Log in to My Time Out for your personalised guide to what's on in London. It's fast, easy and FREE!
Follow Commercial to receive updates on new events happening here.
What is 'following'?
Local alternatives
You might also like...
Latest features
-
What's on in London in 2012
Time Out's guide to the best events, films, gigs and festivals happening in London in 2012.
-
The best gyms in London
Find gyms in north, south, east, west and central london with this definitive guide to London gyms.
-
The 100 best London songs
Read which songs about London made Time Out's definitive list.
-
© Alys Tomlinson
Time Out says 5 Users say Rate it
On a narrow bend opposite Herne Hill station, a short bus hop from Brixton, the Commercial is a pleasurable pub in which to spend some time. It's one of the more modern Mitchells & Butlers pubs, not dissimilar in style to the Crown & Sceptre in Fitzrovia in the way it mixes old-fashioned pub culture with new school pub cooking and a comparatively enlightened approach to beer.
Two expansive rooms of stripy furniture and contemporary colours, with Wi-Fi and board games, accommodate drinkers and diners, while a pie slice of back garden houses a handful of tables and umbrella heaters. A board in the spruced-up main bar proclaims the presence of 21 draught beers (including Red Stripe, Paulaner, Franziskaner, Sierra Nevada, Peroni and Beck's Vier), three ciders and four ales (including Fuller's London Pride and Sharp's Doom Bar).
Food stretches from bar snacks (fried chorizo, houmous) to larger, workaday meals (burgers, Sunday roasts); a Monday quiz diverts the locals.
Commercial details
Follow Commercial to receive updates on new events happening here.
What is 'following'?Transport Brixton tube/rail then bus 3, 196, or Herne Hill rail
020 7733 8783
Open noon-midnight Mon-Thur; noon-1am Fri; 11am-1am Sat; 11am-midnight Sun. Food served noon-10pm Mon-Thur; noon-11pm Fri, Sat; 11am-9.30pm Sun
Credit cards MC, V
Facilities
Tables outdoors ( 5, garden ), Babies and children admitted ( until 7.30pm ), Disabled ( toilet ), Entertainment ( quiz 8pm Mon; knitting club 8pm Wed )Commercial map
Comments & ratings 3/5 (Average of 5 ratings)
The kitchen here really seems to have turned itself around. I ate there a couple of time in 2010 and had to complain both times but since the launch of the new menu, the food's been consistently delicious. All in all, the Commercial is a lovely place to sit and while away a few hours.
Great Herne Hill pub with fantastic selection of beers on tap, cider and spirits.
The food was OK when we got it but took ages to arrive. The staff were hopeless - no apology, more like 'what do you want me to do about it?' Items were not as described on the menu and to cap it all, we were overcharged by about £12 and then told the manager would have to sort it out 'in about 10 minutes'. Really caters for people who want a drink and then some food to soak up the alcohol. Don't go if you want a relaxing evening and a good meal.
Time Out guides and magazines
Useful links
Things to do in London
- London restaurants
- London events
- London theatre
- London bars and pubs
- London clubs
- Film listings
- London tickets and offers
- Alternative London
- London museums
- London music
- London art
- London shopping
- London Olympics
- Gay and lesbian London
- London cabaret
- London comedy
- London for kids
- Books and poetry
- Dance in London
- Festivals
- London hotels
- Classical music in London
London by area
- Brixton guide
- Borough guide
- Bermondsey guide
- City of London guide
- Dalston guide
- Mayfair guide
- Camden guide
- Clapham guide
- Covent Garden guide
- Greenwich guide
- Stoke Newington guide
- Hammersmith guide
- Hampstead guide
- Highgate guide
- Holborn guide
- King's Cross guide
- Islington guide
- West End guide
- Hackney guide
- Marylebone guide
- London Bridge guide
- Little Venice guide
- Richmond guide
- Shoreditch guide
- Soho guide
- South Bank guide
- Wimbledon guide
- Notting Hill guide
Time Out Worldwide
Get our weekly newsletter
Share your thoughts