Candlemaker, Battersea

After eight months' closure, this pub was reopened on 1 November 2012 by new owners Revived by InnBrighton, now the Laine Pub Company. A complete internal makeover incorporated the old kitchen as trade space and a lot of work went into the garden, with smoking shelters back and front. The new upstairs kitchen was once a meeting/function room and the top floor is the manager’s domestic accommodation.

Cask beer was discontinued in 2021 owing to lack of demand but returned in March 2023.

The pub was suddenly taken over in September that year from Laine's by Smok'd, who run the Britannia, SE1 and the Greyhound in Kingston. Like them, a 'modern British barbecue restaurant' it was initially described to a CAMRA visitor as free of tie, with a commitment to cask beer and the promise of local favourites, but then found its ambitions frustrated by contractual supply restrictions severely limiting its choice of cask ales, with two few customers wanting the one typically on. That was replaced by keg Wainwright Gold, the otherwise misleading handpump explaining that it is 'brewery conditioned ale', but the pub closed in mid-January 2026, Smok'd having given up.

Reopened on 12 February, thankfully with the cask version of the Wainwright. Darts, pool and TV sports. Description pending further updating.