Kerfield Arms, Camberwell, SE5

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Originally the Kerfield Arms, this is a mid-19th century pub, situated in a gentrified Georgian back street and well described by the two previous reviewers.
Visible on their website, indeed this does look like a gastrofied hotel bar, with a tiled or bare boarded floor, cream tiled modern bar back, black wainscoting then white walls with black window reveals. There’s virtually no décor apart from some odd prints of butterflies and dangly plant things. Furniture is mixed, conventional and customers were young professional types, very few in number at the time of my Saturday 9.20pm visit, when every other local pub was heaving.
There’s now no cask, the two pumps doubling up as dispensers for blue kitchen towel; how bloody unattractive. I went for something American called Shipyard, which was pretty unpleasant, all the more so seeing as I had to part with $4.72 for the pleasure, though it was served by a smiley barmaid.
There’s nothing here for the serious pubgoer, me agreeing with Moby and Alan that this is now more restaurant than pub, though with the possible exception of food, it’s better than the hugely overrated Camberwell Arms.

On 17^th September 2024 - rating: 4
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