Bunker
- Venue type: Drink
- Subcategory: Bar
- Location: Earlham Street, London, United Kingdom
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- Website: http://www.bunkerbar.com
- Wifi: No
- Wheelchair access: No
About Bunker
Bünker lacks confidence.
Descending the stairs, leaving the street level in your wake, you enter a large space with a bar at the far side. Common to microbreweries this is styled with an industrial feel; bare concrete walls enclose the room whilst pipes snake around it just below the high ceiling – almost as if it feels it needs to convince those entering on the genre of the establishment. From a microbrewery you might expect beer to be the focus. But the three beers that they produce are swamped in the menu by uninspiring cocktails and mediocre wines. The beers themselves are good quality; choose from a pilsner, a red beer, and an organic lager, and at £3.40 a pint, a reasonable purchase for a drink where some of the additives of generic beer have been replaced with a bit more character.
Inside this subterranean bar you can expect to find a lot of people. A mixture of beats, and rock and pop tunes thankfully aren’t played too loud and are generally hidden by the tack, tack, tack of hearty conversations emerging from around the large wooden tables that fill the floor. If you want to accompany your drink with food sharing platters make a good communal focus, although for what you get for your (around) £20, it is a bit under whelming.
It is a decent venue, don’t get me wrong, but we want more beer. There is only a very limited selection of bottles to accompany the three on tap. Stamp your feet in unison and demand beer, beer, beer.
Rating:
Descending the stairs, leaving the street level in your wake, you enter a large space with a bar at the far side. Common to microbreweries this is styled with an industrial feel; bare concrete walls enclose the room whilst pipes snake around it just below the high ceiling – almost as if it feels it needs to convince those entering on the genre of the establishment. From a microbrewery you might expect beer to be the focus. But the three beers that they produce are swamped in the menu by uninspiring cocktails and mediocre wines. The beers themselves are good quality; choose from a pilsner, a red beer, and an organic lager, and at £3.40 a pint, a reasonable purchase for a drink where some of the additives of generic beer have been replaced with a bit more character.
Inside this subterranean bar you can expect to find a lot of people. A mixture of beats, and rock and pop tunes thankfully aren’t played too loud and are generally hidden by the tack, tack, tack of hearty conversations emerging from around the large wooden tables that fill the floor. If you want to accompany your drink with food sharing platters make a good communal focus, although for what you get for your (around) £20, it is a bit under whelming.
It is a decent venue, don’t get me wrong, but we want more beer. There is only a very limited selection of bottles to accompany the three on tap. Stamp your feet in unison and demand beer, beer, beer.
4.7 / 5
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Comments
went here the other day and - don't know if i'm getting old but - the music was too loud. Why do bars keep doing that?
Written by Slinky on 14/01/09 at 4:11 PM