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The Bell in E11

Visited 08/10/25

No cask. Two hand pumps on the bar counter clearly hadn't been used in some time. Fairly standard keg offering in this Craft Union pub of Guinness, Cruz, Fosters, Carlsberg, Peroni, Stella, Camden Hells, Carling, original SB, Moretti, John Smiths.

Generally carpeted apart from a boarded skirt around the bar counter which presents a long frontage and two shorter sides on rear wall. Tall stool seating at the bar counter. Booth tables either side of the entrance but otherwise mixture of regular and tall tables with regular chairs and tall backed stools. Several TV's, but a large projector screen on the left-hand wall. There was seating either side of and beyond the bar counter and looking out onto a paved rear beer garden with traditional picnic benches, like the area out the front, but which was undoubtedly a more popular area for customers to sit outside. Pretty plan vanilla sort of venue with the slight moan that the music was way too loud and was drowning out conversation amongst clearly regulars.
Reviewed by David Walton