Messing about on the...canal

Well it is not Eton, or Venice, or punting in Cambridge, or even Canal Street…

Down the East End we make do with a towpath, a squeeze into an embankment, a narrow boat is an event and the heron is carved in wood.

Amazing what you can do in a small space

Beneath the cranes and the new box devs, it is all starting to kick off...

Never mind street food, this is the Towpath, canal food, next to the Waterline...film club on Tuesdays, jazz on Thursdays, acoustic Sundays...the bbq only comes out when it is sunny - nothing seems to happen on a fixed basis...

Love on the waterways

even this impromptu romance on a boat last week...

Coffee from eight am...

Firing up the bbq

I can hardly call this a review, more social commentary strictly a reference point for people who jog, who boat, who bike – ie everyone who is probably not a pedestrian – but uses the canal between Angel and Hackney.

The menu

The menu can be as limited as, well here is the entire repertoire for a Friday night which happened to be bavette steak with coleslaw, chickpeas and tomato salad, and a pork and peppers...

change from £25 including two glasses of good rose.

Bavette steak with coleslaw for £8

at other times it might just be a few well chosen bruscheta and local Meantime brew or very, very good Pimms...

Front of house

The arches are barely big enough to be more than alcove space but carry their own insignia...

Show off your apples

No web site either...

Drinks at the Waterline

The view from the bridge