Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen

Very friendly customer service from the bouncer to the waiting staff, I came with a friend to watch a Nicke Brewer show and ordered a ‘Capo’s’ pizza for £11 a very meaty dish for myself which was delicious and presented in a traditional pizzeria style; followed by a tasty raspberry mojito which was my first time having both, while in the company of a candle lit dinning experience and low lighting my only gripe was that it was far too noisy.

Great multi-​tasker of a venue. Lovely for a catch up drink with mates and great for seeing up and coming bands at decent prices. The venue is pretty small, so you’re guaranteed to get a good view and through past experience I’ve noticed the crowds at shows here seem to be a lot more chilled out than at bigger venues.

Cool venue with good music. The door staff were great and the bar staff were quick and friendly. Total mix of music through in the bar area and the back DJ area. Only downside is that it shuts at 2am and nobody seems ready to leave then.

This review is for the small live music venue attached to the bar and kitchen.
I’m not a massive fan of the main bar — it’s noisey, a bit too kitchen like for an evening and the smoking section is like a small cage in a zoo!
The live music venue is great — nice small intimate setting for seeing your favourite gigs. There’s a bar inside too. Staff are friendly. Recommend it for gigs for sure!

I did not know what to expect when I went to Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen. Just like many reviews stated, the cocktails are on point. My friend said it was the best whisky sour he had in a long time.
I won’t be able to talk about the food since I didn’t eat. That said, I went to see Hollie Cook live and it was amazing! Hoxton Square B&K is very trendy and a chill place to listen to a live band and have a good times with friends.

A cool bar in Hoxton Square what looks quite small from the outside but huge inside which goes back quite a way, with a long bar, though again with Hoxton pretentious bar staff! they was happily chatting away when i asked for drinks and totally ignored me! i asked again and the guy came across without a care in the world, i asked for 2 pints of necks and one stella, i was chatting to my mate whilst he was pouring the drinks so i didn’t know which was which i asked him twice which was which and again he ignored me, he went off to the till and asked me for the money, i asked him again which drink was which and he said that ones stella in an attitude where he thought he was it! The whole bar is nice though with loads of places to sit and chill but again most tables was reserved! whats all this about? never have i experienced this in any Manchester Bar where I’m from! if they got the attitude of the staff right this place might have been ok!

Terrible service!!! They managed to deliver half of our food to another table then I had to wait 20 minutes for my food while everybody else was eating. To make matters worst they then brought me out the wrong thing when it finally came. Ended up just cancelling my order and going hungry, avoid like the plague

For me, this place has always served as a night club. I never eaten there, never expected any cocktails or anything of that sort. So judging this place as a weekend night out bar, it’s great! It’s got several rooms — one large one for dancing provided with easy mix of 90’s hits, complete vintage (including The Beatles) and indie, there are two more rooms with separate bars and numerous tables and a garden, which tends to be the busiest as the only smoker’s corner.
The audience is mixture of everything — office people, hipsters, causally looking people, and surprisingly enough I always meet some tourists there.

Nice outdoor seating and perfectly good nachos and margarita. We were here early so no crowd but Im sure this place fills up as its a nice spot with an easy and affordable menu. The bartender shook an excellent traditional margarita

After some fairly bad experiences, I recently went back to see a gig in the most boiling hot room ever, bar staff that seem more interested in talking to each other or staring off into space than serving you… it has regret written all over it. Sad to say that even if some lesser known bands that I would love to see live come here, I’d actually skip it and stay home and listen to my itunes, it would be a less of an assault on the senses than having to deal with the clientèle and staff here.
Did I mention I watched a guy set his beer in the urinal trough while he peed then picked it back up and kept drinking while there was pee dripping off the bottom?
Well there you go.

I’d love to be able to comment on the food and drinks, but I never got that far. I went in somewhat early, around 6 pm to grab a quick bite and a beer. I was by myself, since I was in town for business. After 25 minutes, I left. I’m normally not that patient, but based on the snotty attitude I encountered, I wanted to see how long it would take to get served. To my surprise, the answer was NEVER.
And, that was after one of the staff filled their cute little wooden boxes with silverware. She didn’t say hi or acknowledge me in anyway.
I can only assume that since this is in the «trendy» Shoreditch area, I wasn’t cool enough. I’m not sure I’ve ever been treated so rudely. All I can say, is if I owned this place and saw my staff behaving that way, they be looking for a job.

Was here last year, and lived on the street right behind here. This place was super chill and had a nice selection of drinks. The music isn’t really my fave to dance to, but still upbeat and fun.
The crowd is the usual Shoreditch artsy type and young professionals, so it was a lot of fun!

I was here for a launch party, and I’m not 100% sure that I would go back.
The layout totally baffled me, and the bar list was very limited. It’s quite well decorated, gives you a very cool, hipster feel, but this isn’t really up my street.
The seating area outside would be lush for summer, and the bouncers were very pleasant.

This review is just on the food it has gone massively downhill since last year. I really dislike the fact they do not do table service anymore, I might as well eat at Nandos and the quality is just poor.
The service is just comedic the waitresses treat you like they are doing you favor by taking your order and if you have the cheek to interrupt a discussion they are having with another member of staff you faced with the face of thunder.
I really used to like this place but there are much better budget eateries in Shoreditch.

