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The Globe on Morning Lane, Hackney
I really like this pub, when I first went there I couldn't believe how good it was. It has loads of drinks on offer which makes some things really cheap. and it's warm and cosy even though it's big. It has a good pool table too. It has tellys that advertise the drinks offers on a loop. It has a friendly welcoming atmosphere, I highly recommend it. It has entertainment on Sat nights which I've not been to but would like to.
1 Jun 2008 22:01
The Duke of Wellington, Hackney
This pub is amazing, I had a brilliant time here. It has darts in a really nice set-up almost in a private darts room and one of those electronic score calculators, and it has a pool room and a cool statue of Elvis. Late on when we were there a seafood man came round and we got a feast of delicious things. It also has a really pretty garden which is fab in the summer. It's made up of lots of interconnected rooms which I like. I want to go here more.
1 Jun 2008 21:57
I was really excited when i discovered this pub and thought it could become a local, but after trying it a few times it feels too much like my grandma's living room. It's really warm, which is good,and has a really good pool table (one of the best I've played on) and when it's the quiz on Tuesdays you get free food which is chips and little cheese sandwiches which is really nice. And the people running it are lovely but it just has an air about it that nothing suprising or exciting is going to happen, and it makes me feel the same way as the theme tune to last of the summer wine on Sunday evenings, a bit depressed. It has Becks though.
1 Jun 2008 21:53
I used to love this pub -- it had an amazing free juke box and when it wasn't on a guy with his stereo from his bedroom playing rave cds. It had a smelly dog 2 pool tables with ripped felt but no-one minded. I spent one of the happiest afternoons ever in the garden, it's such a shame it closed down. Someone set fire to it recently so I guess it's not going to open again.
1 Jun 2008 21:48
I like this pub, I like the way it's split into two halves and you have to go outside to get to the other half. I've only ever been in the young persons half which has the most TVs I've ever seen in a pub, and a normal pool table and also an L shaped pool table which I was quite excited about but then I played it and it wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be. It seemed like it might get a bit of a party atmosphere going on Sat nights with loud music from the tellys and music videos. IKt has one of those quiz machines with bullseye which I like too. A good place to watch football.
1 Jun 2008 21:44
I don't really like the elderfield -- it has a really depressing atmosphere. Most often it's really empty and the people who are there are super drunk with their head in their hands or passed out on the table. It rarely has music and when it does it's really quiet and something really comedowny like Tortoise or Mogwai or Yo La Tengo, which is nice but doesn't make for much of a party atmosphere or even a not falling asleep atmosphere. It has Leffe which is good and gets me pretty wasted pretty quickly and I try to forget where i am. It has scrabble which is good and feels appropriate but I'd rather be at a pub where playing scrabble feels inappropriate really.
1 Jun 2008 21:29
The Biddle Bros, Lower Clapton
I don't really like Biddle Bros. It has Becks which I do like, but the guy behind the bar is a bit miserable, and insists on playing bad jazz cds which are depressing. And the seats are uncomfortable. And it's often full of the worst type of Hackney people, people who don't go to pubs and have unchangeable opinions and express them loudly. I used to get annoyed when a bit scary wasted people used to stumble in and start advising me on my chess game, but now they don't even cross the threshhold any more, it was better when they did. You can smoke in the yard out the back but it's not great.
1 Jun 2008 21:24
The Three Sisters, Hackney Downs
I like this pub -- I think it might have been taken over by a new family last summer and they're always really happy to see you and gave us free sweets and offered us board games and had barbeques on sunny weekend afternoons. It has a pool table too which isn't the best but is OK. When you get wine it's those little individual bottles but they're really cheap, the Magner's is cheap too. It has a really nice deck outside that's at an especially brilliant Hackney cross roads for hearing great music coming out of passing cars with bass noise shaking them. I just overdosed when i first found it and went here too much. It has a brilliant pub sign too.
1 Jun 2008 21:20
The Windsor Castle, Lower Clapton
I've only been to this pub once but had a fantastic time there -- it has 2 pool table which got me really excited, and one of those internet juke boxes that can look up any song you want. It has a nice garden too. I was a bit overexcited when I was there and played lots of pool and got progressively worse then somehow was trying to put daddy yankee on the juke box but accidentally kept putting crazy frog on (it's hard to work when you're wasted) then before I knew it I was dancing to shakira on the picnic tables in the outside. Someone tried to start a fight with the boys I was with but my sister and I didn't notice, we had a ace time and made friends with nice people. I'm a bit scared to go back though.
