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Went on a tuesday, very busy - they had a quiz going on. Large range of ales, cost around £3.80 each from memory. I got an enormous bowl of peanuts for £2.00. Pub is bigger inside than it looks from the outside.
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Having their first beer festival this weekend. Impressed by the range of beers available and the quality.
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Pub is now under complete new management as of September 2015, no longer tied to Punch and is now serving a wide range of local ales. Hop Stuff brewery is the local regular beer on tap, plus many others. So far in the first week, we've seen beers from Hop Stuff, Brockley, Caveman, Windsor & Eaton, Westerham & also Magic Bus Cider. Decor is now pleasing and gone is the pool table & bandits. Pub table games on offer and a promise of decent pub grub. Pub is linked with the very successful local "Pelton Arms" and is bringing the local music talent to the pub. Average price of a pint is £3.70 and I personally can not complain at the quality so far served. CAMRA members will get 50p off a pint of cask ale when card is shown.
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well kev and james have gone,new management prices have gone up, wine from £8 to £14 a bottle and about 30 to 50p a pint this may be down to punch the owners, like a lot of the other regulars drinking elsewhere now, too expensive for Charlton village!!! lot of the garden furniture gone as well ,was a great garden
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Pub has had a major overhaul, �250,000 plus. It is now a more moden pub and has managed to still keep a traditional British pub feel!!! Not like some!! It will soon return to being a hotel/ pub as rooms are now being upgraded on the upper floors. I must also mention The Swan has one of the best gardens(rear) in the area, incuding Greenwich and Blackheath, plenty of room and secure if you have kids. The staff are always friendly, including Dave who always has a beaming smile for everyone as he hoovers away,and the new management Kiwi Kev and his partner Portuguese James have done wonders. All praise to the pink pound note is all I can say!! pipes are regualy cleaned and a nice selection of beers ales and spirts,
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OK so the carpet has been taken up, a wall or two has been painted yellow and the garden which has never been special still isn't.
But the new management are making the effort and it shows and i hope they do well.
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they do a mean cappocino
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Was a big hit for the legendary CBNO last night...
The pub has had a new lick of paint, original wooden floors, clean glasses, good beer, a great beer garden and great new management�
err and the "juggling barmaid" might be back although " young Stacey�s has impressive barmaid skills"
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the juggling barmaid has gone, but the landlord now wiggles his backside when asked not the same though but he does it with a smile and a wink, and the chrisps have gone stale!!
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may pay it a visit if just to see the juggling barmaid
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the barmaid juggles her tits at you when asked {when you get to know her. and they sell crisps
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eeeeeeehhhhh
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Visted as away fans before a Charlton game. Friendly welcome and good chat with locals at bar (two of whom insisted they were Chelsea, but that it was their own local). Obviously got very crowded as kick-off tiem approached, loud and raucous at times, but never a problem. Mundane Greene King choice of beer, but decent enough to drink, actually. Toilets STILL in need of re-decoration, though.
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I walk past this pub to get to the bugle even if the beer was half price i would still walk past
anonymous - 30 Mar 2007 19:00 |
RogerB's review is still accurate but the paint smell has gone. I stopped using the place early this year because of a lack of heating and foul toilets. Maybe it's improved now - I hope so but somehow I doubt it!!!
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A traditional looking pub in Charlton Village and unsurprisingly crowded before Charlton matches. The smell of paint suggests that they are currently doing something to make the place a bit smarter and they probably have their work cut out. The public bar has a Pool table and vast expanses of plain walls interrupted by the occasional poster and a large panorama photo of The Valley. It all looks very cheap, unimaginative and dated which is a shame because there are some interesting features, namely the division screens and the stained glass Swans in the windows. The lounge bar is long and narrow and can be a bottleneck when busy. The rather unimaginative beer selection did include 2 ales and despite being packed the service was good and prompt. There were several away fans (if you can call Cockney Scousers away fans) and no problems. In fact the most unsavoury characters were not the football fans but the alcoholic bunch congregating around the bar where they had probably been all day. Not really a pub to visit by choice but I have been in a lot worse.
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Nice traditional little South East London pub with a friendly atmosphere, bit high on the chav / herbert count but a nice boozer
SEBOY - 3 Nov 2004 16:43 |
Decent local.
What are you talking about Bluecoat? Nice media jobs? In Charlton? Are you sure you weren't in Chelsea?
Vince - 17 Apr 2004 12:29 |
Pub OK but full of whinging Darryls with nice media jobs who think they're trendy living in Charlton and slag off other districts to indulge their snobbish, left-wing fantasies.
Bluecoat - 24 Feb 2004 11:09 |
Cosy local - not bad at all. Nice little beer garden, though the furniture's a bit unsteady...
Darryl - 2 Jul 2003 23:26 |
Sky TV Food OK Locals abit inbred but for Charlton quite normal. At Football times full of usuall tossers
Carl Hooper - 16 Apr 2003 14:35 |
