The Windmill on the common - Hotel Review

This is a nice treasure for South Londoners; positioned on the very edge of the actual Common it's an absolute must visit during the summer months. There's a good selection of drinks available, the food is high quality and not too expensive. The building itself is great, lots of different rooms, plenty of space (inside and out) and the staff are friendly. It's about a 5-10 minute walk from Clapham Common tube station and 3-5 minutes from Clapham South.

Great smiley service and the biggest chicken burger I have ever had.

I absolutely love this place and the food is great . Although I have to admin I spend way too much time here.

We ve been to the windmill several times in the past and liked it.

However, this Friday evening was a horrible experience.

My pregnant wife and I were looking to go out and booked an outdoor table for dinner. We chose here so we could sit outside (need to minimise risk of wife getting infected) - arrived and shown to the table.

Here we were told to order using the app...which is fine...except it didn t work. I think largely due to the amount of people in the area neither of us could get enough phone signal to use it (we both know how to use apps!).

When telling the manager, he said to try their wifi...which didn t reach. He was abrupt and dismissive and to be honest just didn t care if we ordered or not. We tried for about 15 minutes and were forced to leave as we couldn t order...bizarre.

Given we d walked 30 mins to get here and looking forward to relaxing after a long week, to be dismissed without any bother was just bemusing. Clearly this local pub doesn t need local support.

So we went to the Abbeville where the attitude of staff was second to none...that s where our custom will go in future.

Love the Windmill! Staying annually for a company do for 5-6 years now.
Interior great, staff great, food great, atmosphere friendly, Max the pub/hotel dog - in love with! The only negative is the size of the car park but there's nothing that can be done about this.

Went for a breakfast event. Didn't spend too long at it but had a favourable impression of the venue

Great pub, nice atmosphere. Great place to go before SW4. Lovely outside seating.

The place and the food are nice but the night was spoilt by a rude waiter called Dan who forgot to add to the order a meal we ordered and failed to recognise that in an extremely rude manners. The place is nice though, just try to avoid this waiter

Very comfy, good brekkie and bar food. Will return.

Sunday evening: Long wait, slow service, cold crumble. Main courses were good though. They did give a refund on crumble.

Beautiful atmosphere. Felt like being in the country. Food was amazing. Loved the decor.

A very nice little place to stay while up in town. Rooms were very well turned out and excellent value. One of the best Sunday Roasts Ive had in a very long time.

Great spot and nice rooms, but terrible breakfast service, rude attitude

Great vibe, loads of doggos and moderately priced alcohol. For the area it's pretty banging.

Fantastic British pub, lots of space both indoors and outdoors as well as being dog friendly. So many drink choices from local to international varieties. Didn't have food but it smelt good!

The restaurant is really pretty and the food is nice. Good tradicional British food.

Lovely pub with good food and drink choices. We always bring our dog with and he loves it too!

Really nice pub. Had a nice Sunday roast on the terrace. A bit pricy and I had hoped some kind of heating was provided. Other than that, good food and good beers!

Rooms were very comfortable and funky decor. Food is available at the bar and it's a stone's throw to Clapman Common with nearest tube 5-7mins away. Really enjoyed the stay here.

The food was presented in a very hap hazard way I had roast beef which was quite tough and the Yorkshire pudding was burnt..There were five people in our party and we all agreed that we would never return.

Great spot and nice rooms, but terrible breakfast service, rude attitude

Had a lovely stay at the Hotel. Rooms were newly refurbished, cleanliness was up to standard, location was good for restaurants and bars of Clapham lovely to retreat to the peaceful green surrounded Hotel. I have stayed at many hotels around the globe .Was let down when being checked out by the spectacled bald asian gentleman on reception and a little taken aback when he couldn't be bothered to come from around his desk and help us with our cases, but then when my driver came in to get me he asked him to help with our cases! Apart from that lazy sod i would definitely recommend this Hotel to my colleagues in the hospitality industry. Thumbs up!

