Historical version 6 of Skylark, CR0 1DP (view current version)
- 34-36 South End, CR0 1DP (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
- 9am-midnight daily
- Food Served Evenings, Food Served Lunchtimes, Pubs, Real Ale, Wetherspoons Beer Gardens,
- 2007
- CR0, Croydon
Good Beer Guide pub in Croydon. It's a Wetherspoons, so pretty cheap. They have Kopparberg Swedish cider as well as all the real beers.
The downstairs is fairly open, with a raised area containing bookshelves (with real books!). There are a few sofas at the front. The upstairs has more sofas, but isn't always open, and closes early when it is.
Daytimes, the clientele are generally your standard daytime drinkers; old men nursing a pint per hour before gently staggering off home in the early evening. In the evenings, you do get a few groups of lager drinkers, but not the overly rowdy kind. Glasses don't get cleared very often, and pre-smoking-ban the floor tended to end up covered in cigarette ends. This might sound somewhat negative, but overall it's pretty good here if you know what to expect.
Apparently there's a beer garden, but I've never noticed it. --Kake