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The Abbeville, Clapham Common, SW4

67-69 Abbeville Road
SW4
SW4 9JW

Phone: 02086752201

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Clapham Common

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Ian Mapp left this review about The Abbeville

Disappointing visit. Nice enough looking gastropub, with plenty of outside seating, a nice front bar and then more of a restaurant in a back room.

The problem i had was beer wise - a Good Beer Guide regular and in the 2022 GBG Guide.

There were three cask on. The Sambrook Wandle Clip already turned around. I tried to order 2xHarvey Best Bitter - a beer i am very familiar with. They struggled to get one out and then turned that clip around. I asked for 2 landlord as an alternative but they insisted I had the one poured Harveys - despite it being the obvious dreggs. I took my two pints outside - one sip and it was like vinegar.

Getting this changed required a longer than expected discussion. And no apology.

The Landlord(s) were fine. 2nd round, and that had gone.

This left a GBG recommended pub with no cask. On a Saturday.

And you are getting charged north of £6 a pint for the privilege.

May have been unlucky, but this was as poor a beer experience as I have ever had - and from a place that is meant to be fighting the good fight.

On 31^st October 2022 - rating: 3
[User has posted 1563 recommendations about 1543 pubs]

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Pub SignMan left this review about The Abbeville

This is a nice two bar backstreet pub that has retained a sense of its original layout despite the undoubted temptation to rip the place apart to cater for such a gentrified neighbourhood. You enter through the right-hand door to a raised bar area with the servery down the left side and some very limited seating to the front and right, mainly in the shape of basic tables and chairs. The bar has a nice dark wood panelled counter and matching mirrored bar back. Steps to the rear take you down to a bare boarded room that connects the two sides of the pub, where you’ll find some small upholstered banquette booths to the right, basic tables and chairs through the centre and then more of the same beyond a partitioning wall to the left, with a fireplace that serves both sides of the dividing wall. The walls are a mix of whitewashed bare brick or half panelled with distressed painted uppers, all decorated with lots of random pictures including Vogue magazine images, modern art prints, landscape photos and a few portraits. There’s an open kitchen to the rear left, in a space where seating has been kept to a minimum in order to facilitate the movement of the waiting staff. A truly crap AOR soundtrack warbled away in the background, turning the whole visit into some sort of unnecessary feat of endurance. Things weren’t too much better at the bar, where a lone Sambrooks Wandle pump clip signalled the only cask option, despite turned Landlord and Harvey Best clips on other pumps. Craft beer from the likes of Brixton, Camden, Beavertown and Timothy Taylor was a scant, overpriced consolation, so I stuck with the Wandle, which was served to me by one of the speedy but sullen bar team. It was in reasonable nick and paired nicely with the beige tunes still playing in the background.
I thought this place had plenty of promise, thanks to the nice multi-room interior, thoughtful decor and comfortable seating, but the lack of a decent cask ale and the miserable service let the side down and I was happy to polish my pint off and make a quick exit before Foreigner made their inevitable appearance on the stereo.

On 13^th August 2022 - rating: 5
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Abbeville

The Abbeville has an entry in the latest (2021) Good Beer Guide. It serves a couple of real ales, but then do many hundreds of other pubs in London. I'm a little surprised to see this one in there, when there are many better.

Nevertheless, I arrived shortly before midday on a weekday for my maiden visit. The pub does have the advantage of opening at 11am.

Service was swift and I quickly had a Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter. The other ale was Timothy Taylor Landlord.

As the previous review says, you enter up some steps and can pass through the bar area to some further downward steps. However, I decided to take residence in the small bench seating area next to the front windows, from where we could see the goings on in the street. A radiator was blasting away on the wall, reminding me why outdoor drinking is still not particularly welcome at this time of the year in England.

Food appears to be popular here, but we didn't indulge. Fairly middle of the road sort of place that wouldn't be a destination pub for me.

On 24^th May 2021 - rating: 5
[User has posted 3040 recommendations about 3038 pubs]

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