Bars & Pubs

Rhythm Factory

During the day this east London institution is a quiet place filled with high chairs, good coffee, Thai food and continental vibes. By night, however, myriad club...

Whitechapel: 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW

Distance: 0.1 mls

Pride of Spitalfields

Tucked down a side street, the Pride steadily walks its time-honoured path, treating decks and the £20 pub roast as figments of a fetid imagination. Excellently kept...

Brick Lane: 3 Heneage Street, E1 5LJ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Gramaphone

This cavernous bar-club is owned by the same people as the Rhythm Factory on Whitechapel Road, which explains the quality of the nights put on in the ground-floor room...

Shoreditch: 60-62 Commercial Street, E1 6LT

Distance: 0.3 mls

Ten Bells

The Ten Bells' location, between Liverpool Street and Brick Lane, and dishevelled scruff-bag charm ensures it's packed to within an inch of its life with fashionable...

Shoreditch: 84 Commercial Street, E1 6LY

Distance: 0.4 mls

Exit

'Mark Plays Good House Music' said the sandwich board outside - and indeed he did. This tiny venue on Brick Lane follows the DJ bar template to the letter: front...

Brick Lane: 174 Brick Lane, E1 6RU

Distance: 0.4 mls

The Golden Heart

Landlady Sandra Esqulant has been the hand on the pump at this classic east London boozer for 30 years, and if it's gained a reputation in the last ten or so of them...

City: 110 Commercial Street, E1 6LZ

Distance: 0.4 mls

93 Feet East

There's plenty to be grateful for here, with a great courtyard that wraps right around the back, a large balcony terrace, a 'Pink' bar crammed full of welcoming sofas,...

Shoreditch: 150 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

Distance: 0.4 mls

Big Chill Bar

The Big Chill dishes up drinks and dance music in a setting relaxed enough to take in all-comers, from straggly kids to grey-haired know-betters. A bull's head with...

Brick Lane: Old Truman Brewery, off Brick Lane, E1 6QL

Distance: 0.4 mls

Café 1001

Laid-back, bohemian and artfully shambolic, Café 1001 has been dishing up breakfasts, coffees and experimental beats to E1's starving artists and hungover wastrels...

Brick Lane: 1 Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

Distance: 0.4 mls

Vibe Bar

The vibe here is classic student party, especially when a band bring all their friends ('We're huge in Suffolk!' announced a wispy-haired singer, trying to flog copies...

Brick Lane: Old Truman Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

Distance: 0.4 mls

Pipeline

Scandic rock bar with a twist of irony

City: 94 Middlesex St, E1 7DA

Distance: 3563.5 mls

Carpenter's Arms

This was once a right naughty little boozer deep in East End gangsterland. It was bought by the Kray twins in 1967 for their dear old mum, Violet. Used as a safe spot...

Bethnal Green: 73 Cheshire Street, E2 6EG

Distance: 0.5 mls

Grapeshots (branch of Davy's)

Whitechapel: 2-3 Artillery Passage, E1 7LJ

Distance: 0.5 mls

Hawksmoor

NB In October 2009 head barman Nick Stangeway left Hawksmoor to work at Mark's Bar, Hix, in Soho. The review below relates only to the prior period when Strangeway was...

City: 157 Commercial Street, E1 6BJ

Distance: 0.5 mls

Mary Jane's

With its happy hour, an A-board outside advertising private hire for Christmas parties and a menu that boasts 'the most fun, fabulous and flirty drinks list in the...

City: 124-127 Minories, EC3N 1NT

Distance: 0.5 mls

Commercial Tavern

It's hard not to like the current incarnation of this landmark flatiron corner pub, with its inspired chaos of retro-eccentric decor and warm, inclusive atmosphere. It...

Shoreditch: 142 Commercial Street, E1 6NU

Distance: 0.5 mls

Water Poet

A multi-tasking bar, restaurant and cool pool-parlour

Shoreditch: Water Poet, 9-11 Folgate St, E1 6BX

Distance: 0.6 mls

Corney & Barrow

City: 37A Jewry Street, EC3N 2EX

Distance: 0.6 mls

Jamies

City: 119-121 The Minories, EC3N 1DR

Distance: 0.6 mls

Beach Blanket Babylon

Partner to the Notting Hill establishment of the same name, BBB east is well situated a stone's throw from both the swanky Loungelover bar and Les Trois Garçons...

Shoreditch: 19-23 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA

Distance: 0.6 mls

Green & Red

This Mexican bar/cantina - not themed as such but dressed in neatly appropriate bar shack distressed wood and generic Latin American propaganda posters - is an...

Shoreditch: 51 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA

Distance: 0.6 mls

Redchurch

This little DJ bar has two advantages over fellow Underdog-owned venue Green & Red: later opening and surprisingly good beer, including Brooklyn and Anchor Steam...

Bethnal Green: 107 Redchurch Street, E2 7DL

Distance: 0.6 mls

Loungelover

Owned by the same concern as the feted Les Trois Garçons restaurant around the corner, this famously louche cocktail lounge may have had some of its thunder stolen by...

Shoreditch: 1 Whitby Street, E1 6JU

Distance: 0.6 mls

Balls Brothers

City: 158 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4LN

Distance: 0.6 mls

Balls Brothers

City: Bury Court, 38 St Mary Axe, EC3A 8EX

Distance: 0.6 mls

Dion City

City: 52-56 Leadenhall Street, EC3A 2BJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Drunken Monkey

Some of the Chinese theming at this dim sum destination is a bit hokey and the music can be ear-splittingly loud, but this is a great bar - which means it's seriously...

Shoreditch: 222 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6PJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Light Bar & Restaurant

Light manages the unusual trick of being a damn sight groovier when it's quiet and you can savour the hip grandeur of its cavernous main room, exposed brickwork...

Shoreditch: 233 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6PJ

Distance: 0.6 mls

Willy's Wine Bar (branch of Jamies)

City: 107 Fenchurch Street, EC3M 5JF

Distance: 0.7 mls