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The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon), Norbury, SW16
SW16
SW16 4AU
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon)
Old school Spoons very busy on a Monday evening on arrival at about 8pm. L shaped venue with some decent space out the back, popular on a Spring evening with half decent weather. Don’t know the history but this must have been part of the JDW empire for surely 30 years or so. Not much around so understandably popular but can’t imagine many are here tonight for the quality of the cask offering!
Plenty of typical Spoons keg offerings but on the cask front in addition to the stalwarts that are Ruddles, Doom Bar, Abbot and Exmoor Gold was my choice of a decent pint of JHB from Oakham.
I like this old school spoons venue, nothing exceptional but something to please for everyone at decent prices. My JHB was less than £3 and was really enjoyable. This must be an important community asset and it was well supported. Plea to Tim M is to not give up this sort of venue where there aren’t alternatives for locals. A number of such JDW’s have been given up and found alternative sponsors quickly but there are often local alternatives. No suggestion JDW giving up but there is really no alternative if you did and no one took this place on (even through it must be possible always to make a viable venue here).
On 13th May 2024
- rating: 6
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon)
Rather light and bright interior with lots of glasswork, but otherwise a fairly standard 'Spoon's. It did have a couple of interesting beers on offer and quality was fine, although they seemed a bit short of staff and used glasses were building up round the pub, which is not a great sign. it does offer 3 hours parking in car park at rear, if you can get in.
On 22nd September 2017
- rating: 6
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Nick Davies left this review about The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon)
Low grade Wetherspoon's with little to recommend it. Two remarkably cheerful ladies trying to copy with a busy early evening crowd plus the usual selection of people who use it as a canteen; indeed as it is mainly laid out like a canteen that's not surprising. E grade beer range, Abbot, Ruddle's, Broadside: a couple of more interesting beers like Titanic White Star were "coming shortly". I didn't dare ask how long shortly might be.
It's a perfectly serviceable pub for the community, not that they've got any other usable choice without getting a bus, but I wouldn't bother again.
On 8th May 2014
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john mcgraw left this review about The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon)
This is one of the smaller Wetherspoon's and there were several guest beers on which was due to the London ale festival being on. The Portobello Apache Pale was in great form.
On 16th January 2014
- rating: 6
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Aqualung . left this review about The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon)
It's hard to say what this building originally was but presumably it was a shop or something. It's a fairly typical old school Spoons consisting of a long single room. There appears to be a Car Park behind the pub but I don't think it is part of the premises.
Two banks of five pumps are on the bar, but six were taken up by the two GK beers and two ciders. This left the Wadworth / Chelsea Sunset Red Available Soon, Three Castles Autumn Daze, Rooster's Calamity Jane and a Locale Hogsback TEA.
I went for the Autumn Daze (£2.15) which was in good nick. All Spoons have good and bad days and I think I hit this place on a better day than the previous reviewer. It's a reasonable Spoons in an area where the only other options are the horrendous looking place over the road or a journey out of the area,
On 7th September 2013
- rating: 7
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Moon Under Water (JD Wetherspoon)
This is a simple Wetherspoons pub at the top end of London Road. The front of the pub is quite wide with plenty of standard seating, but it was full of screaming kids on my visit so I ventured further into the room, which quickly narrows at the point the servery starts. The bar runs along the left hand wall and there are a range of seating options opposite, with a few nicely partitioned booths towards the rear of the room where things open out slightly again. There’s a lot of light wood and some panels and pillars have been painted white, giving the place a lighter feel than some other ‘Spoons outlets. The usual array of local pictures and information boards were present and correct, as were the TV screens showing muted rolling news and one which was tuned to an obscure foreign cricket match, which seemed to please the three or four men sat watching it. I noticed what appeared to be a book swap as well, but other than that, I thought the pub was fairly devoid of character or any sense of community.
Things didn’t get much better when surveying the ten hand pumps. I found myself with a poor choice of Ruddles, Abbot Ale and two Westerham beers (plus one cider and a whole host of ‘Coming Soon’ clips). I tried the Westerham Jubilation and thankfully it was a good pint, albeit served that bit too cold, as per usual in these pubs.
There are a few Wetherspoons outlets in South London that remind me of this place – pokey, quiet and with a poor beer range, but at least this place was clean and looked fairly appealing. I won’t be venturing out of Croydon to visit this place again, but if you’re in need of a drink in Norbury, it’s far preferable to the other option over the road.
On 7th June 2012
- rating: 5
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