The Blind Beggar E1 1BU (Tube: Whitechapel)
Not without trepidation do I write an unflattering review about this particular drinking establishment and if I’m ever in there again when The Waverly Brothers start singing I’ll be leaving very […]
Category Archives: East London
The Florists Arms E2 0JD (Tube: Bethnal Green)
Most of the time I wander through life showered with disappointments. From the moment I wake up with a head that feels like it’s being excavated by overenthusiastic borrowers to […]
The Market Porter SE1 9AA (Tube: London Bridge)
When there is a sign next to the bar which announces opening times from 6am – 8.30am then you know you’re onto a winner. The Market Porter is nestled right […]
The Owl and Pussycat E2 7PD (Tube: Shoreditch High Street)
There are many pubs I visit on a regular basis for one reason or another. I go to The Old Ship because it’s nearby and friendly, The Griffin because it’s […]
Pub on The Park E8 3PE (Train: London Fields)
Parks are interesting places in London. They’re a refuge for dog walkers, disenfranchised youths, creepy loners and nature enthusiasts. In winter they’re hopelessly desolate. In summer they’re often teeming with […]
The Cat and Mutton E8 4QJ (Train: London Fields)
The Cat and Mutton proudly boasts that it has been present in some form in the east end since the late 1600’s albeit under a slightly different name as The […]
Nelsons Head E2 7EH (Tube: Hoxton/ Old Street)
Fittingly this pub is on Horatio Street forming a nice little tribute to everybody’s favourite one armed one eyed Napoleonic era Vice-Admiral. I find this particularly apt as the Nelsons […]
The Old Ship E14 7NW (Tube: Limehouse)
I’ve never really found it difficult to write a review before. It’s pretty straight forward to mercilessly lambast anywhere that’s truly dreadful (The Star of Kings, The Draft House) and […]
The Grapes E14 8BP (Tube: Westferry)
In a part of London called Limehouse there stood a pub. Not a nasty, overcrowded, touristy pub, filled with wheely suitcases and suspicious smells, nor yet a deserted, bare, lonely […]
The Trafalgar Tavern SE10 9NW (Tube: Cutty Sark)
We arrived at The Trafalgar Tavern ‘one pint minutes’ too soon, having done a whip-lash inducing about turn in The Yacht a few yards down the road. Proper pubs do […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 