Saturday, 4 January 2025

N0021 Seabank House

This pub, a 2001 replacement building for the old Wharf Tavern which stood as East Wall's only proper pub (they had plenty of spirit grocer type premises though), was badly damaged by fire in late 2018

The pub reopened in 2021, as much as any pub could with the restrictions still in place at the time; after a refit to incredibly high standards. Lots of quality finishes, stone, wood, brass etc with nicely coloured textiles and so on, providing something that feels (very) nice and cosy rather than sterile or over the top. Whoever designed this did a very good job, and whoever agreed to pay for the presumably very high costs of doing it right needs to be commended. You could easily aim for this and miss, badly. Many pubs have.

I was there early enough in the evening, so the pub wasn't particularly busy, but with a full schedule of sports and live music, I presume it gets a lot busier. There's a pretty large tap range here, albeit all from the big macros - so there's IPAs, but they're Cute Hoor and Open Gate Citra for instance.

This pub is a bit out of the way for most people; but with huge apartment developments on East Road and Sheriff Street under construction there is a large potential customer base here. Definitely seems to be worth a visit.

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