Prince William Henry, Southwark, SE1

Long rectangular busy bar.Nice to see a couple of dartboards and some space to use them.Good outside covered seating.Rare in this area.Doombar,Tribute and 2 Youngs beers on.

The pub is named after the prince who went on to become William IV upon the death of his brother George IV. This is a Young’s pub, with only Young’s Bitter (£3.40 a pint) clipped on two pumps, with a further six (!) unused. They were doing food on the Wednesday lunchtime I was in, but I didn’t see a menu. Furnishings are a bit nondescript – mainly large tables with hard wooden chairs. There’s a small raised area on the left, decorated with numerous prints on the walls, and being utilised by diners as far as I could see. The large forecourt fronting on to the busy Blackfriars Rd is furnished with numerous aluminium tables and chairs, including some of the overly tall variety. There’s enough room out here for a couple of heated canopies, obviously for the benefit of smokers. This pub lives in a modern building with nothing interesting about it that I could see. Even by Young’s standards the ale choice (only the Bitter available) is disappointing. I haven’t been in here for a good many years before this visit, and I have to say that it hasn’t improved. It’s another characterless pub, but it is still open, and does sell one real ale (at least on my visit), so things aren’t all bad.

Nothing to enthuse about here. Basic, characterless and fairly awful.

This place is ok, but it's never going to win any awards. It's a good size pub with plenty of outside seating, but the bar isn't that long so I could imagine a bit of a wait on a sunny day. I think that I counted five Young's Ordinary pumps, one Bombardier and three unused. Peroni, Kronenburg, Fosters, Carlsberg, Guinness and Dry Blackthorn Cider were also available. The food seemed like standard pub grub and it was reasonably priced. The staff were nice enough, my Bombardier was good and there is a dartboard, but I'm still not sure that I'd stick my head in if passing again.