The Hoop and Grapes, Aldgate - pub details
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Address: 47 Aldgate High Street, London, EC3N 1AL [map] [gmap]
Tel: 08721 077 077 (ref 3106)
Aldgate (0.1 miles), Aldgate East (0.1 miles), Tower Hill (0.3 miles)
Tower Gateway (0.3 miles), Bank (0.7 miles), Shadwell (0.9 miles)
Fenchurch Street (0.3 miles), London Liverpool Street (0.5 miles), Moorgate (0.7 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Sky TV
- Pool table
- Food served, Real ale
Pub suggested by Pikey the koala on 12 Jun 2003
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user reviews of the Hoop and Grapes, Aldgate
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| best pub in the area, friendly landlord. interior sympathetically renovated. free sausage samples on bar in early evening - sausage and mash (choice of sausages) highly recommended! jolives - 13 Dec 2009 08:03 |
| As suspected from previous ‘thru the window’ visit, you pass the door & door-frame which seem to lean in contrary directions, & enter to a welcoming woody interior, comfortable mish-mash of tables/chairs to the right of the wood&glass screen forming a hallway. On to a more open area with ridiculously tall studded-leather free standing banquettes in attendance at even taller rectangular tables, we sat at one of these before realising how impractical & uncomfortable they are. Further to a large central pillar encircled with drinking shelf and barstools, bar to the left. Four handpumps, three in action on this visit tho the guv said they are usually all on. Regulars TT Landlord & London Pride, plus Hopback Crop Circle, £2.90. Yet further, past a coal stove, to dining-looking area beyond which is a small chesterfield-style lounge. The entrance hall has some nice prints of local scenes from days of yore and a claim that the pub is ‘the oldest licensed house in the city’ with 13c foundations, and also the oldest timber framed pub, having escaped the Great Fire by 50yds. Built as The Castle in 1598, it became Hoop & Grapes in 1920. It’s a Nicholson’s house with character, I liked it. trainman - 12 Jun 2009 10:39 |
| Also surprised to find it closed on saturday. other pubs were very busy. strange that m&B let the manager close on a saturday. they normally want the slaves working all hours. The_Pub_Inspector - 4 May 2009 14:25 |
| I should have guessed but was still disappointed to find this pub closed yesterday (Sat). The ground level exterior has a charming look with the old (closed) door leaning at a surprising angle, a peek through the window showed a woody welcoming interior. No rating yet, but I’ll try to return if over this way on a weekday. trainman - 8 Mar 2009 18:27 |
| Good selection of ales with a great decor of what an English pub should be like. Tidy place, good range of ales, sausages etc. pc09 - 5 Mar 2009 15:13 |
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