The Gun, Shoreditch

What a lottery this pub is.

Last Thursday the staff rang the bell at 10:30 for last orders (which they at first said was just a joke) and then after ten minutes told us to stop playing pool. I enquired why they were shutting early and the East European girl smiled smugly and said they were a Free House and could do what they liked.

Okay so they're a Free House, but I pointed out that there's a certain expectation for customers to be able to drink until 11pm in a pub on a weekday.

She said they didn't have enough customers (about 20) to stay open. The diminutive Italian bar girl then started swearing at us in Italian. We were ordered to leave the premises at 10:45.

As we left the staff started pulling pints for a lock in.

This could be a great pub in good hands, I especially like the paintings of early European tanks and armoured cars in the pool table area. Shame about the random, irrational 'screw you' behaviour of the staff.

3 Mar 2008 11:53