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Happy mix at The Water Poet

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If you're looking for a smart boozer, you've come to the wrong place, this pub has thrown its heart and soul into the scruffy Bohemian trendy bar look and pulled it off.

It's a huge place with rooms seemingly in all directions and even a large outside space - obviously devoted to smoking with the ban. The beer's pretty good with offerings such as Flower's and Landlord on the hand pumps as well as the usual bar drinks you expect in a place like this.

The clientele is very mixed, but they seem to mix happily, nevertheless, as everybody's here for a good time and, by Jove, they get one. There's just one caveat - it can get pretty crowded in the evenings, particularly when some enterprising soul books one of the back room or a section of the garden. As we said of its previous incarnation, the old Pewter Platter tavern, you could do far worse in this neck of the woods.

CLIENTELE: local workers
NEAREST STATION: Liverpool Street station
FEATURES: function room available, outdoor seating, two pool tables, comedy cellar, open Thursdays, Sky TV

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