Whitechapel
The
Q-Bar
269 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BY
Date of Visit : 6th July 2006
Approx. Time of Visit: 18.45 pm
Route Used: Jubilee and East London from CW
Distance Traveled : 3.11 miles
Guests: None
Clientele: Multi cultural pseudo trendies
Pub Number : 143
| Beer |
Cost |
Comments |
| Guinness | £3.00 | |
| Foster's | £2.80 |
| Characteristics | Rating | Comments |
| Ambience |
|
"Harmless music", everyone well spread out |
| Facilities |  |
2 fruities, a quizzer, 2 flat screens and a TV |
| Ladies |  |
Eastern European slim blond barmaid, Italian girl dressed in red in the window (and outside) with a short skirt, 4 ok's out back |
| OVERALL | |
We each gave the barmaid one |
As we left the tube station, we had a difficult decision to make. The pub opposite the station took up a corner, was wildly decorated by being completely painted in a tiger stripe pattern and went by the name of the "Urban Bar". They styled themselves as "a place to meet, make and take friends" and proudly advertised "cold drinks, hot music, great food and dirty women" (OK, we made the last one up.... but they might have done! Unfortunately, the Q-bar was closer to the station, being pretty much immediately on the right as you exit. The place is a converted pub and was obviously done some time ago going by the tattyness of it all. The nice black leather sofas were in stark contrast to the crappy garden furniture which was offered as the seating options. We eye-spyed the nice looking barmaid, but were unfortunately hijacked by a friendly and eager barman. We weren't sure where he came from, but his rather unusual technique of topping up the Guinness in four separate pourings interspersed with "shaving" the head with a straw didn't give us much confidence in his bar abilities! He finally announced that he "hadn't quite finished yet" and that he would bring the drink over. God only knows what he was getting up to with that straw! After a warm start, we settled down to ogle the barmaid properly, with Tim offering the opinion that she might well have been the single best exhibit we have encountered so far. She certainly had been keeping herself in shape, that's for sure! The pub itself wasn't much kop and even the proximity to the Royal London Hospital couldn't make us recommend this to medical students.... if we knew any, of course....! Would there be a nurse-filled drinking hole at Stepney Green...?
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