The Black Horse, E1

The Black Horse is a corner pub that is now painted in the modern battle ship grey colour. Once inside there is a smallish oblong shaped room with the bar facing,unusually all seating was tall tables and chairs,there was a TV to the left which was showing tennis on mute,decent background music was playing. There were three real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Windsor & Eton Knights of the Garter which went down well,the other beers were GK IPA and Old Speckled Hen. This seemed a decent enough pub,shame there was no lower seating, i think there may be an upstairs room that i did'nt look at which is hopefully more comfortable than the lower one. Pub visited 1/7/2015

I thought it might be worth dropping in here to see what it's like since it's changed from being the Zeppelin Shelter to a proper pub name of The Black Horse. I suppose it must be a Greene King house (although I saw no signage to confirm that) as it had on Old Speckled Hen, GKIPA, and a GK porter called 1799 (£1.90 a half). There was no sign of any food when I was in there on Tuesday evening. It's a small one-room affair downstairs, with the only furnishings being tall tables/tall stools, with a few stools at the bar of course. My impression of this pub is of thumping pop music, and flashing Christmas lights in the window. As I sat by the window I got two of my senses assaulted, but as it was nice and warm in there my other three were unscathed. There's a dartboard in here, and a sign on the bar gantry pointed to an upstairs room with a pool table, but I didn't investigate. At least I could get to the bar in here to buy a drink, unlike the far superior but jam-packed Still & Star round the corner. It's possibly better than when it was the Zeppelin Shelter (although I can't be sure of that as I didn't visit it), but as the Black Horse I didn't rate it highly. But anywhere with thumping music isn't going to get my vote.