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Submitted on Sunday, 3rd September 2017
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The Mansion Pub, Kennington, SE11
SE11
SE11 4RS
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Reviews of The Mansion Pub (Average Rating: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Steve of N21 left this review about The Mansion Pub
After an excellent pub visit in the Old Red Lion next door, I thought I would take a look at this one having read the positive reviews of its days owned by Oakham. Sadly, those days are long gone, and Tris’s most recent review is still quite accurate, although that doesn’t convey the full horror of some of the modern artwork on display here. This now proclaims itself a bar and Thai Restaurant and the fact that you have to navigate several large Madri banners separating the pub front seating from the rest of the pavement gives you a very big clue to what type of bar it is, which is basically a very shiny one.
I feel I cannot give a rating as after seeing the bank of modern hand pulls unbadged and modern keg taps only with all the usual suspects (and of course Madri featuring heavily) I turned tail and left as I was on a mission to use the Northern line to Clapham Common to look up a new opener.
On 9th July 2025
- no rating submitted
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Tris C left this review about The Mansion Pub
An odd place is this because as the Mansion House Stores, it goes back to at least the early 19th century, but the current structure appears to date from the ‘20s/’30s, the original name still in use by at least 1944, meaning that this is indeed an original pub, not a conversion.
However, what’s inside bears no relationship to anything that could be remotely described as a pub, certainly not a traditional one. The interior is a mishmash of modern tropes looking like a hotel – cum - cocktail bar, with the likes of bare brick with ferns cascading over them. Furniture is mixed and seemingly zoned by style; an area to the rear looked geared towards dining. There were three large TVs showing either Crufts or the golf (no-one watching), sound off so as not to interfere with Oasis and lampshades are wicker. Customers were few in number but looked like a small clutch of lost tourists. One however stood out; an old codger drinking at the bar with his dentures resting by his pint. It was only when I approached that the brusque East European barman asked him to put them back in stating ‘Aye have err cuztomer’; I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn’t turned up; I was gobsmacked.
The association with Oakham now severed, there were four unused pumps, one paying lip service to cask with a reversed Sharp’s Solar Wave clip – fat chance – then a fizzorama dispensed from a staple tap, with a Prahva coming home at £2.75 a half, served by the aforementioned barman.
This is a poor place, the customer leaving his dentures on the bar finally doing it for me. The fabulous Old Red Lion is next door, for those seeking a quality pub to get their teeth into.
On 10th August 2023
- rating: 2
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Oaka at The Mansion House
Thoroughly modernised by the Oakham Brewery, this is now a shiny bar / restaurant (and thus at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Old Red Lion next door). That said, it retains seating areas in front of the counter and on the opposite side of the entrance in addition to the dining areas further back. Also has some wooden benches out front. Two doubled-up banks of five handpumps, offering JHB, Citra, Inferno, Bishop's Farewell and the seasonal Hangar 17 (£3.50).
On 10th September 2017
- rating: 7
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 11 January 2014 by Aqualung .
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 11 January 2014 by Aqualung .
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 11 January 2014 by Aqualung .
- Darts : No last updated 11 January 2014 by Aqualung .
- Hot Food : Yes - Thai. - last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 06 February 2014 by Pub SignMan
- Karaoke : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes - Sky Sports/BT Sport. - last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 11 January 2014 by Aqualung .
- Pool Table : No last updated 11 January 2014 by Aqualung .
- Quiz Night : Yes - Sundays 20.00. - last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Real Ale : No last updated 03 December 2024 by Tris C
- Real Cider : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
