The Railway, 16 Blackheath Village

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.

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