The Masons Arms, Battersea Park, SW8

Randomness Guide to London - Masons Arms entry

Randomness Guide to London - Masons Arms entry

This is essentially a restaurant, or perhaps more accurately a gastro-pub as I was able to purchase just a drink and sit at one of the tables – but a waitress did ask me if I wanted a lunch menu. There is an open plan kitchen, table service for diners, bare-boarded floor, and thick, solid, scrubbed tables. The smell of food pervades the place – how could it not do so with an open plan kitchen? It’s like any other gastro-pub you’ve been in. There were two ales on; London Pride and Fuller’s Jack Frost. I had the latter, at the gastro-pub price of £3.50 a pint. The trouble with these high-ceilinged, bare-boarded places with solid wooden furniture is that they can get too noisy with all the sounds bouncing off everything. The food might be good – I don’t know, I didn’t try it – but it’s not really my type of place.