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The Prince Of Wales, Kennington, SE11
SE11
SE11 4EA
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Reviews of The Prince Of Wales (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Tris C left this review about The Prince Of Wales
Supposedly dating from around 1792, the current building was constructed in 1901, overlooking lovely Georgian Cleaver Square, where pétanque can be played, the pub supplying the balls.
The interior is traditional, with some bullseye glass, a boarded floor with a few rugs, traditional bar array, conventional furniture with a studded fawn banquette, smoky blue paint up to the picture rail then white paint up to a white ceiling. Décor amounts to a mass of oil portraits of the likes of Churchill and W. G. Grace, then more esoteric prints, illuminated by Victorian-style lighting. Customers were young professional types in good spirits, unperturbed by the lack of TV sport showing England’s defeat to South Africa in the rugby, whilst a Yacht Rock compilation of the Cars (Drive) and Cher (Believe) played over the stereo, later augmented by hits from Queen, establishing an unusual link between soundtrack and cask option.
Sadly, this is a Shep’s house so aside from two unused pumps, a predictable ale lineup amounted to Spitfire then one of their new ‘Cask Club’ Hop Pocket ales then something (probably Shep’s) called Prince of Wales ‘King of Queen’, with Freddie Mercury adorning the pump clip and at £2.70 a half served by a fungible barmaid. It wasn’t very nice, but I drank it, under pressure to do so sharpish due to the limited opening hours, with last orders called at just 9.20pm, moments after my arrival last Saturday.
This is a very nice pub, but the cask selection hardly inspires and the fact that the night comes down an hour-and-a-half before the advertised 11.00pm closing time dents the score.
On 23rd October 2023
- rating: 6
[User has posted 1983 recommendations about 1949 pubs]
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Prince Of Wales
We left this one till last on our mini crawl around Kennington Lane to try and avoid the worst of the Friday lunchtime crush. As others have commented the Prince of Wales is an attractive pub and has an excellent out of the way location on the corner of the wonderful Georgian Cleaver Square. But it is quite a small single bar pub and it doesn’t take too many in to be uncomfortable.
We succeeded in avoiding the crowds as we managed to get one of the few inside tables, the three external tables to the front being all taken. But what we got wrong was timing our visit to when they had a decent beer range to choose from. Of the five pumps on the bar only two were operational and the Spitfire, Kent’s Best and Whitstable Bay were all off, leaving Master Brew and the seasonal Summer Solstice Goldings Ale, which fortunately were in good nick. We couldn’t believe the Friday lunchtime rush could have knocked out three pumps , so we enquired of the young Eastern European bar staff who seemed to have been left in charge why three were down and they were as useful as a chocolate fireguard in that respect.
On normal days this attractive Sheps pub is a solid eight rating for me but have to go lower due to the lack of ale for our visit.
On 16th August 2014
- rating: 7
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Prince Of Wales
The Prince of Wales is a nice looking pub situated in a nice area in a corner of cleaver square.
Once inside there is a small oblong shaped room to the front the bar is on the right side,there is comfy leather bench seating to the front and down the left side,there is a smaller room to the rear which is through an opened out doorway,the room is carpeted and seemed quite nice.
The pub is a Shepherd Neame tied house which is one of my favourite brewers,i had a drink of Master Brew which went down well,the other beers were Whistable Bay Pale Ale and Spitfire.
There was some pretty crap background music playing which sounded Mexican to me,but overall i quite liked this proper pub.
Pub visited 2/8/2014
On 2nd August 2014
- rating: 8
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- Accommodation : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Dave McNally
- Real Cider : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
- WiFi : No last updated 23 October 2023 by Tris C
