The Derby is an independent pub at 336 Kennington Park Road in Oval, renamed from The Brown Derby after an extensive 2022 refurbishment. The site has housed a pub for more than two centuries and remains focused on local gatherings, sport and live music.
A resident food pop up serves smash burgers, wings and changing house specials. The direct, casual menu is designed to accompany a pint, but kitchen service through lunch and dinner makes the pub suitable for a full informal meal.
Five screens show major sporting events, while Friday live music and a Monday quiz create a busy weekly rhythm. Those events give the room energy without taking away its role as a relaxed neighbourhood pub at quieter times.
Cask ale, craft beer, lager, spirits, wine and cocktails cover a broad range behind the bar. The Derby is especially well suited to groups seeking straightforward pub food, a good drinks choice and lively entertainment close to Oval station.
Address: 336 Kennington Park Road, Oval, London SE11 4PP, England
The Brown Derby Menu
Lunch
Sandwiches with potato crisps and green salad
Mature cheddar and pickle; Chicken salad; Roast beef
Blue plate special
Goats cheese and caramelised onion tart
Smoked fish platter
Welsh rarebit with a fried egg and salad
Original brown derby cobb salad
Butchers sausages mash and peas
Smoked mackerel and salmon fishcakes w/ salad
Mature ribeye steak with sauté pots and salad
Wild mushroom risotto
BBQ ribs with wedges, slaw and salad
Chicken fajita wrap with wedges slaw and salad
Sticky toffee pudding with ice cream
Dinner – Starters and Light Meals
Supper served 5.30pm to 9.30pm
Goats cheese and caramelised onion tart
Smoked fish platter
Herbed wedges
Herbed wedges with cheese
Sharing platter, charcuterie meat with houmous and salads
Dinner – Mains
Ribeye steak with sauté potatoes and salad
Homemade bacon-cheese burger with wedges and salad
Butchers sausages, mash and peas
Smoked mackerel and salmon fishcakes with salad
Wild mushroom risotto
Vegetable and goats cheese quiche with 3 salads
Dinner – Dessert
Sticky toffee pudding with ice cream
Sunday Lunch – Starters
Goats cheese and caramalised onion tart
Chicken liver pate with tomato chutney
Cream of mushroom soup
Smoked fish platter
Sunday Lunch – Mains
Sunday roasts served with yorkshire pudding, stuffing, roots and shoots
1/4 spit roasted chicken
Spit roasted neck end of Pork
Roast Sirloin of braveheart beef
Roast leg of lamb stuffed with garlic
Wild mushroom risotto
Warm vegetable and goats cheese quiche w/salads
Smoked mackerel and salmon fishcakes w/salad
Butchers sausages, mash and peas
Sunday Lunch – Deserts
Sticky toffee sponge pudding with ice cream
Classic Cocktails
Martini
vodka or gin shaken or stirred
Cosmopolitan
Vodka, Cointreau, lime, cranberry
Mojito
Rum, lime, sugar, mint
Caipirinha
Cachaca, lime, sugar
Espresso Martini
Vodka, Kaluha, shot of coffee espresso
Old fashioned
Bourbon, bitters, sugar, orange zest
Negroni
Gin, vermouth, Campari, splash oj
Champagne classic cocktail
Champagne, bitters, cognac, sugar (Julie London cried many a river over these)
House Cocktails
Japanese slipper
Tequila, Midori, lime and pineapple
Fritz’s special mai tai
Rum based Polynesian fou fou cocktail
Yee mee loo (the blue drink)
Secret ingredients; Invented by the legendary ming sing ma, Chinatown, L.A.
The good luck
House drink of the good luck bar, L.A.
English garden
Gin, apple juice, elderflower, cucumber
Rosebud
Absolut kurant, pineabble, Chambord, lime
Foux du Fafa
Baileys, whisky, Grand Marnier, banana liquor; ‘Ou est la biblioteque?’
Hot Drinks
Espresso
Double espresso
Americano
Latte
Cappuccino
Mocha
Tea/herbal infusions
Hot chocolate
Wine List
Marques De Calado Macabeo
White wine
Bantry Bay Chenin Blanc
White wine
Vina Carrasco sauvignon blanc
White wine
San Giorgio Pinot Grigio
White wine
Marques De la Calada Tempranillo
Red Wine
Aires Andinos Malbec
Red Wine
Five Foot track Shiraz
Red Wine