Bars & Pubs

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: 0.1 mls

Book Club

Creative cafe-club in Shoreditch

Shoreditch: 100 Leonard St, EC2A 4RH

Distance: 0.1 mls

Three Blind Mice

Renamed after an album by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, this basement bar was previously called Smersh. But if the owners are redecorating, it's clearly a work in...

Shoreditch: 5 Ravey Street, EC2A 4QW

Distance: 0.2 mls

Great Eastern

This broodingly handsome Will Ricker bar-restaurant serves high-end cocktails and exquisite dim sum bar snacks (four cubes of crispy pork belly with black vinegar,...

Hoxton: 54-56 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3QR

Distance: 0.2 mls

Fox

A real post-work magnet on Thursday and Friday nights, when you can hardly see the bar for bodies, the Fox is a delight the rest of the week. Plus points include an...

Shoreditch: 28 Paul Street, EC2A 4LB

Distance: 0.2 mls

Corney & Barrow

City: 5 Exchange Square, EC2A 2EH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Davy's at Exchange Square

City: 2 Exchange Square, EC2A 2EH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Cantaloupe

One of the Shoreditch originals, Cantaloupe has long since eased into a comfy chair to let the young guns tire themselves out at the cutting edge. It simply carries on...

Shoreditch: 35-42 Charlotte Road, EC2A 3PD

Distance: 0.2 mls

Pulpit (branch of Davy's)

Shoreditch: 63 Worship Street, EC2A 2DU

Distance: 0.2 mls

Hoxton Pony

Just another so-so ShoHo bar?

Shoreditch: 104-108 Curtain Rd, EC2A 3AH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Water Poet

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

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

Distance: 0.2 mls

Boundary Rooftop

Roof terrace quaffing

Shoreditch: 2-4 Boundary Street (entrance at 9 Redchurch St), E2 7DD

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Foundry

The name suggests industry, but the Foundry, stuck right in Shoreditch's epicentre, goes for an artfully tatty look. Old school chairs and scruffy sofas sit alongside...

Shoreditch: 84-86 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3JL

Distance: 0.2 mls

Princess

Just like the Fox down the road, the Princess has a ground floor bar topped by a very decent restaurant. The differences are all about style. The look here is less pub...

Shoreditch: 76-78 Paul Street, EC2A 4NE

Distance: 0.2 mls

Princess of Shoreditch

Gastropub with fine dining upstairs

Shoreditch: 76-78 Paul St, EC2A 4NE

Distance: 0.2 mls

Favela Chic

With its odious name and a website that gabbles on about 'a big eclectic family that has grown organically throughout time', it's easy to distrust this ultra-hip...

Shoreditch: 91-93 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HZ

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

East Village

Small club, big line-ups, they say - and we wholeheartedly agree. Since the place formerly known as Medicine Bar opened in February 2008, with a classy facelift and...

Hoxton: 89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX

Distance: 0.2 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: 0.2 mls

Callooh Callay

Quirky Carroll-inspired cocktail bar

Shoreditch: 65 Rivington St, EC2A 3AY

Distance: 0.2 mls

Cargo

While much of Shoreditch concerns itself with how you look while you're dancing, Cargo's only concern is what you're dancing to. Tinkering for tinkering's sake is out;...

Shoreditch: 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY

Distance: 0.2 mls

Plastic People

Dark basement? Check. A swung cat would brush its ears on all four walls? Check. A sound system that has had songs written about it? Check - and how! Forward has long...

Shoreditch: 147-149 Curtain Road, EC2A 3QE

Distance: 0.3 mls

Bar Kick

A big square room with a bar on the right, open kitchen straight ahead, flags of all nations tacked to the ceiling and, yes, rarely unemployed foosball tables under...

Shoreditch: 127 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JE

Distance: 0.3 mls

Reliance

This small, rather awkwardly shaped bar with worn floorboards, rough brickwork and the vague air of a Parisian bistro could do with being double the size, so...

Shoreditch: 336 Old Street, EC1V 9DR

Distance: 0.3 mls

Prophet (branch of Balls Brothers)

City: 5-11 Worship Street, EC2A 2BH

Distance: 0.3 mls

Sosho

If it’s well-executed cocktails you’re after, this east London outpost of the Match bar empire delivers the goods. Fruity concoctions include the Space Gin Smash...

Shoreditch: 2 Tabernacle Street, EC2A 4LU

Distance: 0.3 mls

The East Room

This cracking bar shares the same conceit of faux-exclusivity as its established Soho sibling, Milk & Honey. That is, anyone can get in before 11pm, as long as they...

Shoreditch: 2a Tabernacle St, EC2A 4LU

Distance: 0.3 mls

333

A haven for the area's cutting-edge crowd for more than ten years, this three-floored, no-frills party space has found its feet again thanks to quality house nights...

Shoreditch: 333 Old Street, EC1V 9LE

Distance: 0.3 mls