To me, the typical London household is rarely comprised of London-born Londoners, of London origin. In fact, in my experience, members generally hail from everywhere but London. And our multicultural house is no exception. All of which is a roundabout way of explaining why my partner and I decided to celebrate Christmas last Sunday instead of on the more traditional December 25th i.e. before heading off west and south to our respective familial homes.
The Abbeyville Pub in Clapham South was our chosen festive location – table for two, 1pm sharp, for the Christmas menu. On arrival, we were quickly seated and greeted by shiny crackers on the table – so far, so festive. But almost immediately we were descended upon by the manager, who aggressively informed us that another table would be arriving for our table at 3pm – which took a bit of the shine off the crackers. Nevertheless we turned to the menu for yuletide inspiration – only to be told that the a la carte menu was the Christmas menu (albeit with the addition of turkey and a Christmas pud option).
The non-Christmassy Sunday beef and yorkies were fab as always, service was excellent and the wine was superb. But we never quite got over the shock of the table turnaround attack. So much so, in fact, that we headed home right after pud to retire in front of the TV for an X Factor repeat and some elderly bubbly we had stashed in the cupboard (accompanied by some cheese we picked up from the fabulous MacFarlane’s on Abbeyville Road – highly recommended).
Direct me here forthwith!
The Abbeyville
67-69 Abbeville Road
London
SW4 9JW
Tel: 020 8675 2201
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