Lovely spot. Staff were soo pleasant and helpful. Great bar and food. Hotel entrance is a bit hidden could be better sign posted. A member of the barstaff walked me right to recption. Surrounded by park which was great in the good weather. Set back off the main road so traffic noise isnt an issue. Bus stop right there. Rooms are spacious and comfy. No complaints at all. Highly recommend.

One of my favourite pubs in Clapham, scores highly on all fronts. Great location, on the Common.
The building is a good size, seats a lot inside for a great meal.
The food is very good indeed, including the sausage rolls on their bar snack menu.
It is dog friendly.
A wonderful out door space.
Love it.

Great food, Great customer service, lovely out door dining! Good fun all round.

Our local pub that features good food and easy atmosphere for drinks and catch ups. Nice and helpful staff. Live broadcasts here attract a big crowd so recommend booking space for groups or arriving super early for public events!

Good atmosphere. Friendly staff. Nice drink range. Dog friendly.

Lovely, dog friendly pub with great food and brilliant selection of drinks. Decor is wonderful.

Amazing hotel. Great location and good price. Staff were friendly and helpful. Recommended!

Great pub, light an airy rather than a dingy pub. Good selection of beer. They do an amazing Sunday roast which is huge. If you are lucky enough the owner's massive dog sometimes roams the pub and you can give him pats and treats

Nice pub, great in the summer on the edge of common. They do live music here sometimes. Always pretty busy on the weekends and the food is pretty good too. Pretty good selection on beers. Try the sausage rolls at the bar

Nice pub with a lovely open space outside. Easily accessible from Clapham Common though first timers might have a bit of difficulty finding it. Though the weather wasn't great when we went, we still sat outside and had a good time.

My local. Fab pub and food with outdoor space and burger shack

Nice but very expensive for accommodation. Grumpy bar staff.reception staff 10/10

Lovely pub. Great service. Good beer and a huge cuddly dog who can high five.

Brilliant lovely room very friendly helpful staff . easy travel to central London

Slow bar staff, average selection of beers, pricey food

The bar staff were friendly polite and happy thank god!. It was a pleasure to see , customers were happy and a few of them spoke to me i was assounded , the whole place is top class, one of the best pubs i have ever been to. Charming staff which compliments the whole atmosphere of this unusual quant venue. I more than highly recomend it. Thumbs up 10 stars.

Lively atmosphere and right on clapham common. Great pub like food (cracking roasts also) cutest and biggest pub dog and reasonable drinks!

Wonderful place for lunch and great burgers outside ...

Nice pub on Clapham Common. Gets quite busy. Has a good selection of beer and the food was very good.

The service for me was fast, the food was nice and the staff were very helpful

An iconic pub known by thousands, most of whom were there last night. And why not. It's a cracking venue for meeting your mates amid a hoard of like-minded drinkers.

Yet another stay at the Windmill to see Madness on Clapham common over Bank holiday weekend. Stayed in one of the premier rooms room 27. As usual SUPERB

The decor was really nice with a real fire! The place wasn't very busy though, considering it was a Friday night, but that's nice for a chilled evening. Also, the homemade sausage rolls were tasty.

I usually don't write reviews but wow, this was so bad I had to.

Generally a very nice looking place busy etc etc and the staff seemed to make an effort to get us a table, but from then it went downwards very very quickly.

We sat down and our table was still cluttered from the people before us, not too bad but once we asked someone if they could clear the table please have the stuff was taken and the rest was left so we cleared ourselves after about 10 minutes.

But then came the food!
The bun for the burger I had ordered was substituted for some other bread because they ran out of the bread I asked for (which was on the menu) but not only that it was also stone cold and looked as if it had been sitting in a fridge for a week or so.

The nice manager got me my money back and and offered me a replacement burger so I thought lets try it again, so the new burger all of a sudden came with the bread I had ordered in the first place, but this time it was a completely different burger with peanut sauce etc etc, well I tried it anyways (one bite) and god can I say that was the most disgusting Burger I have ever tried. Any kebab shop makes a better burger. Could even swallow that bite. Grrrr

So that was my food as for the rest of the table their food was also cold and dry and you name it. I don't know what went wrong there but it was simply bad.

