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location:
address:
49 Columbia Road, E2 7RG
phone:
020 7033 9986
nearest stations:
Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) 
(790m) - zone 2
Bethnal Green 
(920m)
Cambridge Heath 
(940m)
Whitechapel
(1.2Km) - zone 2
Old Street
(1.2Km) - zone 1
bus routes:
26, 48, 55 
how to find it:
Not very close to any station, its in the middle of the flower Market on Columbia Road. From Cambridge Heath station, turn left onto Hackney Road and turn down Ravenscroft Street, which is approximately the 10th turning on the left. The Flea Pit is at the end. The 26 and 48 buses from Liverpool Street go along Hackney Road and pass the top of Ravenscroft Street. The 55 does the same from Old Street.
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nearby attraction(s):
Geffrye Museum (500m)
Mentioning a trendy, retro-styled organic vegetarian café bar, complete with a back room showing obscure foreign films might sound like an unsubtle caricature of the Shoreditch scene. It also might make some die-hard drinkers run a mile. For us however, there were no such problems. For starters, there's a good choice of hard-to-find beers, including a selection from the excellent Battersea, Pitfield and Freedom breweries; mainly in bottles, there's one on tap, too. All the couches, chairs, tables - even the salt and pepper shakers - have been deliberately and carefully chosen, ranging in era from the mid 60s to the late 70s. Out the back, interesting live music, art and film all make their presence known at random occasions. Overall, in the wrong hands a place like this could be cliquey, elitist and pretentious, but instead has managed to be a genuinely interesting, friendly and laid-back venue. Just watch out for odd opening hours - we've seen it closed Saturday night more than once.
12/01/2008
real ales
live music
WiFi hotspot
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