Strongroom Bar

Bar in The City

Indie, psych, hippy, rock 'n' roll soul den in the heart of east London

Strongroom Bar

8 / 10 from 1 review

Address
120-124 Curtain Road
The City
London
EC2A 3SQ

Map

History

Telephone
020 7426 5103

Region
The City

Nearest Station
Shoreditch High Street
0.24 miles

Category
Bars

Website
http://www.myspace.com/strongroombar

Opening Summary
Mon 4pm -11pm, Tues 4pm-12am, Weds 12pm-12am, Thurs 12pm-1am, Fri 12pm-2am, Sat 12pm-2am, Sun CLOSED

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Covid 19 Information
http://www.strongroombar.com/covid-policy/

Venue Facilities

Smoking Area

Food Served

Credit Cards Accepted

Music Played

Live Music Played

Outdoor Area

Strongroom is an eclectic, independently-owned bar and late night venue that also happens to be home to Shoreditch’s biggest beer garden. Perfect for socially distanced drinks; we have over 30 tables for relaxing with friends in the open air in our huge, ivy covered courtyard.

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All In London Review

Come expecting to dance to boogaloo freak beats and get down with friends and you will not leave disappointed.

Having transformed a disused warehouse into a futuristic recording studio and rehearsal space back in 1984, the Strongroom wasn’t happy to leave things there and has since gone onto create one of the most lively bars in east London.

In a two level venue that sits on Curtain Road, The Strongroom has become a bit of an institution. Its vast courtyard allows for summer drinking without having to step onto the street, the basement means you need not look elsewhere to dance and the upper level is a cozy loft bar with enough style to keep even the most antsy happy. Large comfortable sofas are spread throughout the venue and there are is collection of intimate spaces that make the Strongroom perfect for groups. The décor is a stylish scene in itself, yet doesn’t feel at all contrived – making a psychedelic paintjob work with bare wood is tougher than you’d think. The crowd is never easily pinpointed – a mixture of the achingly hip old school vinyl collectors, young Shoreditch pretenders and those who know a good bar when they see one. The jukebox is perfect and so it should be with the bar’s musical heritage. DJs play weekends and the Strongroom is without doubt one of the best places to top up that musical knowledge with long nights of vintage vinyl where anything from trash, surf, psych rock, soul and rock n roll plays from the grooves.

The ‘restaurant’ serves food that looks suspiciously close to simple bar food, but whatever they call it, it fills a hole. Burgers, hot sandwiches and a selection of sides are all available and fairly reasonably priced. Beers on draught include, Leffe, Peroni and Pilsener Urquell and there is a good selection of single malt whisky for the rockers.

Come expecting to dance to boogaloo freak beats and get down with friends and you will not leave disappointed.

Reviewed by T.A.O
Published on Dec 12, 2011