A PROPER PUB
18 May 08, 14:08
Beyond expectations
a great pub ,also has a nice garden,good food and excellant beer,what more could you want ,a dart it has that too.and they start wii games next week i hear.
Beth G.
Balham
15 reviews
Pubby brilliant
15 Apr 08, 10:07
Above expectations
A brilliant, good old fashioned pub, dedicated to real ale, log fires, charitable causes and character. Crammed full of eccentrics and the sort of punter who looks like he/she has booze for blood, you’ll be the odd one out if you haven’t got a dog or a red nose which looks like it’s hung over several thousand pints. It’s ridiculously cosy and shockingly friendly – you’d never believe you were in London.
Food is, as one would expect, typical pub fare (non of that gastro malarkey here), although if this isn’t your bag (shame on you), there’s the original Bombay Bicycle Club, which serves up the sort of curry which makes grown men weep, about ten steps away over the pretty cobbled street.
What else? In the summer, there’s a lovely walled garden to enjoy, in the winter, there are delicious Christmassy drinks to get stuck into, and if you’ve just had a baby, get yourself to The Nightingale quick: when we took our three-day old in, he was showered with locals’ ‘lucky quids’. Oh, and one tip; if you’re thinking of spending a lazy, sozzled Sunday there, get in early in order to bag a table – Nightingalites tend to bed in for the day as soon as doors open.
