Since my last review of this place, I've come to enjoy the quaint and cozy nature of it. As a…read moretourist, you do often expect more excitement and novelty from your visits. But, as a local, you usually just want a clean and warm place within walking distance that serves decent drinks, (hopefully) decent food, and has a few TV's set up throughout the space to watch whatever games are in season at the moment. I'm happy to say, this place ticks all those boxes. The seating is comfortable, the staff is friendly, the vibe is definitely suburban-local, and given that it's in the 'burbs, it doesn't get too rowdy or crazy, making it both pet and family-friendly. The drinks are modest, but plentiful. You won't have the best cocktail you've ever tried in your life, but it'll do in a pinch. The beers they have on tap are a healthy combination of local brewery and big name booze like Guinness or Estella. I will also say, given the size of the burgers and Sunday Roast on the menu, you won't be leaving hungry if you come here for dinner.

Large pub just off the main road through Streatham. Small garden at the…read more back. Real ale on sale, though can't remember which ones. looked closed when viewed from the main road, but entrance is round the other side. Bar area is divided in two, on the right, the bar and on the left, food preparation area.

Had a lovely lunch with a friend. The food menus was excellent for what I was expecting from a pub…read morelike venue. Our food was excellent and so was the service. I would definitely recommend.

Great place for a great diner! We went there for an early xmas diner with the whole family. The…read moretype of food is European/British. We decided to go for a starter and main course and skipped the desert because we were so full. The wine list is great with foreigner wines coming from Australia and was good, we chose the Shiraz. The food is very good and I went for squids as starter and the lamb as main and this was really good food. The staff was super nice and it was a great evening. We will go back again!!!

The Abeville is the best pub I may ever have been to…read more It has the perfect mix between gastro pub and lovely country old mans pub. As you walk in there's a standard local pub bar and TV to watch the game on. Then go through and you've got yourself a wonderfully cosy fire place and restaurant. I've only eaten a few times at the pub but can say extremely confidently that they have a great chef back there. The steak is just amazing and the Sunday roast is to die for! One of the best darned Sunday roasts I've ever had. Their truffle chips are inspired! The service is both friendly and so speedy! Customer service is top and the prices are reasonable. Long live the Abeville and may all pubs aim for their quality!

In a nation who's experienced and still experiencing a rapid death of its notable pub culture on a…read moredaily basis, The Abbeville stands one of those local places that has managed to successfully transform itself from lager-lout hangout to a fine gentrified gastro-eatery with decor and menu to match. My fav place in Clapham. Never disapoints, only gets better with time. They've definitely found their groove. Bravo Chef!

This is nice neighborhood pub appropriately named for its proximity to the Streatham Common Railway…read morestation. They have a full service bar and a decent pub food menu. Their draft beer selection includes a collection of craft beers. They have a decent selection of wines by the glass. I have stopped here several times on the return trip from downtown London for a beer and food. On my most recent visit, we had appetizers and meals along with drinks. For appetizers we had their chips and hummus plates. Both were excellent. For my meal, I had their vegetarian burger. It also was excellent and was different than vegetarian burgers I've had elsewhere. I believe the burger was crafted there. They have daily specials that involve both drinks and food. I enjoy stopping here for food and drink and am sure I will be returning.

We stopped here for dinner last night, as the local eatery recommended by our host. I had the…read moresquash, avocado, & feta on toast - which was simply incredible. It perfectly balanced the rich creaminess of the avocado with the tartness of the crunchy baby greens & crumbly feta, the sweetness from the squash, and the rough texture of the thick slab of perfectly toasted French bread. Paired with a Guinness, it was just amazing. My girlfriend had the veggie burger with chips and was just as happy. The vibe here is one of familiarity- clearly a local favorite. There is a lovely tea room and a spacious back garden set up with a big screen for football (World Cup 2018!!). To get to the garden, you have to pass through a library, where you can choose a book to enjoy with your pint. If I lived in this neighborhood, I'd be here all the time. Would definitely recommend and will definitely be back.

