sam Holtender
Very good roast, had the pork and was delicious. Quantity and quality. Nice option of bottomless potatoes and Yorkshire’s because when can you ever have enough. Bit more crackling and it would of been a 10/10.
Ewelina Krzysztofik
Earl Spencer is a true gem for families seeking a perfect Sunday roast! The portions were generous, and the vegetarian options were delicious. The interiors were spacious, clean, and inviting. The staff was incredibly friendly, making our visit comfortable and enjoyable. The prices were reasonable, and the vegan signature salad was simply amazing! Can't wait to return next Sunday!
Emily May Tuson
We had such an amazing time watching the South Africa vs New Zealand rugby World Cup final. Eve went out of her way to make sure we had the best table in the venue. Will definitely be going back for SA’s win in 2027😂 Go bokke!🇿🇦
Anant Quilter
The food at this place was awesome. Both the vegetarian and the non veg roasts were delicious. I would definitely eat there again.
The service was amazing too. We forgot our flowers at the table and the waiter actually took the trouble to chase after us to give them to us. What a sweetie. Thank you😘
Sarah Smith
We went to a party in the private venue above the pub. The staff were amazing, toilets clean and upstairs in the function room. The buffet food was fantastic quality and extremely tasty.
Kirsty Goodacre
Great pub with a good range of drinks (and loyalty stamp cards on ales which I've never seen in a pub!!) Lovely outdoors space with blankets, heaters and nice tables with a good atmosphere. Friendly staff too - very welcoming and always check if everything is okay with the customers!
Jamie Davis
Since the new management took over, this is our go to pub. We used to use the pub next door prior to the takeover due to the dark and dreary decor and exterior of this one. However the new management (Emil) has changed this to look refreshingly current. The food speak for itself and in outstanding quality. We came in here a long time ago and not a soul to be seen. Nowadays there are always people here enjoying themselves. What more could you ask for. Review by Tony and Jamie p.s dog friendly always has treats available. All round happy and enjoyable place to be.
John K
Lovely atmosphere and heart-warming food. Thank you to bartender Eve for recommending me the steak pie. Will be coming back!
Brenda Tutt
Absolutely beautiful Sunday roast with mum 🤗❤today don't normally have the Lamb roast, but decided to try as always, quite fatty 😮❤wow was so tender and tasty, will definitely be coming back 👏👏well done to the chef, and thank you Rebecca for making our lovely afternoon 😊😘👍
Lee Spencer
I just wanted to write and say thank you from me and my staff who attended our company party upstairs yesterday. The Staff were amazing and incredibly helpful, the food was very good and more importantly we had a great time. Thank you so much!
A.C Nordeng
Cracking Pub. I've been coming to the Earl Spencer for the last three weeks in hope to arrange a weekly gathering for a socialist book and film club. So far, no one has bothered showing up to the meetings but the bar staff has provided me with plenty of good company, service and even laughter as a way to console me in my obvious despair and disappointment. Can't recommend enough if you're in the area. Also, the vegan buttermilk "not chicken" sandwich, kinda tastes like chicken if you close your eyes and think of Kentucky. Tasty !
Francesca Morris
What a lovely garden. Team were great and recommended some nice wines. I hear the Sunday roast in amazing so have booked for this weekend!
Michael S
The sandwiches are definitely my go-to lunch option and the staff are really friendly and easy to start a chit-chat with. Definitely recommend it!
Imelda Galvin
Went for Sunday roast yesterday as a bank Holiday weekend treat and we were not disappointed. Great service and a first class roast. We will be back again. Thank you from a well fed and happy group of friends
Dan Ponbeam
Went recently and the new manager Anthony is making some amazing ground! The food is getting better as is the drink!!! I highly recommend the fish and chips and whatever ale is on as they are all fab!! Well done
Rob Casey
This place is the quintessential hidden gem. The Earl Spencer has food to die for, fantastic ales and friendly staff. The fillet of cod and wild mushroom risotto are sensational, however the slow braised lamb shoulder tops the lot. I've eaten here three times whilst covering the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and every visit is surprisingly better than the last. Love the place!!!
Yvonne Lundon-Marchant
Very good wine selection and a good range of pub food that is truly gastropub. Well worth a visit as the service is low key but very welcoming.
Jan Blackmun
Warm and friendly staff. Good selection of well kept real ale and wines. Lovely food and service. Thank you.
Elaine Clarke
Really enjoyed our lunch. Fabulously tasting food and very reasonably priced including the house wine. We will go again, very soon...
Nigel Mahoney
Totally charming, thoroughly welcoming, and totally recommended! Visited to sample the fine selection of ales and gins then stayed on for dinner. Blown away by the selection and superb hospitality in this beautiful pub in Wimbledon. My wife and I sampled the chicken liver parfait, charred prawns and crumbed cheese croquettes. We followed with a superb steak and chicken main course.
