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RECENT PUB NEWS Pub News below is downloaded from London Drinker’s CAMRA pub information currently 71. Below is a list the latest Whatpub/Branch updates. A list of nearly all the updates since 1992 appear here. New establishments not selling real ale will not find their way into their way here. All our pubs on a CAMRA map. See also map right. A list of lost pubs from 1991 to February 2015. Find your pub here. Email your updates to our pub team . A list of CAMRA pub updates (not published in London Drinker) since July 2018 and beer updates from 1995 can be found here.

PUB NEWS FOR DECEMBER 2025

E5 8EE Wing & a Prayer, 181 Clarence Road - closed and reopened as Moyletts, an Irish themed bar. Keg beer. E2 7QB Birdcage, 80 Columbia Road - lease acquired by Urban Pubs & Bars [from Brewdog]. E11 3AA Birds , 692 High Street - closed for rebranding. EC4A 1HE Pineapple Club, Rolls Passage, Chancery Lane - originally Draft House Chancery Lane now reopened as Azuki a Japanese restaurant and Sake bar. E11 3AA Birds, 692 High Road - will close on Wednesday 14th - it will be rebranded and reopened by a new operator later in the month. EC3A 3DH Patch, 80-84 Leadenhall Street - closed future uncertain. EC4M 7DR Little Fable, 3 Fleet Place - closed future uncertain. E2 0JD Florist Arms, 255 Globe Road - closed for refurbishment E8 1HE Baxters Court, 282-284 Mare Street - reopened as DC Lion - 4 Cask ales [all Lacon's], food and a 50p Seniors discount on selected drinks. E14 0SY Soda & Friends, 20 Hopewell Square - closed company has been dissolved. EC2A 3HU Hoxton Grill, 81 Great Eastern Street - rebranded as Il Bambini - an Italian Restaurant and bar 5 keg beers & bottles. E1 7BH City Bar & Kitchen, 9 Stoney Lane - has reopened as Hit King a games bar based on baseball and Whippet Racing - seems to be bottled beer. E8 4AA Hoax, 390 Kingsland Road - Italian Restaurant with a basement cocktail bar called The Devil You Know.

PUB NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 2025

E14 4DD Amazing Grace, 12 Bank Street - a live music bar and Restaurant - keg beer. E4 8YJ Gardeners Arms, 18 Burnside Road - closed in 2010 - refurbished and reopened November 2025. Does not appear to do Cask Ale but Food , Dart and Pool are available. E15 4BQ King Edward VII, 47 The Broadway - closed by Stonegate - future uncertain. EC1R 4QL Exmouth Arms 23 Exmouth Arms - Cask Ale reintroduced - Twickenham Grandstand. EC3N 1DE Ye Three Lords, 27 Minories - reopened by London Brewing with cask ale from the brewery - sister pub to the Bohemia. E9 5DH Habbot Bar & Lounge, 331 Wick Road - has relaunched as QQ Grill Restaurant & Lounge Hackney - sister venue in Dagenham. E8 1HE Baxter's Court, 282-284 Mare Street - closed - pub is in process of being sold and is expected to reopen at some point. E1 6DT Kill the Cat Spitalfields, 14 Market Street, - closed - financial reasons. EC1A 7BX Lamb & Trotter, 6 Little Britain - Cask ale discontinued - Hand pumps removed.

