Lord Palmerston, E17

Visited 20/04/26 No cask, the two hand pumps dispensing ales from East London Brewing Co were subject to line cleaning on my visit. The keg offering wasn't particularly exciting, Fosters, Moretti, Heineken, John Smiths, Guinness, Carlsberg, Cruz, Stella, and original SB. This is an ornate venue, bare boarded generally but with a few carpeted areas and with attractive leaded and colourful glass windows on the two roadside frontages. There is some picnic bench seating at the front on the main road. Inside it is U-shaped with the longer left-hand side due to a pool table area beyond the left-hand end of the bar counter and providing three pool tables and an impressive silverware cupboard on the rear wall between the entrance to the toilets. Regular / tall tables and chairs / tall stools in the space plus a dartboard and windows looking out onto the "secret garden", which does involve some astroturf, so secret maybe, attractive not! The bar counter is also U-shaped following the internal shape of the venue and offering tall stool seating on its three sides with an attractive dark wood and mirrored backing housing the spirits etc. There is an upstairs bar called the Palmy Bar, but it was roped off on my visit. Seating around the main bar area via dark blue fabric and tan leather banquettes supporting regular tables and chairs. A couple of fruit machines and several TVs showing recorded footy action absent sound, that provided by a decent music soundtrack. There is an attractive offshoot to the U shape to the left of the entrance, this area being fully carpeted and having some wood panelling and an unused fire grate that looks like it is still decorated for Xmas with the same banquettes as deployed in other parts of the venue. There is another unused fire grate on the rear wall of the right-hand side of the venue. Venue has potential to be a decent pub but disappointed by no cask beer on my visit.

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