The Duke Of Wellington, Hackney

Well, another solid Dalston pub gone to the dogs, the well bred, rich and fashionable middle class dogs that is. New owners from out of town, a lick of trendy shades-of-grey paint and overpriced pork pies and all of a sudden the Wellington is stuffed full of posh West London types, guffawing away as they guzzle their way through their inheritance. I'm sure it'll do very well, as Dalston is quickly filling up with the foul bourgeois middle class who are rapidly gentrifying East London, but what a loss to all the real people who have known and loved this working class area for centuries. It's appropriate that the real Duke of W was a upper class twit and rabid Tory, as most of this pub's client�le will be of similar stock. Another sad day.

22 Apr 2009 16:47