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good pub with friendly staff and dog biscuits for my mut. Well cooked food and decent range of beers with access to the common on a nice sunny day…
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Great food and for a change, some variety for the vegetarians as well. Ambience is alright but they have a big lawn out front with easy chairs and tha…
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A nice light lunch of haddock soft and just perfectly cooked, triple dipped chips, mushy peas (been a while since I'd eaten British mushy peas like) a…
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6 Reviews on “The Crooked Billet”
good pub with friendly staff and dog biscuits for my mut. Well cooked food and decent range of beers with access to the common on a nice sunny day
Great food and for a change, some variety for the vegetarians as well. Ambience is alright but they have a big lawn out front with easy chairs and that makes for a perfect post-lunch siesta spot. Head here on a sunny day
A nice light lunch of haddock soft and just perfectly cooked, triple dipped chips, mushy peas (been a while since I’d eaten British mushy peas like) and a bottle of ice cold beer(sorry I detest Tap beers of any description) anyone it just rounded things off. Another pleasant lunch, without the blimin’ rain.
This was the best pub in London, by some distance: the easy, friendly, atmosphere of a proper ‘country’ pub; a great selection of beer and wine; tasty, well-prepared food; chatty and efficient staff; all this, coupled with the fantastic location of Wimbledon Common, made for a winning combination. The pub closed for refurbishment in Summer 2014 and I only hope that the atmosphere which made the Crooked Billet so welcoming won’t have been destroyed. It would be a great tragedy if another proper pub were turned into the sort of identikit, bland, and soulless bar that seems to infest most of the rest of London – we will see in September 2014, when the pub reopens.November 2014: Unfortunately, the refit hasn’t really improved the pub. They’ve managed to add a tiny bit of extra space by building into a small internal garden that existed previously, but they’ve also redecorated and removed much of the character that made the Billet such a friendly place to be. By opening the place up, they’ve removed the cosy little corners that were so welcoming. And what is it with pubs and the ‘distressed’ decor look at the moment? This is old England, not New England and I’m pretty sure that Young’s is so far behind the curve in trying this look – something that seems to have been inflicted upon a lot of pubs over the past few years – that it’ll soon be pretty old hat and not only will the Crooked Billet be less welcoming, it’ll also not be as ‘trendy’ as they seem to have tried to make it. They’ve also taken down some of the old pictures – pictures of nearby locations such as Wimbledon Common in the snow – and put up a selection of artwork that has little to do with the local area and seemingly the only reason for it being there is that some interior designer thought it a good idea. The new food menu is also inferior to the old; again, while it hasn’t exactly been ruined, it certainly hasn’t been improved – the substitution of goats cheese for the breaded camembert – one of my menu favourites – for instance. All in all, while the Crooked Billet is still a decent pub, I’m left wondering why they felt it necessary to spend a good deal of money and forgo a couple of months’ takings to achieve so very little in terms of extended space, albeit with slightly shinier loos – all that’s really been achieved is the diminution of the wonderful atmosphere that once existed.Rating reduced from a ‘5’ to a ‘4’.
Location i a 5, but the food can sometimes be better. Stay a way from the hummus, think it was homemade, lacked flavour was disappointing, but great atmosphere and we visit regularly.
So so. The Crooked Billet is a lot bigger than it looks from the outside with a restaurant area at the back. It is definately not a gastro pub as you can tell from the menu. The food is pretty basic really and overpriced for what it is. I guess that’s the going rate for the area though, but at close to 30 for a rather fatty lamb dish and a couple of glasses of wine – it was too rich for me. Parking nearby is a real problem. noexpert.co.uk