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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. The interesting bit is the saloon bar out the back — it's been converted (by means of adding proper tables and chairs and covering the former with paper tablecloths) into a restaurant area which serves Korean and Japanese food, along with a selection of more standard pub grub.

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. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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

Last visited by Kake, doop, and Bob on 28 March 2007. Food last sampled by Kake, doop, and Bob on 28 March 2007.


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