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The Rose & Crown, Wallington
Wallington
SM6 7HX
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5 of 10) see review guidelines
Pub SignMan left this review about The Rose & Crown
This is a modernised, two bar pub just off the main Croydon to Sutton road. You enter into the front bar area which has a decorative tiled floor, tables and chairs around the perimeter and neutral shaded walls with a few old photos on display. The servery is on the rear wall and has a nice panelled counter front and a plain, modern bar back with an inlaid TV screen and a Carshalton Athletic football scarf draped across it. Passing to the right of the bar, you can move through to the bare boarded rear dining room which has a long banquette down the right-hand wall and lots of tables and chairs in support. A nice tiled fireplace stands on the rear wall with a large plain mirror above and lots of random photos and pictures on the walls, including, apropos of nothing, an optician's chart. There's a similar bar counter back here, with a glazed, white tile bar back. An opening to the rear leads through to a small overspill seating area with more upholstered banquette seating and views out to a tidy looking beer garden. Lots of TV screens throughout the pub were showing a mix of cricket and football, although the screens in the rear room were all switched off. Eclectic tunes ranging from punk to motown to smooth soul soundtracked my stay at a sensible volume.
Sadly there was no cask offering on this visit, so I tried the ubiquitous Beavertown Neck Oil instead, at a hefty £6.55 a pint. The barman was very friendly and welcoming to all comers, but the beer was the usual, uninspiring, mega-keg dross.
I quite liked the feel of this place on entering - they've created a smart, contemporary pub that will appeal to a range of customers, but with no cask ale and no particularly interesting keg alternatives, it lets itself down, which is a fatal move with the fine pubs of Carshalton just a short walk away. I'm glad I finally got around to checking this place out, but can't see me rushing back in a hurry.
Date of visit - 6th May 2024
On 28th September 2024
- rating: 5
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Quinno _ left this review about The Rose & Crown
Situated just over from a very nice pond and green, this is a pub that won't have changed much in the last 20 years. Molested interior with a pesudo wood floored public bar as you enter and a pub carpeted rear lounge section. The three ale pumps are hidden right round the far end here but only GK OSH was on and it was an appley tasting thing (I guess nobody drinks it). Two upticks were the friendly welcome and impressive grassed rear garden with rabbits and birds. As I ventured out with my half, I was informed that only plastic glasses were allowed out here; “blame the council” quoth the landlady. Feels like it’s underperforming, but it’s a fair place if you drink fizz I guess.
On 1st July 2017
- rating: 5
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Malden man left this review about The Rose & Crown
There were no handpumps visible on entering however I persevered and continued to the far end of the bar where there were three, two with clips offering Directors and Doom Bar. This is an L-shaped, part carpeted and part boarded pub with a slightly raised area in one corner and a working dartboard in another. An adjoining cabinet of trophies indicate that darts is taken seriously here. Mostly regular seating, there is a coal effect gas fire at the far end and a garden beyond to access which you need to pass through a small separate room at the back.
Décor included a few jugs and bottles amongst which I spotted an old Worthington "E" water jug, there were a few paperbacks on a shelf, various meal deals were promoted on posters. a live band was advertised for the coming Saturday.
This is an ordinary and unremarkable pub but which seems to have a loyal bunch of regulars going by the groups perched on the bar stools. I had a quick half of Directors which tasted like it usually does (£1.65).
On 19th March 2014
- rating: 5
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