Sorry guys

p.s. the chips were good, cold but good.

Had a great night, then 9pm rolled around and an overly aggressive bouncer comes over and says to my table, the table next to us and the other (the only 3 tables in that room) that we need to stop speaking because there are people staying in the hotel. We do as asked. Last orders ring and we get a last drink, 10 mins after the same bouncer comes over and says 'time to get out!'. I told him we only purchased the drink 10 mins ago and he told us 'time is up, you have to leave' (not just to us but the table of elderly men next to us who also had full drinks). The bouncer ushered us out, no warning to finish our drinks, just that we had to leave then and there. We exchanged words with the elderly gentleman who were also a bit shocked and disheartened that their night came to an abrupt end. My advice would be to not visit here in the evening. The bouncer clearly has a power trip and thinks he's a prison guard, not someone involved in customer service. A real shame as other than him we had a nice time.

Fantastic hotel, rooms clean, comfy and amazing. Food was fantastic i had one of the best pies iv ever eaten. Breakfast was fantastic too

It's a great pub but the food is disappointing. Went with friends on Sunday for a sunday roast and it was not worth the money. Super dry and chewy pork and tough beef . Will definitely be back for drinks, but getting food elsewhere.

Great place to chill, have a drink and dinner! Lovely place to stay! My mum and dad stay there when come to see me. They love it

Great ambience. Live band on Saturdays. Excellent food.

Perfect location, love that it's right on the common

There is such a good atmosphere always. Food and service is top notch. And of course, a stone's throw from the common. Highly recommended

This place was great. Swapping out Hells for a very mediocre replacement is enough for me not to come back though. When will publicans learn what good beer is?

Nice atmosphere and busy in a well kept period building.

Friendly staff, very quick service. However the AC was on full blast so a bit chilly inside!

Great atmosphere. Only had drinks there but they were a bit watered down and overpriced.

Nice trendy pub on Clapham Common, decent selection of hand pumps. Outside seating and live music, and a burger place in the beer garden. Nice place.

No character whatsoever. Just a big building, painted to look like one of the smaller, trendier pubs in the area. And really bright lights to highlight the bad decor. Go somewhere else, seriously.

(nothing wrong with the staff or drinks, to be fair, just... Nothing right with the place)

Worst Sunday roast I've had in London at one of the highes pubt prices. Started badly when the waitress delivered the food but no cutlery. Took over five minutes for them to resolve, by which time our food was lukewarm. The beef was chewy to the poin tof being inedible. The pork (wife and a friend ordered this) was so dry it was like cardboard. Burger for another friend was like it had come from maccas.
We all left at least half of our food. Instead of asking if there was a problem the waitress spilt the dregs of a pint on the table, picked up our plates, left the table dripping and walked off.
On the plus side the neighbouring table's puppy got a decent feed, although even he wasn't coming back for seconds.
The beer was good.

Friendly staff, but not a lot of seats when it getd busy. Nice outside area

A really nice place with lovely food and friendly staff

Perfect weekend. Some where with a soul and heart. Xx

On a sunny day its the place to be... But equally nice and considerably less crowded on colder days.
Good selection of gins if that's ur thing lol and overall gr8 vibe

Good place to watch sports. Lots of TVs and good food from the outdoor burger shack.

Great pub (+ dog friendly), average Sunday evening roast though

Beautiful room and very friendly welcome. Right on the common and easy to get to. I love this hotel

Nice pub, food is absolutely miniscule for the price

Very nice hotel / pub sourrounded by park areas.
Clean room, free coffee and biscuits every day, great breakfast.
Very nice arera (a bit busy tube station in the morning)

Absolutely beautiful hotel. The rooms have everything you need with lots of lovely touches. Would thoroughly recommend it