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Royal Standard, Colliers Wood, SW19
SW19
SW19 2BN
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Royal Standard
A spotless and very tidy Irish themed pub with a central bar and two wings with a multitude of sports flatscreens and rather loud radio playing through the speakers.Furniture is traditional and mostly covered in a deep red velour while wall decoration is mainly wooden adverts for Guiness and a good picture of the Liffy.
There was a friendly welcome from the Irish landlady but sadly her two handpumps had clips reversed so I opted for a half of Stella at £3 while most other folk were on the "black stuff".
It serves it's community well but not enough for me to justify a revisit.
On 18th April 2025
- rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about Royal Standard
This place dates from at least the 1880s but I suspect may have been rebuilt in the interwar year period, featuring a striking painted Royal Standard to the right gable.
On the one plus side, there are attractively tended window boxes and garden to the right; two entrances hint at the original two-bar format. I didn’t spot the rules relating to attire encountered by Rex nearly 13 years ago, but, yup, it’s still the same seriously downmarket pub, though no male customers were topless at the time of my 10.00pm visit last Saturday. With conventional furniture, the floor is carpeted (with a red lino bar apron and probably original), salmon pink paint to the dado, the remainder white, with games machines and multi-sport TVs. The bar structure is about as primitive as can be: just a few dark timber members supporting bottles with optics; the bar front is clad with t ‘n’ g. With many customers slurring their words, this is a very blokey pub indeed, not the sort of place where you’d want to accidentally spill someone’s pint and certainly not somewhere you’d go for a date.
With the name ‘Dempsey Inns’ to a window and no website, I don’t think this is a GK house anymore, but the choice of cask – as such – amounted to an unused pump then GK False Nine and Deuchars, both with reversed clips, me opting for a half of Stella, £2.75, served by a suspicious old-school landlady.
Thankfully I didn’t encounter the activities repeatedly alluded to on BITE (!!!) – thank God – and it’s not often that I neck my drink faster than it took to pour, but I was out of here like a greyhound from a trap. Avoid.
On 7th June 2024
- rating: 2
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Rex Rattus left this review about Royal Standard
This pub looks good from the outside with its well tended and attractive hanging baskets, and the depiction of the royal standard on the parapet to the right of the pub. But inside it’s nothing special. The furnishings are OK – it’s carpeted with normal tables and chairs and the obligatory tall stools at the bar. Wall decor consists of a few black and white prints and some modern art style prints. There was a radio playing some commercial radio station. I’m not sure which one but I did pick out an advert I recognised – something to do with meerkats. The tone of the place is set by the sign on the door saying that shirts must be worn in the bar. I guess it says something about the potential clientele that such a notice is considered necessary, but it least suggests that there are some standards here other than the royal one. There are a few picnic benches outside at the front.
There’s a Greene King plaque on the wall, but no sign of any GK branded beers inside. There’s no real ale, just the keg version of Ruddles Bitter, which of course has that very distinctive GK taste. I saw no sign of food or menus during my weekday mid-afternoon visit. I can’t see any reason to return to this pub.
On 27th August 2011
- rating: 4
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Philip Carter left this review about Royal Standard
Nice enough place, the garden/car park catches the sun, so will probably get crowded at times. The one thing I noticed was that this is a Greene King pub, but there isn't any real ale on sale, not even their own ales, I don't remember seeing any hand pumps at all.
On 27th July 2011
- rating: 5
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