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How better to celebrate St Patrick’s Day 2017 than by enjoying the top-notch selection of Irish whiskey and poitín at The Sun Tavern?   We’re already putting together our plans for St Patrick’s Day 2017 – keep an eye out here for updates! In the meantime, to whet your appetite, check out photos from this year’s below.  

Paul Day, one of the regular DJ’s to play here at The Sun Tavern, has shared with us his Top 5 Tracks to play whilst people chat, drink and dance.   They are as follows…   The Sonics – Have Love Will Travel The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner   Elvis Costello – Pump It Up […]

You probably already know or have been to all the cocktail bars in Shoreditch for a mid week tipple… This month you should definitely head over to our cocktail bar, The Sun Tavern right by Bethnal Green tube. As we mentioned on our previous News post about Whiskey Wednesday’s, our cocktail bar has seen the likes […]

If you’ve been having cocktails during the week around Bethnal Green recently, you may have noticed that every Wednesday in The Sun Tavern there is a bespoke cocktail menu on the tables. These cocktail menus are in collaboration with a different Whiskey distillery each month. The Sun Tavern kicked the year off with Woodford Reserve […]

Local Hero – Theresa of G. Kelly’s Pie & Mash in Bethnal Green Theresa has lived and worked in G. Kelly’s Pie & Mash shop on Bethnal Green road, just over the road and down a bit for us here at The Sun Tavern. She tells us about some of the history of Bethnal Green, how […]

Rich Yong – Camden Town Brewery Here we have Rich Yong from Camden Town Brewery sitting in The Sun Tavern, telling us why Drink Up London’s London Beer Week 2016 is a good thing. Giving us some of the do’s and don’t’s when it comes to £3 pints and £5 Boilermakers.

Spice up your Sunday with our ‘hangover cure’ Bloody Mary Menu. This will include a TST twist on a classic Bloody Mary, the Bloody Murphy and finally, the Mad Mary. The Sun Tavern Bloody Mary – £7.50 “Our twist on a classic” Vodka, Sun Spice Mix, Fresh Tomato Juice, Celery   Bloody Murphy – £7.50 “An Irish inspired take” Poitin, Sun […]

 The Sun Tavern’s very own Jake Rogers offered a live tutorial for Shoreditch Shaken’s ‘Bartender Takeover’ where he demonstrates The Sun Tavern’s signature serve ‘The Rose Hipster’. If you’re yet to try this mixed drink, come down to The Sun Tavern and see why it was chosen as Septembers ‘Bartender Takeover’ drink of choice.

The Sun Tavern has table bookings available for groups on New Years Eve if you’d like a guaranteed space on one of the most hectic nights of the year! Tickets cost £5 per person in advance, plus there will be a very limited number of tickets available on the door of the night. Tickets guarantee […]

The Sun Tavern hosts private bookings for small groups as well as private area hire for larger groups throughout the seasonal period. So if you want an escape from the continuous Christmas songs and flashing reindeers we’ve got you covered. That isn’t to say we don’t like the festive period, but we’d rather fill our […]

If you were in East London… in Bethnal Green… thinking about having a tankard cocktail, a pint of fine ale or a cup of Hot Punch, here at The Sun Tavern, over the Christmas period… You were probably wondering what the holiday opening hours were… CLOSED – 24/25/26/27 DECEMBER OPEN – 28/29/30 DECEMBER NYE – […]

In addition to the new drinks, The Sun Tavern now has to offer a new food menu. The Scotch Eggs, curtsey of Pig & Hay, come in a few varieties like Pork & Herb, Pork & Stilton or Vegetarian. The Sausage Rolls, also provided by Pig & Hay, come in a variety of Pork & […]

Very recently The Sun Tavern decided to release the 2nd Edition of their Menu. The new menu was inspired by the British summer, using British ingredients, Mezcal, Gin, Rum, Irish Whiskey and Poitín. As The Sun Tavern has the UK’s largest selection of Irish Poitin, we have introduced a Parliament Whiskey and Poitin List. ‘Parliament’ was […]

London beer week always brings us joy amidst the harsh winter conditions and we recommend everyone keep the 16th-22nd February free in their diaries. The Sun Taverns 2015 celebrations saw Camden brewery host pints of their fine ale at £3, whilst we had our ‘Bán Poitín Boiler Maker’ on sale for £5 alongside our ‘local […]

Our General Manager, Ciaran, is an absolute Poitín and potato distilled spirit nerd. As a result, he was asked his opinion on new potato spirits in an issue of Shortlist magazine in winter 2014. POITIN IRISH SPIRIT Ciaran Duffy, of The Sun Tavern on new potato spirit Bán, £35; masterofmalt.com “Made from grain and sugar beets, […]