Italian restaurant near Lamb's Conduit StreetFiena on Judd Street, a 10-minute walk

The street takes its name from Lamb's Conduit, originally called the Holborn Conduit: a cistern fed by a dam across a tributary of the River Fleet. In 1564, William Lambe gave £1,500, an enormous sum at the time, to rebuild it. He also provided 120 pails so that poor women could make a living selling the water. The conduit piped water as far as Snow Hill, but it became less important once the New River opened in 1613, and it was demolished in 1746.

You can still find traces of it. On the side of a 1950s building at the corner of Lamb's Conduit Street and Long Yard, a stone reads: "Lamb's Conduit, the property of the City of London. This pump was erected for the benefit of the Publick". At the north end of the street, where it meets Guilford Street, there's a fountain built in 1870, on what was once the boundary between Holborn and St Pancras. The Heritage of London Trust spent £17,000 restoring it in 2024.

Today the street is known for its many independent traders, and for The Lamb, a Grade II-listed pub. The hymn writer John Mason Neale was born at number 40, and Virginia Woolf used the street's architecture in her 1922 novel Jacob's Room: "The bitter eighteenth century rain rushed down the Kennel." Background from Wikipedia's Lamb's Conduit Street page.

From The Lamb, at the north end of the street, it's about 720 metres on foot to our door at 4 Medway Court, Judd Street, roughly a 10-minute walk heading north-west through Bloomsbury (walking route from OpenStreetMap). If you've been visiting the area's museums, see our posts on the Foundling Museum, the Charles Dickens Museum and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Morning: we open at 08:00 every day and serve our breakfast menu until 14:00, so a late breakfast after a browse is easy. The menu includes the Fiena English breakfast and the Classic Benedict, with Italian coffee alongside. See our posts on breakfast until 2pm and Italian coffee.

Lunch and dinner: the main menu starts at midday, with pasta such as Linguine Fiena and Spaghetti carbonara, pizzas, risotto, grills and fish. Drinks, including cocktails and spritzes, are served from 10:30. See our posts on pasta at Fiena and aperitivo hour.

Plenty of our guests find us on foot. Tina wrote about an Interesting walk from Euston station as well via the back streets. (Tina, Google review) And Celia called us A hidden gem not far from Kings Cross or Euston (Celia, Google review).

“The Linguini Fiena was honestly one of the best pasta dishes I've ever had.”

Robin, Google review, 2026