The Morgan Arms

I love this pub. In an area where decent pubs are few and in between, it’s so refreshing to know that you can always really on the Morgan Arms.
It’s a large pub and having recently renovated it, they’ve made even better use of the space — plenty of room for both the eaters and the drinkers!
Come here on a Sunday and it’s likely you’ll be waiting a while for a table. They serve a decent roast and a great selection of food during the week too.
Prices are standard for London but I’m happy to pay for the quality of the food! The staff are great too — really friendly and welcoming even when busy!
Definitely recommend if in the area and looking for a pleasant experience!

Staff friendly and food is really good.
Slow service even ater 9pm on a thursday night … and no check back during the meal.

This is a great place for a Sunday afternoon with friends. Friendly staff, lovely atmosphere, and the roast is really, really good. Good drinks, great wine. I will make a point to come back here.

Nice looking pub but the food does not deliver. The steak tartare was diluted with mayonaise, the duck confit was mis balanced in flavour and bitter, and the scallops were overcooked. Sorry to say this place has too many bells and whistles but does not meet expectations.

Beautiful pub. Really well decorated in winter time and lovely to sit outside in the summer. The central bar area is gorgeous, the staff are always a delight, and the food is fantastic (both the restaurant area food and the bar burgers). The back area is for table seating only while the front is a classic pub style, but you can order the same food in either areas.
Everything about this place is great. Except A: ever since their remodel a while ago the prices are too high (ESPECIALLY drink prices), B: not enough outdoor seating, and C: lights can be too bright inside in the evening.

A great local pub, with an awesome selection of beers. The menu changes daily, although you dont need it with their burger ;)

Best local pub in the east end.
Nothing quite beats the selection of booze and food in this area. They are incredibly welcoming and have such good attitudes towards the finest of things. It’s a really nice modern pub that is both traditional and gastro.
A nice weekday lunch or a great Friday night, both handled with ease! Such a great place!

Best local pub. Great to sit outside on summer days, although the tables are normally full up by the afternoon. The inside bit is divided up into a typical pub area that has a bit more of a loungey atmosphere, and a proper restaurant at the back for great gastropub fare. The front has your typical pub grub (fish & chips, burgers etc) while the gastropub has a rotating menu (my favourite is the pork belly roast).
Decent selection of wines on offer and your standard lagers and ales. More upmarket than the Coburn Arms down the road, but the prices reflect this. Generally nice staff and cosy vibe for a catch-​up with friends or partners.

Nice English pub. Does a mean sunday roast. Lots of couches and places for groups to sit. Wine list is ok and broad mix of large company beers as well as some good craft beers.
It kind of feels like a lounge room as its light and cosy and has a really great atmosphere inside. In the summer the whole place opens up and there is outdoor spots to sit on roadside. There is also a biggish dining room out the back.
I have only had roasts here which they nailed. Think roasted pork with crunchy crackling and a black pudding stuffing. And lots of veg and a delicious Yorkshire pudding. And heaps of gravy! So. soooo. good. One thing to note though is the kitchen on Sundays closes at 4pm then opens for dinner service at 7pm.
Good place for families or a big group of sunday lunch hungry mates.

Good pub lunch near Mile End tube station. My roast pork was pretty damn good. If I’m being really picky, I’d say the crackling could’ve been cracklier. I was supposed to share my dish with my husband but I didn’t want to. In the end he won and we swapped. the roast beef was good but the pork was definitely the better dish. They also serve Negroni (which thanks to another pub is my new favourite apertivo). Definitely worth a visit.

Charming English pub with a lovely seating area outside. We stopped here for a pint of beer often, few times had a dinner with friends.

This cozy local gastropub does great quality food, has a great selection of wines & hosts a great pub quiz! (Make sure to book a table for the quiz as it gets busy). Previous quizzes have included a prize of a cheeseboard and a bottle of wine for the best team joke!

When people ask me about my time at Mile End/​Bow, I usually say: «Meh, it’s Mile End.»
But, I did keep hearing about this place through friends so I eventually decided to have a gander. What a diamond in the rough that this place is! Sure, it’s a bit pricey but it’s either this or chicken and chips.
The great thing, other than their food, that makes Morgan Arms great is the people who come here. They’re almost always amusing to watch.
But, having said that, this place also makes for a great date spot if you live in the area and are too lazy to hop on the tube.

