Formerly St Felix Place.
Brewpub no longer brewing
45 Southwark Street SE1 9HP (Southwark)
flatironsquare.co.uk
First sold beer: May 2021 (as St Felix Place)
Ceased brewing: by April 2022
In two historic railway arches close to Borough Market, this combined brewpub and food court was initially a collaboration between musician Ben Lovett’s Venue Group and Lagunitas, one of the US breweries owned by Heineken.
Lagunitas was founded as an independent craft brewery in 1993 in the town of the same name in California’s Bay Area, though moved a year later to Petaluma not far away. In 2014, it opened a second production site in Chicago, Illinois. Heineken bought 50% of the company in 2015 and the remainder in 2017.
On first opening, the London venue was known as St Felix Place. It closed temporarily over the holiday period of 2021-22 and reopened in January with reconfigured outdoor space under the name Flat Iron Square. Staff from Brixton brewery, another Heineken subsidiary, took over the brewing, but it seems this only lasted a few months.
The equipment had been removed by summer 2024 and the link to Heineken has apparently loosened: the bar now also stocks both mainstream and ‘crafty’ brands from other multinationals like AB InBev as well as the occasional independent.
Updated 19 September 2024.
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