Urban Bar, Whitechapel

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Being painted in a garish black and orange colour scheme means the Urban Bar is the second building you'll notice on leaving Whitechapel tube station - the first is the Royal London, dead opposite the station - but we'll leave the environmental considerations to other authorities and concentrate on what you find inside. Mercifully, the pub's interior is nowhere near as strident - colourful, naturally, it feels like a cross between a café and trendy bar. However, a look along the bar itself shows a good ranges of decent beers on the hand pumps as well as the lagers, wines, shots and alcopops you'd expect of a place like this. There's a very cheap menu on offer - mostly around the £6 mark and the service is fine. Midweek the clientele is a curious mix of locals - not many of them in white coats and dressing gowns, but gets younger and trendier as we head towards the weekend. You wouldn't go out of your way to come here, but if you're hungry and thirsty after a hospital/market visit, it's not a bad bet.
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20 Jan 2013
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The place has changed a lot since the dodgy tiger striped bar of old! Cosy, friendly, welcoming. Jukebox, hot food, gigs and comedy nights.
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176 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London, E1 1BJ

020 7247 8978

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Comedy night - Free, on Sundays!

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Get to Whitechapel station. Walk outside. Look straight ahead! Right opposite Whitechapel Tube station for the overground, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, with a bus stop directly outside for the 25, 205, 254, 741, 742, D1, 744 and night bus 253

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A friendly, warm and welcoming pub conveniently located right opposite Whitechapel Tube station! We serve food until late every day. We have roast dinners and open mic comedy every Sunday, salsa classes upstairs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and all kinds of fantastic bands and DJs at the weekends, plus the odd film night and pub quiz thrown in for good measure. We are available to be booked out for private parties and for bands to play live. Just give us a bell on 02072478978. We love new customers, come in and make us smile :)

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