As I embrace the fact that I am slowly falling in love with Brixton, stepping into The White Horse…read moremerely confirmed this. A cosy, busy pub full of hippy, arty urban types, sipping regular pub tipples in low lighting with intoxicating reggae music. You can't really ask for more when it comes to a pub, like Katy l says, there is a pool table which is a winner along with great music being pumped out at a happy volume from the roof. It was a freezing cold Thursday yet this pub was full, we squeezed ourselves onto a table with another group and sat around chatting for ages. A wonderful watering hole as my father would say!

Baked camembert fondue with caramelised onions & baguette…read more Tiger prawn spaghetti with sunblush tomato, chilli, basil & rocket. Beef, ale & mushroom pie with chips or mash. Rib eye steak & chips with garlic butter. Chicken, avocado, bacon & camembert burger with chips. Steak sandwich with rocket & caramelised onions with chips... Really, there are not enough hours in the day!

Listen, every pub and its mother does a Sunday Lunch. Only a handful are any good though…read more The Harewood Arms is the standard bearer. Fact. Tucked away in a quaint Fulham side street, the Harewood Arms has long since had a reputation for culinary excellence. So much so I'm not sure you can really call it a pub any more, that would be cheating. It's also the only 'pub' to have a Michelin star. Here's why. The Sunday Lunch here is off the scale excellent. They have managed to take all the things that make a Sunday roast a Sunday roast - the ridiculous excess, the gratifying satiation, the full on madness of the spread - and add enough fitness to make something truly memorable. Opulence abounds. Peacock feathers for chandeliers, massive gilded mirrors, the smells and sounds only proper wood panelling can give you, high corniced ceilings, space in abundance, a few stuffed animals in the mix, a sweeping bar. Victorian exuberance in every corner. The welcome is warm. The table is intimate. The food is proper. A thick paper menu adorned with curly writing tells us we're not leaving good old Blighty today. Completely unnecessary starters are ordered. Venison Scotch Egg from the 'snack' section. Grilled Scallop from the starters list. The Scotched Egg is moist and meaty with a real crunch to the crust. It comes with a punchy chutney and it's a delight but, to warn you, it's not a snack. 'Hearty' would be the word except I'm sure the heart might complain at being overruled by the eyes and belly. Scallops is pretty as a picture, presented in the shell and adorned with cucumber, shish and seaweed. We had already ordered soda bread and whipped butter and already we were wondering if we should order a crane winch to get us out of the place. Two thick slabs of nutty soda bread with butter a lot lighter than the feathers surrounding us. The roast itself is presented on a large board which groans under the abundance of its contents. It's a sight. Huge Yorkshires are delved straight into and the surprise comes when you meet the beef ragu encased inside. Luxury and decadence in abundance. We ordered the Cote De Boeuf (about the only thing that deviates from the Britishness) and it comes sliced into large chunks so you get the burnished black crust and the velvet red inside. Broccoli makes a pretty bedding plant on the board. The all important roasties have the all important crust and fluff within. We picked away but not before making sure staff were happy to give us a doggy bag. Once that was confirmed we were able to relax somewhat. The idea that any of this would go to waste is enough to induce a panic attack. Given that this is a place to hunker down, the wine menu is great, offering plenty of interesting choice and something for most pockets. Prices are no more than you'd expect - which is to say, it's not cheap - a meal and an experience worth every penny. Booking months in advance is essential if you want Sunday Lunch. Wandering in after a good Sunday walk on the off chance will end in disappointment. This is not a pub. It's a celebration of the heights the great British Sunday Roast can reach.

Best dang Sunday roast dinner in a quaint and charming pub in a local neighborhood. Greeted warmly…read more Ewan's able to get seated as we arrived between lunch and dinner. Order a couple drinks and wine. Both were very tasty. The atmosphere would bring me back every weekend. The neighborhood charm with friendly folks and a sleeping pup next to us was thoroughly enjoyable and relaxing - then the Sunday roast for two came. This is when I wished for a larger stomach. Soooo delicious. Among the top meals I have ever had. The Harwood Arms is embedded in my memory for a return visit - this time I may need to make reservations!

