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The Coborn, E3

8 Coborn Road
E3
E3 2DA
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Coborn

A smart Youngs food focussed pub a surprisingly short walk from the Mile End Road. Largely one open room around the main L-shaped bar to the left as you enter, but with a separate side room to the right and then a smaller snug section to the left. The front section as you enter is more lounge bar with some very comfortable leather seating and then the back section nearer the kitchen is more aligned to dining. Despite a couple of flat screens (one clearly temporary erected on a makeshift stand for the current World cup) this is a comfortable pub aligned to eating, drinking and conversation.
The bar supports two sets of four handpumps, which were doubled up with the increasingly common Youngs Pubs arrangement of one Ordinary, two Special and St Austell Proper job on the fourth and the Propper Job was on fine form.
Did not try the food, but plenty were on this lunchtime and the menu looked reasonable enough with Beer Battered Haddock at £18 and Cumberland Sausages at £16, which is the current going rate for a smart food led pub in these inflationary food prices time. What I was impressed with was the available While you Wait snacks of Pie Crust & liquor at £3 and Pickled Mussels and cockles for a fiver, which I thought was a nice nod to the pub’s location, despite its gentrification away from a working class clientele. Personally, I found this one more homely than the opened out Morgan Arms, but agree that the Lord Tredegar is probably the best of the trilogy this close to the Mile End Tube Station. The problem is that the Lord Tredegar doesn’t open till 4.00PM most days, so if you are looking for a spot of lunch and a decent pint, this one fulfils the brief for me.

On 6th December 2022 - rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about The Coborn

A late Georgian pub, this in an attractive unusually terraced building in an increasingly gentrified part of Bow. It seems from earlier reviews that this was once a bit of a rundown locals' booza, but it would seem that it has changed dramatically in the last few years from its original construction as a rare Lacon's house, later Whitbread and Young's since 1984.
Essentially it's a large one-room pub, staple shaped interior with the bar to the left, though the first thing you notice is the complete lack of Track and Trace, apart from a barmaid taking down phone numbers, which could be bogus. The interior is certainly not what you'd expect from a renovated pub, with a modern herringbone floor, a little bare brick but mainly various hues of grey paint with some wallpaper contrived from Victorian newspaper adverts and some bare wood modern wainscoting. It's the wall mounted décor that's the most defining element of the interior, comprising hung box frames containing cutlery, hung metal jelly and cake moulds, hung garden sieves and framed prints - it seems that if the walls are structurally sound enough, the Coborn will hang anything from them. Furniture is eclectic to say the least, with chairs of almost every conceivable style and seemingly no two alike; unsurprisingly, tables are eclectic. Lighting comes in the form of brass framed glass box lanterns and what seemed like mediæval sconce lights to the walls, both with hipster filament bulbs; further hanging lamps are made from floral patterned granny saucers or strange little wire metal buckets. Lavs were decent with two cubicles.
The pub was packed apart from my six-person table - the last one available - with customers overwhelmingly drawn from young professional incomers and just one solitary cackling old local geezer - no stares from smokers here anymore, that’s for sure. The atmosphere was very good, with just 48 hours to go before Lockdown II - certainly more animated than at the Morgan Arms, 75 yards from here with chatter drowning out the piped music, thank God.
Just two real ales on: Young's London Original and Special at £5.05 and very decent it was too, brought to me by a very lovely barmaid.
This pub isn't bad and has a slightly continental feel to it, but I would take the Morgan over this and certainly the Lord Tredegar, but I'd still include this place as part of a crawl.

On 4th November 2020 - rating: 5
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Coborn

A surprisingly plush pub for a side street off the Mile End Road, although the whole area seems to be getting a bit gentrified. In typical Young's Pub Co fashion, it has been thoroughly modernised in a posh drawing room style, with lots of leather settees and armchairs. The rear part is tabled with one side being a restaurant. To the side is a 'snug' room with a screen for major sports events and there are some roadside tables outside at the front. Draught beers were Young's Special and Ordinary, with Redemption Pale as a very drinkable guest. A shade upmarket but pleasant enough.

On 14th March 2019 - rating: 7
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Pub location see interactive map of local area
Map location corrected by hondo .
Bethnal Green, 1.38 miles, 26 min walk (show)
Limehouse, 1.38 miles, 26 min walk (show)
Hackney Wick, 1.58 miles, 30 min walk (show)
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  • Accommodation : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Bar Billiards : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Beer Festivals : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Beer Garden : No - Front patio seating. - last updated 04 November 2020 by Tris C
  • CAMRA Discount : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Car Park : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Child Friendly : Yes last updated 04 November 2020 by Tris C
  • Darts : No last updated 14 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
  • Dog Friendly : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Function Room : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Hot Food : Yes last updated 18 March 2014 by hondo .
  • Jukebox : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Karaoke : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Live Music : No last updated 04 November 2020 by Tris C
  • Live TV Sports : Yes - major events - last updated 14 March 2019 by Graham Coombs
  • Micropub : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Pinball : No last updated 04 November 2020 by Tris C
  • Pool Table : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Quiz Night : Yes - Sundays 7.30. - last updated 04 November 2020 by Tris C
  • Real Ale : Yes last updated 18 March 2014 by hondo .
  • Real Cider : No last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
  • Wheelchair Access : Yes - Disabled WC. - last updated 04 November 2020 by Tris C
  • WiFi : Yes last updated 04 October 2017 by Komakino .
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