Royal Albert in Lewisham

I think this might actually be the best pub in London If it isn't, it's certainly up there It's got everything, great food, great beer, hidden jazz back room, clean toilets, bus stop right outside - there's nothing I don't like about this place Massive shout out to Ceb, Syd and Ella behind the bar

We heard a jazz concert here on Sunday evening which was really great. And the service here is super nice and friendly!!

Funny, friendly staff that make you feel right at home. Great atmosphere. Music was super nice too

Great vibe, good food and awesome service. I went there for the first time and the ambiance and friendliness of the staff was amazing. Definitely a place I would go back to

Nicely laid out, proper pub with a good mix of nice pub food, an arty and local crowd, and events. Can get REALLY busy on an event night and nicely quiet the rest of the time.

Cool place, even for a person who drinks orange juice, we always order the chicken tai pizza or something like that.

It's our local pub, and we could not be luckier. The staff are friendly and helpful, the background music is nice, and the whole pub has a great vibe. The food is delicious—I highly recommend the burgers! They're the best in the neighborhood.

Booked a table for a birthday party and we ended up with the back room. Sid took great care of us and made sure we had a good night.

Really good pub, very friendly and excellent food

Tonight’s performance, inspired by the sax player, looking at a forest and setting sun, captured the emotional turmoil of isolation during the pandemic. The forest, usually peaceful, became a backdrop for despair, anger, and longing. The interplay of light and shadow, with the sun looming ominously, mirrored a deep internal conflict between hope and hopelessness. It was a dark, powerful reflection of the longing for freedom and connection, yet tainted by anxiety and uncertainty. The performance immersed me to remember how nature can reflect our raw emotions in times of crisis. Colleen H. Brilliant !!!

Great roast and great service! Came here with family for a Sunday roast and it was a great choice. They only have 3 options but small menus typically means each option is perfect. So was the case. We didn't try the veggie wellington although it looked amazing. Chicken was cooked perfectly and so was beef (a bit on a rare side but it was delicious and tender, good quality cut). I recommend a bloody Mary too. It was one of the best ones out there. The service was lovely and very attentive. Would definitely pop back in, especially with all the gigs and quizzes happening out there!

Top notch, take my money. Bring your friends. Simple yet well executed with pizzazz. Knowledgeable, helpful and friend staff. Oh and the tartar sauce is on point. 11/10

Amazing Pub/Restaurant with lovely friendly staff!💙💙💙

Oustanding mood and great ales inside. A great local pub. Additional value for a Charlton fan behind the bar

Such a great pub. Loads of beer to choose from and respectable food. Check-out the live music nights - especially on Sunday.

Why isn’t there a drink category on Google because this is a five star drinks establishment. We didn’t eat but enjoyed good services and good beers including guest beers.

What a fantastic place! Can't recommend enough! From a super friendly staff, delicious food, cool vibe, and live jazz music, it is a truly go to place!

Sid the bartender made my experience here - I had such a great time and mainly because of him. We need more bartenders like him in London. I will definitely be back !!

First visit as we came in from Hampshire to a show at the nearby community theatre. Swe received such a warm welcome. Great to see 'happy hour' prices and enjoy our drinks. Our first choice menu item was off but very pleased with what we had. Great atmosphere, lovely visit. Sorry you are so far away from home!

Just went in mid afternoon for a drink on a hot day. Very pleased with the service

Great pub in New Cross- food is banging, Wednesday burger deal is ⚡️👌 service was great, was super busy but the barman still gave 10/10 service!

It took too much time before the food was served. Other people arriving after me were served before me. The kitchen seemed very confused.

Loved the fish and chips here, and the pint of Jubel is very slay. Looks very engaged with the community! Love the pub

Nice atmosphere, friendly people and amazing live music. Edit: even the food is pretty nice!

Great atmosphere, service and drinks! ....and all that along with great live jazz

We waited an hour for our food. Some were cold, some unseasoned.

Love this pub, the staff are so friendly and chatty. The food is great and they have lots of events. Would highly recommend.

