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PRIVATE PARTIES / PRIVATE HIRE

As we are set on three floors we can cater for private parties - you can choose the area which best suits your needs. Buffet menus & platters available. We are often used as a film location venue. The whole venue is available for private hire at weekends. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your requirements.

DRINKS

DRINKS ON DRAUGHT

Carling, Carling Extra Cold, Fosters, Heineken, Kronenbourg, Leffe, Peroni, Staropramen, Stella, Guinness, Guinness Extra Cold, Strongbow Cider.

REAL ALES

Young's Ordinary / Special, Wells Bombardier + 2 seasonal Guest ales.

OTHER DRINKS

Good range of bottled lagers / beers as well as a good selection of whiskies.
Range of Wines available by the glass or bottle. 3 champagnes / sparkling wines. Tea & Speciality Coffees.

MEAL TIMES

Monday - Saturday 11am - 9.30pm.
Sunday 11am - 8pm.

FOOD PROMOTIONS

MONTHLY FOOD OFFERS

Pleas see our website above for monthly changing food offers.

SUNDAY ROAST

Sunday Lunch served with choice of usually 3 roasts, fresh vegetables and traditional accompaniments from  £10.55.

GENERAL FACILITIES

FACILITIES

Free Wi-Fi Access. Wheelchair Access.

OTHER

Coaches Welcome preferably by prior arrangement. Debit & Credit Cards accepted.

Dirty Dicks has been a city institution in the heart of Bishopsgate, close to Liverpool Street tube station, since 1745.  Steeped in history it is thought to have inspired Dickens interpretation of Miss Haversham in Great Expectations.  Set over three levels this deeply traditional pub has an abundance of timber beams, panelling and exposed brick.  At street level the main bar is a dimly lit, windowless cavern of dark stained wood.  The upstairs bar forms a gallery and the vaulted cellar, which pre-dates the upper floors.  The top floor houses our restaurant.  There are plenty of leaning posts to rest your pint on. Food ranges from traditional British dishes to modern European twists.  Our famous fish & chips has to be tasted!  All is freshly cooked to order.  To complement your meal there is an excellent selection of wines to choose from or the full range of Young's cask ales if preferred.  You can enjoy your meal or drink on any of the three floors, matching the atmosphere to your mood.  During the week we attract a good mix of traders and City people.  Friday night we are 'the' place to meet for young people heading for Shoreditch and Brick Lane.  Saturday welcomes mainly visitors and those going on to football and rugby matches.  Be sure to call in next time you're in town.

HISTORY
Nathaniel Bentley was an ironmonger who had a shop in Leadenhall Street.  On the eve of his wedding, tragedy struck.  His bride-to-be died.  So distraught was Nathaniel that he locked up the room in which he had prepared the wedding feast, never to enter it again.  A broken man, he neither washed nor changed his clothes.  When his cats died he just left them.  It is thought that Dickens used this tale as the inspiration for Miss Haversham in Great Expectations.
    The English love an eccentric and his notoriety meant his business flourished.  When Nathaniel retired in 1804, the landlord of the Old Port Wine Shop in Bishopsgate bought the contents lock, stock and dead cats.  He put them on display at his pub and renamed it 'Dirty Dick's'.
    In 1870 the pub was rebuilt from ground level, the wine vaults are part of the original building. The 'dirty' contents were carefully relocated in the new pub. Sadly it was decided in the mid nineteen-eighties that a clean up was in order and the dirty artefacts were cleared away.