Another decent local hidden away from the main drags of Croydon, but only a few minutes from the train station. It's a Fuller's pub, so the beer is as good as you'd expect from one of their hostelries. Staff are efficient and...
Halfway between Croydon and Norwood Junction and shrouded in flower baskets, the Joiner's Arms catches the eye from the 197 bus, and is well worth getting off to visit. Inside, it boasts a surprising array of paraphernalia,...
Well, it's had the tidy up we thought it needed last time we were in, although the smattering of quotes that have been stencilled on the walls may not be to everyone's liking. And sadly, the bar billiards table has gone,...
As the closest pub to Crystal Palace football club, it's appropriate that the Clifton often mirrors the club's ups and downs - to the extent that it came within a whisker of closing down completely in mid 2009. Constantly...
Pub purists and beer bores don't like to admit it, but there is something reassuring about a well-run Wetherspoon - it does what it says on the tin. The Flora Sandes is a large, rather gloomy cavern filling the ground floor of...
Although rather enveloped by South Norwood and the outer reaches of Croydonia, Woodside Green still has signs of its village beginnings: a Green, a War Memorial, a caff and two pubs staring each other down from across the road....
The Albion is one of a clutch of old-fashioned pubs on this stretch of the High Street in South Norwood. Visiting on the evening of a crunch league game between Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion, we wondered how many away...
The Alma is a big, old Victorian pub, sitting on the main A222 as it runs up from downtown Croydon toward Elmers End. Its an utterly unpretentious working-class pub, offering big screen sport, karaoke and the inevitable arrange...
Sadly, this reasonably decent, street corner local, appears to be no more. Locked and shuttered, a peek inside reveals a full scale gutting of the old victorian interior. With a big Wetherspoons just opposite and two blokey...
