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The Rising Sun, Willesden, NW10
NW10
NW10 2BY
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Reviews of The Rising Sun (Average Rating: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
Tris C left this review about The Rising Sun
This is a backstreet pub, certainly interwar (1928) as mentioned by Rex, which may be a rebuild, as the surrounding houses look to range from the late 19th century/early 20th century to the 1930s.
The interior is basic in a fairly modern way, the only nod to originality being a few etched panes and modest original bar back with clock. There are modern bare boards to the floor, shades of grey colour scheme then much bare brick (see website), conventional furniture, silent unwatched sport and games machine, enjoyed by local customers in good spirits, making for a decent atmosphere at the time of my Friday evening visit.
With two unused pumps, it was more Neck Oil coming in at a cheap £3.10 a half, served by a very friendly barmaid.
This is a decent community boozer, but it’s let down by lack of character (though certainly no lack of characters), lack of cask beer and presence of unwatched sport.
On 14th August 2025
- rating: 4
[User has posted 2277 recommendations about 2227 pubs]
David Walton left this review about The Rising Sun
Visited 31/03/25
No cask. Two hand pumps but both not clipped. Keg offering of original and dark fruits SB, Moretti, Cruz, Guinness, Bones Lager and Neck Oil from BT, Carlsberg and Fosters.
First traditional pub on this start assault of the NW10 postcode! The front bar is a bare boarded affair with the turquoise painted bar servery in the middle of the rear wall opposite the entrance, the room carved up by three floor-to-ceiling pillars in front of the bar counter. There bar counter had several tall, backed stools around its three sides. There were several dark brown leather studded benches around the walls serving a variety of tables with tall fabric backed chairs the other side thereof. The three TV's in here were showing Sky Sports News and there were a couple of large fruit machines against the left-hand wall. A door to the right-hand end of the front bar area proclaimed, "Secret Thai Garden This Way". Turns out there is a large Thai restaurant behind the front bar but closed on a Monday evening. Perhaps there are some secret handpumps out that way also so I can hit a cask ale on this first trek to NW10, but somehow, I rather doubt it.
On 15th July 2025
- rating: 4
[User has posted 816 recommendations about 811 pubs]
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Rising Sun
There was no real ale on in here, and nor did I see any sign of food. My half of Guinness was £1.85.
Unlike the other pubs that I had been in today, this one clearly had a heating system in place that had managed to heat the place up to a habitable level. Or maybe because it was later in the day whereas the others I had visited soon after opening? Anyway, I was pleased to be able to get warm again in here. There were one or two bucket armchairs around the place, a single tall table with tall stools at which the three other customers were perched, but furnishings were mainly banquettes with normal tables and chairs. There was a pool table, TVs on showing Loose Women, and a couple of fruit machines, and that's about it.
There's a photo of the pub on one of the walls, with a note saying that it was taken in 1910 and that the pub was built in 1896. but WhatPub says the current pub was built in 1928 and I have to say that it looks more inter-war than Victorian to me. There's some original (grey-painted) matchboard panelling on the dado; cream painted matchboard panelling on the ceiling; and what looks like the original bar counter (now grey-painted).
This looked to be a decent little watering hole, which would obviously be greatly improved with the provision of a decent real ale.
On 18th January 2019
- rating: 5
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- Accommodation : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 12 December 2014 by Aqualung .
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Car Park : Yes last updated 12 December 2014 by Aqualung .
- Darts : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes - Thai. - last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes - Sky Sports/TNT/GAA. - last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- Real Ale : No last updated 12 December 2014 by Aqualung .
- Real Cider : No last updated 12 December 2014 by Aqualung .
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 14 August 2025 by Tris C
