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I must say, after reading some of these comments, im astounded, albeit they were posted a year ago, I went in for a friend's birthday party a couple of weekends ago and I absolutely loved it. The staff were helpful, efficient and very easy on the eye, the music was great (Dj with Live bongo player playing a cool selection of non cheesy but fun music) and the mojitos were fantastic. . I will definitely be going back for my birthday party (it helps that its a stumble from the tube station as well)
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Went on a Saturday night for a friend's bday - absolutely rammed but I have no idea why. Wine list ordinary, beers non existant - just identikit Eurolagers and Guinness. 9 quid for a pint and a glass of wine, and the food service stopped at 8pm. It may well be OK outside of weekends but a bland and soulless experience on a Saturday night.
anonymous - 4 Nov 2007 10:37 |
Variable. Avoid on a Friday/Saturday night unless pre-Infernos geezers are your thing!
Food can be ok, but have had poor service and luke warm food on one or two occasions. Thursday nights are pretty good- good music. Packed when matches are on. Seating outside, although right on the main road.
Nice G&T.
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The managers are helpful but the rest of the staff are awful and certainly the door staff....not all its cracked up to be!
anonymous - 20 Jul 2007 19:17 |
doorstaff are rude and arrogant here. wa asked for id and when it was shown they still refused me for no reason need to sort it out
anonymous - 28 May 2007 10:50 |
Had a decent bottle of red, as yes the beers are somewhat lacking. A good place to chill with a paper on a Sunday afternoon. Some decks behind the bar. As Mooky says it's all about the urban brown loungy thing.
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refurb is ACE. If you like the urban loungy brown thing, more space somehow and I hear on the grapevine (hopbush?) that they are opening an auspicious resto here soon. Top for watching footy; now if they could just improve the beers...
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places like this arn't usually my cup of tea but I had a good time in here. I found it a bit pricey, but I expected it to be before I entered. Music was good and Bombay Sapphire as thier house gin. I wouldn't make this my local but I'd come back again as its nice for a change.
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I had a report that tonight's Liverpool Champion's League match was shown 'pillarboxed' tonight on their plasma screens. This tells me that this pub shows true widescreen pictures when available, unlike so many other pubs that merely stretch out a non-widescreen picture. Good stuff! Find out more about my pub widescreen campaign at www.radiofeeds.co.uk/wide
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I have been going into this bar for over a year now and never get bored! This bar has everything you need, cool people, cool music and best of all cool drinks, they ahve a really good cocktail and wine menu as well as a load of great lagers! I would highly recommend this place to everyone and anyone!!!
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Just moved to the area and rate The Clapham North as my fav bar so far. It may not be the fanciest but the cocktails are well made and every time i go in there seem to meet new friends. Staff are extremely efficient and always willing to help.
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It may not have a manufactured chain feeling but it still has a rather false atrificial 'rah' find of feeling thats certainly not authentic.
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I've been here a few times and also have mixed feelings about the place. I went for a Sunday roast a few weeks ago and found the food not that great and over priced. In general though it's above average and at least it doesn't have that manufactured chain feeling about it.
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I have mixed feelings about this place they bend over backwards to help you with getting a table reserved for a friday night and I think the idea of buying a bottle of vodka or gin etc is differnt (sorry im from kent originally we dont have clever ideas like that where im from)and the food is very good for a pub but I always feel the staff let down the place slightly not a bad watering hole.
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One my locals and a fairly good bar. Beer selection is limited, Guinness tasted a tad odd last time. Good vibey, young and trendy atmosphere let down by well meaning but erratic service. Clapham High St area is blessed with a few outdoorsy pubs and this is one the best
mooky - 28 Mar 2006 16:11 |
all in all not a bad little venue for beer and brunch, spent a saturday night in there a couple of months ago, the place was buzzing enough and not TOO jam packed although the bar staff could have been a little quicker -
(not helped by the guy leaning on the bar in front of dropping his rather fermented guts - which may say more about the clientele than the place its-self?)
usual complaints about ridiculous noise levels, and subsequent inability to converse.
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Comments on here are harsh, I think. Great, albeit loud and trendy, atmosphere on weekends, and on summer nights when they open the front up to let the air in. Opens late. Nonetheless slightly "up itself" - the kind of place you'd see all the desperately trendy people you knew at college, hanging out by the bar in their pulling shirts, frowning their prettiest, coolest frowns. Worth considering if you're on a night out but nobody's idea of a local.
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Nice little pub - typical Clapham trendies hang-out, but don't let that put you off!
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Usual identikit of a refurbished pub -faux leather chairs, candles, tinny DJ toons blaring out, drink prices a bit more than usual, etc. Not too bad. seems that Clapham North is now more Clapham than Stockwell. If it gets too much, seek refuge (and conversation level volume) in The Landor down the road
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Haven't been for a while, but had a great night on Saturday. We were just planning to go for a few drinks and then carry on, but ended up staying all night! I found the staff really friendly and served us really quickly.
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I was here with a dozen mates last Saturday. I expected the worst after reading previous comments, but it wasn't that bad. We'd reserved a table which the friendly manager cleared for us without causing a fuss. The two bar staff I ordered from were patient and efficient despite it being pretty busy.
