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<div class="last_verified">Food last sampled by [[Kake]], [[doop]], and [[Bob]] on 28 March 2007. Opening hours and food times confirmed with the owner (by [[Kake]]) on 6 May 2007.</div>
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Pub near the river in Bermondsey. The front part of the pub is just a standard lager-drinker's pub, no real ale, nothing particularly exciting or unusual. (However, the owner is planning to reinstall the handpumps and get some real ale in for summer 2007.)

The interesting bit is the saloon bar out the back — it's been converted into a restaurant area which serves Korean and Japanese food, along with a selection of more standard pub grub. There's also an outdoor dining area/beer garden leading off the saloon bar; it's pretty nice, with fairy lights and plenty of plants in pots.

Food is served noon–10pm every day; you may be able to get food between 10pm and 11pm if the chef happens to still be around, but don't rely on it.

Kake, doop, and Bob visited on a Wednesday evening in March 2007 to try some of the Korean dishes. The food was pretty good, and sensibly priced. The Korean pancakes with spring onions and seafood, served as a starter, were tasty; hot, tender, and crisp without being oily. Vegetables with sizzling rice in a stone bowl were good too, particularly the mushrooms, though it was a bit of a surprise to find meat in the dish as well. (We don't think vegetarians would like it here. That was the only vegetarian-sounding dish on the Korean menu, and it, well, wasn't.)

Service was friendly too. The ambience was a little bizarre, since just after we arrived a group of young men from the front of the pub decided they'd rather bring their drinks round to the restaurant part and watch the football there instead of in the crowded lounge bar with everyone else, but they were perfectly polite and didn't cause any trouble.

Not sure I'd really describe this as a restaurant; although it has a separate entrance and there's no throughway to the lounge bar, it really felt more like a room in a pub than a restaurant (especially given the sport-infested flatscreen TV in the corner). But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Getting here: Probably the easiest (though not the shortest) way to find the Old Justice is to come out of Bermondsey Station, cross the road at the crossing, turn left, and take the next right, which is Bevington Street. Follow this all the way to the end, and the Old Justice is on your right, with its main entrance just around the corner on Bermondsey Wall East, and the restaurant entrance around the next corner from the main entrance. Note: the photo above is taken from Bermondsey Wall East; if you follow these directions then you'll be approaching from behind the pub on the right hand side of the photo. (No, it doesn't look as if there's a street there, but there is.)

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GPS data collected by Kake on a Garmin eTrex, 28 March 2007, and released into the public domain: OSGB 534467, 179702

Food last sampled by Kake, doop, and Bob on 28 March 2007. Opening hours and food times confirmed with the owner (by Kake) on 6 May 2007.


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