Three Crowns, Stoke Newington

This could be a good pub if the proprietors re-thought the one-size-fits-all theme they've applied to a number of pubs around Stokey.

The pub is sadly let down by the layout, the acoustics, the battered-to-the-point-of-unuseable furniture and the terrible bland DJ-bar soundtrack.

It's not the kind of place that I'd really look forward to spending an evening eating or drinking.

Get better furniture, better music, a better layout and a better menu and they might be onto something.

17 Dec 2007 22:21

The Royal Oak, Bethnal Green

The pub's recently been taken over and spruced up and is now doing very good food. No longer the mental Sunday morning mash-up of legend but now more chilled and welcoming local. Highly recommended.

9 May 2005 18:10