Trafalgar Arms, Tooting, SW17

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Tris C left this review about Trafalgar Arms

I know not from when this pub dates, but it’s a very imposing place and given the name, would look more at home as a riverside hostelry in Maritime Greenwich; it closed in 2013, coming painfully close to residential conversion before Young’s opened it as a Geronimo Inn in 2015.
Up front is a large patio which the pub calls ‘Tooting’s finest beer garden’. The interior is rough boarded, an apple sauce colour scheme, some walls seemingly rag washed, with some pale wood punctuations. The bar exhibits modern tubular steel additions, furniture being conventional and mixed, though a few tables could have done with clearing and were a bit sticky, illuminated by a variety of lighting styles. Décor comes by way of knickknacks, bored games and quite interesting framed posters for FIFA World Cup tournaments long passed; to the rear left is a dining room. Customers were young professional types, none interested in watching faceless men driving cars round and around on the multiple TVs, all to quite loud music with amplified interjections courtesy of a quizmaster.
A departure from the Young’s norm with aside from London Original, By The Horns Stiff Upper Lip and Southwark LPA at a very central London price of £3.15 a half and not bad, delivered by a friendly barman.
This isn’t a bad place I suppose, better than the Manor, but the prices are an indication of unjustified self-importance.

On 9^th May 2024 - rating: 5
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