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Commercial Tavern, Shoreditch, E1
E1
E1 6NU
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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 29th 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 18th September 2019
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about Commercial Tavern
A wonderful curved corner building. Sadly the inside has been Nathan Barleyed to the max - to say it's scruffy and unkempt would be doing it a disservice as it's obviously a curated dump, done in a style that's like somewhere from the 1940s halfway through a strip out after bomb damage. Internally there's the main bar with a filthy stripped wood floor, crudely stripped walls and some plaster board drilled into one corner of the ceiling (one would assume to disguise a hole but in here, who knows). There's a spur room off right where the wood panelling has been painted the same colour that Linda Blair in The Exorcist threw up over the priest. On the positive side is plenty of beer, 10 keg and 4 cask as well as a big menu if bottles. Cask line up from Anspach & Hobday, Harbour Snake Eyes and Hawkshead. I plumped for a half of the Hawkshead Red which tasted pretty weird, certainly not the usual Hawkshead quality (NBSS 1.5). There was a distinct herbal smell in the air, hopefully from outside rather than upstairs. Overall? Swerve it, unless you are Swampy.
On 1st April 2019
- rating: 4
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London Liverpool Street, 0.51 miles, 9 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 11 July 2016 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 14 January 2019 by Pub SignMan
- Darts : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 14 January 2019 by Pub SignMan
- Function Room : Yes last updated 14 January 2019 by Pub SignMan
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Live Music : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : No last updated 11 July 2016 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 05 August 2019 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No last updated 14 January 2019 by Pub SignMan
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 14 January 2019 by Pub SignMan
- WiFi : Yes last updated 14 January 2019 by Pub SignMan
