to complain when they taste so good, but no refund was offered - and the second time it even happened after I told our waitress about the first time and she promised it wouldn't happen again. I'm beginning to wonder if they actually have any venison pies, or if they just serve everyone the steak and mushroom and hope nobody notices...

I ate the best pie in my life here! Steak & stilton pie, it was sublime!

Arrived for our dinner reservation and were seated. Waited 5 mins before going to the bar and asking for a menu. Waited another 10 mins and approached a waitress and asked if we could order and were told to sit and someone would be with us. Waited 10 mins again with no service, went to the same waitress again and asked if we could order. I was told “Yeah, I said I’d be right with you”. As I walked back to the table my partner told me that the waitress made a face at me behind my back. So we decided to leave. Atrocious customer service.

Our go to for a regular meet up and it never disappoints. Always friendly staff and great pies, plus a good pint/wine.

Danny was a dreamboat! Best scotch egg ever and the chillest service. 10/10, would recommend.

Danny was awesome ! Great customer service and good food recommendations

Stopped by for lunch with a few colleagues last week, the pub was very busy however Maggie managed to squeeze us in and provided great service that only enhanced the great food. Will return both due to the food and due to the service, makes such a difference when you have someone smiling, bubbly and attentive.

Our waitress Kasia was absolutely lovely and suggested excellent food and drinks, thank you

The steak and mushroom pie was absolutely delicious , and the battered fish was incredibly crispy and tasty. I would love to see the legendary steak and ale pie return to the menu in the near future. Thank you for a wonderful culinary experience 🍽️.

Excellent evening. The place is warm and authentic. The welcome and service are perfect. Our server Danny kindly helped us and gave us very good advice when choosing dishes and beers. He took his time even as we don't speak English very well. This is very appreciable. The dishes are really delicious. We will return there during our next stay in London 😀

First off I'll start with the positives: the staff were good and the general ambience was pleasant. However, the pies we had were shocking. At £25 per steak and stilton pie, you'd expect the meat to be edible but it was so, so very gristly that it was impossible to eat and actually very unpleasant in the mouth. My partner and I basically spent £50 on some pastry and a side of chips as the meat was awful and could not be consumed. We were part of a large group and others raved about their pies so we can only assume we were given some bits of meat that were that left over as there wasn't enough in the kitchen. Really disappointing. A third person in our group also had terrible meat in their steak and stilton pie.

Danny was an exceptional waiter. I will come back here just for him, but even if he wasn’t here, I will definitely come back for the excellent food and atmosphere !!

What a great hospitality! Cheers Danny!!

Danny was an excellent host, full of humour and stories of the pub. Food was great

I went to this pub with a friend who had never tried British pub food and wanted to impress him. I must say I completely achieved my goal!The food was outstanding,we tried their famous pies and did not regret it. The service we received from Danny was kind and professional and he gave us great recommendations.

Since years The Windmill is offering one of the best pub food I ever had in the Uk. Their awarded pies and Sunday roast are sensational. It is always a pleasure to be back there.

We loved it and Danny has been lovely and a wonderful server!

I would like to emphasise how brilliant the staff are especially Ana. Before experiencing a nice time at Windmill, I went to two other pubs and couldn't get a table which I guess was not just because it was full and busy, because it was the same for Windmill. Ana was different. She was super busy too but noticed me and set a table for me. She was attentive to everyone at the pub. I had a pint and tasty bangers and mash. Unforgettably, she kindly offered ale testings before ordering. I am glad I found this wonderful pub.

Great service and delicious food. We tried desserts and drank delicious tea, and Mrs. Magdalena made the visit even more successful. We will remember meeting a Polish woman as a waitress in an English pub on independence day, November 11, for a long time.

My steak and stilton pie was genuinely inedible. 5 cubes of steak, 4 were unchewable gristle and fat. hands down the worst pie I've ever been served. Mash and gravy was like the instant stuff you got in high school.

Marie was awesome! Great steak and mushroom pie

This is fantastic traditional pub in the heart of Mayfair. I've been coming here for 30 years for their fantastic pies but the last one was really disappointing, full of gristle and no meat. Everyone can have an off day I suppose.

Great food and lovely service! All dishes tasted amazing like omg. Our tables were a bit shaking but not so bad, though.

