The Water Poet, Shoreditch - pub details
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Address: Folgate Street, Spitalfields, London, London, E1 6BX [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 17986)
Shoreditch (0.3 miles), Liverpool Street (0.3 miles), Aldgate East (0.5 miles)
Bank (0.8 miles), Tower Gateway (0.8 miles)
London Liverpool Street (0.2 miles), Moorgate (0.6 miles), Old Street (0.7 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Quiz night, Live music, Sky TV, Big screen, Jukebox
- Pool table (2), Table football
- Food served, Sunday roast, Real ale, Cocktails
- Outside seating, Credit cards accepted, Smoking area, Function room for hire, Air conditioning
Pub suggested by MrLash on 30 Dec 2004
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> Current user rating: 7.1/10 (rated by 41 users)
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other pubs nearby:
Light Bar, Shoreditch (0.1 miles), Corney and Barrow, Broadgate (0.1 miles), Gun, Shoreditch (0.1 miles), Golden Heart, Shoreditch (0.2 miles), Industry, Shoreditch (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Water Poet, Shoreditch
please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
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| Made a first visit on Sunday afternoon when we’d finally had enough of calculating how much people in the Truman brewery markets were asking for all the old 60’s and 70’s tat that I had long taken down the local dump a long time ago. Interesting place, and certainly wasn’t what I was expecting a stones throw from the glass towers of the Broadgate development. Multi roomed with the front bar area decorated in the style of a baroque bordello as mentioned by murgatroyd below. A further seating area with the mural shown in the photo as the centrepiece, and then two more traditional styled dining areas the further you go in. And then as previously mentioned, an impressive outside courtyard area sporting several large jumbreallas. Very, very busy on this Sunday afternoon and although we didn’t try it, several people were queuing for a table in the dining area so guess the food is as good as previous reviewers have intimated. The beers are Fullers and London Pride and ESB were on. Not the best pint of Pride I’ve ever had but more than drinkable. Not sure if this place is a bit too Bohemian for an old traditionalist like myself but was certainly warming to it by the end. Will probably try and get back for an early weekday evening visit to see how the Water Poet stacks up when full with the city workers instead of the weekend Shoreditch crowd. Gann - 1 Feb 2010 16:48 |
| A friend and I stumbled across this gem of a pub after a day shopping in Spitalfields and we have been back numerous times since. The staff are always friendly and efficient and the food is delicious and affordable. I will definitely keep coming back! sammypt - 29 Jan 2010 11:35 |
| as_johnson your post is crazy. Are you sure you weren't in the Hoxton Pony on Curtain Road?? Your 'sewer' reference is odd. Have you an overactive olefactory gland? The 'Nathan Barley' comment is truly bizarre. Do you really know what a Nathan Barley type is?! If anything the Water Poet is white collar territory. But you rounded it all off nicely with your endorsement for Dirty Dicks, I laughed out loud, thank you. If you're looking for overpriced drinks, in a boring, claustraphobic environment and more suits than a Jermyn Street taylors, then yes you're quite right, go to Dirty Dicks you'll have a wonderful time. But if you want friendly, smiling barstaff, good range of drinks, superb food (at cheap prices) and an environment that's warm and welcoming then you'd prefer the Water Poet. Are you the Dirty Dicks owner in disguise...? Dylarolla - 28 Jan 2010 17:08 |
| Having found this place by googling 'sunday lunch spitalfields' after moving to the area, I have made it my regular haunt. The staff are hugely friendly (i've never walked through the doors without being welcomed), the sunday roast is second to none, I haven't brought a friend here who hasn't loved it (we've celebrated three birthdays here in the last 6 months!). Highly recommended to anyone who likes to while away a long evening in a proper pub. taylorj - 28 Jan 2010 14:34 |
| Found this place on a saturday afternoon and was really surprised at how busy it was, down a side street from Bishopsgate. It's really big on the inside, but doesn't really feel that way because of the different rooms with different things going on. There's a bar and a pool room in the front and a restaurant type bar towards the back and right at the back there's a huge garden with a heated smoking area. People were eating and watching sport or just relaxing. Tried the food and it was really good and so was the service. What a find. sarah38 - 28 Jan 2010 14:27 |
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