It's a great pub and they have decent music. The food is top notch but not easy for a fussy eater like me ( no seafood gluten, yeast, beef, barley or oats). Everyone loves it. The roast are wicked.

S.imply E.xceptional B.artender Aka Seb. We stumbled across The Royal Albert by chance on Saturday. Not only did we have the best service ever known to man, I also now know what I’m going to be naming my first born son. Seb just got it. Quicker than you could say , ‘this service is making me horny’ he had organised a tab, served us pints and taken our food order. He helped dry our seats outside, he brought us multicoloured moustaches, water and all the sauces. You know when you meet a guy who’s good at what he does. He knew what we wanted before we did. The speed of this man was biblical. When I next need a doctors appointment I know who I’m calling to organise it. I feel like we have just stumbled across the biggest kept secret in London, and he happens to work in a great pub.

Great Sunday roast, food was very tasty. Excellent service 👏

Great service and great Sunday roast!

We visited for the Monday quiz - it was the first time we’ve been despite driving/walking past so many times. The quiz was brilliant, well hosted and fun. Not too easy and not too difficult. The pub itself is really warm and welcoming. There were lots of events being advertised which all look well thought through and exciting; if there was a way to sign up for news I definitely would as there’s definitely a lot going on! Drinks were great too - good non-alcoholic choice. Looking forward to returning.

A real old world gem. Cheeky little Star Wars references scattered around. Lovely big open fire 🔥 too. The bar lady was very friendly and made us both feel welcome. Wish it was our local 😪

Really nice, especially the hummus!

Sunday royal roast (mixed roast) was a generous portion and very good value for money although just average in terms of taste

Awesome place. HIghly recommend.

Great pub, with excellent food, the sport on during the day and live music in the evening. We've spent a couple of lazy Sundays here and it's great!!

Beetroot hummus, warm flatbread with salad washed down with a good "porters" nice X Live music on a Sunday which adds to the atmosphere

One of my favourite pubs. It always feels like Christmas for some reason.

One of the best roast I've had in London, hands down

Had a fantastic roast!!! The service was impeccable and something you’d expect in a high end restaurant!

Lovely pub - one that I find myself in on a regular basis. Good selection of beer, good food, and friendly staff. One of my favourites. Update: Still the same old RoyAl. Reliable pub with good beer and good people.

I’ve now celebrated my birthday here twice and cannot recommend it highly enough. Great location! The staff were fab - friendly and extremely attentive with the food and drinks orders, despite there being 12+ of us. Food was delicious! I’d recommend the beef burger. Drinks very reasonably priced. Everything you’d want from a pub. My favourite pub in New Cross (and one of my favourites in the whole of London!)

Very well kept, nicely decorated pub with high quality food and a great selection of beers on tap

Called in for a coffee as they are a dog friendly pub. Great service, price good, great vibe ... free dog treats a really nice touch. Thank you.

Absolutely delicious Sunday Roast!! Sticky toffee pudding at the end was definitely a great choice too 😍

Had the chicken bites, a favourite of mine from Portobello. Cooked how it should be and delicious 😋

Toilets smell like poison cack— out of this world but I like otherwise

Had a meal with my son in the Royal Albert couple of weeks ago which was excellent & very reasonably priced. Went with my wife Saturday night & the atmosphere was superb with an excellent live 4-piece jazz band in too…loads of people dancing & was lots of fun…easy to recommend for food, selection of drinks, great staff & atmosphere.

Sid & Brandon are top lads. great service and well priced pints. Great pint of XPA!

Really enjoy the drinks options of beer and cider options. Clean nice pub that gives off romantic, cute/ homey vibes. Lovely staff as well. One of the best if not the best in the area if you ask me

Staff are always lovely and make sure you are well looked after.

Fantastic staff and drinks. Very friendly. (imho) the Open Mic is so unique with the most ethnically and socially diverse Open Mic I've come across in London. I wish the Open Mic was weekly like other pubs. However unlike other bars / pubs, the Open Mic here represents a unity and harmony of so many different cultures and beliefs that is not seen anywhere else. We deserve more of that... Many thanks.

