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Quiet but unpretentious corner local, only one ale (GK IPA), simple food menu, a good view over Fairfield and also outside seating around the back.
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Great little pub, away from the new 'boom' of Kingston town centre a nice place to go for a quiet drink and a chat.
Plus a pool table!
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The pub has just been re decorated and an extension built also has outside seating. Beer, food and atmosphere very good with a mixture of older and younger people.
anonymous - 7 Aug 2007 14:27 |
Much maligned I see. However it's a good little pub in an oasis even though it's Yet Another Greene King pub.
Locals are decent enough and I would most certainly go again if I am ever spilling over the Surbiton/Kingston border.
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The few times I have been in this pub, it didn't have any beer. Strange.
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Not a big fan of the pub but they had an amazing football team!
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pub with no music or atmosphere 4 old people
anonymous - 1 Jan 2007 21:44 |
Actual pub is a bit dull and lacking any sort of atmosphere, however, the Thai food is the best in Kingston and the beer was good. This place is alright...
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went in on fri night empty and no atmosphere there . what a place avoid iff u can . totaly non pub place look like place to end days !!!
anonymous - 11 Jun 2006 19:39 |
This pub is under new management and they are what I would call good old fashioned landlords who talk to their customers.
Clean and welcomming surroundings
anonymous - 7 Jun 2006 13:15 |
Unremarkable and uninspiring modernised single bar Greene King pub. Not worth going out of your way to find
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I've been in here twice and both times I was the only person in there apart from the manager, who wasn't behind the bar on either occasion.
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was xmas shopping in kingston,and needed a break from the crowds,went into the albion,fab boozer!great landlord,fab food!going back again very soon,well done!
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Whilst in the Albion i have experienceed Karoke and quiz nights as well as live bands. It has a good crowd and the staff are really friendly. Food is excellent and you get plenty for the price.
anonymous - 5 Sep 2003 15:58 |
The Albion is a friendly pub with a fab manager. Its great for a game of pool and meeting up with mates.
caz - 5 Sep 2003 15:50 |
If you and your mates fancy running a pub for an evening, go to the Albion on any week night and I garuntee yours will be the biggest group in there. If you are looking for girls, walk quickly past the Albion and don't look back.
M-Lin - 16 Apr 2003 13:39 |
If the Overlook hotel in Stephen King's 'The Shining' were a pub - The Albion would be it. It's solitary pool table is the only feature hat saves it from drowning in a sea of dull, creepy, blandness. One to seek out only if you enjoy staring at yourself in oddly placed mirrors and trafficking with whores/travellers
Jesse Ross - 11 Apr 2003 16:45 |
Played football for ATFC for many years. I would say (and in my experience) it was a 'spotsman's pub' (packed out Saturday afternoon and Sunday lunchtimes after matches). 3 Football Teams play out from the Albion on Saturday afternoons, 1 Team on Sunday Mornings. Also in summer a cricket team. Add to that football training and opposition teams using it and I think you get the picture.
Few years back there was quite a good Friday night crowd (lots of Uni students used to go in there), but this seems to have tailed off now.
JBH - 28 Mar 2003 12:29 |
Weird bar people and weird customers
Steve - 9 Nov 2002 23:20 |
The landlord appeared to have stopped even trying to be nice about 18 months ago, and I have deliberately avoided this pub ever since. My last experience of this pub was being ignored at the bar while the landlord chatted to his mates - after about 5 minutes I gave up and went somewhere better. It's a real shame, because this place used to have a bit of life, attracting a crowd similar to The Ram by the river.
Do you have any more recent experience of the Albion? Is it still surly and shit?
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