Union Social @ The Gantry, Stratford City, E20

David Walton left this review about Union Social @ The Gantry

Visited 08/09/25. Visited previously 04/12/23.

No cask, just the three keg stablemates of Camden Pale, Hells and Stout.

This is a smart hotel bar on the first floor of the Gantry, part of the Curio Collection by Hilton. Up a flight of wooden stairs from the lobby takes you to the right to the Coupe Bar, a small cocktail bar with the bar counter protruding off the wall at the end of that side and served by a leather banquette and several tables facing the floor to ceiling windows. Along the window side is a series of small round tables served by a series of colourful fabric carver chairs. This bar was closed on my early Monday evening visit. To the left of the top of the flight of stairs is the main hotel bar and restaurant area called the Union Social. The bar counter has a zinc top and slatted wood frontage and tall stool seating. On the near side of the counter there are some tall tables at the near side and opposite the bar counter and a large curved yellow leather banquette serving several small round tables facing the windows. There are a few individual chairs and a small sofa towards the far end of the bar counter before and beyond that is the restaurant part. The entire area is bare boarded, no screens and a sensible volume repetitive beat soundtrack providing the noise as it was much quieter here than the lobby bar in the previous venue this evening. There is an outside terrace, but it was rather windy on my visit to contemplate an outside beer! The STK restaurant in the higher floors also provides a decent bar experience in the hotel.

On 21^st February 2026 - rating: 4
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