The Bear Free House, Camberwell - pub details
Address: 296a Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, London, SE5 0RP [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 31853) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Oval (0.8 miles), Kennington (0.9 mile)
Denmark Hill (0.7 miles), Loughborough Jn (0.8 miles), Brixton (1.2 miles)
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> Current user rating: 5.7/10 (rated by 12 users)
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| It's not a good sign when the toilets smell better than the pub. Bad drains a could have just been a one off. filf - 4 Mar 2012 15:39 |
| Modernised street corner pub with a central island bar dispensing.2 real ales - Batemans Salem Porter and one other I can't remember, plus several continental lagers. Cider was Thatchers Gold and Westons over Ice. The pub is fairly dimly lit in the evening. There are no TVs, just music. Blackboards show the current menu, which looked quite adventurous. Although I wasn't here for the food. blue_scrumpy - 21 Jun 2010 20:52 |
| Nice old street corner pub, but not quite my cup of tea. Stong emphasis on the food side with place mats laid out at all the tables when I arrived shortly after opening time on a Sunday; clientele predominantly young professional types. However I was mainly tempted along by its appearance in the Good Beer Guide, and two real ales were on namely Acorn Barnsley Bitter and Oakham Rollercoaster. The former was superbly kept, the latter slightly green and rather pricey at £3.45 a pint. The pub istelf was furnished smartly and simply with bare floorboards and wooden tables & chairs with banquette seating along one wall, but despite nice big windows and sunny weather the dark brown walls and ceiling made it feel a bit gloomy. Painting the walls & ceiling in a much paler colour would be a big improvement. Delirious_Nomad - 19 Apr 2010 13:19 |
| What's with a beer festival and not advertising it? It wasn't even on their own web site yet they had about 7 big casks of stilage beer in addition to the regular handpumps. Twas not even mentioned on the south london camra website, london drinker or anything. Trinker - 29 Mar 2010 00:35 |
| We went for Sunday lunch on 20/12/09 and it was a bit of a shambles. Starters were brought out, but not great; the pate dish didn't even have any toast/bread to go with it, and upon enquiring, we got the reply "Errrm, I don't think it comes with that". Towards the end of the starters two mains were brought out; we said we weren't ready for them yet as we hadn't finished our starters (doh!) and asked if maybe they could keep them warm while we finished, they said no! So, we had to have two of the mains in impromtu fashion. The rest of the mains arrived 25 minutes later! 2 people twiddled their thumbs while everyone else ate. There wasn't even a hint of an apology, and when we (quite pointedly) didn't leave a tip, the staff were visibly annoyed...ummm, it's because you were a bit crap and insincere! Food was average, and I'm not sure who reviewed it from The Observer, but they must have been very inebriated on the ale...which was very good; well, there's something at least. fonzy500 - 22 Dec 2009 03:49 |
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