Crystal Palace Tavern

[hillside]

At the CPT tonight. Deserted! Totally! I know it was Monday an all but still.

[Sue]

Well, they should bring back the Broadside and put some decent plants outside.

Sorted. :)

[RosieH]

Well I shall be gracing it with my custom, but sadly not til next Thursday (very excited about the whole spooky stories thing - can someone please go in and keep it open until then

[Jah Lush]

That's bad news. I really like this pub and worry about it's future. The last thing we need in Dulwich is another back street pub closing because of it's lack of custom. Support the CPT by your patronage. Hopefully things will pick up.

[Cassius]

Well it was pretty packed for the football - obviously people are prepared to support local pubs but can't do so on a regular basis. Not everyone can afford to drink in a pub every night, even a couple of pints would put you back a fiver.

[????]

I made a point of visiting it on Saturday on my once in a blue moon Mr & Mrs Quids pub crawl of SE22.....predictably it was my favourite spot of the tour and Mrs Quids' least........

[James]

Has the potential to be a lovely pub, somewhat spoiled by obnoxious grumpy old men regulars hogging the bar and the odd chav getting drunk and causing disturbances.

[Brendan]

The grumpy old men are what make it.

And I don't cause that many disturbances.

[Jah Lush]

Who are you calling a drunk and a disturbed grumpy old man? Eh? Eh?

[James]

Ha! I will introduce myself next time I see you urinating into the shrubbery, or complaining about "all these ****** immigrants" in the bar..

[Jah Lush]

Do you mean the blow-ins from Clapham James?

[James]

Yes!

[Jah Lush]

Ha ha! Do come and say hello and I'll buy you a drink.

[karter]

This is a good pub, support it indeed, we don't need another block of flats.

[Keef]

I love the CPT, can't get there as often as I used to (which can only be a good thing if I'm honest), but I'll always be fond of it!

Guess that's what comes of basically growing up in a pub.

[Eliza.D]

I love CPT. I like the front bar with it's quirky continental bar feel. The back bar is very local and you can talk to people with out being drowned out by the natural acoustic of bare floor boards and no soft furnishing to drown out the clinky, clanky noises and music turned up 2 notches more than it needs to be.

If you want a local and are in walking distance then you could do a lot worse than the CPT.

[Ants]

Just walked past the CPT and it's still empty. I put a healthy investment into it on Saturday night. Maybe it's my fault?

[MrBen]

Few weeks back when I went in by myself for a quiet pint, the little guy who reads books in the back and who looks like Noddy muttered "police" to the barman. First time I've had that!

Sent from the last Eurostar by Crackberry.

[Sue]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Few weeks back when I went in by myself for a

> quiet pint, the little guy who reads books in the

> back and who looks like Noddy muttered "police" to

> the barman. First time I've had that!

xxxxxxx

And are you police? :))

[hillside]

What a great pub and it's great that it's so well thought of.

[Banksy]

Have had the CPT as my local for many years now but fear it's lost its way in the past few (post Nathan and the aussie invasion!). Definitely needs some management tlc or at least some kind of credible game plan before the inevitable happens. A wholesale rip-off of the Gowlett's vibe, food and booze would be no bad thing. (NB every pub should have at least two grumpy old men regulars - adds character)

[Brendan]

I can?t help feel guilty about all this. I used to be in the CPT at least twice a week back in the olden days. I?m just not so much of a dirty drunk anymore. I?m sorry.

I?ve not been there for months now, literally. I think this is the longest single stretch of time I haven?t been in that pub since I moved to ED.

[Keef]

Unfortunately, food isn't realistic, just nowhere for a kitchen.

[Jah Lush]

Hopefully when the good weather turns up again they'll be doing the barbecues out the front again like last year.

[ladida]

We all know why the place is empty. I don't want to name names however much I'd love to. Bring back the girls. What a laugh we all had without getting butted. And Keef, food is realistic. Spoke to Tricia t'other day and she is quite happy for there to be a series of takeaway menus behind the bar such that people can order their own and bring it in, having mentioned The Gypsy Hill Tavern from the other year.