Zigfrid / Underbelly, Old Street  rated1 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

location:

Old Street

address:

11 Hoxton Square, N1 6NV

phone:

0871 258 6450*
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nearest stations:

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

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(630m) - zone 2

Liverpool Street Railway stationLondon Underground station
(1.1Km) - zone 1

Moorgate Railway stationLondon Underground station
(1.1Km) - zone 1

Barbican Railway stationLondon Underground station
(1.3Km) - zone 1

how to find it:

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 left hand fork down Old Street Street. Carry on along Old Street until you get to the junction with Rufus Street on your right. Turn right into Rufus Street and then left and right into Hoxton Square. The bar is up on the left in the North West corner.

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nearby attraction(s):

Geffrye Museum (560m)

Bunhill Fields (660m)

Brick Lane (1.1Km)

picture of Zigfrid Underbelly
If it's in Hoxton Square, it must be cool, or so it seems to many people. Well we hate to disappoint you, but in this instance, we feel that this place never really had it in the first place. It ought to be OK - there's a decent range of drink - including its own Zigfrid beer - and the food isn't bad and not overpriced. The interior is pretty conventional and there's a wide range of seating, but, as ever, it's small things that let it down adding up to a disappointing experience overall. For example, the lights were nearly completely extinguished when it was decided a little more atmosphere was necessary and at the same time the music was cranked up to warzone levels when there was hardly anyone in the place - effectively rendering our continued eating and conversation impossible. If it was a ploy to rid the place of people deemed by the management to be uncool, it worked - we left.

reviewed:
6/3/2004
reviewed by pubdog
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