Jolly Millers Bexleyheath — Restaurant in London

Had never been to this pub, which is two minutes walk from Bexleyheath Town Centre. So, deliberately popped in on a Saturday night when karaoke was on (the excellent Ben, second Saturday of every month).

It’s well lit and prominent on the main road (enter from the side road), bright, spacious and well decorated inside with a succession of rooms knocked together to form an open-plan L shape with high and low tables and chairs here and there, and plenty of room.

Not many people there for a Saturday night.

Happy days, friendly bar staff - and two real ale pumps (that’s my thing) but alas and unusually for this area, there wasn’t any. But a reasonable choice of the usual ice-cold gassed-up draught beers. A pint plus spirit and mixer cost £8.60.

For some reason there’s two listings for this pub on FB, both of which say it’s family, child and dog friendly - Goggle reviews mention same. This is accurate, because there were two dogs roaming about, along with five or six kids aged between two and ten years or so - who were allowed to karaoke.

On the subject of karaoke, if you’re an applause-junkie it’s easy to shine here because the bar is set very low. Most singers did not appear to have recently listened to songs they were attempting to sing, if indeed they ever had.

Best dress down for this venue. Even at 9pm on a Saturday evening most punters just wore very casual clothing or even work clothes and clearly hadn’t made any sort of effort.

Overall, definitely not for us and we legged it elsewhere. But guess our negatives may be positives for some...

Esther, Pete and all the staff at Jolly Millers were a dream! We definitely chose the right venue for our relaxed fiesta themed wedding party. We had a wedding party of 52 people and the garden and gazebo set up here was absolutely perfect. There was space to set up the tables, cater a full BBQ and space to dance the night away. Esther and Pete were so accommodating and open to our plans. They allowed us have exclusive use of the pub for 4 hours and even after this all of the locals respected our space, although by the end of the night the whole pub was dancing together and joining in 🎉🥰 everyone keeps saying to us what a great pub it was, how friendly the staff were and how reasonable the prices were. In this day and age that says a lot. We will continue to visit Jolly Millers as one of our locals and wouldn't hesitate to use them for any event big/small again. Thanks so much (newlyweds Mr and Mrs...

I celebrated my one year old baby's party there and it was lovely! They let us use the garden area for it, I could bring my own decorations and put a foam mat on the floor for the babies to play. The food was catered by a bakery they recommended (food was excellent) and they provided the music with speakers. There is no wifi, but I believe you could share your playlist with a cable/device. They have a disabled toilet and are working on getting a baby changer for it. For the party, we could use a changing mat which was helpful. The owners are absolutely lovely and were very helpful during the organisation and during the party. I highly recommend this pub for any events. The party was a success and everyone...