Cafe Koko, London

Reopened in April 2022 as Cafe Koko, a "tap bar & pizzeria", in re-engineered interior behind the green glazed bricks and Allied livery surviving on the ground floor of the old Hope & Anchor pub. You will be shown to a seat and served a very expensive drink by a waiter, so perhaps not what we call a pub. Ranges of keg beers such as Peroni, Meantime, Guinness, Asahi and Cornish Orchards cider.

Post-industrial decor, with an exposed white ceiling, suspended ducts and services, white-painted brick walls, lots of framed posters for primarily black music acts, polished wood bar counter, bare floorboards in the bar then down four steps to a multicoloured tiled floor in the pizzeria. Wheelchair access and loo (in basement, via lift).

Closed suddenly in Nov 2013. Planning application for change of use to retail or estate agents offices with 8 flats above submitted May 2014. In Sept 2014, Camden Council approved plans to convert to flats. One Councillor suggested the pub had been deliberately made inoperable. See Camden New Journal article 03/09/2014. Application overturned on Judicial Review.