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Pub SignMan left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
This is a good sized pub in the centre of Hackney, with a fairly narrow but very deep interior. You enter into the bar area to the front of the pub, with exposed floorboards, banquette and chair seating down the left-hand side and the servery to the right. The bar has a plain panelled counter front with a diamond pattern tile frieze along the top, a modern wood slat bar back and anaglypta covered ceiling, with a series of blackboards along the canopy, interspersed with a series of decorative figurines, some of which seemed to be temporary additions for Christmas. Towards the rear, the bar becomes a food servery with a white tile back wall and two microwaves but not much other cooking gear from what I could see. The banquette seating follows the length of the bar, down the opposite wall, ending with a nice partitioning screen with an old sewing machine and some potted plants on top, whilst the walls have been decorated with a few paintings and plenty of promotional material. A few final tables and chairs are available towards the rear before you reach a raised ‘stage’ area at the back of the room, with curtains along the back wall. This may well be used as a seating area under normal circumstances, but it had been given over to karaoke on my midweek evening visit. The pub was absolutely packed to my surprise, and a quick glance around suggested I was the youngest customer by a good decade or two, as the constant stream of karaoke singers belted out interesting interpretations of 50’s and 60’s pop hits. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t great, meaning I couldn’t take advantage of the tarmac seating space outside the front of the pub, having instead to take the only remaining seat, directly in front of the stage.
There are two handpulls on the bar, but one of these was unclipped, leaving Sharps Doom Bar as the sole ale option. A friendly barman poured me a pint of this fairly insipid brew, but it was in pretty good shape, so must get a reasonable amount of throughput. Card payments come with a £5 minimum spend.
This is quite a nice space to have a drink in, thanks to its plentiful comfy seating and lively atmosphere, but I definitely didn’t see the best of this on OAP karaoke night. The lack of anything beyond Doom Bar is the big barrier to returning though, and the place works best as a refuge for locals who have seen a lot of their local pubs become hipsterfied over recent years.
On 13th January 2022
- rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
The Globe as it was then, originally arrived in the late 19th century; I don’t know if it was bombed or just rebuilt as part of the surrounding estate, but it used to be a few metres to the north, the current incarnation arriving in 1960 as a Whitbread house, as evinced by the metal ellipse above the pub sign.
The interior is essentially a long rectangle. There’s not a great deal by way of detail, but there’s a little applied woodwork to the bar back and front, with a floor that’s part carpeted, part boarded, with a raised area to the rear, perhaps where the apparent live music takes place. Furniture is conventional, with a red cloth upholstered banquette to the left side. Décor is simple, just a few framed prints really. There’s a dartboard, but the throw and oche are occupied by a pool table, so if arrows are to be thrown, then it would have to be moved out of the way; there is though evidence that it is used; a games machine is to the left. There’s some attractive dark wood wainscoting to the dado, then primrose yellow walls, with a red and green Anaglypta ceiling. Aside from me, customers seemed to be all locals, many actually watching the football on the large TV to the rear, a couple of possibly incomers playing pool.
The beer department was rather predictable for an establishment of this nature, with huge gleaming chrome illuminated lager founts, constituting a near palisade fence between customer and the very friendly and welcoming barman. There were two ale pumps here, with Doom (clip reversed) and London Original. Given that this is very much a lager establishment, a choice of the real ale was going to be risky, though I decided to take a punt on the LO (£2.00 a half) which didn’t pay off, being tired and musty.
This isn’t a bad pub and I suspect that many of those who drink here may perhaps not feel predisposed to drinking in the other nearby pubs, which have all been resolutely hipsterfied for affluent incomers to this increasingly gentrified area, but it seems to serve its purpose well, being just one of about a half-dozen remaining locals’ pubs in the whole borough, but it’s a shame about the beer quality, especially considering that this was a GBG entry from 2009 to 2011.
On 15th December 2021
- rating: 4
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hondo . left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
Just of the man drag a locals vibe pub serving 1 real ale.
