Electricity Showrooms

The Electricity Showrooms is back! Having made way for the mass-market, Cuban-themed Cube & Star, The Leccy (as mullet-topped locals call it) is once again at the epicentre of Hoxton cool. This time around, utilitarian shabby-chic has been ditched in favour of Victorian pub pastiche, complete with Wetherspoon’s-style carpet & a Saturday Night Fever, light-up dance floor downstairs. Is this meant to be post-modern irony or just a bit ‘whatever’, as folks hereabouts say when lost for words? More importantly, does anyone really care? The fish finger sarnies, knock ’em dead lagers, ciders & a fair wine list are avidly downed by a young crowd that just seems grateful to have rescued the old place from Castro’s clutches.