Griffin, Shoreditch

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location:

Shoreditch

address:

93 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RD

phone:

0871 258 9637*
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nearest stations:

Old Street railway station London Underground station
(390m) - zone 1

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(420m) - zone 2

Liverpool Street railway station London Underground station
(790m) - zone 1

Moorgate railway station London Underground station
(830m) - zone 1

Barbican railway station London Underground station
(1.1Km) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Old Street head down City Road towards Moorgate, take the first left and walk down Leonard Street until you almost reach the junction with Ravey Street (great name) nearly at the end. The pub is on the left.

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nearby attraction(s):

Bunhill Fields (470m)

Spitalfields Market (730m)

Geffrye Museum (850m)

Street View - click to see the area around the Griffin

Out of hours, people might feel sorry for the Griffin because it looks so lonely and run down, standing forlornly on the corner of a largely barren plot in an otherwise built-up area. But they needn't worry - when it's open this place is absolutely rammed, so much so, we gave up trying to get a drink here and went elsewhere. The Griffin is still the unreconstructed, undeconstructed boozer it always was, but nowadays it's been discovered and appears to be the gathering place of choice for the young arty set around here. Whilst we wish every success on pubs that do the right thing (as this one does, in our opinion) we do find it more than a little irksome that one of our favourites, is for the time being, out of bounds. A victim of its own success, perhaps, we will be back when things cool off a little.

reviewed:
15/07/2009