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Palm Tree

127 Grove Road, E3 5BH Full details & map

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Time Out says 7 Users say 4/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Jun 30 2010

This is a glorious old East End boozer, albeit one cast adrift in the green acres of Mile End Park, nestled up against the Regent's Canal. You can run through a checklist of trad features - shelf of china plates, dried hops hung in a corner, London Fives dartboard, signed pictures of 'celebrity' drinkers (Jim Bowen being one of the few you might recognise) above the oval central bar but that doesn't do it justice.

Yes, the shiny copper-coloured metallic wallpaper provides the wonderful light, but the place also has a great mix of punters: the more enterprising students from the university across the canal and sundry nutters from the nearby climbing wall brush shoulders with the suit-and-sovereign old blokes and their wives, who breeze in from the estate for the weekend singalongs.

Beer-lovers do best, with a couple of interesting guests always on tap; wine, on the other hand, comes from a Stowells dispenser behind the bar.

Tags: Local flavour, Speciality beers, East, Mile End, Pub

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Palm Tree details

Address

Palm Tree

127 Grove Road E3 5BH

Transport Mile End tube or bus 8, 25

Telephone

020 8980 2918

Open noon-midnight Mon-Thur; noon-2am Fri, Sat; noon-1am Sun (last admission 10.45pm)

Facilities

Tables outdoors ( 4, park ), Entertainment ( musicians 9.45pm Fri, Sat; 9pm Sun )

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Comments & ratings 4/5 (Average of 7 ratings)

By weatheredbelle - Nov 13 2011

i paint my lips, pillar box red....

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By Zef - Oct 30 2011

5/5

Had a great evening there with the live music. The patrons are wonderfully diverse, a sign of a great pub. Amazing atmosphere and great drinks. Best pub I have been to in ages.

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By Bee - Oct 23 2011

5/5

This is the hidden gem you must to see in London. Please go on a live music night...

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By Vincent - May 4 2011

4/5

Awesome band, blues singers, wallpaper on we and great on sunny day as it s right in mile end park!

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By Nikos - Apr 2 2011

1/5

I'm deeply disappointed with this pub.
I was there recently with two lesbian friends of mine, and when the staff saw them kissing, they asked them to stop. They said they don't consider it proper to express intimacy in the pub, and when I asked them if they would treat a straight couple the same way, they insisted they would, although I've been there many times and I've often seen straight people kissing and not being asked to stop.
I found this not only homophobic but also hypocritical.