Blackheath pubs
Almost medieval village lurking at the top of Greenwich park. Walk across the heath, watch the kite flyers and pretend you’re in the sixteenth century.
| The Dacre Arms, 11 Kingswood Place, SE13 5BU |
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Telephone: 020 8852 6779
Nearest station: Blackheath, Zone 3 (580 metres)
| Hare and Billet, 1a Elliott Cottages, Hare and Billett Road, SE3 0QJ |
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This one is a decent Greene King pub overlooking the expanse of Blackheath Common. It's traditional in style with a big emphasis on bare wooden surfaces. It serves an extensive range of food and hosts a weekly quiz night on Sundays. As a pub it is fairly ordinary, but the overwhelming attraction of this pub is the view. You could spend hours watching the kites soaring high above the common and imagine Chaucer’s characters from the Canterbury Tales making their merry way to Kent.
Reviewed by Paul Melton, Oct 2006
Telephone: 020 8852 2352
Nearest station: Blackheath, Zone 3 (430 metres)
| The Princess of Wales, 1a Montpelier Row, SE3 0RL |
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For those who consider Greenwich to be a bit of a gauche tourist hangout, Blackheath forms the perfect antidote. Stretching out behind the royal park, walking across the heath is like peeling back layers of time, with not a single new building before you as you head towards the ancient village beyond. The Princess of Wales is one of two pubs that front onto the heath, and the only one that will allow you to take your drinks out into the greenery. As such, it is enormously popular, but thankfully it offers plenty to be worthy of all the attention. Design-wise, it has gone down the by-now-familiar stripped interior fittings, everything done in dark wood in the front and side bars, while there is an extensive conservatory at the back with sofas etc, and a fairly large beer garden beyond that. It offers a wide range of ales, upmarket continental beers (Budvar Dark and Fruli, for instance) and provides an excellent, if expensive, food menu. Can get a bit crowded at the bar, but overall it is a place well worth persevering with, particularly if you want to enjoy your vittles on the wide expanse of grass, at least during one of those rare occasions it stops raining.
Reviewed by Fred Flange, Aug 2007
Telephone: 20 8852 5784
Nearest station: Blackheath, Zone 3 (330 metres)
| The Railway, 16 Blackheath Village, SE3 9LE |
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Well, here’s a surprise: another New Baroque pub. As usual, it’s all done very nicely, with a wide lounge area at the front, a section at the rear half-enclosed by a chain curtain, a roof terrace and exactly the same food menu as the Princess of Wales, just further up by the heath. You pay for your surroundings with exorbitantly-priced food and drink, but that doesn’t seem to discourage the steady stream of work parties, trendy couples and overfed, overpaid obnoxious louts that seem to constitute the pub’s clientele. And that’s the problem. Half the time I felt like I was in Fulham, such was the boorish, faintly unpleasant atmosphere: completely pissed businessmen leering at petite women, over-privileged young men trying to burn off their lunchtime beef with a spot of macho posturing, stressy barstaff, the big-wallets-and-bellies brigade. No wonder they employ bouncers on a Saturday night.
Reviewed by Fred Flange, June 2008
Telephone: 020 8852 2390
Nearest station: Blackheath, Zone 3 (40 metres)
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