Cantaloupe in its prime — featured on PINtPOINT's Ghost Hunter showcase.
The Story
Opening a decadent bar on the fringes of Shoreditch and the City proved to be a very good move indeed. By 1999 it attracted a mass following — though easy to feel out of place unless you sported a retro haircut, wore designer labels, and enjoyed lolling around and shooting the breeze to an interesting, if dubious, mix of musical mayhem. The loos were famously distant. Management complacency crept in: sticky pools of beer on the tables, overflowing ashtrays, the curious refraction of light from the empty-glass mountain being erected. The food was genuinely good — grilled chilli and spinach polenta, steaks, fish, bar snacks of garlic pork sausages with roast onion mash and red wine sauce. Ketchup or mayo on your chips: ten pence extra each. 'If you name a bar after a melon, what can you expect?' Draught beers: Budweiser, Heineken, Stella Artois, Boddingtons, Murphy's, Wadworth 6X.
Ghost Hunter mode reveals 500+ closed and demolished pubs on the PINtPOINT radar — each one a room that once poured pints on that exact street corner.