The Brick Lane Tap Room has launched in London’s Old Truman’s Brewery, combining craft beers with New York-style street food, in a socially distanced setting.
Craft beers on tap are provided by Brooklyn Brewery and Adnams, and visitors are able to taste celebrated favourites delivered to their table, including Brooklyn Lager and Defender, as well as Adnams Ghostship Pale Ale, Dry Hopper Lager, and Ease Up IPA, and Bitburger.
With the current restrictions expected to last several months, purpose-built covid-secure drinking spaces will play an increasingly important part in the fabric of the city as safe-spaces for Londoners to socialise.
“We may be slightly crazy, opening in the middle of a pandemic, with all this uncertainty,” said Luca Pilato, founder of the Brick Lane Tap Room. “But bars are such a central part of how we socialise in this country, and we wanted to create the taproom to fulfil that need in a safe space that’s built for purpose.
“We believe that the response to Eat Out to Help Out earlier in the year shows the public do feel comfortable going out and supporting the hospitality sector, and it’s our responsibility to ensure it’s safe for them to do so.”