Very good food and service from Magdalena

Magda is a superstar!! Made our evening 🫶🏼

You should try stake and mushroom pie 🤩

Unfortunately the experience has been awful. We arrived and the restaurant was empty. They gave us a table in the middle and really noisy and asked to be moved to another table. They told us no even if some tables were left empty for the rest of our lunch. The food took more than an hour to arrive, and when it arrived half of the food on the plate was cold. The steak & stilton pie did not have any stilton (no taste of it!) Never again

[edited] came back on Sunday lunch for their pies. we were seated in the same ground floor restaurant room as the previous time. upon arrival at 1pm, it was already unbearably noisy despite being half empty. we asked to be moved to the pub/bar area, but were told it wasn't possible. it took 1h15' minutes for our pies to arrive!!! after 1h we asked if anything was wrong, to which we were told they had a private gathering upstairs that was taking precedence! abysmal. then the food: venison pies were great, but roasted vegetables and Yorkshire puddings were cold! the beef and stilton had no stilton. once again, we paid the bill and left without dessert as we couldn't bear the noise anymore. alas, for us it's now a write-off [original] went for lunch on a Sunday. it was very quiet on arrival (12:45) but, less than half an hour in, and the room we were in was jam packed, with tables very close to one another. food was good (fish pie, Wales pie, venison pie) as was service, but decided to leave without ordering dessert or extra drinks as we were tired of screaming just to hold a nice conversation. as we were leaving, we passed through the bar area and that was much more relaxed and quiet.

Ana was an amazing server who went above and beyond to help us! She was very attentive and made us feel like we had everything we needed! Food was amazing! Definitely get a pie! 😊

Ana was great to serve us, she made our night very pleasant and took care of us well

Excellent service and food from Ana

Fantastic meal and too notch service from Magdalena who kept a smile on our Son’s face all night! Thanks for the wonderful Elevening

Magdelena was excellent in looking after us!

Greatest pie in the area, and a reasonable price. Danny was a very helpful server today.

Not sure what to say, it was just all perfect! Great atmosphere, good selection of beers, fantastic food. Thanks to Ana Maria for the impeccable service! EDIT: it was so good that we decided to go back 2 days after to try some other plates, we were not disappointed!

The food here was okay but we waited forever for our food after ordering. Atmosphere was great and our server was very nice. Everything was just slow.

Took the 20 people here for a work event. Great food and vibes!

Fantastic pies ..I hade the chicken, leek, bacon....WOW! Also Ana (our waitress) was so sweet

The best meat pies in the city. Ana was our server and she was delightful and smiley the whole time. We are from the US and we googled “best meat pies” in the city. And it was spot on.

Brought my mom to London for her first trip to England and she had proper Sunday roast experience at Windmill. Fantastic. Service from Marie was lovely.

Had a great chicken, bacon and leek pie and partner had the beef roast. Such a lovely Sunday meal.

Had the pleasure of being served by Danny, quick and neat service, burger was excellent, thanks a lot will be back soon!

Food was great. Marie was an outstanding host, always smiling and making sure we have a good experience at the Pub.

Nice pub in the heart of the city, Famous for their pie 🥧 I took the steak and Stilton pie it’s was nice but maybe just for my taste not so good maybe the mushroom can be better? but all my friends were happy with their pie they said was really good The dessert nothing special we could have avoided them The service tho is nice and friendly It was really busy on a Friday night if you want to eat you need to book and I find it a bit expensive 25£ for a pie but I understand they are famous for that and they are in the city centre Anyway you can try and give it a go ! I don’t think you gonna be disappointed Thanks!

Great pies and friendly service! We recommend the chicken & bacon pie.

This place was fabulous! The pies were amazing and the service was very attentive, Ana was great. Would definitely recommend!

The service was a little slow in general, we ordered the meat pie that the waitress recommended with meat and mushrooms and it was a success, it was delicious!!

If you like English pub atmosphere, this place is perfect. You can drink a good beer there or sit down for a good British meal. The pies were very good and the typical desserts were up to par. We had a great time, thanks in particular to Ana who was very warm. Be careful not to expect to be quiet, it remains a bar.

Danny was fabulous. What a friendly guy! It was a pleasure meeting him!