The Crown and Shuttle

Extremely popular as an after work meet-​up & drink spot for those working on Bishopsgate & Broadgate. It’s really the only place around with anything like a decent outdoor area!
As such it does get very busy and crowded, especially in nice weather. Expect it to be rammed by 6pm on a Tuesday, if it’s a sunny evening.
Non-​work days, it still gets a brisk trade in hipsters over-​spilling from Shoreditch, also looking some fresh air with their beer.
The bar staff are generally pretty efficient, and friendly, and try there best to cope with demand (but expect to queue at the bar); the outside bar is a good bet if it’s open.
I’ve only eaten BBQ food — it is what it is, perfectly acceptable and does the job!

Came here for a quick drink after wandering around Shoreditch for the afternoon.
The bartender was nice enough to make us improvised Pimm’s Cups after we told him we wer craving then. We stuffed our faces with a big bowl of Sage and Salt fries– they were thin and crispy and we down to the very last fry!
The bar started to get crowded once everyone started to get off work.
Solid drinks+ eats+ service– cheers!

Good after work boozer just outside the city. A shade less expensive too. Always crowded!
Great outdoor patio to hang out on with heaters for colder. nights.
Also gets loud inside.
The crowd here is a bit on the pretentious side.

I’ve been going here for casual drinks and great food for a couple years now, but I’m inclined to write a review today thanks to the great customer service I received recently.
Yesterday, after enjoying a couple pints after lunch for my birthday, I happened to leave my purse (with my wallet) hanging on my chair. Not until I got home around 5 pm did I notice I had left it. After calling and leaving a message with the pub (they get VERY busy in the evenings, so no answer was expected), I resolved to go back in the morning to look, as I was busy all night.
Not to worry, just a few minutes after they opened this morning I received a call from Natalie, who had gotten my message and did have my purse in their office. A quick trip to Shoreditch later, I had my purse in hand and my birthday debacle was solved. Thanks to everyone at the Crown and Shuttle for your continued great service! Y’all continue to be one of my favorite places in London!

What a super fun place to enter…
It is full packed and the people are smiling, laughing and obviously out for a fun night out.
We were there with our daughter, who was turning 18 that night and was being served her very first beer in a public serving place. She loved it, but we had to leave after the second beer, as she began to get a bit rowdy. ;o) There was not one person who battet an eye.
I loved the back garden where people could smoke and drink in the cosy and warm surroundings provided in the form of lots of tables and terrace warmers. Brilliant.
The music was loud and 70′, 80′ and 90′. Just my cup of tea. We are coming back to this place the next time we visit London… With no youngsters in tow.

Been here quite a few times and just realised I’ve never written a review for it!
Their beer garden out in the back is huge. In addition it’s pretty well covered to protect you from the elements plus heaters to keep you warmish in the winter.
Upstairs you have a hidden gin bar hosted by Langley’s Gin and downstairs you have two big bars serving up a bunch of different beers including a decent number of craft beers.
Definitely one of my favourite places to grab a drink! But watch out, this place gets busy!

Great pub, great music on a Friday night, great atmosphere, great beer choice and nicely decorated.
Also has a nice space outdoors which is great on a sunny evening!
Definite recommend for a few casual drinks

Lovely garden that is great on a warm day on the weekends, but after work this place is a horror show. A sea of navy suits and the most crowded pub I’ve ever been to.

One of my bredrins (OK, he’s actually my cousin) works pretty much next door to this, so as his local I met him there a few weeks ago for a well «needed» beer or seven.
They have a beer garden which is good and the staff are relatively prompt with service.
A great selection of beers, and even though I am not as much of an aficionado as my cuz, we were managed to sample a load of craft beers before staggering out later. Add in the friendly bouncer and, well the beer garden again, because it’s wonderful in the summer and you have a rather sensational evening :)
I will probably come back here very soon :)

My absolute favourite pub in London. Great location, great beer garden, perfect for summer and amazing sociable atmosphere. The staff are lovely and friendly.

This is a former strip club who has loads (and I mean LOADS) of craft beers. Even two kinds of German «Rothaus» beers — reminded me of my hometown Stuttgart yay! The garden is also pretty special and definitely a highlight of this pub: huge and lovely with a roofed and unroofed seating area and a food truck where chefs prepare food in their wooden-​burning oven. If you rather want to have a private conversation than mingeling with others in the garden or at the bar, you can sit down at one of the tables who are fairly apart from each other and chat.

Crazy busy most of the times I’ve been, generally a mixed clientele but there is a large suit presence being that close to ‘the city’. Lovely big beer garden so good in the summer.

A really fun bar, especially on a Friday night! This bar was packed and bustling and a lot of fun. There is an outdoor, heated space that is open until 10. Get there early if you want to find a spot. Really fun and located near the Shoreditch tube station. Decent prices and once you can navigate your way to the bar, the service is quick and efficient. I recommend it.