1 Jun 2008 21:12
I've only been to this pub once but I had the most amazing time -- for starters it has free food, free pool and a free juke box, which is brilliant. The food is sandwiches on the bar such as cheese and pickle, yum. I went there with my sister and we quickly attracted the attention of the boys on the pool table as we were anxiously looking over at it hoping we might get a game but not sure how to go about it because it was free. They quickly welcomed us into their group and we had a few games and they were impressed by our skills. I got chatting to one very nice boy and was suprised to hear he had a tag on his leg from some sort of misunderstanding leaving another pub in the area and the kerfuffle that followed, and had to be home by 9pm or he'd start beeping. My sis made friends with another guy who took us off with his mate to a party at his friend's cafe bar, and we got in a bit of trouble on the bus on the way home that resulted in our new friends being thrown off the bus by London transport police but it was all really friendly. Tag leg called me a few times afterwards but i didn't answer.
1 Jun 2008 21:08
I don't like this pub -- it is like a community centre for weirdos. You often can't get on the bar billiards 'cos the dungeons and dragons crew are on there. Strange people accost you when you play pool. There's no music. Middle class Hackney media types bring their children and let them run riot. It smells of food. It might have a good selection of bitter but it's not a proper pub, it's weird, and expensive.
1 Jun 2008 20:59
I have a complex relationship to this pub -- I absolutely love it but it depresses me massively. I usually go here on Sundays, after a big big Saturday night when my emotions are tender to say the least. When you're so sick you can't drink water somehow a few bottles of Koppenburg cider and mushroom doppiaza make you realise being alive isn't quite as lonely and rubbish as you though it was. Sky sports news on loop can be cathartic after a while. I once spent 11 hours in the upstairs, I had 2 meals and a snack and lots to drink, it was great in the end but depressing at points. It has a nice balcony. I take my parents here for dinner when they visit me in London, they claim to like it but refuse to complain when the food is served cold, or when one time the vegetables came in the sealed plastic bag they were microwaved in. I think Weatherspoons are the new old man pubs as old men can't afford to go to places like The George (Parkholme Road) anymore. Would it be so bad to be old and be able to get the community mobility bus to pick you up from home, drop you at Weatherspoons, drink a bottle of wine for �6 all day, then get the community bus home again? Sounds OK to me.
1 Jun 2008 20:55
The Dolphin used to be rough -- the first time I went there a scamster ripped me off �2. Then it got good -- open late and great karaoke and brilliant winner stays on pool and people generally celebrating their love of life. Then it got too popular and now it sucks. The landlord who used the be nice and give me and my sister free half pints has gone a bit megalomaniac and hired mean bouncers, started charging in and built the totally inappropriate Dolphin wine bar and restaurant next door, which is bound to be a disaster. The beer tastes dirty, and one of the staff told me in another pub near by that they never clean the pipes and that's why. Since the smoking ban the pool table room stinks of piss masked by bleach. Another mean thing is that when it's open late they stop serving pints and only serve bottles, which are stupid overpriced. The motto is 'legends stand alone', and it is a Hackney institution, but now I leave it alone.
1 Jun 2008 20:44
In the sense that I have a local pub this is my local, and I'm very loyal to it. I don't go there every week so it's testament to how friendly and welcoming it is that I consider it a local. I've been drinking here for about 3 years and have always felt happy to be there. I've been drinking there less since I've given up smoking as it has such a great smoking garden which I remember very fondly, and timer heaters and even a telly in the outside for watching football. The landlord's great and will even put on first division football games. It has a really good pool table and a juke box, and does cash back at the bar. The people working and drinking there are really friendly. It gets super busy after Vyner Street openings.
1 Jun 2008 19:51
The Old Ship, Hackney
I was a bit disappointed when I first went into this pub -- from Mare Street it looks like it's going to be rickerty and old, but then you go down the little passage and actually it's really modern and shiny and a bit boring. Good for football though.
1 Jun 2008 22:02