location:
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.
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nearby attraction(s):
Spitalfields Market (230m)
Brick Lane (450m)
Petticoat Lane (530m)
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.
reviewed:
29/10/2009
29/10/2009
pub features:(click on an icon to see an explanation)
Sky TV (big screens)
function room for hire
rear courtyard
two pool tables
comedy cellar, open Thursdays
second opinion:
Have your say! - 4 comments on this pub - click to add your own comment
posted by cwmkirk - Tuesday 6th July, 2010, 11:02am
Good Pub - Ticks all the boxes - Loads of space decent beer and lagers and if you are a smoker (I am not)lots of covered outside space - Good atmosphere too --posted by rupert - Tuesday 4th March, 2008, 11:37pm
this is a great pub.posted by rupert - Tuesday 4th March, 2008, 11:36pm
This is my new local, and what a find it is. I found it on a Sunday and had the best roast beef I've eaten. Played pool and watched the footie. Had a cigarette in the heated garden. A perfect Sunday afternoon. They even have jazz sometimes. It's good during the week too.posted by tillibird - Thursday 9th August, 2007, 11:43am
Went on a Saturday.... it was shut.... add your own comment
