The Rose and Crown, Clapham

Easily the most genuine pub in Clapham. I go there regularly as it's the only place to get a great pint of bitter, and always has something different on tap. Great atmosphere and great staff. For example, how many other pubs do you know that give free dog treats out to dog owners?

Don't believe the negative review below this, a quick click-through will show you that it is almost certainly from one of the landlord's bitter old business partners - funny how both their pubs get "outstanding" reviews from this poster.
Just look at the 74 other positive reviews - that will tell you everything!!!

3 Oct 2011 17:18

The Rose and Crown, Clapham

Great pub, like everyone here, I reckon this could be the friendliest pub in London. Very rare to find.
Also a new chef doing roasts at the end of this month apparently, which is good news considering the standard of some of the local competition...

19 Jan 2009 13:33

The Bobbin, Clapham

Dreadful food, dreadful attitude and a dreadful experience. Here's why...

On Sunday afternoon I went to this pub in a party of 5, one of which was a local bar manager who recommends this place to others. We ordered 5 roast beefs from the menu (which said roast potatoes and vegetables) and what came on my plate were 2 small pieces of beef, one french bean, a quarter of a carrot, one minute piece of broccoli and 3 tiny new potatoes - that had been fried, all covered in gravy with one yorkshire pudding. The other plates were very similar. We asked for more veg and potatoes and were told no problem, so we started. The beef was very stringy and quite frankly not nice - it looked like pork. The waitress then came back and told us that we could not have any more!
We were annoyed because the total amount of vegetables on all 5 plates wouldn't have been adequate for just one person let alone 5.

One look around the pub confirmed that we were not the only ones with a problem, everyone with a plate in front of them looked disappointed.

So we decided to complain. We asked the manageress what was going on, why our meal portions were terrible and what was she going to do about it. The answer was laughable. We were told with a smile that "people had complained about too much food", "that you know how it is, sometimes you get loads and sometimes you get hardly anything", and that there was no way she would take any money off our bill - completely insulting and of course complete rubbish.

We decided to leave, paid up and left. When we paid, we saw that the menu said the roast was 11.95 and yet we were charged 12.95! "Why?" we asked - the answer was "because we haven't changed the tills yet". You couldn't make it up. I wonder how long they have been trying that one on for...

I walked into the Tim Bobbin hungry and I left starving.
We decided to go up the road and walked in to the Rose and Crown where to my surprise (well, not really) we found others who had all been 'eating' at the Tim Bobbin an hour or so beforehand and were now having to eat again to fill themselves up! There were loads of us!! All of whom had been ripped off by the Tim Bobbin. Some people had ordered very expensive wine there and this was the way they were treated - they were eating burgers at the Rose.

And, finally, to add complete insult to injury, 2 of our party have been ill today, Monday, and have been off work - why?? Could it be the beef? Almost certainly.

Do yourself a favour and never ever walk into this pub - you have been warned. And will we ever recommend this place to anyone again in Clapham?
No chance.

12 Jan 2009 21:55