PUB NEWS FOR OCTOBER 2025

E2 8HP Great Beyond Taproom - birthday party on Saturday Nov 1st fromm 7pm 2 Cask Ales/£5 pints/Free Pizza [while they last] E8 2JS Draughts, 41 Kingsland High St - reopened as Black Eel - operated by Exale Brewery. E8 1HE Baxters Court, 282-284 Mare Street - closing on November 2nd. E4 6AN Rusty Bike, 134-138 Station Road - Cask ale discontinued - handpumps unused. EC1M 6DQ Boundary Farringdon, Unit 3 Cowcross Place, 19-25 Cowcross Street - No cask ale - hand pumps removed. EC1M 6EB Erebuni, 2-5 Carthusian Place - closed reason unknown. E17 6ZH Black Horse Bar & Pizzeria, 1 Wickford way - closed future uncertain as building repossessed by Landlord. E2 8JH Moll's Cafe, 1 Geffrye Street - closed in May probably for financial reasons. E8 2JS Black Eel, 41 Kingsland High Street - does an Exale Cask ale - initially the Mellow Gold. EC2M 2QS Vagabond Liverpool Street, 1 Broadgate - new opening -part of Wine bar chain - keg beer. EC3R 6DB Monument, 15 Fish Street Hill - reopened after refurbishment. E4 9LB Function Room, 3 The Avenue - closed permanently towards the beginning of this year - being converted to an alternative Health Centre. E1 8AH Duke of Somerset, 15 Little Somerset Street - Real ale discontinued - handpumps removed. EC1V 4JY Bocas, 178-180 St John Street - closed - reopened as a restaurant D'Angelo upstairs and Downstairs at 180 - a basement cocktail bar. EC1V 9AQ Mad Hatter, 44 Old Street - closed - relaunched under new management as The Prince - still a cocktail bar. E14 5GX Crate Wood Wharf, 14 Water Street - their second bar - keg beer & pizza. E4 6Nt Larkshall, 205 Larkshall Road - closed for refurbishment until October 22nd. E14 4PH No 35 Mackenzie Walh, 29-35 Mackenzie Walk - now operated by Portabello Pub Co - still no cask ale.. E9 7EU Albion, 36 Lauriston Road - closed 2015 - planning permission granted to change to a private dwelling.
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CAMRA pubs update 71 (December 2025) E1 DUKE OF SOMERSET (Stonegate). No longer sells cask beer. E1 GEORGE TAVERN. No longer sells cask beer. E1 KILL THE CAT SPITALFIELD. Closure self-reported. E1 OLIVER CONQUEST (Conquest Pubs). Closed for ‘refurbishment’ at the start of the year still closed. E2 FLORIST ARMS 255 Globe Rd. Reopened by Barley Pop. Besides East London and Oakham beers Celtic Marshes cider has been available. E2 MOLLY'S CAFE (Geffrye Museum/Company of Cooks). Closed again. E4 OLD HALL TAVERN (Heineken). No longer sells cask beer. E4 RUSTY BIKE. No longer sells cask beer. E8 BAR 161 161 Mare St. Reopened in October as PAPER TIGE a ‘Dim Sum cocktail bar’ with keg and bottled beer. E8 DRAUGHTS (Draughts London Ltd) 41 Kingsland High St. Now BLACK EEL from Exale Brewing a bar/community space. The bar is in the old F Cooke's Eel Pie & Mash Shop with larger spaces to the rear including a ballroom and a games area. The back garden has seating for 150 people a petanque court and a boat. Two handpumps sell an Exale cask beer and a cider (Seacider); there are 12 keg lines. E8 FOX (Wellington) 372 Kingsland Rd. Reopened in September after closure in 2018 for building refurbishment. Live music and keg beer but sadly this once great cask pub has no handpumps. E8 HAGGERSTON (Acme Bars) 438 Kingsland Rd. Cask beer reinstated after 10 years. Initially Five Points Best priced @ £5 pint followed by DEYA Fresh. They hope to reuse the other two handpumps if sales allow. E8 BAXTERS COURT (Wetherspoon). Closed in November and appears to have been sold. E8 DALSTON EASTERN CURVE GARDEN CAFE. No cask beer the remaining handpump being used to dispense Celtic Marches cider. E8 DUKE OF WELLINGTON (Stonegate). No longer sells cask beer. E8 WORKER'S CAFE 404 Kingsland Road. Reverted to takeaway a couple of years ago. E14 CRATE WOOD WHARF 14 Water St. Based in a modern multi-storey office block and very modern - glass steel no ceilings concrete floors exposed services etc with a hefty wooden bar that mimics the one at Hackney Wick. Keg taps (could be conventional or KeyKeg) dispense their core beer range plus guests from (e.g.) Yonder Vault City and some collabs. The pizza menu is similar to Hackney Wick’s. E14 PRINCE REGENT 81 Salmon La. Reopened but will close for six months in January for refurbishment. E17 BLACK HORSE BAR & PIZZERIA. Closed repossessed by owner in October. E20 GRAVITY MAX Units 1-7 Chestnut Plaza Westfield Ave Montfichet Rd. Arcade with a variety of games for which booking is required. Heineken sports bar and Gravity Social bar with keg beers and booths [bookable] for watching the sport. 10 keg beers and bottles. Snacks include hot dogs and nachos. EC1 LAMB & TROTTER. No longer sells cask beer. EC1 ALCHEMIST (Living Ventures) 145 City Rd. Reopened as OLE KYIV OLD STREET a Ukrainian bar & restaurant - keg and Ukrainian beer. EC1 BOUNDARY FARRINGDON (Stonegate). No longer sells cask beer. EC1 EREBUNI. Closed in May future uncertain. EC1 SPACE TALK (Marylebone Leisure Group). No longer sells cask or indeed any draught beer. Bottles only. EC2 VAGABOND LIVERPOOL STREET Unit G31 1 Broadgate. Chain wine bar. Keg beer. EC3 THREE LORDS (Punch) 27 Minories. Reopened by London Brewing Co who run the Bohemia. Punch no longer involved. Two bars on two floors: cask beer only on the ground floor. Four handpumps as well as keg taps. Both bars have framed posters but look out for the glass to the right of the ground floor bar advertising Upright and Beer Street. There are portraits of four lords in the entrance stairwell and an explanation of the pub name on a board by the entrance door.
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RECENT PUB NEWS Pub News below is downloaded from London Drinker’s CAMRA pub information currently 71. Below is a list the latest Whatpub/Branch updates. A list of nearly all the updates since 1992 appear here. New establishments not selling real ale will not find their way into their way here. All our pubs on a CAMRA map. See also map right. A list of lost pubs from 1991 to February 2015. Find your pub here. Email your updates to our pub team . A list of CAMRA pub updates (not published in London Drinker) since July 2018 and beer updates from 1995 can be found here.

