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The way things are going these days, no trendy bar or café will be complete without the odd piece of taxidermy it seems. The venue is large and quite pretentious which attracts Shoreditch locals*. A bit like an old fashioned English pub but with 70′s-style hippie-chic wallpaper. “ ….it’s popular with an uber trendy twenty to thirty something crowd who come in their hoards to drink, schmooze and stand around looking like they’ve just stepped out of an indie-styled video.” I stole that from someone else but it was too righteous a description to bother re-phrasing as my own and anyway originality is nothing without judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. Voltaire said that. Oh and Polly Morgan used to be the manager here.

*At time of writing this was true, however now it’s cool to go to uncool places leaving the formally cool places to the uncool people.

Shoreditch Electricity Rooms, 39a Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, N1 6NN
020 7739 3939
Monday – Friday 12pm-12am Saturday – Sunday 12pm-1am

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