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N:Bar Nakoda
FN:Bar Nakoda
TEL;WORK;VOICE:020 7247 6707
ADR;WORK:;;199 Whitechapel Road;E1 1DE
URL:http://www.barnakoda.com/
NOTE:The outside looks like Newgate Prison on a bad night, but get through the solid looking defences and this is actually a pretty decent place, if rather alarmingly quiet on a Saturday night. The beer is good and the decor moulders pleasantly in the background, as does most of the clientele. There is a lack of media chin-strokers, which is always a bonus
NOTE:The day I learned that the Black Bull had shut was a black day for me and I feared the worst: yet another pub re-incarnated as a bland hell-hole aimed at students, or worse still, condemned to be a fried chicken restaurant. I took my first tentative steps inside and discovered to my delight that very little had changed. The place has had a well-earned lick of paint and been spruced up a bit, but nothing too drastic. The huge silhouetted black bull has been replaced by a colony of LCD screens that seem to have spread out across the pub. There is an incongruous area of kitchen surfacing, presumably for food displaying purposes. An advertisement outside the pub states that Indian food is served within, although this was conspicuous by its absence on our visit. The same delicious range of Nethergate ales are served at the bar and the staff were friendly northern folk. This pub is still in a state of change, but the signs are good. I look forward to returning to sample the Indian food.
NOTE:Now closed
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