Slug & Lettuce, Croydon

Modern styled 2 floor bar. “Craft keg” and food served.

Official site of Slug & Lettuce - www.slugandlettuce.co.uk

Official site of Slug & Lettuce - www.slugandlettuce.co.uk

All Bar One is no more as it has morphed into a Slug and Lettuce. ‘The king is dead! Long live the king!’ springs to mind. The bright open plan interior was full of young office workers during my fleeting visit yesterday (Wednesday) evening. The bar is stocked with expensive premium draught products, the more it costs the better it is don’t you know. Why on earth this was the busiest pub I visited during my crawl of the area perplexes me. I will not be rushing back here.

I can't stand this type of fancy wine bar, but the frequency with which I seem to bump into them all over the country suggests that there is clearly a large number of people who love this sort of bland drinking experience. Basically stripped of anything that makes a pub interesting and with the music turned to a level which rules out any form of conversation, the only appeal for me is from the decent beer selection, which covers some well-known and slightly more obscure European lagers. Unfortunately they attact a hyper-inflated price tag, and as such the bar tends to be filled with preening executive types arguing about who has the biggest wad. Best avoided unless you're the kind of person who likes this sort of night out, in which case, you probably don't need this website to tell you where to drink.