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Commercial Tavern, Shoreditch, E1

142 Commercial Street
E1
E1 6NU

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Strongers . left this review about Commercial Tavern

The Commercial Tavern has an attractive curved frontage with an entrance that opens into a large open plan wooden floor single room high ceilinged pub that has seen better days. I liked the padded multicoloured tile topped serving counter across the rear, but the rest of the pub is a little too distressed for my liking. Banquettes are found either side of the entrance, but most of the space is empty for vertical drinking under the granny lamps that hang from the ceiling. Premium and craft keg were available alongside Five Points Brewing’s XPA from one of the two hand pumps that was in use. The XPA wasn’t really to my taste, but it was much cheaper than the lagers so I made do. The service was polite, but I’ll not be rushing back.

On 2^nd January 2025 - rating: 5
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Will Larter left this review about Commercial Tavern

An unusual corner pub at a narrow road junction, with a handsome external appearance. Inside it gives the impression of having been taken over just last week and being in the middle of renovation, but this is deliberate. On closer inspection the wall panels have had different styles of old or retro wallpaper inserted, and one of the cast iron pillars has been pasted over with scraps of Thunderbirds wallpaper that might have decorated a six-year-old's bedroom in the 1960s. So what initially looks scruffy and temporary turns out to be more like a work of art - a sort of installation or trompe l'oeil. The bar has just two hand pumps plus 10 keg taps. I went for a beer called Solaris from a London Brewery called Big Smoke, which I can vaguely recall as being a pretty ordinary hoppy pale that was not to my taste. I liked it here, especially as almost all the other pubs were making a big thing of St Patrick's Day, but this one wasn't.

Date of visit: 17th March 2022

On 29^th August 2022 - rating: 6
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Danny O'Revey left this review about Commercial Tavern

lovely exterior with open plan room inside, though follows the curve around to the right. Looks like they have gone for a Ruin style, very scruffy but with various fittings like animal skulls around. The beer is a bit warm. Interesting

On 18^th September 2019 - rating: 7
[User has posted 1542 recommendations about 1519 pubs]

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