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Duke of Cambridge, Battersea, SW11
SW11
SW11 3AA
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David Walton left this review about Duke of Cambridge
Been a mixed bag so far in trying to tie up unvisited SW11 venue - won’t be achieved today will require a later in the week attendance to sweep up some venues on here that don’t open start of the week. This place jostles with the ex JDW venue on Falcon Rd for the best venue so far. A high bar I hear you say! It remains a Youngs pub, well described physically by Tris and Rex below. Indeed only change I could see was there has been another change of colour scheme. The seating area out the front was again popular to get a dose of CO with your quaff and dried roasted (head rather than nuts).
The aspect that marked it up a bit for me was the 100% utilisation of the albeit small array of hand pumps. The choices were Original (obviously), Hophead and something called Brown Dog Riot from Sambrook’s. Given almost everyone around here seems to own a mutt (or is that t he other way around) it is probably a social statement on the area and indeed South London generally, only difference being SW are small and cute where as SE would generally eat you alive. The keg choices weren’t particularly exciting, FreeDamm, Neck Oil, Peroni, Hepcat, Estrella, Camden Hells, Asahi, Guinness, Aspall and Pravda.
Another large pub where I had the inside to myself a bit before 6pm. Not sure why all the lighting was on though, probably habit as effing bright in here absent the electric lighting. Music was cool to combat the temperatures outside, a couple from the Doors during my necking of my pint of Hophead. After the former Duke of Battersea I need another place to continue the quaffing.
On 24th June 2024
- rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about Duke of Cambridge
Another fairly commanding Victorian edifice, though not as lofty as the Latchmere (opposite), this is a Young’s house in a part of Battersea which so far has escaped the levels of gentrification applied to the north.
Bare boarded naturally, aside from the colour scheme I doubt much has changed in nearly 10 years since Rex’s visit, though for the record the colour scheme is now an interior designer’s idea of a winning combo of tangerine or pale blue, lounge furniture with drum chairs swathed in powder blue cloth or studded oxblood vinyl, low sofas with some scatter cushions, a few conventional chairs with tables to the rear laid for dining, tables up front home to vessels containing dried flowers, illumination from either crystal chandeliers or brass sconces with décor in the form of trendy framed prints, one of Pink Floyd’s Animals album cover with the famous pig floating over nearby Battersea Power Station; the overall effect is rather twee, like one of drinking in a hotel restaurant or upmarket tearoom, with young professional customers and all to a dreary soundtrack.
The Young’s offerings were off, but thankfully not the Proper Job though at a very expensive £3.05 a half and nice.
Unamusing prices aside, this isn’t a great pub, one of those places with an interior which has been needlessly overdone to death; the Latchmere is the preferred option.
On 4th September 2023
- rating: 4
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john gray left this review about Duke of Cambridge
Basic high ceilinged interior.3 Youngs beers on plus Dartmoor-ipa. which was decent but not an ipa to me.Good ouside area at the front.Noisy quiz on Wednesdays.
On 19th October 2013
- rating: 5
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Rex Rattus left this review about Duke of Cambridge
This pub has clearly been subjected to an aggressive Young’s makeover. It’s now opened up into one large room, with sofas and low tables in abundance, tall chunky tables and tall stools all along the right side of the room, tub armchairs, and just two or three normal tables and chairs tucked away here and there. That’s for drinkers anyway – at the back on the right there is an area where all tables are set for diners, and even a separate small room with one largish dining table that is advertised as being available for private hire. The walls are painted a variety of mainly pastel shades, but with some grey and dull purple, with the ceiling painted the same dull purple. A chandelier provides lighting at the front of the room, with some spotlights illuminating the area to the left and rear of the bar counter. As the pub is laid back from the road, there’s space for a handful of tables outside in front of the pub.
But the ale choice is good by Young’s standards, with Young’s Special, Bitter, Bombardier, Sambrook’s Wandle, and Bath Gem available. The Gem was £3.50 a pint, which is what you expect to have to pay in this sort of pub. There were daily printed menus on the tables. Obviously the food’s not cheap – as an example the steak and ale pie is £11.10. This is no longer the traditional pub that it once must have been. But if you like these madeover, upwardly mobile pubs then you’ll like this one.
On 11th April 2011
- rating: 5
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Philip Carter left this review about Duke of Cambridge
A youngs pub, Real ale on sale. Nice large garden at the front. Disabled access. Food served all day. Guinness was a bit expensive £3.40 a pint. Thought I'd add an internal view.
On 2nd January 2008
- rating: 6
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