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Good Beer Guide pub near Stratford Station, offering guest beers and interesting food.

Kake and James visited late on a Monday evening. The place was quite full but we managed to grab a table in the back room (the front part looks quite small but the back room, which is accessed via a couple of steps up to the left of the bar, is bigger).

There were a number of interesting beers on; the one I remember is Nelson Trafalgar, which was very tasty. Background music was reasonably interesting, and just on the right side of "too loud".

Food is served noon-10pm Sat; noon-9pm Sun. The menu is small, and although it does include some pub staples such as sausages and mash with onion gravy (£7.75) and beer battered fish and chips with tartare sauce (£8), it also has a number of more interesting dishes such as crab on toast (£6.50), brie and spinach spring roll with mushroom ragu (£9), and Spanish-style fish stew with mussels, clams, and tomato (£11). The menu changes regularly but a sample menu can be viewed on the King Edward website or on Kake's Flickr photo. (We didn't try the food on this occasion, having already eaten elsewhere.)

There's a beer garden out the back. Pub quiz is on Sunday night, and there's an open mic almost every Thursday (but not every Thursday - call ahead to check).

See also:

• Beer in the Evening comments
• Fancyapint review
• Nicobobinus' photo of the Sunday lunch