Owners Exale Brewing will transform the Grade II listed Dalston landmark into a venue offering darts, shuffleboard, a beer garden, and karaoke. A mosaic bearing the name Cooke with an eel slithering through the letters and a shell inscribed 'established 1862' likely refers to Robert Cooke, a butcher who founded the original Cooke’s eel pie and mash shop at Sclater Street off Brick Lane. His son Frederick went on to open a chain of a dozen F. Cooke, eel, pie and mash shops including venues in Hoxton Street, and Broadway Market. The Dalston pie and mash shop and restaurant opened in 1910 and a rear dining room following in 1936. "Today, the premises stands as one of the few surviving examples of an authentic East End pie and mash shop.