The Depot, SE3

Concur with all that Rex comments below. Nearly 5 years later and a pandemic in between the place looks exactly as described. The venue was modestly busy with drinkers and dinners, presumably locals as, nice though this place is in its own way, it would hardly be a reason to get off the train at Kidbrooke! They had three operational hand pulls, two dispensing Old Rosie cider and the other one dispensing Original. Had the latter and tastes as it should do! Plenary of keg choices, Pravha, Estrella, Camden Hells, Peroni on the lager front, aspall as the keg cider, FreeDamm as a keg AF choice, Bandit and Neck Oil completed the line up. So have ticked it off and never to likely return unless I am on the train and it irreparably breaks down at or near to Kidbrooke station and i have to sit it out here because the roads are all blocked preventing taxi escape. So I am likely to never return.

Facebook page of The Depot - www.facebook.com

Facebook page of The Depot - www.facebook.com

This is a brand new Young's pub, sitting underneath a brand new residential development. As a new pub it's obviously bright and shiny in every way. There are exposed brick walls, which because it's a new pub must have been intended to be on show, unlike most pubs where this isn't the case. A couple of glazed bookcase like bits of furniture break up the large, otherwise completely open space to some extent. The wall at the back on the right has a mural featuring WWII barage balloons, which I gather were stored at the RAF establishment that used to be here. There's also that bane of modern buildings the exposed ducting on the ceiling, but I did quite like the enormous propellor blade themed lightshades. As you might expect decor included model aircraft. There is a fair bit of outside seating in an enclosed area along the pedestrian walkway to the side of the pub, and inside the pub there's the full range of furnishings - so we were able to find a traditional looking table with attendent chairs. But there were only a couple of ales on - Young's Original (Ordinary that was) (£4.20 a pint), and St Austell Proper Job. They do food as well of course, and as it was before noon we went for the full English at £10 a go. We reckoned that it was almost as good as the 'spoons traditional breakfast at about a third of the price. This is anything but a destination pub, but as it's the only pub in Kidbrooke I'm glad they went to the trouble of including a pub in the new build so that the hitherto unpubbed residents of Kidbrooke have somewhere half decent to get a drink.

Official site of The Depot - www.thedepotpub.co.uk