The Cock Tavern, Walthamstow

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location:

Walthamstow

address:

67 High Street, E17 7DB

phone:

0871 258 7664*
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nearest stations:

St. James Street railway station
(270m)

Walthamstow Central railway station London Underground station
(660m) - zone 3

Blackhorse Road railway station
(930m) - zone 3

how to find it:

From St James train station, exit right and right again at the Oxfam onto the High Street. The pubs is a few minutes walk up on the left.

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Not unattractive from the outside (despite the wooden slatted blinds which always look wrong in pubs) the Cock Tavern is nonetheless a rather standard, slightly run-down boozer. It's not often we come across places where we think it would benefit from a deep clean, but the smoking ban has highlighted how many people must've once smoked in here. The back is dominated by a giant footy screen (at least when a match is on) and the usual pool, darts and fruit machines make up the other entertainment. We've only visit during the daytime on a weekend, so we've always found it pretty popular, with a mix of E17 residents: market folk, older blokes, shoppers and regulars. Night times here (which are accompanied by a late licence) probably offer up a different experience to the one we had.

reviewed:
29/09/2007