Cantaloupe Bar & Restaurant, Shoreditch

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location:

Shoreditch

address:

35 Charlotte Road, EC2A 3PD

phone:

0871 258 6449*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(380m) - zone 2

Old Street Railway station London Underground station
(460m) - zone 1

Liverpool Street Railway station London Underground station
(860m) - zone 1

Moorgate Railway station London Underground station
(930m) - zone 1

Aldgate East London Underground station
(1.2Km) - zone 1

how to find it:

Liverpool Street, head out of the Station by the Bishopsgate Exit, turn left and head up towards the junction with Great Eastern Street, cross the street and head left up Great Eastern Street to the junction with Charlotte Road on your right. Turn right into Charlotte Road and you'll see the place just in front of you on your right. Old Street: Leave by an Old Street (East) exit and down Old Street, past the fire station. When you get to the main junction, with the traffic lights, take the right hand fork down Great Eastern Street. Charlotte Street will be on your left, a few minutes walk down the road.

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nearby attraction(s):

Bunhill Fields (560m)

Spitalfields Market (730m)

Brick Lane (890m)

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The strident, heady days of the dot com boom are well behind this locale now, but the whole area is still trendy bar city. Cantaloupe can lay fair claim to being one of the bars (if not the bar) that established the area as the Capital's capital of cool. Things are somewhat more tranquil than they used to be - although the weekend evenings are still pretty busy - and it is a decent place to relax on a weekend afternoon (actually, it can get very quiet sometimes). There aren't any real beers on tap - it's not that sort of place, but there are plenty of continental beers (including the original Bud) and not a bad pint of Guinness. Wine and spirit drinkers have far more choice, which after all is the main thrust of the place. The restaurant's OK too. If you can bag the squashy settees in the back room, you can have a pretty chilled afternoon - and that's what we tend to do here.

reviewed:
30/07/2008