The White Hart, Barnes, SW13

This is a smart looking pub that's just been refurbished. Large octagonal island bar with 24 keg pumps with 12 beers from Meantime and Camden etc.Six beers on 5 Youngs and Bombardier.My Winter warmer was okay.Very classy toilets down a circular stair with walking sticks attached to the walls.Best visited in the summer to appreciate the river setting.Dull range of real ale ruins it for me.

This is a large Victorian pub set in a spectacular riverside location, clearly once multi-roomed but now one space with the bar central in what I can only describe as a rhombus shaped space. Part bare boarded and part carpeted, large circular columns hold up the structure above where there is another bar accessed via the turret staircase. Externally the raised terrace and balconies give superb river views and are clearly popular spots on what seemed like the first decent day in weeks, there was a BBQ on the go out here doing a roaring trade. Back inside, the leaded windows have amber and green bands suggesting a previous Charrington's incarnation, a dartboard which would require some furniture rearrangement, a couple of fireplaces, decor with river scenes, prints and photos of the pub and a selection of books and games on a mantlepiece. Cricket on the TV while music played at a gentle volume, food menus on tables separate from the outdoor barbie. Quite pricey with burgers of various meats up to £11, steaks up to £19, rack of ribs £12. Youngs beers, Ordinary Bitter, Special, London Gold, CW Bombardier plus guests from Sambrook's, Wandle and Pumphouse Pale Ale (£3.75). There was also a box of Weston's cider on the bar. Not a bad pub at all, despite the inevitable opening out and probably very good throughout the seasons given the river views.