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The Albion, Kingston Upon Thames

45 Fairfield Road
Kingston Upon Thames
KT1 2PY

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Kingston Fairfield, Kingston Town

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Old Boots left this review about The Albion

Family and dog friendly corner pub run by Big Smoke, a little in the alehouse style. A long counter immediately in front of the door houses fifteen pulls, seven with cider and eight with non national beers as well as Big Smoke’s own beers.
The floor in front has a large rug and other smaller rugs lurk under various tables covering the board floor. A basic L shape with a garden at the far end. The ceilings are covered with pump clips. It also has various offers but not sadly on my Saturday visit.

On 16^th October 2026 - no rating submitted
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Albion

I still find the Albion to be one of the better Big Smoke outlets, not too far behind the Sussex Arms in Twickenham and the Antelope in Surbiton. Having not been here since 2017, I wasn't sure what the ale and cider range would be like, but I wasn't disappointed. However, as Quinno quite rightly states, you can easily get a bad pint here and I duly did later in the evening.

The full real ale range was Big Smoke Ceremony, Solaris, Cosmic Dawn & Standing Stone, Brew York Viking DNA, Ampersand The Cap Bitter, Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout, Oakham IPA & another beer from Kent Brewery which I failed to note. Ciders were Gwynt y Ddraig Dog Dancer, Big Smoke/Hogan's Country Mile, Lilley's Mango Cider & Ascension Mothership.

Both the Country Mile & the Viking DNA were in fine condition. Having only had halves of those, I decided to have a pint of the 2.5% Standing Stone, with a pint of any Big Smoke beer included in the Tuesday hot dog special. I soon regretted this choice, as the beer was right at the end of the cask. Luckily for me, the barman was very apologetic and let me replace it with a pint of the 6% Ascension Mothership cider, which was a huge improvement in strength and quality.

The pub itself has an L-shaped room. The front of the pub is fairly dark in nature, whilst it seems to become a bit better lit towards the rear right-hand side. Toilets are midway along the right-hand wall. After initially sitting opposite the gents, we soon decided that the smell was off-putting and moved to the far corner to a table overlooking a large outdoor seating area with patio heaters.

Despite the questionable beer quality at times, I still rate this as easily the best pub in Kingston, with a good range of ales and ciders and I haven't mentioned the extensive craft beer range. With bar staff happy to exchange any dodgy pints and taking them off sale, I'm still prepared to give the Albion the benefit of the doubt and a big thumbs up.

On 17^th March 2023 - rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about The Albion

Try-hard Big Smoke outlet. Fairly bland L shaped interior with a load of old pump clips stuck to the ceiling. Nine cask on, ‘four too many’ I mused to my companion and indeed bar the Harveys none of the others were shifting – we both (stupidly) went for the Big Smoke Stout and inevitably pint #1 was warm and flabby whilst pint #2 was better. A number of Big Smoke pubs I’ve been to have given me indifferent cask quality and this was another one…all fur coat and no knickers.

On 18^th March 2022 - rating: 6
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