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location:
address:
Hoxton Street, N1 6NH
phone:
N/A
nearest stations:
Old Street 
(570m) - zone 1
Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) 
(590m) - zone 2
Liverpool Street
(1.1Km) - zone 1
Moorgate
(1.2Km) - zone 1
Barbican
(1.4Km) - zone 1
how to find it:
Leave by an Old Street (East) exit and down Old Street, past the fire station. When you get to the main junction, with the traffic lights, take the left hand fork down Old Street Street. Carry on along Old Street until you get to the traffic lights at the junction with Curtain Road on your right. Turn left into Hoxton Street and the pub is on the left hand corner at the first junction
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nearby attraction(s):
Geffrye Museum (470m)
Spitalfields Market (990m)
We probably caught this place at the wrong time. Our weekday afternoon visit saw the place deserted and quite - we were tempted to languish a while on the splendid chaise longue in one corner of the room. The large set of decks and small space suggests it'll be packed and noisy in the evening; no chance of a doze then. Certainly in keeping with the clubby feel of the place there was no draught beer on sale, just a variety of lagers. The decor was a bizarre marriage of kitsch and traditional which probably passes for ironic in this part of the world. You had stripped wallpaper, hunting prints, leather furniture and one of those seventies, soft pornfantasy prints of rocks and naked women. By daylight this all seems very odd, at night (depending on the lighting and music) it could well be alarming.
6/3/2004
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