PUB NEWS FOR DECEMBER 2025

E5 8EE Wing & a Prayer, 181 Clarence Road - closed and reopened as Moyletts, an Irish themed bar. Keg beer. E2 7QB Birdcage, 80 Columbia Road - lease acquired by Urban Pubs & Bars [from Brewdog]. E11 3AA Birds , 692 High Street - closed for rebranding. EC4A 1HE Pineapple Club, Rolls Passage, Chancery Lane - originally Draft House Chancery Lane now reopened as Azuki a Japanese restaurant and Sake bar. E11 3AA Birds, 692 High Road - will close on Wednesday 14th - it will be rebranded and reopened by a new operator later in the month. EC3A 3DH Patch, 80-84 Leadenhall Street - closed future uncertain. EC4M 7DR Little Fable, 3 Fleet Place - closed future uncertain. E2 0JD Florist Arms, 255 Globe Road - closed for refurbishment E8 1HE Baxters Court, 282-284 Mare Street - reopened as DC Lion - 4 Cask ales [all Lacon's], food and a 50p Seniors discount on selected drinks. E14 0SY Soda & Friends, 20 Hopewell Square - closed company has been dissolved. EC2A 3HU Hoxton Grill, 81 Great Eastern Street - rebranded as Il Bambini - an Italian Restaurant and bar 5 keg beers & bottles. E1 7BH City Bar & Kitchen, 9 Stoney Lane - has reopened as Hit King a games bar based on baseball and Whippet Racing - seems to be bottled beer. E8 4AA Hoax, 390 Kingsland Road - Italian Restaurant with a basement cocktail bar called The Devil You Know.

