Poolhouse, Liverpool Street, EC2

David Walton left this review about Poolhouse

Visited 24/06/26

No cask. Keg offering of Asahi, Peroni, Meantime Anytime IPA and Greenwich lager, Cornish Orchards cider, Guinness, Cowcatcher APA from East London Brewing Co and Jubel Peach lager.

New sports orientated bar in the new development at the side of Liv St station. The ground floor bar has industrial / lino flooring with the bar counter an attractive and arcing affair off the large part of the left-hand wall from the corner entrance. Art deco style back lighting and covering the ceiling above the bar counter, which is generally quite low and industrial like. There is quite a bit of tall stool seating at the bar counter. Some tall tables with tall unbacked stools in the middle of the floor space in front of the bar counter. There is a leather banquette along the left-hand wall in the rear corner serving some tall tables and a pool table on a slightly raised platform in the rear right hand corner with some booth tables in the glass fronted side facing the station the other side of an internal dividing wall, which has a curvy leather banquette serving regular tables the other side thereof. At the front of the venue are some more tall tables with unbacked stools and some more booth style tables around the front right-hand corner and around the glass frontage facing the tube station. There is a lot more sporting based activity upstairs (assuming many more than the single pool table on the ground floor) but it was closed for a private function on my visit. Given where it is and its sporting nature, can't help but think it will do quite well here as drinking capacity around the station otherwise more in the form of quite small traditional pubs, JDW exempted in that description at the other side of the station.

On 23^rd September 2026 - rating: 4
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