2 /5 Roger N: 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 prospective punters.