Crown and Shuttle has great food and a great atmosphere, and as a result gets crazy busy on the weekends, especially once they close the outdoor area.
The bar staff manage to keep up with the crowds pretty well though! You can also reserve sections for groups if you don’t want to be jostled all night long.
If you visit in the summer the beergarden is a great place to have lunch or just waste an afternoon.

This has actually become one of my favourite boozers in Shoreditch and is a really great choice for casual drinks or getting a group together. It has a huge space out back serving burgers from their very own van. Perfect for summer and with heaters in winter.
We all rocked up here for cocktails and fun times on a Saturday night. We had managed to secure an upstairs spot in the smaller, more laid back bar and ended up totally taking over with the bartender playing our song requests on his iPod speakers.
We ordered up a round of burgers and parmesan fries delivered to our table. Pretty decent food and impressively quick service for a Saturday night. My favourite part is that they don’t close at 11.30!

We came here on Saturday afternoon /​evening for my birthday drinks, had a blast. I had been able to book a table which was nice and it was baby friendly during the day which was perfect and staff we really good and explained after 6pm it wasn’t baby friendly as it gets really busy. Drinks are average price for the area, the food is good– all about the burgers and racks up at just over a tenner for a burger and fries. The staff were all lovely and we’ll be coming here again.

Great garden out the back! Drinks are expensive but this is Shoreditch /​the city.
Food is terrible though. My burger was really dry and the bun was not very nice. Just come here for the drinks in the summer!

As bars go, this one was alright! Fairy spacious inside with a couple if bars. One at the front and one further back.
We went to the back bar, where we were able to stand and have a drink in a group without being pushed around too much.
Further back there is a smoking area which looked nice and probably in high demand when the weather is good.
Bar staff were friendly and served quickly. Also our table was cleared off glasses at a reasonable pace.
Only down side on this bar at the moment is that it is going through some refurbishment and therefore, the ladies toilets were not working and replaced with half a dozen porta loos. Not good :(
Other than that? I’d be back. Just shout when the ladies are fit for ladies please.

Why did I get to this place at first? Because of the sign «we have a bloody lovely garden». Really?! Let’s take a look then!
When I get in, I just wanted to cry: this is a BLOODY LOVELY garden!!! If you are a smoker, this will easily become YOUR place of choice! Just get in, have a beer, go outside and sit outside under the heating lamps (Yes, it’s full of heating lamps, I spent three hours in January seated outside in January with just a t-​shirt! Ah and I’m italian!!)!! In the garden there’s also a food truck with some nice burgers, there is no reason at all for going inside!
Beers are just OK. As Chris mentioned, look at the whole counter before ordering, as the beer-​dispensers (come on, the thingy for draft beer, I don’t know how to call it!) are not symmetric and you’ll lose two or three options if you are just stopping at the entrance. But that’s not the place you go for having top-​quality beer, the reason you’re coming here is the bloody lovely garden!
Of course, it’s Shoreditch: that means that the three tables around us were, in order: a table with middle aged italian business men and russian young girls, a group of heavy metal fans and a group of strange (well… even stranger than usual!) people dressed as they just came back from wolf hunting. If you don’t like this, I don’t even wanna know you!
In conclusion, this is the perfect place where to have an after-​work beer, but DO NOT expect to find great beers, as that’s not the point. The garden is the point, in a city where finding a place with an inside smoking room is basically impossible, a place like this come as fresh air (well… let’s say a smoking fresh air!!) for us poor smokers left in the world!

This place is great for after work drinks, as long as you’re not allergic to the banker crowd that seem to hit this place like flies. The venue has a GIANT beer garden in the back, along with a FOOD VAN. Yet, it still gets so packed during warm evenings that it’s difficult to even move! This said, they do brooklyn lager here, so it’s automaticallya good venue.
Bouncers are around the venue at various points and super helpful. I’d lost my fitbit pedometer during some leaving drinks, and after a search around my vacinity at around 10pm with an iphone and bicycle flashlight, one asked me what I was looking for. I vaguely described it, and it seemed instantly that he knew what it was. He went into the bar, and 20 seconds later, I was holding my fitbit that presumably somebody had handed in! I couldn’t believe it, not just because the place was rammed, and nobody would have been able to spot anything on the floor, let alone pick it up, there was not a single sign of any scuffs or damage either! Miracle?
Anyway, I just had to mention the awesome bouncer who accepted my thanks as him «only doing his job». And the excellent brooklyn larger which is plentiful along with quite a good beer selection. No Chambord though when we wanted to do some Jam Doughnuts! :(
Anywhere first impressions count and all this has encouraged me to try the food sometime, which I reckon will impress.