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The Masons Arms, Moorgate, EC2

12-14 Masons Avenue
EC2
EC2V 5BT

Phone: 02077266030

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Moorgate

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David Walton left this review about The Masons Arms

Visited 22/10/25. Visited previously as El Vino on 02/11/21.

Cask was a single hand pump dispensing TT LL. Keg offering of Amstel, Moretti, Cruz, Guinness, Heineken, Inch's, Neck Oil, Cosmic Drop Berry Punch Beer.

This was the City branch of El Vino until earlier in the year. It is a glass fronted, bare boarded (apart from a chessboard patterned tiled area over to the right-hand side) establishment with the bar counter against the rear wall. A red leather banquette against the right-hand wall serving regular tables and a good volume of tall tables with tall stools providing the rest of the seating capacity in the venue. Music was intense on my late evening visit on a very wet night. There is some additional seating downstairs, but I didn't venture down to check.

On 4^th April 2026 - rating: 5
[User has posted 1585 recommendations about 1560 pubs]

Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Masons Arms

This modern city bar couldn't be more of a contrast to the Old Doctor Butler's Head next door, and this was my first visit despite having walked past it many times. The rectangular bar is accessed via three steps at the front, and is dark inside despite the full-height windows because the front alleyway is so narrow. Anonymous furniture, mostly full height, although there is a lounge seating area in one corner. Function room downstairs. Just Landlord (£6.60) being served from the pair of handpumps. Caught it at a quiet time as it opened, but it was soon starting to fill by the time I left after a quick pint.

On 16^th March 2026 - rating: 6
[User has posted 9119 recommendations about 9119 pubs]

Steve of N21 left this review about The Masons Arms

Situated in the same narrow passage that houses The Old Doctor Butlers Head this is a recent conversion from a former Davy group run wine bar and restaurant called El Vino back into something resembling a modern city bar.
Opened in August this year it is now independently run and was renamed The Mason Arms Public House, Some large wooden barrels to the front operating as tables to prop your beer on whilst drinking in the outdoor corridor and some Masons Arms Public House branding on the floor to ceiling front windows try to give the feel of a pub, but once you step inside you immediately realise you are in a one roomed modern shiny city bar.
The modern serving bar is at the back, and the space is full of high tables and stools around the edge and in the middle and, as with a lot of these places, the low ceiling to this one roomed space gives it terrible acoustics, especially when full with the afterwork crowd as it was last night.
Mainly chrome taps on the bar but there are two hand pumps on the far-left section (as you enter) with one in operation with a surprisingly decent TT Landlord for my visit.
One that will appeal to the younger city worker audience, but for the rest of us The Old Doctor Butlers Head is only a matter of yards away.
Only open Monday to Friday as most of the establishments in this part of the City are.

On 19^th December 2025 - rating: 5
[User has posted 2340 recommendations about 2186 pubs]

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