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The Perseverance, E2

112 Pritchards Road
E2
E2 9AP
Phone: 02076133498

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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Perseverance

The best feature is the exterior,it was all down hill from there.The large open plan interior has an island bar but clearly an original multi room layout which was open planned years ago.There are now two wings,each with a flatscreen but I suspect only showing terrestrial sport such as the FA Cup and Six Nations.
The fairy light covering all the ceiling were off and the black flex just gave the impression of a run down interior.The furniture was also well worn and the bar front in cheap pine looked tatty .
Needless to say no real ale and the best keg option seem to be Brixton Reliance Pale.
With some care and thought this could be a decent pub but in it's current guise I can see no reason for a revisit.

On 29th February 2024 - rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about The Perseverance

Dating from the mid-19th century, this pub was presumably rebuilt in the 1930s, judging by the green glazed tiles to the base, exposed following the removal of the grey paint, doubtless applied to try and attract the hipster mob from 98.4 ft away in Broadway Market. There’s an old Watney Combe Reid roundel over the empty sign bracket, but no effort has been made to replace it.
There are tables outside and a beer garden to the rear. Large picture windows allow in the light, not that it’s needed, with too much illumination coming from many exposed filament bulbs hanging from long flexes, so I had really no problem in determining that there are no original features. The floor is modern boarded, seating is exclusively chocolate brown buckskin banquettes with matching high-backed chairs and standard tables. The walls and ceiling are white, dominated by a large industrial aircon unit, along with some exposed trunking. There’s an electronic darts scoring computer, but just a ragged hole where once there was a dartboard. There’s a veritable arcade of electronic games machines. Five TVs were showing the footbal; music played at a decent level. There’s little décor apart from a few token framed prints and a large white pedal bin by the front door. The central bar appears to have planks fixed to the front, along with a large sign directing male customers to the lavs. Customers seemed to be a more traditional bunch of locals and largely blokey.
The closest thing to real ale served here is Beavertown’s Gamma Ray and my choice of Neck Oil, served by a friendly barmaid. Otherwise, there’s a vast array of illuminated stalagmite-like chrome founts, dispensing a cornucopia of fizz, Guinness, Aspall’s, ready-mixed Smirnoff cocktails…Indeed so great is the array, that I couldn’t make eye contact with the barmaid, a disembodied hand emerging from this forest, clasping a card reader, a faceless voice asking me for ‘Six pounds please.’
A bit scruffy, this really isn’t a great place, though it has its devotees. It’s just inside Tower Hamlets on the border with Hackney. Cross it, you’re in Broadway Market and by golly, don’t you know it.

Rated 3.5.

On 23rd September 2021 - rating: 4
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custodian 42 left this review about The Perseverance

Large room with bar in the middle. Muted music and TVs. No real ale - just keg rubbish.

On 17th September 2018 - rating: 3
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Moby Duck left this review about The Perseverance

Busy spacious single room pub, no real ale, sport on the TV. Not really my kind of place.

On 17th December 2017 - rating: 5
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Perseverance

The Perseverance is a decent looking pub that is on the other side of the Grand Union canal from the broadway market.
Once inside there is a single iregular shaped room with the serving bar in the middle,there is comfy leather bench seating to the front and left sides,the right side is more like a bar area with a pool table and two dart boards,there was also a TV in this area showing the Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday game.
There are no pumps on the bar and sadly the polypins have gone,so i was left with keg Whistable Bay Pale Ale to drink,this drink was cold but better than i thought it would be.
The pub was fairly busy with locals of all ages.
When the old school landlord clocked me from behind the bar he knodded to me,you dont see that happen much these days.
Despite the lack of any real ales, i quite liked this pub.

Pub visited 4/10/2014

On 4th October 2014 - rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Perseverance

This is one of those pubs where some Pubs Galore contributors wouldn't enter, as there are no handpumps on the counter. However - when I visited anyway - that would have been a mistake as there were three polypins tucked in between the shiny fonts, all from the East London Brewery. Of course there was no way of telling what was in them from the customer's side of the bar counter, but the helpful barmaid told me that one was a wheat beer, one was an IPA, and the third was a bitter called Cowcatcher (£2 a half). The Cowcathcher was a hoppy bitter - more like an IPA I would say - but a decent drop anyway. When I was in on Wednesday afternoon there ware little chalkboards on the tables advertising the burgers on offer at £5 a pop.

This is a pretty basic pub, with no gastro pretentions, I'm glad to say. There are black plastic upholstered banquettes around the sides, with some standard tables and chairs. The area to the right of the servery has a dartboard, pool table, and a small stage. There are TVs of course, and rugby related flags and bunting were all over the place.

I enjoyed my short visit here. I don't know whether the real ale polypins is a permanent feature, or whether it's a novel way of the pub dipping its toe into the real ale waters to judge whether there's a market for it. If the latter, I hope it works for them.

On 19th March 2014 - rating: 6
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