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Rose & Crown, SW17
SW17
SW17 8BS
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about Rose & Crown
Visited 27/08/24
Traditional pub, well described below. Bar faces you as you enter on either side. Well-staffed and attentive and easy-going bar staff. Some TV's dotted around but all switched off during my visit but advertising upcoming live sport (mainly footy). Bare boarded (the boards have certainly seen some use) and traditional wooden furniture. Pretty expansive with the left-hand side of the bar much larger in terms of seating and a small area in the front in the windows looking out onto an unexciting main road!
Cask just Sambrook's Wandle. Loads of decent keg options, I noted Siren Lumina, Drop Project Flow APA, Mondo Little Victories, Sambrook’s Lazarus, a nitro stout, Squeezer, a juicy pale ale from By the Horns, a house pale ale brewed for them by Moor, as well as more regular choices such as Gamma Ray, Budweiser, Jubel peach lager, Cruz, Guinness, Brixton Reliance Pale Ale, Signature Brew Backstage lager, Inch's cider, Stiegl Helles and Lucky Saint. Plenty of bottle and can options, including a couple of fridges for take-aways also.
Was pretty busy on my visit but very pleasant. Quite a bit of outside seating around the perimeter of the pub, popular in the early evening sunshine. Decent venue where extensive beer choice added to an otherwise traditional (and quite tired looking) pub. Another couple of cask options would have nudged score up further.
On 31st August 2024
- rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about Rose & Crown
I don’t know the history of this pub, but I reckon it’s an interwar years’ construction.
With an AFC Wimbledon affiliation, there’s a boarded floor with tiled bar apron, grey wainscoting with white walls to an egg yolk yellow Anaglypta ceiling; furniture is old school stuff. Of interest are leaded glass partitions with stained glass rose depictions, all looking a bit Art Nouveau, thereafter little in the way of décor apart from hanging multi-coloured frilly plastic things which looked like pairs of knickers. There’s silent multi-TV showing unwatched sport, then quite loudish music, enjoyed by a mixed local crowd, though few compared to neighbouring pubs on my Sunday evening visit.
There was just one solitary cask here, Twickenham’s The Light, £2.75 a half and just about ok – I’d have not said the same if presented with a whole pint – served by an attentive barman.
There’s a decent pub lurking somewhere in here; ditching the TVs, frilly knickers and getting in a wider and more imaginative cask lineup would raise the score a fair bit.
On 8th May 2024
- rating: 5
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Rex Rattus left this review about Rose & Crown
Doom Bar and Spitfire were on, and the latter was in decent nick. I didn’t see any menus when I was in on Wednesday afternoon, but I did see a barmaid holding a plate so maybe they do some food. This is still a two-room pub, with both rooms reached via a vestibule – I firstly ventured into the right hand room, but when I realised there was nobody in there and I could see the handpumps on the counter in the other room then that’s obviously where I headed. This room is bare-boarded apart from a tiled splash area around the bar counter. There’s a raised area at the front by the windows, as well as at the back to the left of the bar counter. Furnishings are traditional, with no sofas or tall tables/tall stools.
This is a very ordinary pub. The beer was OK and not too expensive as I recall, plus it was reasonably comfortable inside and the service was friendly enough. I’m glad this one’s still here for the locals to enjoy, but it’s certainly not a destination pub.
On 31st March 2014
- rating: 5
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Malden man left this review about Rose & Crown
The pub has separate bar and lounge rooms, accessed independently from the entrance lobby. The lounge is the larger room occupying the single storey section of the building that looks like it might be an addition. This room is wooden floored, has a couple of corner shelving units with books, plates and so on, and a large engraved mirror with the pub name. Traditional style seating at normal tables. A raised area to the rear and a smaller one at the front under the window that looks like it might double up as a stage. There is a TV on a bulkhead wall.
The bar is smaller, carpeted and with small round tables.
Service wasn't quick, despite the pub being quiet as the lone barmaid seemed to think flirting around with some bloke in the other room more important. Three handpumps, Spitfire (£3.20), Flowers Original and Pedigree. There was no sign of food apart from the usual snacks and nibbles.
A fairly nondescript pub really with no obvious original features or points of interest. It reminded me of many urban pubs from twenty or more years ago. I looked in as I was in the area and no one else here seemed to have but there isn't really anything to entice me back. The beer was fine though it should be said.
On 28th May 2011
- rating: 5
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