This is a cozy local pub but serves mediocre food.
I have come past here several times and got suckered in to check it out because it gave off a chill ambiance. I also saw that they serve nice dinner here so I dragged along my husband hoping for a tasteful dinner. To my dismay, we found their food mediocre for the price. The seabass was bland while the lamb that my husband ordered was without flair.
I might come back here for a drink at the outdoor bench but definitely will not come back for food.

Ok, it is
a gastro pub but drinking is in no way discouraged and they have a small
selection of beers for your dimpled glass.
There are
a few tables out by the road for warm weather. Adnams
explorer is rather a nice beer, served in excellent condition here.

I didn’t love this pub, I’m sorry to say. Décor is cool and clientele is hipster… but there’s heart and soul missing. Food was bland and poor for veggies, as well as overpriced. Won’t be coming back — as I preferred the homier pub with quotes on the walls, and books on shelves, and comfy sofas across the road…

Who knew?!? Mile End is actually quite nice in places. A couple of blocks over from the grime surrounding the tube station is this smart locals’ favourite.
We swung by here on the recommendation of the Unilocal app — looking for somewhere for a bite to eat and a warm-​up drink before festival-​ing in Victoria Park.
I expected it to be busy, given the crowds only two streets away, but it was relaxed; collections of twenty-​somethings entertaining their parents.
Our food wasn’t great. The seasoning was all wrong. But the table next to ours were letting out yums of delight. If you’re in the area, this would be a decent enough pitstop.

Tucked away a couple of blocks from Mile End station is this rather hip gastropub. Recommended by many of the locals I had to give it a whirl one friday night for dinner and drinks. I was not disappointed with my vegetarian tart. My friends weren’t that thrilled with their pasta, but that is why I don’t order pasta!
It got really busy, which is totally cool except that we had to yell to talk to each other, and my ears where ringing when I left which either makes me old, or it makes the pubs acoustics really unbearable.

This is my local and what a lucky girl I am. Smack in the midst of the Bow Conservation area. It’s a world away from Mile end in this side of Mile End Road. Victoria houses, a grand square, and lots of trees. For those of us that live here we are happy to keep the tucked away Morgan Arms our little secret.
The food is great, though I’ve only eaten there once, they have a lovely little restaurant area in the back of the pub.
The pub part is relaxing with a laid back friendly crowd. It has large windows which makes it nice and bright during the day, and means when I walk by on the way home I can look longingly in and see everyone having a good time. Staff are helpful and seem happy to be there, which makes for a nice atmosphere. The beers and cider on tap change around which is nice, as it gives a chance to try something new.
Why 4 not 5 stars, well I would like to see more nibbles on offer through out the day, and I would like to see it stay open later on the weekends, 11pm is when they have you out the door. I suspect this is because of it being in a residential area, and beyond their control.

Walking down Coborn Road in Bow, there’s something that immediately strikes you about the Morgan Arms’ pretty sage green exterior, maybe it’s the tiny white lights in the window, the large beckoning windows, or the eminent sense of history, but the place is instantaneously endearing — before you’ve ever even been inside.
Fortunately, once its delightful façade has waved you in (and it will), the Morgan Arms doesn’t even think about resting on the cutesy laurels of its outer walls, and instead ups the ante in the best possible way. Far from your standard brass-​and-​polished-​wood gastro pub, the Morgan Arms surprises with an eclectic, well-​appointed, warm and sophisticated interior. It’s utterly cozy, but in an arty sort of way.
They’ve got a seasonal wine and beer list is that is well thought through and veers toward interesting… the type you glance over and think to yourself, «Hmm. I wonder what that’s like.»
The food also impresses, mostly because it’s an ever-​changing menu that is locally sourced and well-​executed. On one of my last visits, I enjoyed a fragrant, autumnal squash soup, and shared a platter of hummus and tapénade that was accompanied by hearty chunks of seed-​flecked artisan bread. Another friend ordered an entrée of stuffed peppers, which he enjoyed, but I have to say that £13 seemed a little much for a trio of undersized capsicums that hardly could have passed an appetizer.
Otherwise, I’ve always had fantastic, friendly, bend-​over-​backwards-​to-​please-​you service here. Indeed, as a whole, I feel extremely fortunate that the Morgan Arms is close enough to me that I can count it my own, very lovely, local pub.