We found the crooked well through bridebook.com, this is how we contacted them (more on this…read morelater). Absolutely awful experience from top start to finish. In retrospect, alarm bells should have been ringing when on our first meeting Dann ( the manager) not only completely forgot we had a meeting booked in but also said "I can't imagine why anyone would want to get married". We then proceeded to tell him what we wanted, he agreed to everything including our proposal of a hot buffet meal for our guests with pre-bought bottles of wine to be placed on the tables for our guests to serve themselves. He assured us The Crooked Well could provide any type of food we wanted .We went over what we wanted to spend and agreed a minimum spend at the bar. We have never organised a wedding before, so in hindsight we should really have cottoned on to how blasé and wishy washy he was being with details, but we took him on his word for everything and continued to plan our wedding, safe in the knowledge we had our reception venue sorted. Email correspondence was like getting blood out of a stone. It would usually take at least a week for an email response and sometimes we would get no response at all. We were starting to get worried so asked for another meeting and asked to meet with the chef also to discuss our buffet menu. Upon meeting Dann and the Chef*, we outlined what we wanted on the buffet before the Chef told us that the Crooked Well did not have the facilities to provide a buffet service and that the only option was a sit down meal. We had not wanted a sit down meal. We had wanted a Mediterranean style buffet, but we found ourselves reluctantly agreeing to a sit down meal of contemporary British food, at a considerably larger price per head than agreed initially. It was here we really started to worry as it became evident at this moment that Dann, not only didn't know what a buffet was but also knew he had really messed up. Instead of apologising to us and trying to fix things he sloped off into the background, sulking and embarrassed More frustrating email communication followed before we decided that we needed our minds put at ease, then Dann started trying to change the terms of our verbal agreement. He suddenly started saying that the minimum spend for the night now didn't actually include what our guests spent at the bar and that we had to spend that before the reception had even started. He also now wanted to include a 12.5% service charge on the wine placed on the tables , which guests would quite literally be serving to themselves. He then started trying to make out he was being generous by not charging a cakeage fee for our guests to have cake on paper napkins, cut by us, despite not one even mentioning such a fee. We started to think he was trying to push us into cancelling as he was obviously in way over his head. so drafted a very professional e-mail highlighting all of the questions we really needed answering as definite. We had no contract, so we really needed some of this info in writing. All of the questions were completely ignored and we received a response that essentially said "look, we don't really have the facilities for the level of service you want, if you want to cancel that's fine". We responded and pointed out all of the services listed on bridebook.com (how we contacted them), and we got a response of "oh, we don't use bridebook anymore contact them if you have a problem with the information, it's not our fault" We contacted bridebook. Not only did they inform us that all information is provided by the Crooked well, but it also needs to be reviewed yearly when their annual (fee paid) subscription is renewed. This information is all entirely incorrect and this is entirely the fault of The Crooked Well. They have offered absolutely no apology whatsoever for the 6 months wasted on them, the hundreds of pounds wasted on a DJ booked for the venue, invitations printed and travel and hotels booked. We decided that even with 3 months until our wedding, it was better to start from scratch and find a new venue that continue with this farce. I cannot put into words how truly awful it was trying to deal with The Crooked Well, I personally would avoid this place and go somewhere else. *I have referred to the Chef simply as 'Chef' as I do not wish to sully his name and reputation, and we wish him every success with wherever his business takes him in the future, none of this was his fault.

