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This Fullers pub on Balham High Road - an area infested with many loathsomely trendy bars. Large plate-glass windows, sofas, pool tables, pale wood. But when you go inside it's not so bad. Yes, there's music, but it's not overly loud and isn't the awful stuff that is so common these days and which offends those who are actually musicians. On a Thursday evening when DrHyde visited it was very quiet, with just a couple of other small groups of customers. Service was very quick, although how they would cope on a busy night I don't know. The pizzas we ordered were good.

That's not to say that everything's great though. There was only one real beer on, London Pride. It was well-kept, but with four hand-pumps on the bar they really should have some of Fullers' other beers instead of just having the Pride pump-clip on all four. The soft drinks selection was also a bit poor, with no grapefruit juice. They also tended to put too much ice into soft drinks.

So over all, this isn't a great pub, certainly not one worth travelling to, but if you do need a pub in the area, it's sufficient, and given the lack of other choices nearby (the Duke of Devonshire has been vandalised in the name of fashion; the Clarence is full of braying idiots; and the Bedford can be very noisy), it'll have to do.

Web site claims to have wifi available, and it appeared to be wheelchair-accessible.