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Drunken Monkey was a bar in [[Locale Shoreditch|Shoreditch]]. It has now closed. As of August 2018 the premises are under renovation to reopen as the Goose Island Brewpub <small>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjw1/43420764405/ photo of notice]</small>.
 Bar on the corner of Shoreditch High Street and Great Eastern Street. Serves dim sum all day.
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 [[Kake]] and [[Bob]] visited on a Monday evening around 7pm; we hadn't booked, but this wasn't a problem as the place was almost empty when we arrived (it did fill up a bit later on). The lighting was very dim, but I guess that's pretty standard for a bar. It's table service; we had one very friendly waitress and one very disengaged/distracted one, who roughly alternated during the evening.
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Bar in [[Locale Shoreditch|Shoreditch]], on the corner of Shoreditch High Street and Great Eastern Street. Serves dim sum all day.
 Apple and ginger zen cocktail (&pound;6) wasn't bad, though perhaps had a touch too much Cointreau. Bob had some form of beer in a bottle, having decided the guest beer was uninteresting (I can't remember what it was).
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[[Kake]] and [[bob]] visited on a Monday evening in November 2007; we hadn't booked, but this wasn't a problem as the place was almost empty when we arrived around 7pm (it did fill up a bit later on). The lighting was very dim, but I guess that's pretty standard for a bar. It's table service; we had one very friendly waitress and one very disengaged/distracted one, who roughly alternated during the evening.
 Unfortunately the dim sum were mostly fairly disappointing. Pork and radish dumplings (&pound;3.80 for three) were among the best of our selection; good radish flavour. Chilli salt fried squid (&pound;4.20) was also good; it arrived hot and crisp, and the squid wasn't overcooked. The Peking potstickers (&pound;3.80 for four) and Vietnamese spring rolls (&pound;3 for two) were edible, but only worth mentioning because of the generally low standard of everything else. At the other end of the scale, the king prawn dumplings (&pound;3.80 for four) were not good; for a start, they were obviously made in a press — [http://www.independent.co.uk/living/food_and_drink/reviews/article69826.ece an old Independent review] says that in 2004 they were made properly, with nine pleats, but unfortunately in 2007 they have zero pleats. Also, the filling consisted of small pieces of prawn, rather than the single large whole prawn you normally get. Peking baked chicken wings (&pound;3.80 for four) were like KFC ("but less interesting", added Bob).
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[[Kake]]'s Apple and Ginger Zen cocktail (&pound;6) wasn't bad, though perhaps had a touch too much Cointreau. [[bob]] had Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (&pound;3.80/330ml bottle), which is in fact a real ale (ish), since the guest beer turned out to be some form of lager. (We switched to wine after these drinks.)
 Probably wouldn't come back here on purpose, given that there are plenty of places in London to get good dim sum. If you're in the area and looking for good food, you're probably best off walking up the road a bit to one of the Vietnamese places on Kingsland Road. On the other hand, it works reasonably well as a bar, and the "small plates" nature of dim sum makes it an excellent accompaniment to drinks.
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Unfortunately the dim sum were mostly fairly disappointing. Pork and radish dumplings (&pound;3.80 for three) were among the best of our selection; good radish flavour. Chilli salt fried squid (&pound;4.20) was also good; it arrived hot and crisp, and the squid wasn't overcooked. The Peking potstickers (&pound;3.80 for four) and Vietnamese spring rolls (&pound;3 for two) were edible, but only worth mentioning because of the generally low standard of everything else. At the other end of the scale, the king prawn dumplings (&pound;3.80 for four) were not good; for a start, they were obviously made in a press &#8212; an old <i>Independent</i> review says that in 2004 they were made properly, with nine pleats, but unfortunately in 2007 they have zero pleats. Also, the filling didn't hold together properly. Peking baked chicken wings (&pound;3.80 for four) were like KFC ("but less interesting", added [[bob]]).
 (Note: [[Old China Hand, EC1R 4RQ]] is another drinking place that serves dim sum.)
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[[Kake]]'s verdict: Probably wouldn't come back here on purpose, given that there are plenty of places in London to get good dim sum. If you're in the area and looking for good food, you're probably best off walking up the road a bit to one of the Vietnamese places on Kingsland Road. On the other hand, it works reasonably well as a bar, and the "small plates" nature of dim sum makes it an excellent accompaniment to drinks.
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* [http://fancyapint.com/pubs/pub2270.html Fancyapint review]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20080725193254/http://www.timeout.com/london/bars/reviews/11379.html Time Out review] (Wayback Machine)
* [https://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurant/drunken-monkey Square Meal review]
* [https://www.view.co.uk/london/v/the-drunken-monkey#reviews View London comments]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20160506011205/http://www.fluidlondon.co.uk/venue/shoreditch/the_drunken_monkey_e1 Fluid Foundation review]
* [https://wildeabandon.dreamwidth.org/230647.html Wildeabandon's review]
* [https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/the-drunken-monkey-london Yelp comments]
 * [http://fancyapint.com/pubs/pub2270.html Fancy A Pint review]
* [http://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/london/view/82923/Drunken_Monkey Square Meal review]
* [http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/the-drunken-monkey-userreview-15762.html View London comments]
* [http://www.fluidfoundation.com/venueDetails.aspx?VenueID=2481 Fluid Foundation review]
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<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]] and [[bob]], November 2007.</div>
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 <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]] and [[Bob]], 12 November 2007. Opening hours taken from the Drunken Monkey website, November 2007.</div>
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Bar on the corner of Shoreditch High Street and Great Eastern Street. Serves dim sum all day.

Kake and Bob visited on a Monday evening around 7pm; we hadn't booked, but this wasn't a problem as the place was almost empty when we arrived (it did fill up a bit later on). The lighting was very dim, but I guess that's pretty standard for a bar. It's table service; we had one very friendly waitress and one very disengaged/distracted one, who roughly alternated during the evening.

Apple and ginger zen cocktail (£6) wasn't bad, though perhaps had a touch too much Cointreau. Bob had some form of beer in a bottle, having decided the guest beer was uninteresting (I can't remember what it was).

Unfortunately the dim sum were mostly fairly disappointing. Pork and radish dumplings (£3.80 for three) were among the best of our selection; good radish flavour. Chilli salt fried squid (£4.20) was also good; it arrived hot and crisp, and the squid wasn't overcooked. The Peking potstickers (£3.80 for four) and Vietnamese spring rolls (£3 for two) were edible, but only worth mentioning because of the generally low standard of everything else. At the other end of the scale, the king prawn dumplings (£3.80 for four) were not good; for a start, they were obviously made in a press — an old Independent review says that in 2004 they were made properly, with nine pleats, but unfortunately in 2007 they have zero pleats. Also, the filling consisted of small pieces of prawn, rather than the single large whole prawn you normally get. Peking baked chicken wings (£3.80 for four) were like KFC ("but less interesting", added Bob).

Probably wouldn't come back here on purpose, given that there are plenty of places in London to get good dim sum. If you're in the area and looking for good food, you're probably best off walking up the road a bit to one of the Vietnamese places on Kingsland Road. On the other hand, it works reasonably well as a bar, and the "small plates" nature of dim sum makes it an excellent accompaniment to drinks.

(Note: Old China Hand, EC1R 4RQ is another drinking place that serves dim sum.)

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Last visited by Kake and Bob, 12 November 2007. Opening hours taken from the Drunken Monkey website, November 2007.

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