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The Sun of Camberwell, SE5
SE5
SE5 9NS
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Sun of Camberwell
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Sun of Camberwell
Corner pub close to King's College Hospital. It is owned by Antic and the front bar features tables and chairs similar to their other pubs. A larger dining room to the rear was much more formal. On a warm summer's evening, most punters were outside in a garden area to the rear.
Timothy Taylor Landlord & Volden Session are the regular ales. Guests were Wye Valley HPA & Butty Bach. I hadn't had Butty Bach for some time and this one was surprisingly enjoyable. One of the better pubs of my day in South East London.
On 22nd June 2023
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Sun of Camberwell
This is a surprisingly large pub near the eastern end of Coldharbour Lane, clearly opened out from a multiple room interior. The front part of the pub is a fairly open plan bar area, with seating available across a broad U-shaped area that fans out around the bar on the centre of the rear wall. The room is bare boarded and has plenty of mid-height stools and padded metal framed chairs serving tables of varying sizes, plus some banquettes to the front right and tub chairs a little further back. There are large windows down two sides of the room with blackboards in between them, listing food options and various upcoming events. The bar has a tongue and groove counter and wallpapered bar back lined with chunky wooden shelving. A fireplace stands to one side of the bar, next to some shelves full of ceramics and at least one TV screen which was switched off in favour of a pretty cool Afrobeat soundtrack. Moving past the right-hand side of the bar, the pub extends a long way back, into a separate dining room full of pre-set tables and an open kitchen to one side.
There were three handpulls in action when I arrived, dispensing Sharps Doom Bar Volden Session and Wye Valley HPA, with a fourth promising Wye Valley Butty Bach ‘soon’. The HPA was a sensible £4.80 for a pint and in decent nick, whilst the bar staff were friendly and industrious.
I liked this place, which I thought had good mass appeal thanks to a relatively traditional feeling main bar area, well appointed and separate dining facilities and a few well-kept ales. It maybe lacks that something special to make it worth seeking out in its own right but is a great option to have in mind if you’re in the area.
On 3rd January 2023
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Sun of Camberwell
All the previous signage has gone for some reason, and if I hadn't looked through the window to see a pub obviously in operation I might have concluded that it had already bitten the dust. It doesn't seem to have changed much since the previous reviewers' visits. It still looks like a work in progress - maybe it's supposed to have that look - you never know with Antic, but I think it has a slightly more finished look than other posters encountered. As with most Antic pubs this one is quite open inside with plenty of space around the tables, and has the usual mixed bag of mismatched furnishings. There is a dartboard on one of the walls, but possibly not in use as there is a large Chesterfield sofa in front of it. Alongside it there are loads of pool, or possibly snooker, cues displayed on the wall, but I didn't see a pool table in here. There are also white ties displayed in glass frames above the fireplace. All typical Antic. The main bar stretches back and to the right of the servery, to a slightly raised area and then leading out to a courtyard at the rear.
Of the five handpumps on the bar only two were in use when I dropped in shortly after opening time at 1600 on Monday afternoon. The two ales on were Wells Golden Cauldron and Caledonian Trojan Horse. This is not particularly good by Antic standards, although my pint of Golden Cauldron was in good condition. Being an Antic pub of long standing (i.e. operating for more than a year) I would expect them to do food, but I didn't see a menu. But perhaps there's not much call for food at 4.0 PM.
I still quite like Antic pubs for some reason. I would suspect that I was just unlucky to find only two ales on when I visited, and would be prepared to give it another shot if in the area again.
On 6th November 2014
- rating: 6
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Loughborough Junction, 0.45 miles, 8 min walk (show)
East Dulwich, 1.11 miles, 21 min walk (show)
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