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The Pig's Head, Clapham, SW4

87 Rectory Grove
SW4
SW4 0DR

Phone: 02076224019

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Tris C left this review about The Pig's Head

Again, dating from at least the 1820s though probably rebuilt much later, this was originally the Bull’s Head, formally a Taylor Walker house.
The interior is quite striking, not just because it’s substantially trendified with a raised dedicated dining section to the rear, but because it has a rather spectacular mid-section high vaulted skylight. The bare floor is polished, walls are white or bare brick with grey wainscoting, furniture is chunky with large tables, décor in the form of potted palms – some on racks – and pretentious empty gilded picture frames. Customers were young professionals, most seemingly all having eaten, the pub boasting that it’s ‘…an independent, farm-to-fork pub...a passionate bunch, and our mission is simple; to be the best pub in Clapham and the most sustainable pub in the UK. We were certified carbon neutral in April 2023 and shortlisted for the Most Sustainable Business at the 2023 Catey Awards (the hospitality ‘Oscars’ no less). We have our own organic kitchen garden in Kent and work primarily with regenerative farms to buy whole native-breed animals that we butcher on-site to ensure the food on our guest’s plates is as good and as sustainable as it is possible to get’; so there you have it then. Customers were affluent older professionals and with all the chatter and hard surfaces, acoustics were terrible.
An inorganic cask choice amounted to just two unused pumps then Sussex Best at £2.85 a half and lacking in condition, served by a friendly barman.
This place is better than the Old Town Tavern, but not as good as the Prince of Wales over the way; a more imaginative and better conditioned cask choice as well as deadening the noise would get the score up.

On 16^th March 2024 - rating: 5
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Rectory

A long narrow pub which extends some way back behind the side bar. The interior seemed rather dark and a bit cluttered. There are a couple of handpumps but only Landlord was available.

On 5^th August 2019 - rating: 6
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custodian 42 left this review about The Calf of Clapham

Long pub with bar to right middle. Four hand pumps but only one weak real ale on offer. Some strong keg; however. Noisy wailing children put me off this place.

On 2^nd September 2017 - rating: 3
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