The Duke, Deptford, SE8

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Tris C left this review about The Duke

This place dates back to the mid-19th century, but is now in a far from Victorian area, one now dominated by high-rise glass ‘apartment blocks’ and is also nestled in the shadow of a substantial campus and student accommodation block for the University of Greenwich.
Seemingly unchanged since the previous review, the interior is what I’d call ‘restrained trendy’, with a boarded floor, plum walls and white ceiling, open kitchen with pizza oven, a bar back with shiny ceramic tiles and massive industrial lamps over it, a Space Invaders machine, mismatched furniture and a pool table dominating the frontal area. There were a few residential types in on my mid-Friday evening visit, but the rest of the customers were overwhelmingly studenty types which came as no surprise, the overall ambience was relaxed but would be improved if the pool table were moved to the rear.
The ale selection amounted to a reversed clip, Wadworth XXXXXX and Horizon at £2.40 a half and as ho-hum as it’s ever going to be.
This isn’t a bad place, but it can’t displace the Dog & Bell up the road.

On 2^nd July 2023 - rating: 5
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