The Crooked Well is all things a brilliant gastropub should be... and then some…read more Featuring a grand open space with a proper pub bar/lounge area -and- an adjacent offset dining room, mouthwatering food, plus a respectable classic cocktail program, this establishment screams, 'Come south of the river!' to me. Our soup of the day starter, made with cauliflower, was much less impressive than I'd expected, especially after having a friend's homemade version very recently that was much more flavourful. However, the smoked salmon dish was every bit a satisfying and savoury way to launch into a meal. ... and what a meal it was! We hemmed and hawed over the roast lamb for two or the rabbit and bacon pie for two and were swayed by our server's recommendation for the pie. (Plus, it was absurdly frigid outside, which just begs for carbohydrate abuse.) Eventually, a pie the size of my head came out, along with the crispy kale and creamy mash sides we ordered. Take a gander at the photo. I think I need say no more. Not to be outdone, the boy let me have my dessert of choice: a massive cheese plate, featuring a brilliant shaved bleu, a Lancashire bomb, and a creamy thymed goats cheese. Kitty (I assume that's our server's name, since that's what was printed on our receipt) was thoughtful enough to offer us some extra crackers, which we made good use of. Along with our meal, I partook liberally of the libations offered by the bomb bartender. My Vieux Carré was easily as good as I could have come up with at home, and the Sazerac that followed kept me mostly warm on our way to the bus stop, a few minutes away. I will note that I found the Sazerac to be unusually heavy on the absinthe, both on the nose and on the palate, but not unpleasant by any means. I did inquire whether or not this joint was frequently mostly by locals, or if it was a destination for dining, to which Kitty replied that it was a solid mix of both. Apparently in the seven months (only!) since they've been in operation, their name has quite rapidly spread. Ergo, my final recommendation: get in here whilst you can. A booking during prime dining hours is a good idea, though we were readily able to snag a table for two around 1930 on a Thursday. The remaining seats rapidly filled up. Have yourself a cocktail, and settle in for a hearty feast.

This place is in the running for 'best pub ever' according to me. Good beers, AWESOME (verging on…read morethe natural/min intervention side) wine list and Barry behind the bar makes a mean Negroni. The food is gastro pub level on speed. Their Sunday roasts are more interesting than traditional pub roasts and all of the starters make it tempting to settle in for a couple of hours. They often do very generous pots for two to share of things like roast duck etc. Love love love the staff and they put out crisp on the bar like all good boozers should do. There are 8 or so picnic style seats out the front, lots of seating in the front bar and a dining room out the back. No bookings though so mentally prepare yourself for a seat at the bar of you turn up late. Last orders on a Sunday are 3:30ish for food. And there are board games. What else do you need?

I love this place so much I had my birthday dinner here twice (back to back years) - it didn't hurt…read morethat it was my local at the time as well. I love love this place and I honestly am not even bias (cause it was my local and all). The food is always good when I eat here and he staff always friendly and helpful. It's can be an 'old man's' pub in the day time but come evening it is a watering hole for the young local crowd and those in the know. (Seriously unless you live in the area or knows someone who does, you're unlikely to come past it). Beer, wine, ales for all and a few small cocktails as well. Menu changes often and they do amazing specials to share from 2 ppl (steak pie) to 5/6ppl (slow roast lamb with potatoes). Prices for me was very reasonable as well. Good to note though, that they don't take bookings even for large parties but you could always have a drink in the pub while you wait. Now that I've moved I miss the place - will have to return for dinner sometime maybe my birthday again this year.

This pub is local to where we stay in London and is a favorite. We often just have drinks and share…read morea small plate. We have eaten here on occasion. They have decent pub menu and the food has been good.

The Bull is an oasis in the somewhat ugly stretch of Streatham High St. It has a huge outdoor…read morepatio! The Burger Shack burgers are pretty good and the curly fries are off the hook. The only strange thing is that the Burger Shack and regular menu have separate seating areas. If you sit on the inner patio, you can't order Burger Shack. The outdoor are is beautiful and it has been recently remodelled. It is one of the nicest outdoor pub spaces I've been to in London. You can reserve private areas of it. I'm in!!

Can't wait to go back. Had a beautiful cappuccino with a lovely pastry. My friend had a beautiful…read morepastry as well and brought home some granola that looks amazing. The staff are wonderful. We are going back tomorrow!

If you want a pint of bitter in a traditional olde English pub - this is the business. Great…read morechoice of ales and friendly staff. Very local - if you live in the area you'll meet someone you know down there. Good space out the back for the summer as well.