The Fox, Belvedere

As can be seen from the picture posted here, this pub has a rather striking green frontage and has quite a prime location on a busy intersection in Belvedere. The bar is in front of you as you walk in. It has 6 handpulls. All customers were sat in a seating area, with further seating to the right-hand side of the bar, where the room stretched back to a games room and a garden beyond. A corridor running alongside the pub contained the toilets. Friendly customers and staff here. Ghost Ship appears to be the regular beer and the most popular here. Guests were London Pride & Tribute. My Ghost Ship was in good form. Ironically, the same guy delivering crisps and nuts as I'd seen in the Royal Oak at Erith was here at the same time as me too! However, his taste buds had changed. In the first pub, he only liked Ready Salted crisps, but by the time he'd got here, he'd developed a liking for some Cheese ones!

This one is slightly less Young's-centric than when Roger reviewed it over seven yeras ago. They still had four ales on - Young's Bitter, Bombardier, GK IPA, and Adnam's Ghost Ship. I saw no sign of food when I visited on Wednesday afternoon. This pub is still carpeted, has some banquettes and normal tables and chairs - with blue the dominant colour with the carpet and upholstery this colour. There are framed prints of foxes - obviously - brass kettles and suchlike hanging around, and the musket is still on the wall as an unusual decorative feature. The pub sign is a bit unusual "The Fox - England". I've been to several places in London where you might not feel that you are in England, but Belvedere isn't really one of them. Nice depiction of a healthy looking fox on it though, unlike its scraggy looking urban relatives living around here, and helpful to remind us we're still in England. This is a landmark pub that imposes itself on you as you walk along Albert Rd. It's another decent locals' pub in this part of the world, and is another definitely worth including on any crawl of the area.

Official site of The Fox - thefoxpubbelvedere.co.uk

Official site of The Fox - thefoxpubbelvedere.co.uk

Randomness Guide to London - Fox entry

Randomness Guide to London - Fox entry