In fact we loved this place so much, we returned for their legendary Sunday roast the next day. The Earl Spencer has obviously become quite an institution around these parts - all credit due to the fastidious management by the landlords Mike and Jill and their well chosen team. There's absolutely no doubt that when we next return to London this will be our first port of call!
Sarah Amelia Thomas
Extremely rude staff despite spending £200 here today. Awful place awful food
Jonathan Walsh
Went in this evening for a beer or two with a mate. Far too warm and too many babies in prams.
The stench from the fermenting nappies was appalling.
Shivana Persad
Delicious Hendricks gin and tonic. Friendly staff
Gary Dyson
As always, the best food!!! Great atmosphere
Carina Whalley
We celebrated our son's 18th birthday with a meal at The Earl Spencer. Nice food and a nice environment.
Karen Hopkins
Really disappointing meal this evening, very bland, lacking seasoning & flavour & components incompatible, chicken over cooked & not oozing garlic butter as a Kiev should. Thought the menu in general was very poor.
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Joyce Lawson
Enjoyed a great afternoon at The Earl Spencer.
Sarah Dean
A nice gastro pub with plenty of seating. Foodwise, not so great for vegetarians. They only have one veggie option each evening and you don't know what it is until that afternoon, so I'd never book ahead.
Phil
Good for families and decent for the rugby. Closest pub to us that does a decent food service<br/><br/>. Good beers on tap, friendly and tolerant regulars. Full of young families on a Sunday. Most tables booked ahead of time but not necessarily far in advance, having booked ours at 1130 on the morning. <br/><br/>Decent chicken and pork roasts. A little more gravy on the chicken and - 1/2 point for charging extra for the Yorkshire puddings for the chicken. <br/><br/>Very nice cabbage and root vegetables with the pork though. I don't even like cabbage and it was finished. <br/><br/>Only one telly for the rugby but apparently another upstairs. <br/><br/>Overall a very accompanying pub (we stuck to our table but people were chopping and changing), good Sunday lunch, friendly staff and good beers. <br/><br/>~£180 for 4 people, 2 starters, 4 Sunday's roasts, 2 deserts, 2 bottles of wine, 4 beers, 2-3 coffees, glass of wine, glass of cider. (Don't judge)
Dbulmer83
Awful pub - bad staff, service, hygiene, food and management. This is a terrible pub, absoutely hateful staff who look like they'd rather throw up than serve you. The staff know nothing about their beers which is a surprise for a CAMRA pub and were positively rude when we ordered a couple of pints of Sharps - the barmaid after trying to dismiss us eventually pointed out that it's called Doombar, which is true, but in a pub claiming to serve real ale, if Doombar is your only Sharps on tap then you should know the brewery and the beer and be able to work out that a pint of Sharps is a pint of Doombar, you shouldn't look sniffy at your customers and then grudgingly pour a badly kept, poorly executed pint.<br/><br/>Booked a table once for 11 people, turned up, were given menus, sat down with drinks, worked out our order, went to the bar to place the order and were told they were out of food. An evening ruined. Went this weekend, asked for some drinks and a bowl of chips, were told that despite the fact they do bowls of chips all the time, our snooty salesperson (she knew nothing, definitely not a barmaid) would not serve us chips without ordering other food 'in case we run out of chips'<br/><br/>For a pub that prides itself on its good food, never seems to actually have any food. And if you don't like working with people or serving drinks, I'd suggest you don't work behind a bar. Management are rude and dismissive. Such a shame as this is really handy for home, but I'll walk the extra three minutes to the Park Tavern and get drinks, a smile and as many bowls of chips as I want.
Epicurious
The Earl is a great little gastropub and without peer in the area but the quality of the food is not as good as its golden age a couple of years ago.
TheFoodaholic
Having access to a car for me these days is proving to be a dream, especially considering I'm not the designated driver. The idea of becoming a responsible driver who has to drive other people around, thus preventing me from drinking - I can't see a single benefit. Closer to home and craving a hearty lunch we found ourselves at The Earl Spencer . A charming Edwardian pub which was recently awarded a Bib Gourmand by Michelin. Parking (again not me) here at The Earl Spencer is a bit of a problem, but it certainly beats a £1 Megabus journey which takes around 8 hours to get just about anywhere. The Earl Spencer really is a great local. It was cold and very wet outside when we arrived, the strong smell of smoke coming off the roaring fire lingered across the dining room. Paired with the lovely warmth in the room, some fantastic craft beers and a very good, accessible wine list - this is the sort of place you only wish was on your doorstop. Bib Gourmands are awarded to restaurants or pubs who offer good food, at affordable prices. I think the limit is £28 for three courses these days. We struggled to hit the £50 mark for the two of us with a pint of ale each. That's certainly great value in my opinion. The menu at lunch sounds nice, but the evening menu sounds even better. To start we opted for the risotto balls stuffed with mozzarella and basil, topped with a tomato sauce and served alongside some salad leaves and basil sauce. It wasn't exactly mind blowing, could have done with a little more seasoning but otherwise its nice crispy batter made up for the shortfall. The salad was a bit half hearted too and felt like it wasn't even meant to be there. A leg of duck confit at £14 couldn't be refused, especially if they were pairing it with some braised put lentils, bacon, leek and curly kale. An almost classic combination which didn't let down. Those lentils were rich, meaty in flavour and had a lovely layering of chopped vegetables which really added flavour to the mix, as
Thea
Their wine list is well-judged, the atmosphere convivial and the steak was perfectly pink and verging on the vast.