On 30th September 2021
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
This pub markets itself as the "last proper pub in Hackney". This would only seem to be true if your definition of 'proper pub' is a local's town bar straight out of the 1980's. The one rectangular room in the tedious 1980's building has a bar down one side, as the previous reviewer noted decorated with various out of date signs, with a fairly basic kitchen area at the back. At the front is a pool table with dart board behind, but certainly not usable simultaneously! Handpumped ales are still Doom Bar and Brakspear's Bitter, with the latter being barely drinkable. I have been to many good local pubs worth visiting: this is not one of them.
On 8th December 2018
- rating: 5
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Moby Duck left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
A single roomed pub that to me seemed stuck somewhere in the 70's,one of the signs across the top of the bar proclaimed the best ales in Hackney could be found here, naming London Pride,Whitbread Best and Boddingtons,none of these were in evidence of course but it didn't improve,Doombar and Brakespeare Bitter were on offer on the two handpumps and the latter was predictably ordinary.The single square room had plenty of seating scattered throughout and the raised area to the rear I assume doubles up as a stage.Plenty of keg taps dispensing a variety of run of the mill products accompanied the duo of handpumps, at the far end of the bar was an old fashioned food servery, there is a pool table and dartboard here for entertainment.A good mix of locals were in on Saturday lunch time and this pub serves that purpose perfectly,not a bad place but given the available beer I'm not likely to return in the near future.
On 27th March 2016
- rating: 6
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
The Globe is situated in the middle of Hackney.
The pub looks quite nice from the outside and was probably built to serve the estate which is behind it.
Once inside there is a single oblong shaped room with the bar on the right side,the room is carpeted and had comfy bench seating and normal tables and chairs,there is also a raised area to the rear which had normal tables and chairs,there is also a pool table in the room.
There were two real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Youngs Bitter which was a decent enough drink,the other beer was Wadworth 6X.
I thought this was a comfortable and pleasant pub to have a drink in.
Pub visited 4/10/2014
On 4th October 2014
- rating: 7
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john gray left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
Traditional,what I would call an old style pub.Loads of stuff on the walls inc some nice boxing pictures.Two cask beers on.The rarely seen Wadsworth -6x and Wadsworth -Ipenema a lovely beer.Its keg heaven if you want a lager.Fosters-Bud-Heineken-Stella -Kronenbourg-Carling all on tap.Nice little pub.
On 5th July 2014
- rating: 6
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
This single-room pub looks a bit like a shop conversion. In the front of the room as you enter is a pool table, plus some standard seating and a couple of tall tables and tall stools. The bar counter stretches down the right hand wall, and at the back there’s a raised area looking out onto a vista comprising a small car park and garages, and with all tables laid for diners. By laid, I mean that there were table mats and a knife and fork wrapped in a paper knapkin. Anyway, as I was going for the economy lunch of fish and chips for a fiver, this is where I sat. As well as the fish and chips, I spotted a tray on the bar counter which earlier in the day might have been piled high with clingfilm covered rolls, but which by the time I arrived had only a single, forlorn-looking, roast beef roll on it. I hope that someone took a fancy to it later in the day. But onto the important stuff. They had a couple of Sharp’s ales on – Doom Bar (of course) and Cornish Coaster - the latter being in decent nick.
There was a fair bit of bric-a-brac decor around the place, consisting of stoneware jugs and bottles, globes, sewing machines, a mounted stag’s head, and even a dispay of fans in a glass case. The pub isn’t anything very special, but they have made an effort to give it a bit of character and it does do a couple of ales. It’s not a bad place to stop off for a swift one.
On 4th April 2013
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Globe in Morning Lane
Traditional pub, but now called "The Globe in Morning Lane" (for some reason probably best known to the signwriter who must have been paid on a per-letter basis). I was a bit dazzled on walking by the very big and bright array or lager dispensers, but fortunately the were also a couple of discreet handpumps there as well. Very creditable pint of London Pride. Seemed like a friendly place too.
On 8th May 2008
- rating: 7
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