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Well and Bucket
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Well & Bucket, The | Pub | Craft Beer London
Until recently, though, it was a leather wholesalers and before that a punk bar, which (I'm told) explains why so much of the beautiful tiling is no longer in situ.
Much money has been spent here in the expectation that plenty more will change hands over the bar: certainly, the beer on offer demands respect.
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This pub was editorially chosen for inclusion by Londonist.
The Well & Bucket is both one of the East End's oldest pubs, and one of its newest.
Now, it has reopened thanks to Barworks, whose other notable pubs include The Black Heart in Camden Town, the Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell and the Electricity Showrooms at the other end of Shoreditch.
We're sorely tempted to declare this place the 'best pub in east London' and be done with it.
- A candle-lit basement cocktail bar (5CC) with the friendliest staff you'll ever meet.
5CC Cocktail Club Shoeditch | London Bar Reviews | DesignMyNight
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Tucked beneath the Well and Bucket, 5CC Bethnal Green is a one kind of a place.
5CC are into handmade cocktails made with fresh produce, so that's what you'll be getting!
With a focus on having a good time while making seriously good drinks, the guys behind the stick will make sure you enjoy your stay and maybe let you taste a bit of their special rums, that's if you're nice of course... Orchestrated by the sound of old school RnB and Jazz, you can be sure to to have a good time in a pretentious free environment.
5CC Bethnal Green is a sister bar to 5CC Exmouth, 5CC Farringdon and 5CC Hoxton.
All priding themselves in creating expertly made cocktails, a chilled and relaxed environment in a quirky setting and a perfect place for a good drink in a timeless setting.
Well and Bucket Pub Shoreditch | London Pub Reviews ...
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The Well and Bucket, a legendary Shoreditch drinking establishment, attracts long time fans of this historic pub, as well as generating a new group of regulars.
The real selling point of the Well and Bucket is the choice of beer on offer: draught, stout, bottled lager, bottled pale ale, bottled ale, bottled blonde, bottled rare Belgian beer, bottled weiss beer, cask (on rotation) and bombers (sharing beer that comes in 750ml bottles).
The Well and Bucket also plays host to a secret speakeasy bar downstairs.
5CC cocktail club, beneath the floors of the Well and Bucket pub is the place for a more relaxed atmosphere and expertly made cocktails.
Top 10 craft beer pubs in east London | Travel | The Guardian
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Its fridges include selections from key craft brewers such as Kernel, Wild Beer and Evil Twin, some real connoisseur’s classics (Old Chimney’s Good King Henry stout), and several rare imports and one-offs from bottles of Oregon-based Hop Valley’s Alpha Centauri imperial IPA to Thornbridge’s 10th anniversary special, Jaipur X.
Howling Hops also brews in Queen’s Yard (see entry), while, a short walk along the canal, the Plough at Swan Wharf – a cafe-bar with a huge, grungy courtyard terrace – serves a compact range of craft ales, including beers by another Hackney Wick brewery, Truman’s (pint from £4, 60 Dace Road, 020-8525 9541, hackneyplough.co.uk).
This railway arch bar and bottle shop is home to several huge fridges stacked with superb beers to drink-in or takeaway, many of them lesser-known, highly-rated imports, such as Natt imperial porter from Norwegians Ægir or the US Tunnel Vision IPA.
Two fridges are packed with imports from iconic craft brewers such as Mikkeller, Crooked Stave and 3 Floyds, while 12 keg and four cask pumps dispense a mix of on-point UK beers (Mondo, Red Cat, Big Smoke) and further exotica from foreign climes (Bronx Brewery’s rye pale ale, Brekeriet’s sour barrel-aged wheat beer from Sweden).
• Pint from £3.40, 11A Buckfast Street, 020-7729 2627, thekingsarmspub.com This pub and gig venue may, in many ways, be the last word in east London cool (craft beers, street food, hip music), but, to a large extent, its charm lies in how it evokes a lost, very different era.
Well & Bucket | Bars and pubs in Shoreditch, London
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When a pub closes, as this one did way back in 1989, the worst thing that can happen to it is to be turned into a Tesco Metro.
And here is one of these born-again boozers – following wilderness years as a Chinese restaurant and a leather wholesaler, the Well and Bucket is once again brimming over with beer.
The Victorian tiling was once noted across London for its splendour; it now looks a bit battleworn, but is brilliantly atmospheric.
Phantom East Enders might be a bit unfamiliar with the huge array of craft beer on offer, which includes about 18 on tap: on our visit there was Evil Twin’s Hipster APA (vividly described by my companion as ‘dad-strong’), to the fruity, prickly, almost Hawaiian-tropical Omnipollo Fatamorgana.
There’s even a little cocktail bar downstairs: in short, definitely one for the bucket list.