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Rose & Crown, SW17
SW17
SW17 8BS
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Reviews of Rose & Crown (Average Rating: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about Rose & Crown
Visited 27/08/24
Traditional pub, well described below. Bar faces you as you enter on either side. Well-staffed and attentive and easy-going bar staff. Some TV's dotted around but all switched off during my visit but advertising upcoming live sport (mainly footy). Bare boarded (the boards have certainly seen some use) and traditional wooden furniture. Pretty expansive with the left-hand side of the bar much larger in terms of seating and a small area in the front in the windows looking out onto an unexciting main road!
Cask just Sambrook's Wandle. Loads of decent keg options, I noted Siren Lumina, Drop Project Flow APA, Mondo Little Victories, Sambrook’s Lazarus, a nitro stout, Squeezer, a juicy pale ale from By the Horns, a house pale ale brewed for them by Moor, as well as more regular choices such as Gamma Ray, Budweiser, Jubel peach lager, Cruz, Guinness, Brixton Reliance Pale Ale, Signature Brew Backstage lager, Inch's cider, Stiegl Helles and Lucky Saint. Plenty of bottle and can options, including a couple of fridges for take-aways also.
Was pretty busy on my visit but very pleasant. Quite a bit of outside seating around the perimeter of the pub, popular in the early evening sunshine. Decent venue where extensive beer choice added to an otherwise traditional (and quite tired looking) pub. Another couple of cask options would have nudged score up further.
On 31st August 2024
- rating: 6
[User has posted 631 recommendations about 631 pubs]
Tris C left this review about Rose & Crown
I don’t know the history of this pub, but I reckon it’s an interwar years’ construction.
With an AFC Wimbledon affiliation, there’s a boarded floor with tiled bar apron, grey wainscoting with white walls to an egg yolk yellow Anaglypta ceiling; furniture is old school stuff. Of interest are leaded glass partitions with stained glass rose depictions, all looking a bit Art Nouveau, thereafter little in the way of décor apart from hanging multi-coloured frilly plastic things which looked like pairs of knickers. There’s silent multi-TV showing unwatched sport, then quite loudish music, enjoyed by a mixed local crowd, though few compared to neighbouring pubs on my Sunday evening visit.
There was just one solitary cask here, Twickenham’s The Light, £2.75 a half and just about ok – I’d have not said the same if presented with a whole pint – served by an attentive barman.
There’s a decent pub lurking somewhere in here; ditching the TVs, frilly knickers and getting in a wider and more imaginative cask lineup would raise the score a fair bit.
On 8th May 2024
- rating: 5
[User has posted 2208 recommendations about 2165 pubs]
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Rex Rattus left this review about Rose & Crown
Doom Bar and Spitfire were on, and the latter was in decent nick. I didn’t see any menus when I was in on Wednesday afternoon, but I did see a barmaid holding a plate so maybe they do some food. This is still a two-room pub, with both rooms reached via a vestibule – I firstly ventured into the right hand room, but when I realised there was nobody in there and I could see the handpumps on the counter in the other room then that’s obviously where I headed. This room is bare-boarded apart from a tiled splash area around the bar counter. There’s a raised area at the front by the windows, as well as at the back to the left of the bar counter. Furnishings are traditional, with no sofas or tall tables/tall stools.
This is a very ordinary pub. The beer was OK and not too expensive as I recall, plus it was reasonably comfortable inside and the service was friendly enough. I’m glad this one’s still here for the locals to enjoy, but it’s certainly not a destination pub.
On 31st March 2014
- rating: 5
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- Accommodation : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Child Friendly : Yes - Out by 19.00. - last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes - Pizza-orientated. - last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : Yes - Sundays 19.00. - last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 23 October 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Real Cider : No last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- Wheelchair Access : Yes - Disabled WC but up a step for access. - last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 08 May 2024 by Tris C
