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The Arab Boy, Putney, SW15

289 Upper Richmond Road
SW15
SW15 6SP

Phone: 02087885154

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David Walton left this review about The Arab Boy

Interesting final venue for me on Lower Richmond Rd. Long rectangular pub from the entrance with the bar on the left hand side about midway along the length of the venue. Tables and chairs a fairly regular assortment throughout the pub. So some tall tables in the front part of the pub before receding to more regular tables beyond the bar.

There were two beers on hand pump during my visit, Original and L Pride. Small keg offering of Estrella, Guinness, Brooklyn Stonewall IPA, Brooklyn lager, Stowford Press and San Miguel. Probably one of the more basic cask and keg offerings where both are available whilst I have been recording venues.

On arrival it felt like the entire cast of Tool Academy, past, present and future were at the bar. Thankfully they gravitated, coalesced like some form of terrestrial galaxy formation in the beer garden at the back so it was, beyond my beer buying experience, quite tranquil here. If the universe collapses in on itself before my next post, take this as the cause, an over concentration of estate agent type tools in the same space in SW15. I hope I get to visit another venue beyond this one.

On 19^th August 2024 - rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about The Arab Boy

This is one of four pubs along Upper Richmond Road and the only one situated in the residential part, nestled amidst rather large upmarket houses; What?ub paints an interesting history of the place.
Rex mentions that the pub claims to be probably the oldest in Putney, though dating from just 1849 means their claim is twaddle. With all traditional character removed and by 2011 too, a small totally modernised interior features a new boarded floor, vanilla colour scheme with white Anaglypta ceiling, contemporary mixed furniture, bright modern lighting, a silent TV tediously showing the news, then a rear area with tables laid for dining (no one eating at the time of my Friday mid-evening visit) with a dog sitting on one of the dining chairs and hardly hygienic; customers were mixed in age and few for a Friday night, the overall ambience reminding me of a doctors’ waiting room.
The beverage choice amounted to Eurofizz, an unused pump then just Pride at £2.75 a half and fine. By Pride standards.
With just one dull cask beer, I found this to be a disappointing and ultimately utterly unmemorable pub which I doubt will survive; Upper Richmond Road isn’t a great drinking venue, the Prince of Wales being the street’s pub of choice, but this place is miles better than the Fox & Hounds.

On 13^th February 2024 - rating: 4
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Will Larter left this review about The Arab Boy

A comfortable local, just out of the town centre but on a fairly busy road. The narrow front is compensated by the depth of the building, though the bar is where I imagine the back wall of the pub may have been originally. The staff were quite clearly waiting for a lunchtime rush which hadn't materialised just yet, and it certainly wasn't me they were looking for. There are three hand pumps, with Bombardier and Youngs Original on at the time of my visit. The Youngs was pretty ordinary, though nothing that changing the malt, hops, water and yeast wouldn't put right.

Date of visit: 3rd November 2021

On 24^th March 2022 - rating: 5
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