The Pride of Spitalfields

You'll find yourself on Heneage Street, a sliver of a road that feels properly tucked away from the Brick Lane mayhem. The Pride is the kind of pub where locals actually drink—wood-panelled walls, a proper bar, the sort of place that doesn't need Instagram to justify its existence. It's all straightforward ale, decent pub grub, and the kind of atmosphere where the regulars outnumber the tourists. This is Spitalfields as it actually is, not the filtered version.