Windmill, Old Street  rated3 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

location:

Old Street

address:

27 Tabernacle Street, EC2A 4DE

phone:

0871 984 3437*
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nearest stations:

Old Street London Underground stationRailway station
(180m) - zone 1

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(650m) - zone 2

Moorgate London Underground stationRailway station
(690m) - zone 1

Liverpool Street London Underground stationRailway station
(800m) - zone 1

Barbican London Underground stationRailway station
(940m) - zone 1

how to find it:

From Old Street head down City Road towards Moorgate, take the first left and the pub is on the corner on the right a little way down Leonard Street. From Moorgate head north towards Old Street, take the right fork just past Finsbury Square and walk down Tabernacle Street, to the junction with Leonard Street. The pub is on the corner on the left.

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nearby attraction(s):

Barbican Centre (750m)

Spitalfields Market (890m)

picture of WindmillThe relatively recent renovation of The Windmill might be described as not so much imitating the changes in the surrounding neighbourhood as tracking them, intelligently and relatively sensitively. Above all, it retains a sufficient degree of its own character and is now a smart bar - rather than a theme bar, City post-office-overspill, or intimidatingly trendy venue, unlike many other ex-pubs around this way. It has proper chairs and tables, for one thing, and the place's overall appearance is smart and contemporary rather than preposterous. True, the only nod towards no less proper ales comes in the form of bottled London Pride - Amstel and some other decent lagers are more the order of the day, really. The people it attracts are a wide range, but might be categorised as those who don't seek out the much more pretentious venues nearby or, for that matter, the unreconstructed and vaguely scary boozers not very much further away. So, all in all, we like the Windmill. Probably not a pub you'd go out of your way to visit, but it does the job.

reviewed:
23/08/2007
reviewed by venichka
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