George — Restaurant in London

Pleasant pub with a good vibe.

I visited for the first time on a Thursday evening in February 2024, part of a group of eight.

As you enter from the front you are in a large wooden-floored room with high & low tables & chairs, with a very brightly lit bar in front of you.

To the right of the front door there's a step down into a narrower room with more tables and chairs.

Plenty of bar staff, all of whom were well dressed, attentive and helpful. No real ale on tap, but they do have bottles of it. Drinks are very expensive! Round for five people was £32 and spirits were £4.35.

When we visited, the left end was taken up by karaoke, DJ'd by Dave who is a Thursday regular and turned out to be a really nice guy. He dealt with song requests fairly and his set up and its sound were great.

Everyone was friendly. The crowd was mostly youngish and included followers of the DJ, most of whom were decent singers. The floor in front of the DJ had been cleared and looked like a dance floor, but sadly most punters chose not to do dancey songs.

The pub is right on the little roundabout in the middle of Bexley & if you're bored you can amuse yourself by watching antics of drivers navigating this very busy junction . But not from the pavement outside - where we saw smokers, drunks and other ne'er-do-wells narrowly avoid being struck on the head by wing mirrors of long vehicles such as buses, which regularly sweep across.

PARKING. Bexley High Street car park is behind the pub, which is free in the evenings - access it via Mill Row. But if you stay for over four hours you risk being fined.

See https://www.bexley.gov.uk/services/parking-transport-and-streets/parking-bexley/car-parks-and-street-parking

Less suicidal smokers congregate outside a door at the back of the pub, which also gives access to and from the car park. But beware, you have to walk across poorly lit, uneven and cratered ground - which could be a training ground for injury...

Really nice pub with decent pub grub too. They have a large interior with plenty of space and seats, it does get busy at times - Friday/Saturday night being a couple of those times but the environment is welcoming and the mood is generally quite a high/fun one. Pricing is expected for the area, it could be a little cheaper if I’m being honest and is one of only 2 criticisms I have about the place, the other being the “outside” area at the rear of the pub, they could do a lot lot more with the very limited space and furniture they have there. For example, adding in a “bar” level shelf of some sort to rest drinks on for smokers/vapers along the outside wall would help, and perhaps putting poser tables (higher level) out there rather than small regular tables would help to make it a little better looking and a more comfortable external environment too. All in all a great little pub, one to visit if you are on a Bexley pub crawl for sure as it’s right in the...

We went yesterday for lunch. Poor service and the place is filthy. Sticky floors and tables not cleaned properly from the night before, empty condiments, empty crisp packets in condiments boxes etc. The high chair seat was dirty, we had to clean it ourselves. The toilets are disgusting. Broken toilet seat, ripped wallpaper, filthy sinks, smelly and dingy. We were dubious to eat, as had a bad meal once before, but our daughter was hungry and our other choice cafes were closed. Plus this is the only pub which allows families in the village. Food seemed ok as there seemed to be a new menu - however the mushroom omlette given to my daughter has given her food poisoning and we have been nursing a poorly child through the night. Not a nice start to Christmas. We will never come here again and will pass on this...