Bricklayers Arms

Pub in The City
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8 / 10 from 2 reviews
Address
63 Charlotte Road
The City
London
EC2A 3PE
Map
Telephone
020 7739 5245
Region
The City
Nearest Station
Old Street
0.28 miles
Category
Pubs
Opening Times
Monday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00
Tuesday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00
Wednesday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00
Thursday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00
Friday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00
Saturday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00
Sunday Open 11:00 - Closes 23:00

Bricklayers Arms is a pub that serves a selection of beers, wines and spirits as well as a variety of modern British dishes from an A La Carte menu. They also provide a takeaway menu. Entertainment is provided in the form of DJs and a juke box. In the evenings they have promotions on some selected drinks. In addition to all of this, they have a restaurant upstairs serving a selection of authentic Thai dishes.

All In London Review

Former boho haunt is now simple Shoreditch boozer

The Bricklayers Arms on Charlotte Street in Shoreditch is one of those places that is always full, yet is unremarkable enough to make you question its popularity. The décor and layout are nothing to write home about - slightly battered furniture, an upstairs “restaurant” and that symbol of faux conviviality, the jukebox- an uninspiring selection of drinks, although they do have San Miguel on draft, and pop music that sometimes blares a bit too loudly for you to have a comfortable conversation. So why is it packed night after night? Because it is excellently positioned in London’s trendiest party area, home to media companies and nightclubs galore, where any pub save for the very unlucky will do well after 5pm. Much criticism has been levelled at the Bricklayers for losing some of its cool in recent years, and perhaps some of its boho edge has disappeared (or gone to Stoke Newington), but short of growing stilts and migrating to somewhere un-gentrified there is little it can do about its credibility. Instead we have a simple boozer in the heart of Shoreditch that isn’t pretending to be anything else. If it’s a Long Island Iced Tea you’re after, go to a cocktail bar, and if you want to eat something other than re-heated Pad Thai go to a proper restaurant. Come to the Bricklayers if you want a pint of Fosters, a chat and earache-inducing Bon Jovi records.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Mar 16, 2011


Unpretentious yet nevertheless stylish...

A really down-to-earth place compared to the rest of the cool Hoxton scene, the Bricklayers Arms is the place for an unpretentious nevertheless stylish crowd, normally in their mid-to-late-20s. This old-style pub is popular as a place to have a couple of drinks, to start the evening, before you head off elsewhere.


Published on Jul 16, 2008


User Reviews

Daniel
from Shoreditch

Jan 16, 2013

This is a hidden gem just off old street. Firstly you think you're going in to a dingy pub to reveal something amazing - it's like a girl with a good personality but a face like a bottom.

I would not wish to go anywhere else, ever. The clientele are mixed and yet all get along except once I did hear about someone getting the following shouted at them "I'll headbutt you, you lesbian". However this ended here and he carried on arguing with his girlfriend.

- Rules, there are few
- The staff are cool and suave.
- One of the main lads rides a low rider bicycle

Don't wait another

Name: Daniel
Location: Shoreditch
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