The Pubs Around Nunhead: 16 - Shaky Restart

So the Rye Hotel has reopened.

The kitchen is apparently being 'sorted out' - so they are doing uncheap food via a series of catering vans. 

They've reorganised the seating so it is less 'comfy' and more pub-like (which isn't that nice).

A few weeks ago I wrote:

One can only hope that the new plans include (i) removal of the large, hideous, over-photoshoped photographic prints that litter the walls, (ii) a brighter paint job than the ubiquitous battleship gray with which the pub is currently blighted, and (iii) fresh, new wallpaper that (at the very least) does not have a predominant colour of mud. Of the wallpaper that the previous owners favoured, one of our offspring has pointed out that it is exactly the wallpaper they use on Dave - only substantially less colourful.
Oh, and proper lighting would be quite nice, as would an attempt to get rid of the annoying small flies that flit around the bar.

So how have they done?

Well the hideous photos have gone, to be replaced with a print of a large, awkward charcoal drawing of a  naked woman posing like Manet's Olympia.  The ugly wallpaper remains, and the paint is untouched.  The lighting is slowly improving - although it is still dingy in places.  And the flies remain.

To be fair, they are talking about sorting it all out, 'but it will take a while'.  Only time will tell...