{"id":2029,"date":"2021-09-28T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:25:13","slug":"greater-london-pub-of-the-year-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/greater-london-pub-of-the-year-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater London Pub of the Year 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Later in the year than usual, and after no such competition could be held any time last year owing to COVID restrictions, judging is now again under way for the CAMRA Greater London Pub of the Year competition. Branch winners were submitted by the end of July; the regional winner will be announced at the end of October. These pubs are this year\u2019s branch entries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Bexley<\/em>: The <strong>Robin Hood &amp; Little John<\/strong>, 78 Lion Road, Bexleyheath, DA6 8PF<\/li><li><em>Bromley<\/em>: The <strong>Star &amp; Garter<\/strong>, 227 High Street, Bromley, BR1 1NZ<\/li><li><em>Croydon &amp; Sutton<\/em>: The <strong>Hope<\/strong>, 48 West Street, Carshalton, SM5 2PR<\/li><li><em>East London<\/em> <em>&amp; City<\/em>: The <strong>Northcote Arms<\/strong>, 110 Grove Green Road, Leyton, E11 4EL<\/li><li><em>Enfield &amp; Barnet<\/em>: The <strong>Little Green Dragon<\/strong>, 928 Green Lanes, Winchmore Hill, N21 2AD<\/li><li><em>Kingston &amp; Leatherhead<\/em>: The <strong>Willoughby<\/strong> <strong>Arms<\/strong>, 47 Willoughby Road, Kingston, KT2 6LN<\/li><li><em>North London<\/em>: The <strong>Antwerp<\/strong> <strong>Arms<\/strong>, 168-170 Church Road, Tottenham, N17 8AS<\/li><li><em>Richmond &amp; Hounslow<\/em>: The <strong>Black Dog Beer <\/strong><strong>House<\/strong>, 17 Albany Road, Brentford, TW8 0NF<\/li><li><em>South East London<\/em>: The <strong>Dog &amp; Bell<\/strong>, 116 Prince Street, Deptford, SE8 3JD<\/li><li><em>South West Essex<\/em>: The <strong>Hop Inn<\/strong>, 122 North Street, Hornchurch, RM11 1SU<\/li><li><em>South West London<\/em>: The <strong>Railway<\/strong>, Streatham, SW16 5SD<\/li><li><em>West London<\/em>: The <strong>Harp<\/strong>, Charing Cross, WC2N 4HS<\/li><li><em>West Middlesex<\/em>: The <strong>Dodo<\/strong>, Hanwell, W7 3TR<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading branch judges \u2013 all branches make&nbsp;unannounced visits to all the pubs over the judging period \u2013 reviewed the competition criteria in early August and agreed the following categories and weightings for this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Quality of beer (and cider\/perry if applicable) \u2013 4<\/li><li>Style, d\u00e9cor, furnishing \u2013 2<\/li><li>Cleanliness, service, welcome and offer \u2013 3<\/li><li>Community focus and atmosphere \u2013 3<\/li><li>Alignment with CAMRA principles \u2013 2<\/li><li>Overall impression \u2013 2<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The explanatory \u2018<em>Guidelines to help find a pub which is&nbsp;<\/em><em>the best of whatever it is setting out to be<\/em>\u2019 are accessible <a href=\"https:\/\/london.camra.org.uk\/viewnode.php?id=146639\">here<\/a>. Let us all enjoy comparing these wonderful pubs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Geoff Strawbridge<br> <\/em><\/strong>CAMRA Greater London Regional Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/London-Drinker-Oct-Nov-2020-ON-LINE-VERSION-19-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/London-Drinker-Oct-Nov-2020-ON-LINE-VERSION-19-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/London-Drinker-Oct-Nov-2020-ON-LINE-VERSION-19-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/London-Drinker-Oct-Nov-2020-ON-LINE-VERSION-19-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/London-Drinker-Oct-Nov-2020-ON-LINE-VERSION-19.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later in the year than usual, and after no such competition could be held any time last year owing to COVID restrictions, judging is now again under way for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camra-news","category-pub-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}