Pints of house lager for £5.20, ska turned up nice and loud, unfeasibly friendly bar staff, two pull-down screens for sports – this is a real home from home for many Brixtonians, with more of an Afro-Caribbean community feel than many other watering holes found in the neighbourhood.
Touches of old-school pubbery – a horseshoe bar, globe-shaped light fittings – combine with more modern, stripped-back decorative touches to nice effect. Dominoes and the football provide diversions during the day; after dark, the Effra draws a younger crowd, some here to dine on the menu of Caribbean-tinged pub grub (think jollof mac and cheese and loaded plantain) while others showing up for the often excellent improv jazz, with live music on offer three nights a week.