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Dark Horse, Selhurst, Croydon
Croydon
CR0 2DW
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about Dark Horse
Visited 12/01/26. Visited previously as Two Brewers on 03/10/24.
Four handpumps, three in operation and providing Five Points Best, Moor Beer Co Stout and Foot Tap Session Pale from Good Chemistry. Decent small keg offering of Delirium Tremens, Becks, Mahou, Leffe Blonde, Arbor My Littke Sarbrony APA, Hawkstone lager & cider, Cabaret Mars from Lost & Grounded, Clear Head and Guinness.
This venue has been smartened and beer range improved enormously since my previous visit 15 months ago. Bare boarded at the front with the bar counter in the middle of the front part of the venue with some leather banquettes around the front either side of the entrance serving regular tables and a drinking ledge down the right-hand wall before it becomes stone tiled with another leather banquette along the right hand wall serving some small tables with regular chairs the other side thereof. Unusual to see a stained-glass skylight but it adds to the classy ambience of the venue. No obvious TV screens but a decent music soundtrack playing on my visit. There is another leather banquette at the rear of the left-hand side and a pool table and dart board at the rear of this side before an exit to an attractive, largely covered, stone tiled rear beer garden. There are a couple of picnic benches out the front either side of the entrance.
On 8th February 2026
- rating: 6
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David Walton left this review about Dark Horse
Visited 03/10/24 as the Two Brewers.
Three hand pumps on the bar but none dispensing and only two had clips (both turned around). Keg choices were Guinness, San Miguel, Spitfire lager, Inch's cider, Carlsberg, Whitstable Bay Pale Ale.
This is most definitely a (Shepherd Neame) Palace pub, no surprises there given its location just on the junction with Selhurst Rd. U shaped with the bar counter, also U shaped, front facing you as you walk through the front door. Shiny wood top with the frontage painted red and blue! The right-hand side has a couple of tables with seating wall-side and provided by a curved leather banquette wrapping around the front window. A TV on the wall was showing Sky Sports News with the sound on and competing with the very pop soundtrack. Then a ledge along right-hand wall with tall leather stools before another similar banquette and table / chair arrangement in front of the (covered) pool table and then dart board on the back wall. Walls in back left-hand corner of this side plastered with beer mats! There is another banquette and table / chair arrangement in the other window on the left-hand side of the pub entrance with an un-used fire grate on the wall in front thereof. Behind the level of the bar is another similar seating configuration in the back left-hand corner with another TV on the wall. Not a bad pub, with v friendly guv’nor, but failing on the beer front.
On 8th February 2026
- rating: 4
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Two Brewers
Backstreet Shepherd Neame pub in Selhurst that was busy after the football match yesterday evening, with pretty much standing room only.
A central bar is surrounded by various drinking areas. Spitfire, Whitstable Bay Pale Ale & Master Brew were the real ales. My Master Brew was acceptable.
On 13th December 2021
- rating: 5
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Two Brewers
Croydon's only Sheps pub is a short walk from Selhurt station and undoubtedly the pick of the three pubs in the immediate vicinity.
Spitfire and Master Brew were on offer when I visited, although the Master Brew I tried didn't taste too good. The staff and locals were very friendly and service was prompt. There appeared to be plenty organised to keep the locals entertained, with karaoke, a quiz and 'happy hours' all advertised, but things were very quiet whilst I was there. There were large screen TV's and what looked like a projector, but I didn't see sport advertised - maybe this is saved for match days.
Bizarrely there is a preserved crocodile above the bank of seating at the front of the pub.
Not too impressed, but I feel a return trip, perhaps in the summer to check out the beer garden, is needed to fully appreciate the place.
On 5th February 2010
- rating: 5
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