Royal Albert, New Crossback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Excellent pub great food, friendly staff, good music which isn't too loud so you can have a conversation without shouting, reasonable prices and so much less pretentious than the Amersham Arms up the road.
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Great Pub! ticks all the right boxes; good atmosphere, good music, nice selection of drinks including my favorite (Landlord), friendly staff. Oh and the food is pretty amazing! I had the steak and ale pie and my wife had the baked camembert both superb! by far the best pub in New Cross
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GOOD GASTRO-PUB! THE FOOD IS SIMPLE TASTY! I LIKE THE DECO AND FURNITURES INSIDE!!
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It looks great, thought the refurb after the paradise closed down is a little bit like a stage set. Almost like someone's idea of what a traditional pub ought to look like, rather than what one actually is.
Lots of attractive thirty-something women the first time I went there. But that might just be because it was early on in the evening.
Also the terrace at the front is a nice place to sit. And of course you can smoke there which is a great boost to a pub these days - at least it is in south-east London - pubs with no outside smoking space, or small or unpleasant ones have been taking a hammering commercially. And when a pub starts losing money it can go downhill fast. What you rally need is somewhere large and airy and pleasant enough that its not just a smoker's ghetto. so others will sit there as well and chat. Which is what a pub is about.
The Albert has got that, or at least it has in the day. When I walked past later that same evening they were packing away the terrace and locking the doors even though it was still light. No idea why.
Beet was great and food looked good but both pretty expensive. More somewhere to take your significant other for a meal and a chat than a place for a session.
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Returned to again last night with my partner. Aside from the fact that the side of the pub with the glass roof is bloody feezing, this pub just gets better and better. The food there is superb and the range of beers, if a little too limited, encompasses Landlord, Youngs Bitter and the sublime Grolsch Weizen (which sadly ran out last night). The food is simply scintillating, cooked beautifully in the open kitchen. A good blend of people, very personable staff, lovely decor and a buzzing, yet not hectic, atmosphere. Now firmly established as my favourite London pub.
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This place is INCREDIBLE! The absolute best pub I have ever been in, made all the better because it is in a place where we have grown to expect bad service, bad beers and distinctly off-key people. Me and my friends come down here for a few beers that swiftly becomes many, with good music on the soundsystem, and a crazy safe gadgee behind the bar, nice chap, we always have a laugh. Plus, they pour the best Guinness and Landlord (Madonna endorsed)in town. Highly recomended South East Traditional London Boozer!
PS. It gets hectic on Friday, a very good laugh, bring money!
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This place is quite overrated and a bit up itself, but in an area where most of your alternatives would involve wearing body armour, it remains something of an oasis in a desert of dodginess.
Staff pleasant, clientelle are a rum bunch (strangely dressed Goldsmiths students, the occasional Nathan Barley media type plus a sprinkling of real people). All in all it hovers somewhere between 'quirky' and 'pretentious', but you could do much MUCH worse in this neck of the woods
And they've just started doing Sunday roasts, which are good but expensive (£9-£10)
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Went past it the other day and a sign outside said they're now doing pub food.
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Had an amazing night here the other friday, the music was excellent and the staff, although slightly hot!, where still really friendly even at the busiest times during the night. Really nice decor inside and an excellent range of drinks, would throughly recommend this pub to everyone! keep up the good work!
anonymous - 23 Mar 2007 20:51 |
Still preferred the Paradise bar because of the whole danger thrill, this place is the same as every gastro pub everywhere else.
However as this is New Cross and there arent anymore gastro pubs near here it gets thumbs up from me.
Plus it's not (that) expensive, though I wouldnt fancy doing an all day session in here.
Also no tellys, I want football.
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It's good, tatty furniture, real ale served in pint mugs, taxidermy on the walls. It's all very welcome (though I do still miss the Paradise Bar).
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The Royal Albert - top pub. One of the best in the area - nice cross between old man character and a trendy muso pre-club venue. Good different beers. Always a nice atmos, plenty of cool people, but not arsey Shoreditch types. They promise to do food soon too.
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The Royal Albert is a lovely pub. Beautifully thought through decor and a decent range of beers. Highly recommended.
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This has now re-opened as the Royal Albert - a stripped down, reclaimed furniture type bar. VERY cosy, nice bar with a really good range of beers. I had a lovely bottle of Framboise and a couple of pints of Korenwolf (in the correct glass with cute hamster on!!) - all of which were lovely. My husband had a good pint of Timothy Taylor (in a jug!) and a few pints of Stowford Press cider which certainly put a glow in his cheeks.
Bar staff were really friendly, nice loos (all important to us girlies!) and the music wasn't over-powering conversation. Also when we went on a Monday night it was suprisingly lively.
Definately the best bar in the New Cross area with a good selection of well priced beers (most others only stocking stella etc and no ale). Making this my local for sure
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It's been painted green. Keeping an eye on it....
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