The Gun, Spitalfields

pub details:

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location:

Spitalfields

address:

54 Brushfield Street, E1 6AG

phone:

0871 984 1306*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

Liverpool Street London Underground station Railway station
(420m) - zone 1

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(480m) - zone 2

Aldgate East London Underground station
(480m) - zone 1

Aldgate London Underground station
(530m) - zone 1

Fenchurch Street Railway station
(820m)

how to find it:

From Liverpool Street: take the Bishopsgate exit from the station and cross over immediately. Turn left and take the third right into Brushfield Street heading toward Spitalfields Market. The pub is about two minutes walk on the right hand side. From Aldgate and Aldgate East: turn left out of the station and carry on until you reach Commercial Street (it's just next to Aldgate East). Turn left and Brushfield Street is about 5-10 minutes walk up the street. Turn left into Brushfield Street and the pub is on the next corner on the left.

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nearby attraction(s):

Spitalfields Market (90m)

Petticoat Lane Market (280m)

Brick Lane (330m)

picture of The Gun Many pubs in the Spitalfields area are reinventing themselves as "Bohemian" bars with crappy furniture, louder than usual music, candles, foreign sounding menus, Smirnoff Ice and all that. Thankfully, this pub has stuck to its Guns and presents itself as that increasingly hard to find venue - the traditional boozer. It's a regulars' pub, with blokes (mostly) from the offices nearby being ably catered for with decent beer - Broadside, Bombardier, IPA and Deuchars on the hand pumps - food and service with the occasional sporting event on the telly. The upstairs restaurant seems to do a roaring trade at lunchtimes - and the Masons used to meet here, which makes the place all the more interesting.