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Dove Kitchen & Freehouse
Bars & PubsPerhaps it's the draw of the wonderful beer selection (over 100 Belgian beers, 17 beers on tap, including Delirium Tremens 9%, Belle-Vue Kriek and Früli, at least...
Hackney: 24-28 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ
Distance: 0 mls
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Bistrotheque
Bars & PubsOff an unprepossessing street in Hackney, its entrance marked only by a planter and some smoking tables, Bistrotheque's narrow ground-floor Napoleon bar is sombre and...
Bethnal Green: 23-27 Wadeson Street, E2 9DR
Distance: 0.3 mls
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Prince Arthur
Bars & PubsAnother Martin brothers enterprise. Outside the imposing three-storey building, large coaching lamps preside over four trestle tables; within, the pub is compact and...
Hackney: 95 Forest Road, E8 3BH
Distance: 0.5 mls
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Spurstowe
Bars & PubsThe Spurstowe's deep main room is an impressive version of gastro-standard decor: burnished bronze suns and rococo mirrors join the bare bricks and distressed wood,...
Hackney: 68 Greenwood Road, E8 1AB
Distance: 0.6 mls
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Approach Tavern
Bars & PubsComfortably negotiating Bethnal Green's changing fortunes, the Approach sticks to a tried and trusted formula: good beer plus good food equals good pub. The pumps have...
Bethnal Green: 47 Approach Road, E2 9LY
Distance: 0.6 mls
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Royal Oak
GastropubsRammed to the gunwales with vintage-clad creatives, the Royal Oak wasn't performing as it might on our recent Saturday night visit. There's a handsome, oval, central...
Shoreditch: 73 Columbia Road, E2 7RG
Distance: 0.6 mls
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Prince George
Bars & PubsThanks to a plug in the NME, one of Hackney's finest is now (on a Saturday night at least) wall-to-wall ironic outfits. We saw beauties (and a few beasties) sporting...
Dalston: 40 Parkholme Road, E8 3AG
Distance: 0.6 mls
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Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
Bars & PubsTucked down a Bethnal Green side street, this East End working men's club has been responsible for the whole burlesque and variety show explosion. It might look like...
Bethnal Green: 42 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
Distance: 0.7 mls
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Empress of India
GastropubsWith mosaic floor tiling and mussel-shell chandeliers, the airy, conservatory-feel Empress usually hums with diners contentedly tucking into the likes of veal ossobuco...
Victoria Park: 130 Lauriston Road, E9 7LH
Distance: 0.7 mls
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Camel
Bars & PubsThe Camel is a low-key local favourite. Lovely plain brown exterior tiles, an etched Camel mirror and archive shots offer reminders of its past, while dark wallpaper...
Bethnal Green: 277 Globe Road, E2 0JD
Distance: 0.7 mls
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Florist
Bars & PubsThe barmaid rather charmingly refused to make us a martini on our most recent visit to the Florist because she didn't know how - a sign things are now a little less...
Bethnal Green: 255 Globe Road, E2 0JD
Distance: 0.7 mls
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Royal Inn on the Park
Bars & PubsWreaths of lights in the windows of this imposing former hotel, whose hugely popular beer garden backs right on to Victoria Park, makes an appropriate welcome to the...
Victoria Park: 111 Lauriston Road, E9 7HJ
Distance: 0.7 mls
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Pembury Tavern
Bars & PubsThis vast, brightly lit bar room feels disappointingly like a youth hostel canteen, but 16 handpumps - mostly fine real ale from Cambridge's Milton Brewery (Pegasus,...
Hackney: 90 Amhurst Road, E8 1JH
Distance: 0.9 mls
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Carpenter's Arms
Bars & PubsThis 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: 0.9 mls
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George & Dragon
Bars & PubsLuring trendy kids in skinny jeans and black eyeliner, the George & Dragon is scruffy but stylish. It's a cosy space with crimson walls and a womb-like interior...
Shoreditch: 2 Hackney Road, E2 7NS
Distance: 0.9 mls
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Anda de Bridge
Bars & PubsThe bridge in question may be a particularly shabby piece of town planning, but Anda de Bridge makes a reasonable fist of bringing some Caribbean bonhomie to...
Shoreditch: 42-44 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA
Distance: 0.9 mls
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Catch
Bars & PubsAn engagingly mixed up beast, this poky late-night bar/club has the trademarks of a trendsters' hangout and the atmosphere of a student union. This means you get...
Shoreditch: 22 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA
Distance: 0.9 mls
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dreambagsjaguarshoes
Bars & PubsStill as painfully trendy as the day it first opened, this bar - the result of two shops being banged together - offers a fast-track education in what made (and...
Shoreditch: 34-36 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA
Distance: 0.9 mls
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Prague
Bars & PubsWith its unassuming front and proximity to a perennially busy intersection, you could be forgiven for giving Prague a miss. But that'd be a mistake, because whether...
Shoreditch: 6 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA
Distance: 0.9 mls
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Redchurch
Bars & PubsThis 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: 0.9 mls
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Scolt Head
Bars & PubsIn a corner of Hackney where pool tables and a giant TV are still a prerequisite for survival, the Scolt Head has been smartened up. New owner Rosie Haines tore out...
Dalston: 107A Culford Road, N1 4HT
Distance: 1 mls
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