Excellent beer festival here last week - far more civilised than the CAMRA Battersea Town Hall Festival as well as the ales here at The Falcon being far better kept and choicewise far more to my taste - Thornbridge Brock (4.1%) being outstanding.Visited on the 28 December a busy pub with a excellent selection of ale on offer,
had a pint of the White Horse Dark Porter and the barmaid only charged me for a half even though I got nearly a full pint as it was near the end of the barrel.

Busy with local drinkers and tourists, a warm and welcoming pub right by Clapham Junction train station.
Excellent selection of festive real ales on handpump including Sharps Cornish Stout (4.3%), York Centurian Ghost and Adnams Old Ale (4.1%) in addition to more than a dozen other micro-brew real ales including Barnsley Bitter and Thornbridge Jaipur.

Being a man in the Clapham omnibus for several years I discovered this gem of a pub back in 2006 and I've never looked back. Great range of ales which are constantly changing from your regulars such as Abbot to guest ales such as Yorkshire Terrier (silly name for an ale but a lovely pint). They also have a decent lager selection from San Miguel to Peroni, good range of bottled lagers and an eclectic and surprisingly good wine list.

Staff are attentive and more importantly quick! Music is background to say the least. The whole vibe of the place is to encourage conversation and interaction. Their's some great art work on the walls which depict scenes of Clapham from the last century or so.

Brilliant bunch of regulars inhabit the place and there is nothing better than just chilling with a pint and listening to their inane conversation. Great, great pub!Good solid pub with a interesting group of regulars, well kept beer and a welcoming atmosphere.

Reasonable selection of real ales on offer, would get busy at weekends. I have lived in Clapham for a few months now and went to The Rose and Crown for the first time last weekend .What a find! This is a splendid little pub. My friends and I chose a bottle of wine from the thoughtful original wine list and snacked on delicious olives and nuts throughout the evening.
The landlord was attentive, the staff polite and efficient, and we even chatted to a few regulars. Such characters! Highly recommended. Bravo.

Difficult to review purely on the basis of a beer festival which I visited last night. Don't know what a normal selection of ales might be but they certainly had enough on handpump last night with about 50 overall with the stillage in the garden. Seems an excellent pub and look forward to visiting again.unpretentious sort of pub with excellent well served cask ale ,got a few well worn chesterfields thrown around and a few well worn customers,including myself. I like it alot. I would change the lagers on offer , as it might be hard to get my Lager swilling mates to come back in here with me.Watched the WC semi final here on Wednesday. Nice pub, Good atmosphere and friendly staff and regulars - one was a touch to friendly, joining our group by sitting in the middle of us, but he was wearing a fascinating shirt!
Good ales available, shame not a better choice of Lagers, are Carling, Carlsberg or Fosters mandatory in English pubs. If you are looking for something a bit different in this area of London, it is well worth a visit.

The only real local pub in Clapham! Friendly, quirky and great staff with the best bloody mary's for saturday recoveries from the night before. Its a great place to book for parties, they even let you bring your own food or order in take away from the surrounding area. They are also known for their real ales, not a preference of mine, but the rugby player deliver man is rather pleasant.A bit gloomy inside with plenty of memorabilia on the walls (some of it a bit odd!)

Decent real ale from small London breweries on offer, a decent place for a pint and a chat.Quirky pub...lots of "artistic or ironic objects" hanging from the walls and ceiling...interesting at first but some of it verges on tat. Rather gloomy and cold inside, on my visit.
3 real ales, reasonable condition. Efficient staff but not particularly welcoming. OK, but I would expect there must be better nearby.

Love this place, our favourite Sunday afternoon haunt. Relaxed and with friendly bar staff.My favourite pub in Clapham, very nice staff, excellent food and a great atmosphere. Can get very busy when the sport's on.This place has recently been taken over by a new manager and has regained all the quality that it lost.

The staff are really friendly, the foods good and they;ve just put a table tennis table in the back which is awesome. My new favorite pub!

Beware, I had my bag stolen here by a right professional. Be discreet when keying in card pin and keep your eye on your bag!Characterless pub. before the refurb there were at least interesting features (pac-man tables, bar billiards etc). Now it is just like any other gastro-pub with the exception that it is completely devoid of character or charm. No idea what the food was like, but bitterly disappointed that so much money has been spent to produce such a soul-less venue. 0.After the refurb we had high hopes for this pub. And it certainly looked the part from outside. The welcome was friendly, the table clean, but then it all fell apart.

First off it took ages for someone to come and take our drinks order, even though they had seated us, so knew we were there.

Next, we ordered food. Or so we thought. Next thing the waitress was back. "I am just checking I got your order right". We gave it again. Something in what she said next made us realise she had not actually placed it in the first place. Next we saw her go process the order. 45 minutes later we were still waiting so spoke with the bar manager. During this time the people next to us got up and walked out. Eventually (almost past hunger-o'clock) the food arrived. It wasn't bad - wasn't amazing.

So, a facelift may have improved the look, but the service hasn't got any better. Not as rude as under previous management, but now it's just shoddy.

Will not be back.