Live Sports — Pubs in Bethnal Green

Evening Meals

Cocktails and mass produced foreign beers from Spain, Portugal, Peru and Mexico.

Old Street Brewery Taproom

Arch 11, Gales Gardens, Bethnal Green E2 0EJ

Family Friendly

Dog Friendly

Taproom of the Old Street Brewery. Currently on soft launch selling 4 tank beers , 4 guest taps and bottles.

Marquis Of Cornwallis

304 Bethnal Green Road, Bethnal Green E2 0AG

Traditional Pub Games

Dog Friendly

Comfortable island bar pub. Darts. Cooked meals lunchtime and snacks other times.

Coupette

423 Bethnal Green Road, Bethnal Green E2 0AN

Live Music

Close to Railway Station

Previously the Albion, then Bohola House (Irish), Bar Valente. French Cocktail Bar & Retsaurant. No real ale.

Shakespeare

460 Bethnal Green Road, Bethnal Green E2 0EA

Traditional Pub Games

Karaoke

Under new management in February 2015.

Salmon & Ball

502 Bethnal Green Road, Bethnal Green E2 0EA

Karaoke

Family Friendly

Ordinary pub. Listed building. White and green colour scheme. No real ale but always seems popular.

Marksman

254 Hackney Road, Bethnal Green E2 7SJ

Real Cider Available

Family Friendly

1860s pub. Formerly tied to West brewery, later to Hoare, Charrington, but a free house since the 1970s. Décor blends contemporary and period features, e.g. an octagonal skylight at the front, chandeliers made from drinks bottles. Mix of newer and longer-standing East End custom. Named Michelin "Pub of the Year" for 2017.

Sebright Arms

31-35 Coate Street, Bethnal Green E2 9AG

Real Cider Available

Beer Festivals

Previously a pub with a chequered history, the Sebright is now a very busy establishment serving up to four real ales and bottle-conditioned beer, including beers from London microbreweries, along with real cider. The interior comprises two wood-panelled rooms. Food (run separately from the bar) is available from a varying menu and includes Sunday roasts. Bi-annual beer festivals are held, and various entertainment is staged in The Venue downstairs.

Perseverance

112 Pritchards Road, Bethnal Green E2 9AP

Smoking Area

Locals pub which experimented with ELB beers. No food.

Hare

505 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green E2 9BU

Jukebox

Ex-Truman, now a free house. Determinedly ungentrified pub, which nevertheless is very popular with both older East End custom and more bohemian incomers to the area. Former horseshoe bar, now moved back to provide more space, but still not spacious. Sky TVs, pool, darts, varied jukebox, small covered heated rear courtyard for smokers, well fed white cat in residence.

Dundee Arms

339 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green E2 9LH

CAMRA Discount

Reopened on a free of tie Lease on 2 April 2015. A sister pub to the crooked Billet. There is a mixture of wood paneling (both painted and unpainted) and bare brick walls. A wonderful and very rare original mosaic sign "Dundee Arms" was uncovered during the refurbishment. Likely to be late Victorian. Otherwise mostly distressed interior with some comfortable fixed bench seating. Opposite the York Hall where the Pigs Ear Beer Festival was founded in 1983. The Real ales frequently feature Truman's, ELB and Siren Craft.

Approach Tavern

47 Approach Road, Bethnal Green E2 9LY

Real Cider Available