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Green Man, Putney Heath, SW15
SW15
SW15 3NG
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David Walton left this review about Green Man
Visited 31/07/24
This was a quick one as after lingering at the Telegraph i was late for a curry meet on the bridge end of Putney High St! First visit here and initially surprised as to how quickly i was at the bar from walking in the front door - literally one stride away. So, you don't see much of the pub before deciding on what you want to drink. The interior layout is well described below and wanting to continue looking around whilst i necked my pint i ended up going out the back of the pub via the raised decking area out the left-hand rear of the venue down to the paved / concreated large rear beer "garden". Plenty of distractions, including the huts dotted around the perimeter which were popular amongst the members of a wake taking place in the venue. By this time the storm clouds were gathering so maybe they were just planning ahead for the rest of the evening.
Beerwise, a very standard Youngs pub offering with Original and Special on the three or four handpumps and Neck Oil, Inch's cider, Guinness and the lagers they offer that i have noted so many times i should know off by heart by now! My pint of Original was fine and a relatively good pint to drink rapidly. Wouldn't have fancied doing that if i had been forced to take the Special as in an earlier venue this evening!
This was an average pub for me. Might have grown on me with a longer than 10-minute stay or if i did, as i usually do, sit inside the pub as i found the rear beer garden pretty soulless. There's only so much Original you can drink in one day (without getting bored as it would be hard to imagine getting inebriated on it before you physically couldn't drink more).
On 4th August 2024
- rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about Green Man
With elements apparently still extant, this pub dates from around 1700 as a coaching inn, reportedly the haunt of dandy highwaymen, the current structure then as now a Young’s house by 1900, situated in a none too attractive area.
With Young's having spent cash on looking flash, the multi-area interior has been given a hefty contemporary makeover with seemingly no respect for heritage: modern boarded, dark grey or white paint with some Arts & Crafts-style wallpaper and white Anaglypta ceiling with conventional lounge-style furniture. The bar has a tiled apron, then diagonal shiny turquoise ceramic tiles to a modern bar back and ugly tubular steel gantry; eclectic prints constitute the décor, all to a Dire Straits soundtrack and omnipresent smell of fried food, consumed by a mix of young customers with kids in tow, or elderly singletons.
A dull cask choice amounted to just London Original and Special, my Gamma Ray an obscene £3.80 a half.
The preferred option in these parts is the Telegraph, this place in its current incarnation, with lacklustre cask choice failing to stand and deliver.
On 16th February 2024
- rating: 4
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Moby Duck left this review about The Green Man
An old traditional pub, now very much upmarket but retaining a pubby feel with lots of old dark wood in evidence and four or five separate drinking areas. Five handpumps in all with two donning Youngs Bitter clips, Youngs special on another with Guests of Sambrooks Wandle and Wimbledon Copper Leaf taking up the remaining two, the latter being hideously priced at £4.95. Nice enough pub but one best left to any stray tourists.
On 27th May 2018
- rating: 6
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Green Man
This is a Young’s pub, with the usual offerings on handpump, but it also has Sambrook’s Wandle on, like so many Young’s pubs these days. And it’s not cheap at £3.25 a pint for such a relatively low ABV ale. Food is available all day, with hot main meals around £10, and sandwiches circa £4 - £5. The bar counter faces you as you enter the front door, with drinking areas extending around to the right and left, and with several nooks and crannies. Floors are bare-boarded. There are mainly normal chairs around the place, plus a couple of sofas. Wall decor seems quite tasteful, and I spotted something very unusual - a framed engraving by a convict named J Wilson, commemorating HM Queen Victoria’s escape from assassination in 1882. The garden is accessed from a door at the back on the left – this leads to some decking with three or four tables and chairs, mainly used by smokers during my visit. Some steps lead down to the main garden area, which has some unorthodox features such as the giant chess set, and the highlight apparently being an inverted stainless steel pyramid as a centrepiece. It’s a bit avant garde for my tastes, but some people must like it.
This is certainly not a bad pub; in fact it’s quite comfortable, but it’s nothing like the traditional boozer it once undoubtedly was. I might come back – after all I have been in here before, but it is a bit out of the way and isolated, by London standards.
On 1st August 2010
- rating: 6
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Malden man left this review about The Green Man
Reputed to date from around 1700, and once the haunt of highwaymen, when the pub probably stood alone on the wild heath. It's all rather different today with a bus terminus opposite and four lanes of traffic roaring past.
The bar is ahead on entering, there are two slightly raised areas either side, a small snug with a single circular table to the left, and a seperate area/room with TV to the right. The decor and seating style changes as you move around the pub. A bit of a mix of modern/comfortable yet with other more traditional areas. There are a few board games and some books on a shelf.
There is a small outdoor terrace to the frontage, and a raised deck to the rear which then steps down to a large walled garden, shaded by trees. This area has giant chess sets, and Connect Four amongst varied seating types and a large stainless steel fountain/sculpture. There is a barbeque area here too.
Young's beers, Ordinary, Special, Wells Bombardier and Sambrook's Wandle on.
On 13th July 2010
- rating: 6
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