It's a young, local crowd up for a good time. Biggest down side is the music - dull house played at ear-bleeding volume. Maybe I'm getting old, but I like to be able to talk to people in a bar.
Bouncers seemed okay, prices weren't exorbitant, didn't try the food. Prefer the Railway and the Falcon, but this place is okay.
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all i can say is that i enjoyed an evening there with some of my girlfriends last night to catch up on all th gossip....the cocktails were great, the seats were very comfy and the waitress service meant that we didnt have to move all night...i assume that they may well have changed some of their staff because the ones i saw were v friendly and very pleasing to the eye too.....not sure how much i enjoyed the hangover today...
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I live down this way and often frequent the place on a Saturday morning for Breakfast. Their breakfasts are the best in Clapham.
However, I would never again go there on a Saturday night. Not only was one of the bar staff obviously high and incoherent, but I went outside to meet a friend after being inside for 5 minutes, when I went through the main doors the bouncer charged me again to get in. He said he had no recollection of me entering, despite only 5 minutes passing.
The music is rubbish as well.
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I agree, nice fit out. But bar staff are so rude. When we were overcharged on our bar tab, the manager refused to believe us. We had to argue for 20mins to get him to take off the drinks that weren't ours!!! A note to potential drinkers - don't leave your card behind the bar.
note to the owner - sack all your staff they are usless!
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Dont bother! The staff are barely competent and rude. The chef cant even cook a burger - it was literally raw inside. Not rare - RAW! Plenty of other places in Clapham that deserve your custom.
anonymous - 18 Apr 2005 10:16 |
We visited this place on Saturday night and the attitude of the bar staff was a disgrace, as was the fact that they were unable to provide cold beer.
They literally ran out of cold bottles (it was room temperature) by around 10pm and the staff literally laughed in my face when I asked them for cold beer (of any brand - I wasn't fussy) - they informed me that I was the only one who had complained and that I should drink draught lager. Given I was buying 6 beers in a busy pub when they had no trays, this was a little tricky.
This is the sort of place that will always be full because it is opposite a tube and open late - that's about all it's got going for it.
anonymous - 24 Jan 2005 10:47 |
A shocking display of dire customer service by the staff earlier this year!
a friend booked a table at this venue for food. The menu was ok, fairly limited and pricey for what you got - Roughly 9 quid for a burger which leaves you feeling ill (only decent place for good burgers in Clapham is the Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Northcote Road). The food took over an hour to arrive and then the bill payer was charged twice for the same thing.
Didn't visit this place prior to the refurb, but my guess is the staff forgot everything they knew while the place was shut!
anonymous - 17 Jan 2005 12:05 |
Lived down that way for years and still drink out that way. This place has been rebranded and now has a late license - otherwise I think it would be empty. Doorstaff are a bit hit and miss sometimes and it can take years to get served because the barstaff are too busy dancing and juggling with the bottles!
Al - 17 Sep 2004 15:32 |
Nice refurb, but shame about the doorstaff... Visited on Friday night and doormen and little rude blokey collecting the money seemed more intent on letting in their mates than anyone in the queue.
Jim - 4 Sep 2004 12:00 |
A fantastic place to visit - its got eveything and it was well worth the 3 month wait. Update your photo, the new Clapham North is (thankfully) nothing like the Bedford Arms
Andy - clapham - 26 Jul 2004 23:59 |
Absolutely useless. A lovely re-furb, sure, but what's the point when the staff are so pathetic? There were more staff than customers when I went in. I stood at the bar for a good 15 minutes and wasn't acknowledged by a single one of them. I promptly left (without having had a drink) and went to the ever friendly FALCON. Buck your ideas up - there are plenty of alternatives in Clapham!!! I was thinking about visiting again on a Saturday with friends but will avoid the place for a while now...
Chris - 6 Jul 2004 17:04 |
Shame about the name change!! Clapham North how original!! Not as good for football as it used to be, no big screen! Great Sunday lunch though and same chilled out atmosphere.
Kate - 6 Jul 2004 16:33 |
very nice work, much better than it was after reopening a couple of week ago big chairs make you feel like a 6 year old
matt - 17 Jun 2004 11:32 |
Now called the Clapham North, total revamp, must have spend thousands. Now a Fab place to go, cocktails and music great. Now open until 2am Fri & Sat. Update your photo!
debbie - 9 Jun 2004 14:53 |
quality funky house mashed up with some fantstic old school flavas.Friendly staff,nice atmosphere,a man called jay really shows us why its claphams best kept secret! See you saturday!!!
ben essex - 26 Oct 2003 17:58 |
Excellent funky house DJs on the weekends when it's open late.
Jimbo - 6 Aug 2003 16:40 |
very nice, pleasant pub where you can have a drink with mates after work. reasonably priced drinks
ellie word - 17 Dec 2002 12:23 |
Is this the same pub building as the one next to the library in 1826?
A.Clarke - 2 Nov 2002 20:00 |
Sorry, I mean restaurants !!!
anonymous - 19 Sep 2002 13:42 |
Music/sport on lots of Tv's including a large projector Tv. Street tables too. A lovely pint of Stella opposite Clapham North tube station and at the start of a very busy High St full of pubs and restuarants.
Jeff Williams - 19 Sep 2002 13:40 |
