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Probably the archetypal East London craft beer pub (along with Clapton Hart) - proper working men's pub, shabby look, loads of cask and keg micros, posh burgers, and close to a completely 20s crowd on a midweek evening. Felt very old, but hard to fault.
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Popped in last night to meet friends and had several pints of Redemption Hopspur, which was excellent.
Only grumble was the price....at £5 a pint, it is officially the most expensive beer that I have ever bought. Queried the price with the barman, and he was adamant that £5 was the correct price......but next round was 2 pints of Hopspur and a glass of Rioja, and that came in at £11.50. So either the wine is bloody cheap here, or the first barman was making up prices that made it easy for him.
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Popped into The Sebright Arms as it had a mention in the newly published “Craft Beer London” book (page 76) and can say that the write up did it fair justice.
Four cask ales were being pulled that evening, Two from Redemption “Rock the Kazbek”4.0% and “Urban Dusk” 4.6% and Two from East London Brewery ”Foundation Bitter” 4.2% and “Quadrant” an oatmeal stout at 5.9%, gorgeous can only slightly describe this wonderful stout. Some chap called Arthur in Dublin has got a lot of catching up to do if he wants to knock out a stout as good as this.
We were made very welcome by the bright and happy bar staff who offered a sample if we wanted to try before selecting. Thought best if we had a pint of each, so we could give an accurate opinion, (my excuse) and found all beers in excellent condition. A nice touch was that each beer pump had a small plaque describing what to expect.
As we were too late to try out the “Lucky Chip” catering, renowned for producing some of the best burgers in London, we will have to make another visit. Shame that, will probably have to try the latest four draft ales again. Life’s so damn hard.
Great old character style pub that has been saved from demolition, well worth a visit, but do seem strict on closing time. Stopped serving three minutes early the night we were in, so don’t hang about.
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paid a visit on the strength of a beer festival that was advertised, difficult to be too critical but the place was stuplidly overcrowded - several hundred spilled out onto the street, the beer festival however well intentioned was very badly organised - tokens were needed to purchase the beers from a corner of the pub separate from the bar area. There was a fairly lengthy queue for the beer BUT the only indication that you needed to purchase tokens in order to purchase beer was an A4 sheet hanging below eye level obscured by customers so along with many others having queued once then had to go back to be bar then queue again. Beer from the festival casks served in plastic glasses, makes sense if your going outside but beers purchased from the bar - no such restriction. Beer lists for the festival virtually non existant, if you were lucky enough to find one a fair number of the beers were either bottles only or only available at the bar - again all very confusing. After one pint we just gave up hopped on the 55 bus to Clerkenwell and enjoyed a very chilled evening at CaskBeerCo - a permanent beer festival.
The beer festival and the pub are obviously victims of its own success so i dont want to sound too negative and i think i might just drop by again on a quieter evening and hopefully enjoy a more positive experience
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Pub's reopened under new management 3 weeks ago!
Indeed it was almost relegated to the recent gentrification of Tower Hamlets, destined to become apartments like so many other pubs long gone from around the area. But thanks to local petitioning & new owners its back on track & open from 5 Monday thru Saturday, & doing Sunday roasts from midday till 7. Kitchen's open every evening as well.
Beer range boasts several locally sourced ales (Brodie's, London Fields, Sambrooks), lager and wheat beer (Meantime), as well as a few imports & standards like Krombacher, Heineken, Guiness & Leffe.
Definitely worth a look if for nothing but curiosity's sake - events also happening in the downstairs venue during the week (comedy, kareoke..) and weekends (DJs, theme nights).
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presumably another pub gone as part of tower hamlets cockney ethnic cleansing policy
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Closed at the moment. The bar is still in place and the lights are on but its been stripped of all bottles and most furniture.
Anyone know whats happening to the place?
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Visited the Sebright a few months ago my how things change. I used to work there for a delightful couple Jack and John affectionately know by all the locals that lived next door to the Krays as Jack & Jill. Friedly pub good cabaret, Dockyard Doris (rip) Tommy Osbourne and a grand old music hall night on thursday. Now replaced by a pub full of plastic gangsters who also all lived next door to the Krays (How long was Valance Road any way)
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Hi
Visited the Sebright on Friday 20th May 2005.
Good crowd of people, music good when it "started"
at 10.0PM.
Astounded our drink prices went up, when we first went in round was 4.80 next was fiver, and then 6.00
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An east end institution if all my Bow/Hackney oldtimer mates are to be believed! Fantastic place, bring the family, sing your heart out and dine in style! Long live the Sebright!
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STRANGE NOBODY SEEMS TO HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS GREAT PUB FOR AGES!!!FRI NITES R GREAT THE LIVE SINGERS THE BEST. PEOPLE FRIENDLY ITS PACKED!BAR STAFF NICE ENOUGH GREAT ATMOSPHERE.SINGERS SAT NITES ARE GREAT CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY ITS NOT BUSIER?IF YOU ENJOY URSELF FRI WHY NOT GO AGAIN SAT?WE DID!!SUN LUNCH LOVELY, EVERYONE VERY FRIENDLY & LIVE MUSIC AGAIN VERY LAID BACK NOT TO LOUD OWNER MAKES A POINT OF SAYING HELLO TO EVERYONE NOT JUST THE REGULARS.NO TROUBLE OR DRUNKS THAT WEREN'T HAPPY!!IT REALLY IS WORTH A VISIT.YOU'LL LOVE IT,AS WE DID & STILL DO
anonymous - 20 Apr 2005 22:37 |
Recently moved to the area, and have been very impressed with this place. Lots of room, friendly staff, cheap drinks and no sign of any bother.
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Stopped in last summer on a trip to London... friendly, good food, nice place... plan to stop by again in Sept when we are in London.
Anne - 1 Aug 2004 19:45 |
This Public House caters for all ages with Kareoke on Thursday night, Friday live music which caters for the 25 to the young sixty age group, Saturday live music for all ages, Sunday you can have your lunch which is of good value and then you can stay for more live music to finish off your week-end. I have yet to see a
down and out drunk in this pub or any problems with fights. The regular drinkers will make any newcomer welcome and only to pleased to get the into their conversation and debates. I woukld recomend The Sebright Arms to anyone. From a regular user
linda - 30 Jun 2004 00:23 |
Who ever this person is needs to revisit.this pub is not a trouble pub it has a good sunday lunch on offer and seats many families and their children. there is entertainment of a week end and nice mid week trade many hard working people who enjoy a game of pool and a friendly chat.
client to the sebright arms - 2 Feb 2004 19:18 |
This place reminds me of the pub in American Werewolf in London - it's like conversation stops when any non-local enters. Music is played far too loudly and the famous "music hall night" is usually a disorderly collation of acts that are well past their sell-by date. There is also a fight just about every other Saturday!
CSI - 10 Nov 2003 13:59 |
Dark, dingy interior. Proper East End clientele - i.e. old alcoholics, their wives, their great-grandchildren, all telling the jokes that they heard 50 years ago from Charlie Kray's wife's sister's niece. Good points: open until 12 every night & does an after-hours lock-in every Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Bad points: you need to be one of the aforementioned insiders (and over 25) to qualify, otherwise you run the risk of getting chucked out at 11.
Does a cabaret/music hall night every Thursday, uses a lot of transvestites that don't really deserve the proud title of drag queen, but quite fun if you're into the archaeology of popular entertainment. Beer nothing to write home about, tables outside.
local man - 12 May 2003 12:04 |
