The London Fields, E8

Visited 06/08/25. Visited previously as Martello Hall on 17/04/23. No cask. Keg offering of Inch's cider, Jubel peach lager, Stone Wood Pacific ale, Moretti, Neck Oil, Guinness, Brixton Reliance Pale Ale, Asahi, Two Tribes Campfire hazy IPA and Pillars Pilsner. Old school bare boarded venue with what feels like an ancient decorative wrought iron frontage to the bar counter which is on the left-hand wall opposite the corner entrance. Light and airy with large pane windows on the two street sides. Seating provided by dark leather studded banquettes on the window sides serving several regular tables with a mish mash of chairs the other side thereof. Central floor space occupied by a mixture of tables and chairs. Interesting ceiling fan and the internal walls feel like they haven't been touched in many decades. Cool venue that would be v attractive if it had a couple of decent cask choices but that isn't in the DNA of most venues around here.

Official site of The London Fields - www.urbanpubsandbars.com

Official site of The London Fields - www.urbanpubsandbars.com

Pretentious place. One main room with bar to the rear. Further room to right doing pizzas. No real ales - just keg. Bottles and cans in fridge to the rear.

I remember this one room corner pub many moons ago when it was called the Warburton Arms and part of the Taylor Walker chain. Obviously modernised since those long ago days with its dark wood, bare floored interior mirroring the fairly dark exterior décor. I don’t think an early Sunday lunchtime is the best place to visit this pub and our party of three trebled the clientele when we walked in. I think this place is probably aligned to a younger audience and probably comes into its own during one of the advertised DJ weekend nights. But for us, despite Dark Star Hop Head available on the one functioning pump (with Doombar reverse clipped), the uninspiring adjective used in a previous review is quite apt.

The London Fields is a decent sized pub situated on the busy mare street. Once inside there is a decent sized single oblong shaped room with an island bar,there is pew type seating to the front right and leather bench seating on the left side,there are normal tables and chairs to the rear left. There was one real ale on the bar which was Doom Bar,this was a bit poor in my opinion. The pub was empty at 1.00 but there was loud background music playing to me and the barman. This pub seemed pretty sad to me. Pub visited 4/10/2014