The Commercial, Herne Hill - pub details
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Address: 210-212, Railton Rd, Herne Hill, London, SE24 0JT [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 7066) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Herne Hill (0.1 miles), North Dulwich (0.7 miles), Brixton (0.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served
- Dogs allowed
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> Current user rating: 5.6/10 (rated by 60 users)
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user reviews of the Commercial, Herne Hill
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| TERRIBLE SERVICE!! Went here for Sunday lunch 7.4.13. We booked for 8 people but only had 6 seats and no help was offered to recover the missing seats - which clearly the table next to us had taken!) We ordered and the food arrived promptly. Well all but 2 melas, when we'd ordered all together. Beef roast and asparagus salad we're really yummy. Pity that when one of the starters arrived - sweet potato wedges - it was literally half a potato, 3 wedges and 3 burnt to a crisp skins - all for £4.50!! We complained and the staff were rude and would have no interaction, merely taking the food and giving back the money. Overpriced for the portion sizes in all meals and the service is awful. All staff were rude and didn't care about what they were doing. Noe - 8 Apr 2013 12:11 |
| I've been going to this pub for almost 20 years now though being a Mitchell & Butler pub means that you'll pay through the nose for the drink. The same applies to the food which is far overpriced for what it is. The drink selection is very good with plenty of real ales, lagers and ciders but as I said the problem is the prices. You'd be forgiven to think that civilisation had collapsed when you are asked for £4.40 for your pint of Peroni. The same beer was £3.40 less than 18 months ago. It's hard to believe they can justify putting the price up nearly 1/3 in such a short time. The staff are generally good though a bit more attention could be paid to keeping the tables clean. Used to be the best pub by far in Herne Hill. Sadly that is no longer the case. They need to raise their game. drum2000 - 9 Sep 2012 13:05 |
| Notice this pub on a few visits to Herne hill and thought we (Me & the girlfriend) would give it a try for a Sunday roast. Good selection of drink (european lagers, real ales and cider) happy to see. very expensive. The menu tries to lure you into a false sense of security with its Marks and spencer advert style descriptions of pretty standard dinners. We both went for the roast beef, came to £30 for 2 small cokes and 2 roast beefs. Quite pricey, hopefully the food will make up for it........ Out it came, 3 overcooked potatoes, pretty sure they hadnt been in a oven. they were mushy like they had been boiled?! The 3 slithers of beef where overcooked and had quite obviously been sitting on a hot plate for to long, yorkshire pudding was burnt, and the veg over boiled. Basically it was quite a tragic small and exspensive roast. I did send it back, explained what was wrong and also asked for more. kindly it returned the same, with an extra mushy potato and some extra carrots! I do not expect for much. A Roast dinner, is a pretty easy meal to get right. there goes my hard earned cash in return for a stingy portoin of badly cooked food. I cant help feel slightly robbed. kieronrhys - 25 Sep 2011 18:17 |
| I've eaten in this pub before and it's been good, but my meal there last night showed just how ungenerous the management is with their food. My £9 shepherd's pie was 95% mashed potatoe, with less than a centimetre of meat sauce at the bottom; in some places just mash and gravy with no meat at all. Plus a tiny portion of veg- a totally disappointing meal; just expensive mash. fipet - 20 Aug 2011 10:55 |
| A great pub-with a few problems Id been going to Herne hill for ages until I decided to give the Commercial a try-mainly down to my Herne Hill local other half having a chip on her shoulder about the place (she went in there once and they didnt have any ice) - and Im glad I did. Until then I was a frequenter of either the Half Moon (cack range of beers decent local clinetelle) or the Florence (awesome range of beers braying posho clientelle) The Commercial is the perfect combination of the 2 ..awesome selection of beers, ciders and spirits and a good mix of locals and slightly bohemian 'young professional' types. Its got real fires, sofas, the music is unobtrusive and in my experience the staff are always welcoming , courteous and sometimes suspicously unsteady on their feet. The only downside is the hit & miss grub which can go from being brilliant one day ( usually when the place isnt busy) to be being utter crap (usually on a Sunday lunchtime) and I suspect this is due to the sheer amount of people ordering food and/or I suspect that the staff are at the booze themselves and are half cut by lunchtime If you can get past the hit and miss food its, in my eyes anyway, a peach of a place. bigmeuprudeboy - 13 Jan 2011 09:10 |
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