Not already a member?
Join our community and
- Rate & review pubs
- Upload pictures
- Add events
JOIN for free NOW
Chat about:
New PuG Stuff with ETA
on the Pub Forum
Detail Pages
The Queens Arms, SW8
SW8
SW8 3SS
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about The Queens Arms
Visited 02/09/25
Cask was a single hand pump providing Hop Pickers Pale from Anspach & Hobday. Keg offering of their own Ludo Lime Lager, the AF Nela lager, the Amos Czech Pilsner, Martina their session lager. Guests were Flow the APA from Drop Project, the Kernel Stout, the Cosmic Dust session IPA from Gravity Well, the Crafty Apple cider and the India Pale Ale from the Kernel.
Quite newly opened (at time of visit) South London venue owned by Bohemia Brewery. This was a lively venue on my arrival a bit after 9pm owing to a party occupying a good part of the venue. It is a corner venue, bare boarded with the L shaped bar counter in the rear right-hand corner with some stool seating at the bar counter. Seating in the rest of the space was via regular tables and chairs with the odd small banquette thrown in. High ceilings and pleasant decor add to the experience here. Given they brew lagers, the guests make for a rounded beer range that I suspect will make this place a popular venue around here. I for one enjoyed my time here especially after I discovered the cask offering which was in good nick after missing it and selecting one of their lagers by waiting to be served on the other side of the bar counter.
On 18th April 2026
- rating: 6
[User has posted 1585 recommendations about 1560 pubs]
Steve of N21 left this review about The Queens Arms
Finally made it down to this recent reopened Victorian pub yesterday. This is now the third outlet for Bohem and the beer setup is not dissimilar to their Nicholas Nickleby in Stroud Green near Harringay. Two banks of five Czech style pumps that allow them to pour the different styles and these had six of their own brews alongside two guests from Kernel, a Berry Sour from Drop Project and a cider. As mentioned below there is a lone handpump and they are currently negotiating with a couple of London independents to put a cask line in, one being Anspach & Hobday I believe.
The Nicholson Dark, a Black Lager also mentioned below, is my favourite of the Bohem brews but sadly not on for yesterdays visit. So, I started with the Amos, their standard Czech Pilsner, then the Ludo Lime Lager before moving over to the Kernel London Stout.
The barman on duty yesterday was a Czech guy who has been with Bohem, virtually from the start and who we recognised from the Tap room in Bowes Park. As one of our crowd hadn’t experienced the strange Czech pours before we had a bit of fun with the Snut and the Mlico pours before concentrating on the standard one.
As for the pub itself the single room bare boarded striped out space is a bit soulless when there is not many in, as was the case when we arrived. But as the pub filled up and the conversation level increased the longer the evening went on then the vibe was much better.
Obviously not one to appeal to your average CAMRA member, but there were early signs that it is beginning to attract the attention of the young upwardly mobile of Battersea, who are the target demographic.
On 9th July 2025
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2340 recommendations about 2186 pubs]
Tris C left this review about The Queens Arms
Originally the Queens Hotel, this is undoubtedly a mid-Victorian pub which has undergone some recent building work, which saw a Watney’s roundel removed from the rear and an extension added; it had been closed since around mid-2022 but reopened a few nights ago as an outlet for Tottenham’s Bohem brewery; see their strict brewing manifesto on their website.
The slightly clinical interior has been substantially stripped out, with a boarded floor, white walls with large plate glass picture windows, fashionable vertical wall mounted grey radiators and trendy eclectic mixed prints; à la mode spun copper shades dangle above the modern bar array, where hot snacks are served. Furniture is conventional, with studded elephant grey banquettes and customers were professional local types, a couple of very young children running about at the time of our visit at gone 9.30pm.
There was a solitary pump with a sign reading ‘Coming Soon’ – though apparently for a cask lager – then a beer wall up on high advertising 10 crafty offerings, but I couldn’t tell if all of them were their brews; a cider was offered. I plumped for a half of something called Nicholas Dark, £5.80 a pint though was charged a punitive £3.20 for ordering a half served by a very friendly barmaid; it was very cold and although there was an intriguing foretaste, it fizzled out to an unmemorable, short finish.
Perhaps this place will bed in over time, filling up as more customers discover it rendering it as packed as the surrounding pubs, but the children in a late evening adult environment and punitive pricing policy knock the score, but if you’ve been tarring your roof and like ‘…drinking icy cold Bohemia-style beer…’, you might want to czech it out.
On 4th June 2025
- rating: 5
[User has posted 2324 recommendations about 2267 pubs]
Steve of N21 left this review about The Queens Arms
Reopened yesterday as the latest outpost of the North London Czech brewery Bohem. I hope the locals of Battersea take to it.
On 31st May 2025
- no rating submitted
[User has posted 2340 recommendations about 2186 pubs]
Please Note: This review is over a year old.
Rex Rattus left this review about The Queens Arms
There’s no real ale and no sign of any food when I dropped in on Wednesday afternoon. Judging by a sign on the outside this was previously the Admiral Nelson, and clearly a Watney’s pub with some of the doors still pointing us to the Saloon and Public bars.
This is a wedge shaped corner site pub, and inside thre’s a stage in the “sharp end” of the pub, although I didn’t see any adverts for live music or the like. There’s a pool table in the middle of the room, and numerous sporting trophies displayed on shelves around the place. There’s not much in the way of décor, but I did spot some models of Gypsy caravans on a shelf above the pool table. There were a couple of old black and white photographs of the rat pack on the wall, and the Elvis version of You’ll Never Walk Alone being played was the high point of my visit. However, the young child who was driving his model electric car around the pub, and the overly friendly pub dog served to make my stay here shorter than it might otherwise have been.
This is another backstreet locals’ pub, but without real ale it probably won’t be seeing another visit from me.
On 19th September 2013
- rating: 3
[User has posted 2621 recommendations about 2535 pubs]