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The Sun of Camberwell, SE5
SE5
SE5 9NS
Served areas
Sun of Camberwell
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Reviews of The Sun of Camberwell (Average Rating: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Tris C left this review about The Sun of Camberwell
Originally the Sun & Doves until recently, this pub dates from at least the start of the 19th century but presumably has been rebuilt; it’s quite a grand affair.
Operated by Urban Pubs and Bars since 2024, this was previously an Antic outfit and it still shows. With an opened-out interior and tables laid for dining to the rear, there’s a boarded floor, dark grey walls with yellow wainscoting then a white ceiling with some structural ironwork on display. Like the furniture, lighting is mixed though fairly conventional, with knickknacks in the form of crappy oil paintings, a wardrobe and shabby old luggage. Customers were a younger crowd, though not that many for a Wednesday at getting on for 9.00pm.
A cask selection displayed two reversed clips, then Landlord and Butty Bach at £2.70 a half and decent, served by a pleasant barman.
This place is essentially fine if you aren’t too fussy and don’t mind Antic’s antics.
On 22nd September 2024
- rating: 6
[User has posted 2115 recommendations about 2080 pubs]
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Sun of Camberwell
Corner pub close to King's College Hospital. It is owned by Antic and the front bar features tables and chairs similar to their other pubs. A larger dining room to the rear was much more formal. On a warm summer's evening, most punters were outside in a garden area to the rear.
Timothy Taylor Landlord & Volden Session are the regular ales. Guests were Wye Valley HPA & Butty Bach. I hadn't had Butty Bach for some time and this one was surprisingly enjoyable. One of the better pubs of my day in South East London.
On 22nd June 2023
- rating: 6
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Sun of Camberwell
This is a surprisingly large pub near the eastern end of Coldharbour Lane, clearly opened out from a multiple room interior. The front part of the pub is a fairly open plan bar area, with seating available across a broad U-shaped area that fans out around the bar on the centre of the rear wall. The room is bare boarded and has plenty of mid-height stools and padded metal framed chairs serving tables of varying sizes, plus some banquettes to the front right and tub chairs a little further back. There are large windows down two sides of the room with blackboards in between them, listing food options and various upcoming events. The bar has a tongue and groove counter and wallpapered bar back lined with chunky wooden shelving. A fireplace stands to one side of the bar, next to some shelves full of ceramics and at least one TV screen which was switched off in favour of a pretty cool Afrobeat soundtrack. Moving past the right-hand side of the bar, the pub extends a long way back, into a separate dining room full of pre-set tables and an open kitchen to one side.
There were three handpulls in action when I arrived, dispensing Sharps Doom Bar Volden Session and Wye Valley HPA, with a fourth promising Wye Valley Butty Bach ‘soon’. The HPA was a sensible £4.80 for a pint and in decent nick, whilst the bar staff were friendly and industrious.
I liked this place, which I thought had good mass appeal thanks to a relatively traditional feeling main bar area, well appointed and separate dining facilities and a few well-kept ales. It maybe lacks that something special to make it worth seeking out in its own right but is a great option to have in mind if you’re in the area.
On 3rd January 2023
- rating: 7
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Loughborough Junction, 0.45 miles, 8 min walk (show)
East Dulwich, 1.11 miles, 21 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
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- Beer Festivals : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
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- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Function Room : Yes last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 09 December 2012 by hondo .
- Jukebox : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Karaoke : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Live Music : Yes last updated 28 September 2014 by Alan Winfield
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Pinball : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Pool Table : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- Quiz Night : Yes - Tuesdays. - last updated 22 September 2024 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 09 December 2012 by hondo .
- Real Cider : No last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
- WiFi : Yes last updated 03 January 2023 by Pub SignMan
