Boulebar Spitalfields brings quintessential French culture to the City

Ahead of this year’s Toast the City Awards, celebrating the best of the Square Mile, we go inside Boulebar Spitalfields As the experience economy accelerates, with axe throwing, darts and cricket themed bars launching, the latest brings the French game of pétanque to Spitalfields. Boulebar Spitalfields offers Londoners new ways to drink and socialise while playing interactive games, the type popularised in the town squares of regional France. The bar has 10 pétanque courts as well as authentic French food and Parisian themed cocktails in an underground space beneath the Victorian cobbles of Spitalfields. Boulebar Spitalfields: the classic French game in London The game of pétanque is easy to pick up: it involves throwing metal balls called boules in the direction of a small wooden ball called the cochonnet, or jack. Its simplicity is what makes it attractive to diverse groups of locals in town squares, who bond over the game no matter their political views, jobs or