I always used to drink in the Green (moon on the green as was) and the Beaumont arms (now a trendy wine bar), and the bush ranger. Is the green staying a pub, I'd hate to see it turn into Starbucks or another ****ing phone shop?
Crown & Sceptre for me, looking forward to the Charlton game and meeting our Irish Rs again. It's sadly true the comments about how pubs are being 'yuppyfied', when I lived at Sydenham Hill my local was The Dulwich Wood House, a really great traditional local pub which had it's own cricket and football teams and all the other things you'd expect of a real English pub. Then the owners, Youngs, decided to turn it into at gastropub, serving flash food at exorbitant prices and virtually all the old regulars left to go elsewhere. Now it's full of Dulwich mums and ponces drinking skinny lattes...
Shepherd and Flock does a great pint of Guinness. Other then that the C & S is the best pub although it's a little too far from the ground if you are on a tight schedule.
Mate, i grew up in a pub in Southall, The problem comes when the brewery put up the rent. thats ok as the takings cn cover it but the killer was the smoking ban. no-one goes to a pub when they cant smoke and it cut bussiness by a massive amount. To combat this, pubs have to serve food, coofee and other crap that stops them being pubs This is the single biggest reason pubs & clubs go out of bussiness. How many people remember nightclubs full of smoke and aftershave...Now all you can smell is blood and BO. Not a good night out !
Yes, where the hell are you??? We miss having an "in the know" behind the bar. How do we get an area cordoned off for the 23rd November?
Crown and Sceptre is truly, truly awful: over-priced and serves watered down beer. (OK, so I don't want it to get any more crowded than it already is on match days.)
Any pub that has John Smiths, so thats 90% out for a start. I have never entered the springbok, I wont even go in there if Im dying for a piss. It looks like it could be the origination of the urban myth that you can catch herpes from a toilet seat.
