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Trafalgar Arms, Tooting, SW17
SW17
SW17 0RT
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about Trafalgar Arms
Visited 23/09/24
Cask was Youngs Original, Wimbledon SW19 and Rosie's Pig Cider. Typical keg offering in a Youngs pub of Pravha, Aspall, Estrella, Guinness, Peroni, Beavertown Lunar Haze, Camden Hells, Neck Oil and FreeDamm.
Large Youngs pub with a seating area out the front that had a lot of covering. Inside there is an island bar in the centre with a comfortable seating area in front of the bar and then areas off to the left- and right-hand sides of the bar . The left-hand side was casual with regular tables and chairs, and it was busy on my visit with a gathering / private party ongoing. The right-hand side was generally laid for diners, and it was pretty busy on my mid evening visit. There were tall stools around the bar counter, and I sat there at the rear of the bar counter as it was quiet, and I could charge my phone. I noticed a wine / private dining room at the back of the venue, and I also noticed some upstairs rooms and a bar called Smiths Bar, but I didn't go up to investigate. The kitchen sat at the back of the venue. Had a chat with the manager whilst my phone was charging and between him being manically busy with the trade of the premises. This is a well-run Youngs pub, not everyone's cup of tea I expect, but thought this was a decent venue and worth including on a crawl around here.
On 22nd May 2026
- rating: 6
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Trafalgar Arms
Close to St George's hospital,this pub has a very fine exterior,classic interwar build with entrance doors marked pub and restaurant.There is a paved beer garden outside.The main door gives way to the tap room with it's double sided bar,two fireplaces also double sided with wood burners.The right side is nominally the restaurant,but not laid for service,just a collection of dining style tables,while the left room has a banquette and fitted bench seating.The tap room itself has traditional furniture and a sports flatscreen with a timetable of sports events that will be showing.There is also a quiz and no doubt this is popular with the docters and nurses.Behind the bar which is the non serving side there is a small snug called the wine lounge but it looked unloved.
The ale choice was TT Landlord and Youngs Original.On ordering the Landlord the barman having pulled a half could then not run it through the POS ,and found out the ale was past it's sell by date.So I switched to the Youngs Original ,NBSS 2.5 but shamefully the Landlord clip was not reversed.
Higher points would have been awarded if the ale range was better,however there are some decent features here worthy of a squint.
On 15th May 2026
- rating: 6
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Tris C left this review about Trafalgar Arms
I know not from when this pub dates, but it’s a very imposing place and given the name, would look more at home as a riverside hostelry in Maritime Greenwich; it closed in 2013, coming painfully close to residential conversion before Young’s opened it as a Geronimo Inn in 2015.
Up front is a large patio which the pub calls ‘Tooting’s finest beer garden’. The interior is rough boarded, an apple sauce colour scheme, some walls seemingly rag washed, with some pale wood punctuations. The bar exhibits modern tubular steel additions, furniture being conventional and mixed, though a few tables could have done with clearing and were a bit sticky, illuminated by a variety of lighting styles. Décor comes by way of knickknacks, bored games and quite interesting framed posters for FIFA World Cup tournaments long passed; to the rear left is a dining room. Customers were young professional types, none interested in watching faceless men driving cars round and around on the multiple TVs, all to quite loud music with amplified interjections courtesy of a quizmaster.
A departure from the Young’s norm with aside from London Original, By The Horns Stiff Upper Lip and Southwark LPA at a very central London price of £3.15 a half and not bad, delivered by a friendly barman.
This isn’t a bad place I suppose, better than the Manor, but the prices are an indication of unjustified self-importance.
On 9th May 2024
- rating: 5
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Rex Rattus left this review about Trafalgar Arms
I recently paid my first visit to this pub since it's been taken over by Young's, and predictably it's been given the typical Young's treatment.You enter the pub by walking through the extensive outside seating area at the front, into a small room furnished with a quartet of round tables accompanied by armchairs. The bar counter faces you, and to the left is a room with tables laid for diners (the whole works, including cutlery and wine glasses), and to the right is another fairly large room that seems to be available to drinkers, but even in here a large table was reserved and laid for diners. Entering here is a bit like walking into a country house, but without the ornate staircase.
There were three ales on - Young's Bitter of course, Sambrook's Wandle, and Cronx Kotchin (£2.05 a half), with a fourth pump having a reversed clip. I didn't see a full menu, but a chalkboard in the dining area gave a taste of what's available - the "skipper's catch" of "whole bream with lemon caper butter and Cornish new potatoes" is £12, and the "bangers & mash, roast red onion gravy, Yorkshire pudding" is a whopping 17.5, which I guess must be £17.50 in old money. I know that omitting £ signs is a ploy to make prices look less expensive, and if anything needs that treatment it's the bangers and mash in here. Another option would be to charge a reasonable price. There were snacks on a plate on the bar - Scotch duck egg, or pork neck sausage rolls, both at £5. It's that sort of place now.
This place is typical of the new Young's brand. Typical gastro, with a glorified wine rack in place of a bar back, the obligatory vase of lilies on the bar counter, with sprigs of flowers on the tables, and glass demi-john type things with spigots on the bar counter containing water and something green (sliced cucumber?). But this is a pub that's been brought back from the grave of the clutches of a developer. Although it's not the sort of traditional pub that I prefer, I'm mighty glad it's still here to be enjoyed by the well-heeled residents of Tooting.
On 4th September 2015
- rating: 6
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Malden man left this review about Trafalgar Arms
This is a large and imposing building, set back from the perennially gridlocked A24. The exterior still shows the original Hodgsons of Kingston branding with the three fishes badging on high over the central main door. Lots of external seating, some covered, to the frontage but it would have taken a hardy soul to sit out here on a bitterly cold afternoon.
Once inside, the pub is essentially now one space with the bar running across the rear, although part of the original dividing walls and chimneys have been retained, so the area feels semi-separated into three chunks. There is a small room to the rear right which has a bar football table and a dartboard.
It's one of those mucked about places where some contemporary design student or someone has been allowed to play around. The bar counter is hewn from a log with the bark remaining, seating is mixed with untreated rustic look high tables, garishly patterned banquettes and of course the usual sofas. Bare boarded of course and lots of grey paint everwhere including now to the front elevation. Naturally there are candles on the window cills and vases of flowers dotted about. Open mic nights, late DJs and cocktail evenings are advertised. Food menus on the tables, burgers £10, steaks £14.5-17.5, not .50, just .5. None of this seemed to be working, the place was sparsely occupied and those present were certainly not looking for a sophisticated venue.
The young Irish barmaid was friendly and personable though, a chirpy welcome. Two handpumps, Sambrooks Wandle was turned around leaving Doom Bar, ok but at £3.50.
A fine old pub sadly redesigned without a thought for either tradition or harmony. But its open and it serves beer!
On 5th February 2012
- rating: 4
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