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Good Beer Guide pub in Stoke Newington.

The menus on their website look pretty good - though note the comment below about the website possibly being very out of date - a number of fish dishes as well as five kinds of sausage (including pheasant!). It sounds like the pies are of the "stew in a china dish with a piece of puff pastry floating on top" kind, though. Vegetarians look to be relatively poorly served, with a choice of veggie burger, veggie sausages, or veggie faux pie, although a review suggests that the daily specials may make up for this. Food is served 4pm-9:30pm Mon-Fri and noon-7:30pm Sat-Sun.

The Time Out review suggests that the beer garden is rather small. However, checking with the pub via email reveals that (as of July 2007) it's being redesigned to include a canopied smoking area.

An anonymous visitor (January 2008) states that the above is now out of date — any chance of some specifics, Anonymous? (The Daniel Defoe website looks to have pretty much the exact same infomation on it as it did when I last looked, so no clues there. A couple of BITE comments from the second half of 2007 mention a new menu, but again, the website is no help.)

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Opening times taken from the 2007 Good Beer Guide. Food times and details of smoking area confirmed by email, 10 July 2007.
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