This bustling pub and restaurant is hailed as the bar that jump-started the increasingly fashionable Shoreditch scene. Businesspeople commuting from their jobs in the City mix with East End trendoids in the early evening at what has been called a "gastro pub/preclub bar." Wooden tables and benches are found up front, although the Red Lounge is more comfortable. The urban beat is courtesy of the house DJ. The restaurant and tapas menus are first rate.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's London 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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