The Kingsland

If you want a proper Irish bar, this is the place to go! A refreshing break from hipster pubs in dalston, this place is filled with charming clutter such as a donkey and Irish flags. You can play pool during the day, but at 7pm the karaōke starts, and the pool table doubles up as a dj deck! Feels like being at home

This place is definitely the best pub in Dalston even though they never let me sing karaōke. I think you must literally have to get there at like 7pm to get on the list. I’ve never managed it, but there was this guy once who sang that Bryan Adams song from the Robin Hood film and it blew my fucking mind. Also they had a cool light up snowman thing at Christmas.

i’m not sure that i can explain how much i love this pub. it is just so wonderful. i really feel like i’ve stepped back in time to a land where eastenders is actually true. it is full of old men who have probably been drinking there for forty years, when you order your extremely cheap drink, the bar tenders (who have also seemingly worked here for forty years) will give you a plate of party sandwiches — ham and cheese triangles on white bread, you know the sort… and you just get on with your drinking as though your life depends on it. sometimes they have a DJ in the corner, which is brilliant because then the place becomes a dance party with oldies swinging about everywhere you look, and other times they play the birdie song…
THE BIRDIE SONG.
have you EVER been in a pub where the birdie song is played in a non ironic manner. or have you ever been in a pub which has played the birdie song in any manner? because i really haven’t, and it was all sorts of wonderful.
there are also knick knacks everywhere. this place oozes charm and atmosphere, i am absolutely 100% fully in love with it. please don’t go here, ever. it’s mine.