PUB NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 2025

E14 4DD Amazing Grace, 12 Bank Street - a live music bar and Restaurant - keg beer. E4 8YJ Gardeners Arms, 18 Burnside Road - closed in 2010 - refurbished and reopened November 2025. Does not appear to do Cask Ale but Food , Dart and Pool are available. E15 4BQ King Edward VII, 47 The Broadway - closed by Stonegate - future uncertain. EC1R 4QL Exmouth Arms 23 Exmouth Arms - Cask Ale reintroduced - Twickenham Grandstand. EC3N 1DE Ye Three Lords, 27 Minories - reopened by London Brewing with cask ale from the brewery - sister pub to the Bohemia. E9 5DH Habbot Bar & Lounge, 331 Wick Road - has relaunched as QQ Grill Restaurant & Lounge Hackney - sister venue in Dagenham. E8 1HE Baxter's Court, 282-284 Mare Street - closed - pub is in process of being sold and is expected to reopen at some point. E1 6DT Kill the Cat Spitalfields, 14 Market Street, - closed - financial reasons. EC1A 7BX Lamb & Trotter, 6 Little Britain - Cask ale discontinued - Hand pumps removed.

PUB NEWS FOR OCTOBER 2025

E2 8HP Great Beyond Taproom - birthday party on Saturday Nov 1st fromm 7pm 2 Cask Ales/£5 pints/Free Pizza [while they last] E8 2JS Draughts, 41 Kingsland High St - reopened as Black Eel - operated by Exale Brewery. E8 1HE Baxters Court, 282-284 Mare Street - closing on November 2nd. E4 6AN Rusty Bike, 134-138 Station Road - Cask ale discontinued - handpumps unused. EC1M 6DQ Boundary Farringdon, Unit 3 Cowcross Place, 19-25 Cowcross Street - No cask ale - hand pumps removed. EC1M 6EB Erebuni, 2-5 Carthusian Place - closed reason unknown. E17 6ZH Black Horse Bar & Pizzeria, 1 Wickford way - closed future uncertain as building repossessed by Landlord. E2 8JH Moll's Cafe, 1 Geffrye Street - closed in May probably for financial reasons. E8 2JS Black Eel, 41 Kingsland High Street - does an Exale Cask ale - initially the Mellow Gold. EC2M 2QS Vagabond Liverpool Street, 1 Broadgate - new opening -part of Wine bar chain - keg beer. EC3R 6DB Monument, 15 Fish Street Hill - reopened after refurbishment. E4 9LB Function Room, 3 The Avenue - closed permanently towards the beginning of this year - being converted to an alternative Health Centre. E1 8AH Duke of Somerset, 15 Little Somerset Street - Real ale discontinued - handpumps removed. EC1V 4JY Bocas, 178-180 St John Street - closed - reopened as a restaurant D'Angelo upstairs and Downstairs at 180 - a basement cocktail bar. EC1V 9AQ Mad Hatter, 44 Old Street - closed - relaunched under new management as The Prince - still a cocktail bar. E14 5GX Crate Wood Wharf, 14 Water Street - their second bar - keg beer & pizza. E4 6Nt Larkshall, 205 Larkshall Road - closed for refurbishment until October 22nd. E14 4PH No 35 Mackenzie Walh, 29-35 Mackenzie Walk - now operated by Portabello Pub Co - still no cask ale.. E9 7EU Albion, 36 Lauriston Road - closed 2015 - planning permission granted to change to a private dwelling.