TheFoodaholic
Having access to a car for me these days is proving to be a dream, especially considering I'm not the designated driver. The idea of becoming a responsible driver who has to drive other people around, thus preventing me from drinking - I can't see a single benefit. Closer to home and craving a hearty lunch we found ourselves at The Earl Spencer. A charming Edwardian pub which was recently awarded a Bib Gourmand by Michelin. Parking (again not me) here at The Earl Spencer is a bit of a problem, but it certainly beats a £1 Megabus journey which takes around 8 hours to get just about anywhere.<br/><br/>The Earl Spencer really is a great local. It was cold and very wet outside when we arrived, the strong smell of smoke coming off the roaring fire lingered across the dining room. Paired with the lovely warmth in the room, some fantastic craft beers and a very good, accessible wine list - this is the sort of place you only wish was on your doorstop. Bib Gourmands are awarded to restaurants or pubs who offer good food, at affordable prices. I think the limit is £28 for three courses these days. We struggled to hit the £50 mark for the two of us with a pint of ale each. That's certainly great value in my opinion. The menu at lunch sounds nice, but the evening menu sounds even better. To start we opted for the risotto balls stuffed with mozzarella and basil, topped with a tomato sauce and served alongside some salad leaves and basil sauce. It wasn't exactly mind blowing, could have done with a little more seasoning but otherwise its nice crispy batter made up for the shortfall. The salad was a bit half hearted too and felt like it wasn't even meant to be there.<br/><br/>A leg of duck confit at £14 couldn't be refused, especially if they were pairing it with some braised put lentils, bacon, leek and curly kale. An almost classic combination which didn't let down. Those lentils were rich, meaty in flavour and had a lovely layering of chopped vegetables which really added flavour to the mix, as did the the smoky bacon. The duck was a lovely piece of meat and very moist in the centre - but for me the skin just wasn't quite crisp enough. To look at you wouldn't have guessed with its brown tinged colour but it was much softer than expected. Still it was very nice plate of food which could have been even greater if that skin was just given a little more time.<br/><br/>I remember the first time I ate really good fish and chips and fell in love with the British classic. It was at a hotel in Reading - the last place on earth you'd expect to find fish & chips, or good food for that matter. But there it was on the plate, looking as delicious as could be, and every mouthful of the pristine white flesh a delight - from that moment on I was hooked. Here The Earl Spencer made a good effort at it. The chips were proper chip shop style. A little greasy, very crispy and fluffy on the inside. There wasn't much in terms of seasoning but that was easily rectified ourselves. The batter on the fish was good, nice and golden but there just a little something missing - I couldn't quite put my finger on it. The side salad was again redundant and considering they went all out with the chips, mushy peas would have been nice. <br/><br/>Dessert was the highlight our our lunch here at The Earl Spencer. Norfolk apple and treacle tart served with double cream really hit the spot, even after two very filling courses. The pastry was stunning. It was so light, perfectly baked - with a beautiful evenly coloured golden base. As soon as you slam your fork through the layers of juicy, sweet apple the base literally falls apart into thin crisp layers. A lovely cinnamon (I think) note run all the way though it and left a lingering touch of heat on the tongue. Imagine eating this, wrapped up against the wood burning fire - need I say more.<br/><br/>We wobbled back to the car shortly after, I fell asleep - living the dream I say. The Earl Spencer was a nice surprise to come across. It truly is the local pub you'd want on your doorstop, with its cosy charm, outside seating in the summer and a good selection of drinks - with the added bonus of some good quality pub food. There is certainly room for improvement on the food side and as a local pub perhaps I'm looking deeper in to this more than I need to - but they were just awarded a Bib Gourmand and that's nothing to snigger at. With such an accolade firmly advertised around the pub the bar is set high, and they're putting that on themselves. Lets hope The Earl Spencer continues to deliver, and more importantly grow in to hopefully a perfect local pub - it's already on the way.
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