Historical version 9 of Ship And Whale, SE16 7LT (view current version)
- 020 7237 7072
- 2 Gulliver Street, SE16 7LT (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
- Beer Gardens, Food Served Evenings, Food Served Lunchtimes, Free Geodata, Pubs, Real Ale, Shepherd Neame, Smoking Area
- Rotherhithe, SE16, Surrey Quays
A Shepherd Neame pub near Greenland Dock in Rotherhithe, though as of September 2008 Hostmore Leisure claim to run it.
There are plenty of solid wooden tables around the long room, stretching back to a decent sized beer garden out back. A very long bar dominates the room. There's a separate smaller room in front of the main entrance, where the toilets can be found. A large-screen TV stood in the corner of the room, behind some large leather couches, but it was turned off. Music was playing in the background, and was for the most part not too off-putting.
On bob's visit in April 2007, the beer was pretty good, and the porter was £2.85. In September 2008, despite having seven handpulls, only two were on (Spitfire and Whitstable Bay, the latter £3.05/pint), and one other was off (Cornish Buccaneer). They also have Oranjeboom and Holsten lagers, as well as a few others, but the selection of beers isn't great. However, the tempranillo was a perfectly decent red wine at £17 a bottle.
The food looked quite good and quite a few of the tables were pre-booked on a Sunday afternoon. On a weekday visit in September 2008, our party tried the spicy bean burgers (£9), which they offer with a variety of toppings (there are four burgers and about eight toppings, to be mixed and matched) -- Ewan's mushroom and caramelised onion burger was very tasty, as were Jo's and doop's with mozzarella and onion. The fries on the side were not exactly chunky as advertised, but were hand-cut and of a very high quality.
Kake had a hefty steak (£13) which came with a small salad photo, but more substantial sides (such as green beans or chips) were priced separately at £2.50 each. secretlondon's mixed grill (also with the salad) was a bit cheaper at £9, but not quite as good in quality as the steak photo. She thought it was overpriced for what it was. secretlondon was still hungry and ordered the vanilla cheesecake for £5 photo which wasn't very exciting and the ice cream had bits of ice in it.
A quiz night is advertised for Tuesdays.
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GPS data collected by bob on a Garmin eTrex, 1 April 2007, and released into the public domain: OSGB 536549, 179373