The Dolphin, Hackney

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location:

Hackney

address:

165 Mare Street, E8 3RH

phone:

0871 258 7383*
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nearest stations:

London Fields railway station
(150m)

Hackney Central London Overground station
(790m)

Cambridge Heath railway station
(880m)

Hackney Downs railway station
(970m)

Homerton railway station
(1.2Km) - zone 2

how to find it:

Leave Bethnal Green tube and go up Cambridge Heath Road towards Hackney for about ten minutes. The pub is on your left past the junction with Victoria Park Road. You could take one of the buses that go up Cambridge Heath road to Hackney.

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nearby attraction(s):

Hackney Museum (500m)

Hackney Empire (680m)

Street View - click to see the area around the Dolphin

This pub has turned out pretty well after a few ups and downs. It still has some lovely architectural features, the remainders of its Victorian heyday - check out the exquisite tiles and unusual ceiling. Now it has three projection screens it is well and truly wired for sport and the mixed clientele are well into their sport. It's putatively an Irish pub and consequently serves a decent pint of the black stuff as well as having more unusual items such as Magners Irish cider in bottles. A jolly place all in all, but if any of your companions are wine drinkers, you might persuade them to reconsider their choice of tipple in this establishment.

reviewed:
01/09/2007