Pride of Spitalfields, Spitalfields  fancyapint.com rated pub, rated4 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

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location:

Spitalfields

address:

3 Heneage Street, E1 5LJ

phone:

0871 258 8506*
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nearest stations:

Aldgate East London Underground station
(430m) - zone 1

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(620m) - zone 2

Aldgate London Underground station
(640m) - zone 1

Whitechapel London Underground station
(650m) - zone 2

Liverpool Street railway stationLondon Underground station
(820m) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Aldgate East, turn left to go up Whitechapel High Street. Turn left when you reach Brick Lane. Heneage Street is about halfway up Brick Lane on the right. From Liverpool Street, cross Bishopsgate and make your way down one of the side streets to Spitalfields Market. Cross Commercial Street opposite the Wren-designed Christ Church. Head down Fournier Street and you'll hit Brick Lane, turn right, and it's first on your left.

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nearby attraction(s):

Brick Lane (110m)

Whitechapel Gallery (330m)

Spitalfields Market (350m)

picture of Pride of Spitalfields
The Pride of Spitalfields is a lovely old boozer just off Brick Lane. Formerly the Romford Arms, this place is warm and cosy with a pleasingly wooded interior, old pictures and hundreds of beer bottles lining the walls. The staff are friendly and offer up a good range of well-kept beers (Fullers, usually - and guests). It can get pretty crowded at night with punters drawn from all shades of East End society - old Cockneys, Bangladeshi restaurant staff and artsy types - but it's all very friendly and harmonious. Away from weekend nights its less busy and consequently rather more relaxing, but either way it's definitely worth a visit whenever you're passing. If only the real world was more like this.

reviewed:
25/04/2009
reviewed by sokolov

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good beer served - click for explanationregular guest beers

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posted by Samuel Lloyd - Tuesday 16th March, 2010, 10:54am
I'd always liked this pub, and being the closest pub to my house I've had more than my fair share of pints in there, but a couple of times I've been in recently I've heard things from the patrons which changed my mind. On Sunday, I left half a pint and left after the comments from one chap. It was busy on Brick Lane and I commneted on this. The guy started being racist about the 'non-white' locals, banging on about the BNP and how it's like a zoo around here, much to the amusement of some other locals. I know pubs are places of banter where people go to put the world to rights, but to hear open racism in a pub in one the most historic multicultural areas of London annoyed me so much. Do we really have to put up with racist nonsense just for commenting how busy it is? I've had my last pint there.
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