BITE user comments - irv
Comments by irv
Been here a couple of times now and enjoyed it, refreshing to find somewhere nice in Bec. Definitely a young person's bar, but from what I've seen the clientele don't seem too poncy.
�5 rents you a Nintendo Wii for an hour downstairs on Sundays and Mondays, haven't tried the offer but it sounds like it could be a good laugh.
14 Mar 2008 16:46
One of my favourite beer gardens anywhere. Back in Wimborne from London to see the folks I came here with a few mates - i walked out into the garden for a smoke and realised why I loved it: brook babbling away beside, huge willow tree above, the faint whiff of muck-spreading on the breeze.... ah, I'm home!
I could take or leave the inside mind...
11 Mar 2008 15:12
Great little pub - good atmosphere, lovely front seating area for summer evenings and relatively clear of the preening twunts that infest the High Street. Staff are friendly enough and the prices are decent for the area.
Coming from outside London I made it my mission when I moved to Clapham to find somewhere that had a local pub feel rather than a chain pub or bar, something that I found very difficult. One of my favourite pubs, along with The Clarence in Balham (which is admittedly a bit poncier!)
The only thing I don't get is the seating area out the back - some kind of gazebo thing but you can't smoke in it? Bit of a wasted space in winter, but hey, I just nip out the front..
11 Mar 2008 15:08
The Mayfair Tavern, Tooting
Inspired by the comments mentioning the remarkably friendly atmosphere of this pub, a couple of mates and I decided to give it a bash last Saturday night.
We walked in.
4 old geezers sitting in a row at the bar, 1 old geezer behind the bar - presumably the barman. They were facing a small television, which was broadcasting the popular Saturday evening laugh-fest "You've Been Framed", practically falling off their chairs as they watched the hilarious on-screen antics; it was truly a sight to behold.
What was more amazing than this was their sensational ability to ignore. We assume they must have had special training - we'd wandered in on an elite force of the country's top ignorers. We stood awkwardly at the end of the bar being completely and utterly ignored for at least a full minute, then we left and went somewhere that wasn't absolutely and completely rubbish.
It was hilarious though and we laughed about it a lot. We thought it might be fun to go back sometime, open the door and push a trained dog in on a skateboard to see if this would elicit a response from the regulars or staff, and we hope to try this soon.
29 Jan 2010 16:27