Cat and Mutton pub closes
The Cat and Mutton on Broadway Market. Photograph: Ewan Munro
A 300 year old pub in Hackney closed on Monday and will remain shut until March when new management will reopen it.
The current owners of The Cat & Mutton have surprised many with their decision to sell it after renovating the pub on Broadway Market since they bought it in 2003.
On Sunday, the pub issued the following statement, via Twitter: “So after 10 years we say goodbye, the Cat was sold last week and will shut from tomorrow.
“Massive thanks to the many who made it what it was.”
The pub’s Twitter account also confirmed that the venue will still be a pub when it is reopened after undergoing ‘much needed refurbishment’.
While businesses in the area of Broadway Market have recently faced rising rents, it is understood that the sale of the pub was not caused by financial issues.
The Cat & Mutton has existed since the 1600s, when it was an ale house under the guise of The Cattle & Shoulder of Mutton.
Anyone out there who wants to open a vintage/coffee/gallery/hotel with me?
Kevin – I’m not an entrepreneur… but the florist guy on Homerton Road [near Adam & Eve] wants to sell on the place to someone who wants to run it as a florist. How about a little cafe/florist action there? Just planting a seed.
re: Cat and Mutton. Crikey about time. Good riddance.
@ Kevin Brown – talk to me. You sale sounds interesting!
Kevin, have you tried Dragons Den?
I tried the Cat n Mutton a fee times but it was quite an annoying place. The layout was all wrong, always felt cramped amd a bit manic. Lots of hipster nonsense, too many beards, but that’s Broadway Market for you. £5 for a loaf of bread that doesn’t taste 5 times better than a £1 loaf. The whole scene is like Harry Enfield’s I Saw You Coming shop sketch. Retail trap for the weak minded fashion sheep. Mindless and moronic.
All hail Wetherspoons, at least they’re keeping it real.
Hey Wordy,
I hope you the cockroaches that help keep Wetherspoons real.
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney_pub_kitchen_temporarily_closed_after_cockroach_infestation_1_3322189
That really made me laugh Del, nice one mate.
In truth, I don’t actually drink in Wertherspoons. I was looking for a polar-opposite example to what the Cat & Mutton stood for, since the hipster bomb was dropped on Broadway Market.
E.g. microbrewery snobbery, quirky kooksters trying to out quirk each other, just the general annoying lameness that goes with that whole ‘trending’ scene. Its ghastly to watch, a different kind of infestation.