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CAMRA pubs update 71 (December 2025) E1 DUKE OF SOMERSET (Stonegate). No longer sells cask beer. E1 GEORGE TAVERN. No longer sells cask beer. E1 KILL THE CAT SPITALFIELD. Closure self-reported. E1 OLIVER CONQUEST (Conquest Pubs). Closed for ‘refurbishment’ at the start of the year still closed. E2 FLORIST ARMS 255 Globe Rd. Reopened by Barley Pop. Besides East London and Oakham beers Celtic Marshes cider has been available. E2 MOLLY'S CAFE (Geffrye Museum/Company of Cooks). Closed again. E4 OLD HALL TAVERN (Heineken). No longer sells cask beer. E4 RUSTY BIKE. No longer sells cask beer. E8 BAR 161 161 Mare St. Reopened in October as PAPER TIGE a ‘Dim Sum cocktail bar’ with keg and bottled beer. E8 DRAUGHTS (Draughts London Ltd) 41 Kingsland High St. Now BLACK EEL from Exale Brewing a bar/community space. The bar is in the old F Cooke's Eel Pie & Mash Shop with larger spaces to the rear including a ballroom and a games area. The back garden has seating for 150 people a petanque court and a boat. Two handpumps sell an Exale cask beer and a cider (Seacider); there are 12 keg lines. E8 FOX (Wellington) 372 Kingsland Rd. Reopened in September after closure in 2018 for building refurbishment. Live music and keg beer but sadly this once great cask pub has no handpumps. E8 HAGGERSTON (Acme Bars) 438 Kingsland Rd. Cask beer reinstated after 10 years. Initially Five Points Best priced @ £5 pint followed by DEYA Fresh. They hope to reuse the other two handpumps if sales allow. E8 BAXTERS COURT (Wetherspoon). Closed in November and appears to have been sold. E8 DALSTON EASTERN CURVE GARDEN CAFE. No cask beer the remaining handpump being used to dispense Celtic Marches cider. E8 DUKE OF WELLINGTON (Stonegate). No longer sells cask beer. E8 WORKER'S CAFE 404 Kingsland Road. Reverted to takeaway a couple of years ago. E14 CRATE WOOD WHARF 14 Water St. Based in a modern multi-storey office block and very modern - glass steel no ceilings concrete floors exposed services etc with a hefty wooden bar that mimics the one at Hackney Wick. Keg taps (could be conventional or KeyKeg) dispense their core beer range plus guests from (e.g.) Yonder Vault City and some collabs. The pizza menu is similar to Hackney Wick’s. E14 PRINCE REGENT 81 Salmon La. Reopened but will close for six months in January for refurbishment. E17 BLACK HORSE BAR & PIZZERIA. Closed repossessed by owner in October. E20 GRAVITY MAX Units 1-7 Chestnut Plaza Westfield Ave Montfichet Rd. Arcade with a variety of games for which booking is required. Heineken sports bar and Gravity Social bar with keg beers and booths [bookable] for watching the sport. 10 keg beers and bottles. Snacks include hot dogs and nachos. EC1 LAMB & TROTTER. No longer sells cask beer. EC1 ALCHEMIST (Living Ventures) 145 City Rd. Reopened as OLE KYIV OLD STREET a Ukrainian bar & restaurant - keg and Ukrainian beer. EC1 BOUNDARY FARRINGDON (Stonegate). No longer sells cask beer. EC1 EREBUNI. Closed in May future uncertain. EC1 SPACE TALK (Marylebone Leisure Group). No longer sells cask or indeed any draught beer. Bottles only. EC2 VAGABOND LIVERPOOL STREET Unit G31 1 Broadgate. Chain wine bar. Keg beer. EC3 THREE LORDS (Punch) 27 Minories. Reopened by London Brewing Co who run the Bohemia. Punch no longer involved. Two bars on two floors: cask beer only on the ground floor. Four handpumps as well as keg taps. Both bars have framed posters but look out for the glass to the right of the ground floor bar advertising Upright and Beer Street. There are portraits of four lords in the entrance stairwell and an explanation of the pub name on a board by the entrance door.