Trafalgar Freehouse, South Wimbledon - pub details
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Description
The "Traf" is the current South West London CAMRA PUB OF THE YEAR.
It is a friendly, traditional, "Local", where you can be assured of a warm welcome - we have a real,open,fire on cold days.
We serve a variety of "Real Ales" - Dark Star Hophead is a regular. We also have Riegele, a splendid Bavarian Lager, on draught and a lovely cider from Normandy. You'll find us in CAMRA's 2008 Good Beer Guide.
We have Live Jazz every Sunday afternoon between 2.30 and 5.30.
On the first Saturday of each month we have music from 8.30pm with Dave Johnson singing anything from the Beatles to the Smiths...
Checkout our website www.thetraf.com for details of JACK VALENTINE who performs the songs of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack - dress to impress for these nights!
Our website also gives the dates of our themed, "Food Evenings": e.g. Italian, Mexican, Curry, Game Pie; plus our other, occasional, events.
We look forward to seeing you...
David and Karen
(last updated: 8th Feb 2008)
Address: 23 High Path, Merton, London, SW19 2JY [map] [gmap]
Tel: (020) 85425342
Website: http://www.thetraf.com
South Wimbledon (0.2 miles), Colliers Wood (0.6 miles), Morden (0.9 miles)
Haydons Road (0.9 miles), Wimbledon (0.9 miles), South Merton (1.1 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Live music (Free Live Jazz on Sunday afternoon from 2.30pm), TV, Sky TV
- Dartboard
- Food served (Monday to Friday [12-2];), Real ale (always a good selection. See CAMRA's GBG)
- Outside seating (Small outside area), Dogs allowed (Please ask first though), Children allowed
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other pubs nearby:
Princess Royal, South Wimbledon (0.1 miles), Nelson Arms, South Wimbledon/Colliers Wood (0.2 miles), Kilkenny, South Wimbledon (0.2 miles), Grove Tavern, South Wimbledon (0.2 miles), William Morris, Merton Abbey Mills (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of Trafalgar Freehouse, South Wimbledon
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| I had heard a lot of good things about this pub and went there for the first time yesterday. I was not disappointed! Great selection of beer - great atmosphere - very friendly and helpful staff - its a bit of a treck for me to get to but I will be going back exemplor - 14 Jun 2008 22:57 |
| Yesterday's offering (just the 5) was Darkstar Original, Gravesend Shrimpers, Doombar, Saltaire Bitter, JHB, very nice too. I noticed the aforementioned Dave Johnson is playing this Sat(07); anyone covering the likes of the Smiths, Beatles, Oasis has got to be worth a look but I'm usually in pretty poor shape by 20:30. trainman - 6 Jun 2008 09:41 |
| Six handpumps with rotating ale selection, Hophead is quite a regular & 'Mild for May' was well supported here. A plain looking local that doesn't pretend to be anything else, but they offer jazz Sun pm, & the Dave Johnson nts sound good although I aint been yet. Beers £2.80, but have been £2.00 all day Mon for a while. trainman - 3 Jun 2008 19:35 |
| Yes - well done Dave et all. One of my fave two out of, say 10 or so of Londons' core ale pubs. Last week went to drop something off and move to the Sultan (10 mins trott between them for those not been)when Dave decided to put on White Horse 'Saracen' IPA @ c3.4%! Uhm, well, the night was written off history and twas overhung next day. Oh my god what a pint. That folks is the Traf. Thats why they're SW Ldn POTY. GO!!!!!!!! [When you have a dangerous mate living just round the corner from a 'dangerous'ly good pub with very friendly and intersting banter, surroundings like this, beer like that, no tacky plastic gaming machines, desperate juke box, prattish 16 year olds, etc etc - well, but the bare essentials of a trad community pub - yeah you can end up being unwell the next day]. Let the brainless chavs have their pubs and we'll have ours. Yes, being a 1st class ale place you will find the occasional, uhm...'interesting' died-in-the-wool, dirty shirted Camra bod but dont worry, were not all like thatin Camra! (Sorry Geoff, if you wont print it, then I'll say it elsewhere). 20/10!! operationmindcrime - 3 Jun 2008 19:21 |
| The Traflagar defines the subtle difference between an estate pub and a community pub. It’s a laid back friendly sort of place with no fruit/quiz machines or juke box to get in the way of idle conversation, although there are a couple of unobtrusive TV’s. It’s welcoming to locals and visitors alike and I imagine that many make the pilgrimage from afar for the excellent range of beers. There are 6 hand pumps plus 2-3 ciders and some bottled beers. I had a Hippy High from Ventnor, a Moorhouse Black Cat and the Thrupenny Hop that I believe may be brewed on the premises - the name allegedly coming from an old nickname for the pub as it was the price of the bus fare from surrounding areas. Fantastic place, gets a 9/10 from me, not sure where it drops the one point, perhaps the fact that it’s too far away from where I live. Millay - 11 May 2008 19:43 |
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