The Market Trader, Aldgate

As one of the previous comments stated I do not normally write these things either.
But having also been regulars for the last 3 years, my wife and I live and work in the area and do not agree with the comments below.
This pub used to have a great atmosphere, sports on TV and good food � until it changed hands.
Yes the pub is under new management but the truth is, it is empty and has lost all character.
They ask on the boards outside "Where have all the regulars gone?�
Well let me tell you. Most have followed the Landlady to her new pub. Obviously the comments about a bulldog do not ring true. Those that haven�t moved, now go to other pubs in the area.
The new owner states that it is not a Gastro Pub, but any decent East End pub would not sell Vichyssoise, eel with beetroot and horseradish and charge extra for the vegetables!
The Landlady did not run the pub into the ground, quite the reverse, it was a thriving business just lacking some capital investment by the owner.
Hope you all enjoy your �Bistro� food (as advertised on the boards outside) and fancy wines (which you can�t buy by the glass), we will not be going back there.

4 Aug 2008 18:36