Graveney and Meadow, Tooting, SW17

The Graveney and Meadow has opened on the site of the previous "Bar 2 Far", and is a great improvement. I believe that it's an Antic establishment (according to London Drinker), but can't find it on their website. Anyway, this place is very unusual in that in the mornings it is somewhere to come for a coffee and a sticky bun, but during standard pub opening times it becomes - a pub! But you can still buy a sticky bun to go with your pint if that takes your fancy. As you enter the bar counter is on the left, with the separate "bakery and buttery" counter on the right. There's a room at the back that had all tables laid for diners, but I didn't see any menus around when I was in on Friday afternoon. It's a bit unusual inside (as if having a bakery and buttery inside your pub isn't unusual enough), which is typical of Antic. Furnishings are mainly what look like cheap re-cycled works canteen tables and chairs, and the bar counter seems to made of old wooden storage lockers. There were a couple of ales on - Gales HSB and Sambrook Wandle (£3.50 a pint). This is a fairly restricted choice by Antic standards, but not bad and a darn sight better than its previous incarnation. There is little or no pub atmosphere as far as I'm concerned. It's OK for a swift one if you're passing, but is not really somewhere I would choose to spend any length of time.