Hoxton Bar & Kitchen is a nice bar directly on hoxton square. It’s open till late and there is a dance floor in a separate room. No entrance fee and usually no problems t the door — a relaxed alternative to the many clubs in this area.
The restaurant is nice, too. Good burgers and a very good Texan Chili con carne.
During the day, it is a nice place to have breakfast or lunch, particularly when you find a place outside, with all the hoxton square buzz around you.

haven’t actually been here for a meal but came here for their bar and dance floor. bar tenders are amacable and drinks are good (cocktails). They have a separate bar with their dance area. people are generally young adults but occasionally they also have a few older peeps. this place is chill and people are friendly. would go back again :)

I went to this place on Halloween great laugh the staff had some of the best costumes I’ve seen the bar was done up with cobwebs and things hanging from the
ceilings and walls they really done a good job.
The beers good here didn’t try the cocktales but they did a special on shots which was great, they also have a heated smoking area and a down stairs where they have live bands .
All in all a great night out.

I’ve been here on a wednesday afternoon when it’s completely dead and now a sunday on a bank holiday when it’s fairly packed at 8:30.
They’ve changed the restaurant menu since I’ve last been. Now its weird trendy tex mex with lucha libra mexican wrestling masks on the menus… that double as placemats… reminiscent of denny’s…
To be fair I enjoyed it’s peaceful grandeur when it was empty on the wednesday afternoon. I might come back here to have casual drinks and maybe some snacks to catch up with a friend but probably not for dinner or a night out.

Lots of exposed concrete give this pub a rather utilitarian feel, but their full bar and intimate space would make it a great place for a late night hang out. Sadly, I was only here for a coffee and a beer with a friend.
Tables up front, tables out front and a comfortable booth in the back made for an enjoyable afternoon meeting.
Bonus: they have a few power outlets and free wifi.
I liked it. If I’m in this part of town and ready for a live band, I’ll stop by.

Once the beer was gone, my uni friends and I had one (and only one) sober game we loved to play: we would pull out our high school yearbooks and try to pick out who we thought the «coolest» people were in each other’s class, you know, the Prom Kings and Queens, the star athletes, you get the idea (you also get the impression that my college years were almost as lame as Saved By The Bell’s, so I’ll get on with it …)
That’s what moving to London was like for me. I couldn’t decipher cool from the end of a cheeky ciggy and many times I was just frantically picking my destinations from a 1×1 Unilocal photo, only to find out that the best looking pictures were often the worst establishments. I had heard about the «coolness» of Hoxton Square and because I have a knack for popping inflated egos, I went in with honest hopes of being able to announce from the rooftops that this establishment was overrated.
Not in this case.
Despite a less-​than-​amazing outside, the moment I walked into Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, I wanted to be there. Often. To be a regular. To have a booth permanently reserved for me. Hell, I would have moved in if our hottie server was included.
I could literally feel the wave of cool brush by me each time the door opened and closed, and I had to mentally remind myself that mouth-​open gawking is only acceptable in Disney movies, and even then a bit questionable.
It was cool without trying, which made it ever so much more cool. The music, the people, the ambiance, the layout; the conditions were perfect. However, I did notice some scenester-​esque clientele that could potentially ruin every that is great about this place. That’s the trouble with cool, it’s only «cool» until it is.

Ein wirklich cooler Laden im Londoner East End.
Die Einrichtung erspart sich jeden SchnickSchnack, das Publikum jedoch nicht: ein Asiate im Matrosenhemd ohne Beinkleider, ein 2m großer Transvestit im silbernen Glitzerkleid und zahlreiche Pocahontas lassen hier die Fetzen fliegen.
Auffallen ist dort alles!
Die Musik ist sehr elektronisch, was mir wirklich gut gefallen hat, vor allem kein einziges Lied Mainstream-​House!
Wer zum ersten Mal ins HB&K geht, sollte sich entweder für sein Outfit echt was einfallen lassen oder schon relativ früh kommen, wenn noch Bar– und Restaurantbetrieb herrscht. Gegen später lesen die Türsteher ganz schön aus.
Zum Restaurant kann ich leider nichts schreiben, da wir nachts zum Tanzen dort waren.

I realise that not everyone will be as familiar with Girl’s Aloud’s back catalogue as myself but they have a song called ‘Hoxton Hero’ which kind of sums up the types that lurk around in Hoxton just to be a part of the ‘scene’. From that reference you can clearly tell that I am not one of these people which is why I instantly feel uncool here. I never know the music, I never get the fashion, I’m always a bit too middle of the road for this kind of place.
Having said that, I always find the staff very friendly (maybe they’re just mocking me and I don’t know it) and they have a good selection of drinks. The interior is minimalist but the seats are fairly comfortable and the general vibe pretty relaxed. For me though, there is nothing so hugely special about this place that it merits the enormous queue’s outside that form at the weekends. As far as I can see it’s just another bar in Hoxton with overpriced drinks.