03/10/16 - The Good Beer Guide Pubs of Spitalfields

Walk Distance - 1 Mile
Geocaches - 0
Pubs - 3

Back in the smoke, with Mrs Mappiman keeping me company.  She's not been to Brick Lane and needs the experience of being cajoled into any one of the "best curry houses in the east end".

Pre meal drinks are in order and I consult the guide to see where to go.  Will it be the Golden Heart - last visit provided an encounter with Tracy Emin but more importantly Timothy Taylor?  Will it be the Ten Bells - last drinking place of one of Jack the Rippers victims and toilets that haven't changed since she used them?

There's only one way to find out - flip to page 287 and see where fate will take us.

The Kings Stores, Widegate Street, Hackney Brewery Golden Ale

Random BeerintheEvening Quote "Another pub of the bare floorboard and brickwork variety"

Located in one of the mazey narrow side streets between Liverpool Street Station and Curry Mile is this impressive building.

A Former Armoury - Located near Artillery Lane

Its one of those low lit, appeal to the "after work crowd" pubs.  Nothing wrong with it and for a Greene King boozer, it had a decent selection.  Not recognising any, I went local and golden for a decent pint from Hackney Brewery.

All perfectly acceptable.  Would I come again?  Maybe not.  Little to really set it apart from 1000 other pubs.

Low Lighting for the After Work Crowd

The Pride of Spitalfields, 3 Heneage Street, EBS

Random BeerintheEveing Quote - "A proper East End boozer that miraculously survives amid the gentrification of Brick Lane"

This is a gem of a pub.  I came here around 10 years ago following Bob Steel's Camra book of pub walks with a mate.  This was only pub he liked on a four pub crawl.

Architecturally, it appears to have been airlifted in from another location.  A building that looks like a pub in a completely non descript street.

Very busy - we peeped in through the net curtains, catching sight of the air guitar players enjoying Bryan Adams and knowing that we would have to join the throng of kerb side sitters outside.  ESB Served by a lady with a voice that sounded like Danny Dyers mom.

Damn Right they're in it.  Other outdoor photos unavailable due to people

Deservedly popular due to authenticity.  If only we hadn't been continually harassed for spare change and/or cigarettes.

Williams Ale and Cider House, 22 Artillery Lane, Trumans Rio

Random BeerintheEvening Quote - "Excellent pub that is now firmly on my "radar".

Brick lane discovered, it was time for one last pint before hitting the tube.

Handsome

9:30 on a Monday night and the after work crowd have decided to go home.  We have the place to ourselves, meaning that a) I can look for the cask marque certificate in peace and b) take my time checking the blackboard before making an order.

Cask and Keg, delineated

Trumans Rio was chosen - a brewery I genuinely thought had gone the way of the dodo.  I find another of their pints later in the week.

Similar to the Kings Stores but more choice of ales and more nick nacks to look at.

Worth seeking out if you ever find yourself in the area.