Martello Hall, E8

Pretentious place. One main room with bar to the rear. Further room to right doing pizzas. No real ales - just keg. Bottles and cans in fridge to the rear.

Official site of Martello Hall - www.martellohall.com

Official site of Martello Hall - www.martellohall.com

I remember this one room corner pub many moons ago when it was called the Warburton Arms and part of the Taylor Walker chain. Obviously modernised since those long ago days with its dark wood, bare floored interior mirroring the fairly dark exterior décor. I don’t think an early Sunday lunchtime is the best place to visit this pub and our party of three trebled the clientele when we walked in. I think this place is probably aligned to a younger audience and probably comes into its own during one of the advertised DJ weekend nights. But for us, despite Dark Star Hop Head available on the one functioning pump (with Doombar reverse clipped), the uninspiring adjective used in a previous review is quite apt.

The London Fields is a decent sized pub situated on the busy mare street. Once inside there is a decent sized single oblong shaped room with an island bar,there is pew type seating to the front right and leather bench seating on the left side,there are normal tables and chairs to the rear left. There was one real ale on the bar which was Doom Bar,this was a bit poor in my opinion. The pub was empty at 1.00 but there was loud background music playing to me and the barman. This pub seemed pretty sad to me. Pub visited 4/10/2014