location:
Spitalfields
address:
9-11 Folgate Street, E1 6BX
phone:
0871 258 7470*
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bus route:
149 
how to find it:
Exit Liverpool Street station onto Bishopsgate and turn left. Carry on up Bishopsgate, cross the road and after a few minutes take a right down Folgate Street. The pub is on your left.
nearby attraction(s):
Spitalfields Market (230m)
Brick Lane (450m)
Petticoat Lane (530m)

Street View -
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If you're looking for a smart boozer, you've come to the wrong place, this pub has thrown its heart and soul into the scruffy Bohemian trendy bar look and pulled it off. It's a huge place with rooms seemingly in all directions and even a large outside space - obviously devoted to smoking with the ban. The beer's pretty good with offerings such Flower's, and Landlord on the hand pumps and the usual bar type stuff you expect in a place like this. The clientele is very mixed, but they seem to mix happily, nevertheless, as everybody's here for a good time and, by Jove, they get one. There's just one caveat - it can get pretty crowded in the evenings, particularly when some enterprising soul books one of the back room or a section of the garden. As we said of its previous incarnation, the old Pewter Platter tavern, you could do far worse in this neck of the woods.
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