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location:
address:
1-3 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA
phone:
N/A
nearest stations:
Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) 
(570m) - zone 2
Old Street 
(720m) - zone 1
Liverpool Street
(1.2Km) - zone 1
Moorgate
(1.3Km) - zone 1
Bethnal Green
(1.3Km)
bus routes:
149, 253 
how to find it:
Liverpool Street: Leave station by the Bishopsgate exit and turn left towards Shoreditch. Go straight past Shoreditch Church and over the lights at the junction onto Kingsland High Road. You'll shortly see the pub on your left. Old street: take the exit towards Hoxton and walk along Old Street until you reach the junction with Kingsland High Road. Turn left and the pubs on the left.
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nearby attraction(s):
Geffrye Museum (380m)
Spitalfields Market (980m)
The Spread Eagle has had a tumultuous life in the last few years. Way back when, a former Watney's pub, it turned into a non-glossy strip joint for a few years before finally ending up as a very rough and ready Hoxton bar/club. Its was at this latter point we managed to review it. And then it closed. Not for the lack of custom a refurb nonetheless took place and it has now become a fairly interesting - but certainly not groundbreaking - bar. Gone is the dark, sleazy atmosphere, replaced instead with a dark, sophisticated one. It was almost inevitable, considering the area's move closer into the mainstream. Overall, the new look Spread Eagle is still an acceptable place for a drink, even if we do lament that its lost its edge.
30/01/2007
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