Set on Dray Walk in the heart of the Old Truman Brewery complex just off Brick Lane, the Brick Lane Tap Room is an independent East London bar built around a regularly rotating range of draught beer. It began life as a temporary pop-up and proved popular enough to become a permanent fixture of the area's drinking scene, typically pouring more than ten lagers, ales and stouts at any one time. The address places it among the cobbled walkways and converted industrial buildings of the brewery site in Spitalfields, a short walk from Liverpool Street, Shoreditch High Street and Aldgate East stations. The Old Truman Brewery, once known as the Black Eagle Brewery, was for centuries one of London's largest breweries before brewing ceased on the site in the late twentieth century. Its long ranges of Victorian and Georgian buildings have since been repurposed into a dense cluster of bars, independent shops, studios, galleries, street-food traders and weekend markets, making the surrounding lanes one of the busiest social destinations in the East End. The Tap Room sits squarely within this scene, drawing a mix of local workers, market visitors and weekend crowds. The bar keeps its offer deliberately simple and informal. Alongside the changing beer line-up it provides a pool table, a dart board and a collection of retro board games, and it is openly dog-friendly, encouraging a relaxed, pub-like atmosphere rather than a polished cocktail-bar feel. The emphasis is on the rotating draught selection, which moves through different breweries and styles so that the range rarely stays the same from one week to the next. Opening hours run later towards the weekend, with the bar generally opening in the afternoon early in the week and from midday on busier days, closing around eleven at night. Its position on Dray Walk puts it directly on the route between Brick Lane and the brewery's market halls, so it functions both as a destination in its own right and as a stop for people exploring the wider area. Brick Lane itself is one of London's most recognisable streets, long associated with the city's Bangladeshi community and its concentration of curry houses, as well as vintage clothing, salt-beef and bagel shops, and an ever-changing display of street art. The Tap Room benefits from this footfall and reputation, offering an unfussy place to drink within a neighbourhood better known for its food, markets and creative businesses than for traditional pubs.

Type: Bar / Pub

Address: 4-5 Dray Walk, London, United Kingdom

Telephone: 020 7770 6050

Website: https://www.bricklanetaproom.co.uk