The Elusive Camel, Victoria

The bar staff are nice here, but the outside space is awful and the bathrooms are worse than the loos in Glastonbury. They are so awful - smelling of must and mould and usually covered in puddles of god knows what - that we have decided to boycott it for after work drinks. Oh and it's always cash only at the bar, they rarely have any house wine and they pretty much never have any of the one type of draught lager that they (supposedly) stock. It's a pretty depressing place, all in all.

19 Jul 2010 15:09

The Railway, Clapham North

I used to love this pub. The staff are nice and it's a convenient and fun place to meet, but now I've given it up because it is impossible to sit outside on a summer evening without getting harrassed by people who either plainly ask for money ,or who want to perform street poetry for mone, or who tell you rubbish jokes for money, and who often verbally abuse you if you tell them you don't have any or to move on etc. This happens approx once every 5 minutes or so. Sometimes the person in question will sit with you too (once we had a soliciting drunk who sat for about an hour with us) which makes for an awkward evening. Obviously this happens more if it's a couple of women sitting alone - I can't vouch for what men have to put up with. Last Friday at 6pm we left after one pint to go somewhere else because we were so frustrated by having to put up with this. The management really needs to sort it out.

19 Jul 2010 14:46