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Much improved, but with higher prices.
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A pub with sofas?
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This place has recently been taken over and is unrecognisable from the reviews below. Looks like it's been completely ripped out, cleaned up and sorted out. Comfy sofas, good beers and lots of different music nights advertised in the window, as well as a pub quiz on Wednesdays. Nice bar staff and friendly vibe. Not doing food yet apparently, but got pork pies in the meantime.
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Went in this pub when we found our journey on a rail replacement bus turned short, and dismal though those buses are it was more fun ( and a darn sight cleaner) than this place. Sticky carpet and bar top, an all-pervading smell of stale beer and an un-identifiable grey scum floating on the top of my coke all combine to make this visit our last. I see an earlier poster on here mentions the lack of women, well the two propping up the bar that day both appeared to have escaped from their carers and they and the shadowy characters at the pool table all froze and gave us the stranger-in town stares as we walked in. Didn't notice if anyone watched us leave, I was moving too fast. One to avoid.
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Good value drinks , good service from bar staff and cold beer. No real ale, clean toilets. Seemed o.k. little pub to me ,with good location.
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Where do we start? Let's staff with the bar staff. Seems to be all slightly rough looking lads and one very high pitched voice male who is very chipper and seems to brighten your mood by just speaking, excellent. They have an extremely limited selection of drinks and I believe no ale, or at least not one you'd like to drink. Go in and you're on the Kronenbourg. If you don't like lager you shouldn't really be in this pub, but since all of the pissed up patrons chug down so much of the stuff, the lager here is fresh and crisp. You do notice a nice taste to Kronenbourg you don't get from a can or most other pubs which sell better things (so why would you be drinking Kronenbourg anyway?).
The people who frequent this pub are, without being too harsh, people who will never make any significant impact on this earth at all, unless they drunkenly stumble infront of a train. I've never seen so many drunk chubby white males in my entire life, everyone's got a slur, everyone has a beer belly and the place is davoid of any females whatsoever. I've gone to male only public schools with more women there than this place. Everytime I enter I feel like I should have gone somewhere else, or that it'd be more enterprising to get 6 cans of something from the local offy and gone home to chug them while watching Family Guy re-runs on BBC 3. That's furthered by the fact you have to walk through a smoke covered entrance and past all the local puffers blowing into your face and generally getting in your way. Then the toilets. That's just a puddle of urine stretching from wall to wall with a small dip at the end of it where, presumably, some occasionally might accidentally get some piss into.
The jukebox is good, but again I'd rather listen to youtube and drink Jack Daniels at home.
Just avoid this dive and come to the railway.
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This pub just has to be the worst in Tulse Hill, and there are some right dubious ones to start with, avoid unless you like mixing with the dregs of the area.
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URGH!!! :-(
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Visited this pub over the last two friday nights, doesn't seem that bad, Glasses are clean, pub doesn't look that bad. Karaoke and a live D.J, who knows her stuff, excellent voice and quite a few people singing in there. I was told last night that a D.J. is in there tonight as well, so at least they are doing something with this place. Could be an excellent place now it's not being closed early and they are providing entertainment, I think by opinion that this place could be a really good pub and has so much potential. New management, manager is friendly but firm, lovely lady. I am definately going to visit this place hopefully on a regular basis, other customers are lovely and talk to you when you go outside for a demon fag!, Strange little bloke running around every now and again but I think he's part of the management. Drinks are cheaper than some in the area.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU AT LONG LAST WHITE HART.
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Not a bad pub now that they've done the place up..
beers cheap though the manager seems to have had a personality bipass...
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Traditional South London boozer without any effort made on its part to charm you or make you come back again. Yet people seem to.
Your pint will be served with a measure of resentment and passivity. Blokes stare transfixed at the tv screen. Somebody somewhere has a hacking cough.
No Guardian weekend supplements in here ladies and gentleman (in fact no ladies either accept for behind the bar).
No kids other than that kid who's probably always in there.
I think I quite like it but then again I'm not sure and I might change my mind tomorrow.
I'll give it 5 but it might deserve a 6 on some days and a 0 and instant demolition and turning into The Banana Leaf & Bogey Pie Gastro Pub on other days.
But leave it alone for now.
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i concur with both of the reviews below, a lovely dump
definitely an option for watching the football now that the railway has dissapeared up it's own ar_e, some very pleasant sweary shouty south london gooners to be found directly under the tv providing some atmos during games
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Plenty of south London grit to be had in here, if that's what you like...
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wallpapers hanging of the walls...toilets are stinking..the pub is a dump...
anonymous - 5 Nov 2006 08:48 |
the one and only good thing about this pub is that you can i can actually get a DOUBLE vodka and coke for under 3 quid. this pub is in SERIOUS need of a make over, the glasses are always dirty and u cant even sit on a chair without fearing it will give way unerneath you. The toilets are always broke and u get that bloody chinese dvd man bugging you every 5 seconds. I would recomend the Tulse hill Tavern anyday.
anonymous - 7 Jun 2006 16:36 |
The pub is in need of a bit of a clean, a lick of paint and a spruce up, but get past its shambolic appearance and you have a decent local�s pub.
I go in pretty regularly now (its cheap & they show the footy) and I have never had any problems felt threatened or intimidated.
Not bad if you want to a break from the railways smugness.
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Staggered in here for the first time ever (I too had been wary before. I recommend going to these types of places with a hangover - you're in far too much pain to think sensibly).
First things first: it's a terrible pub in that it's falling down. The only thing that will be left standing (ok, sitting) in a few years time will be the locals, who range from a rather attracive 80 yr old lady who must have been a champion gurner in her heyday, to your 'must-have' for a crap boozer: a chinese dude selling dodgy DVD's.
I have one good thing to say for this place: it's the first time in years that I've been able to have a Guinness for �2.50. Other than that, stay away from this place, unless you are considering suicide, or you like fleas. Go to the Railway up the road if need be, but I would recommend getting out of Tulse Hill and finding a decent pub. Actually, just get out of Tulse Hill, full-stop.
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Never been in - too scared for my life.
When I eventually do hire a bodyguard, I'll go in and try it out.
Surely can't be that bad, posters raising funds for charity on the windows and that sort of thing.
anonymous - 5 Nov 2005 20:01 |
Old geezer's venue. In desperate need of redecoration and not the most glamorous of places. Good place if one fancies a cheap drink
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Scary, but cheap.
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