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The Old Dispensary, Camberwell
The food here is pretty good - and a passable selection of lagers (ie: not just stella and fosters!). The seating is really uncomfortable - particularly when eating. Seats way above table level - a killer on the back. Not somewhere you'd spend a night - ok for brunch, early evening food then bail. As pointed out elsewhere, ventiallation is dodgy - roll on smoke free pubs.
9 Jun 2006 14:54
Complete and utter sh*thole. Scally central - how this place has managed to hang on to its licence I'll never know. Someone, somewhere must be paying someone off. Even the alkies on Camberwell Green wouldn't go in here.
9 Jun 2006 11:12
A query re: the S&D - why don't they offer table service in the beer garden area? Surely would improve their revenue and the staff would benefit from tips.
9 Jun 2006 11:07
To be fair staff situation here does seem to have improved recently but get the feeling they need a manager/supervisor to get things to gel. Food can be ok but overpriced and running out of food (it happens regularly), particularly on a Sunday which must be their prime revenue day, does not look good. The food in the Castle on Camberwell's Church St is far better - brunch there then go to S&D for the beer garden.
9 Jun 2006 10:58
Decent decor and the outside area looks good but the food's not great - had brunch here serveral times and found it disappointing. Also would be nice not to have to listen to thumping dance music first thing in the day - wish bars would play music appropriate to clientele rather than what the bar staff want to hear (or what some anonymous suit at the brewry playlisted without ever having spent time in the pub)
9 Jun 2006 10:53
great pub with an excellent jukebox that actually plays the type of music the clientele want to hear.
25 Apr 2005 12:12
great traditional old boozer and excellent beer selection. Also staff really nice - other pubs in area take note. Best of all, no fruit or gaming machines.
25 Apr 2005 12:08
The Old Dispensary, Camberwell
ok beer selection, good quality food. Only complaint is the seating - it's really uncomfortable. Overall a welcome addition to Camberwell.
25 Apr 2005 12:04
excellent beer garden - pubs main (perhaps only) selling point. Beer selection is awful (may be tied in to ridiculous supplier agreement as most UK pubs seem to be!), food uninspired and way over priced. But the worst thing has to be the staff - female staff tend to be rude, male staff better but serve at a snails pace. Perhaps they're heavily medicated! Also why no table service, particularly in the beer garden area.
25 Apr 2005 12:01
The George Canning, Denmark Hill
Well below parr food - if you're going to pitch yourself as a gastro pub (with attendant pricing) then get a proper kitchen (otherwise stick with the beer nuts!). Beer selection is poor and staff are worse. In a perfect world this place would have gone out of business within a week of opening.
9 Jun 2006 15:05