I would love to see Open Mic weekly .

Such a great pub. Went for a roast dinner on Sunday - food was incredible (and plentiful!). The service was amazing, everyone was so friendly and attentive. Decor and atmosphere is really nice. They’re dog friendly too so that was great. We go for a LOT of roast dinners, usually try somewhere different every Sunday, and this is definitely up there for us, top 3! Had a really nice time, will definitely be back and would definitely recommend.

It's a great place but they need to have more open mics with Archie as host. Once a month is too little. Hence why I've given 3 stars instead of 5. At the least, every fortnight, like come on, Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's brother David and many others played there too. How we gonna discover local talents nowadays if you make the live open mics a rarity? Make it much more than once a month please.

Long time I started my carrer as a chef, no words to express how good and thankfull im right now.

Very nice bar staff, good selection of beer and food is served well. Recommended.

Don’t let the price put you off too much as you do get your money’s worth. Generous portions, attentive and friendly staff and welcoming atmosphere.

We went here for New Years Eve and the experience was amazing and I would say that's due to the staff they were so friendly and welcoming and very attentive

Heerlijk zitten eten met een heerlijk biertje. Geweldig geholpen en goede sfeer

Really friendly staff and a great beer selection

Busy but friendly . Had a drink but did not eat there

I had one of the most beautiful afternoons of my life here. Thank you so much to Brandon and everybody!!! I never thought this place would reach such dizzying heights of greatness. Delicious roast and perfect ambience.

Came in with a group of friends for a late lunch & I couldn't fault the service or the food.

We rocked up on a Sunday afternoon, without a booking, after a 5-year-old's birthday party, with a group of hyperactive kids and tired adults. The staff, service and food were all excellent. We were made to feel very welcome, despite being a rowdy group! We had a lovely time, the perfect Sunday afternoon in a pub. Thank you.

Went today for a Sunday roast. Lovely food, really friendly and attentive staff who went the extra mile to make us feel welcome. Will come back. Highly recommend.

Great food, great atmosphere and Seb made us feel really welcome. Will be back real soon.

The only thing better than the service is the food, and the service was excellent.

Gluten free beer on TAP!!!!! Have been coming here since 2013 then moved away. I'm so glad to have got a job close by so I get to come back again. It's an amazing space, really relaxed, great lighting, comfy chairs and awesome staff.

If I could give more than 5 stars I would, because Seb is fabulous! Thanks so much for keeping us fed, watered, and entertained for our punk weekender x

A dining experience that exceeded all expectations.

A lovely, spacious pub providing warm and welcoming service and tasty food.

Neither myself or any of my friends have taken to the soul-sucking refurb but it clearly has its fans so good luck to them.

Great local pub with good selection of drinks and food. Highly recommended!

Top Location,das Essen war gut. Live-Musik und Ambiente ist vom feinsten. Leckeres Darkbier getrunken und Service ist superfreundlich.

Lovely pub - bit expensive, but it's worth it for the atmosphere. Friendly staff, great buskers night, really nice vibe, extremely comfy chairs if you get in quick enough, all around nice energy. Didn't eat there on this occasion but from past experience, food nothing to write home about particularly but good if fairly standard selection and enjoyable. Have taken my parents here before as well, so well rounded for that kind of occasion as well as a nice night out. Old Fashioneds are tip top.

Great sunday roast, good bar and well priced beer, excellent & friendly service, waitstaff.

This used to be my favourite pub and would go almost every weekend, and since the renovation I’ve only been once. It’s been completely completely stripped of any character it had. What was a classic English pub and amazing music venue, is now a soulless Gastro pub. Very sad

Lovely place and nice and helpful staff The manager is a good chap supporting local community and culture. There is a hidden gen in this pub, Jessy. She is a super star... She seems to have mastered the art of customer engagement and business development with the best skills that are in this industry There is another chap in the bar who is super friendly and helpful if you bother to ask for help, I got the best drinks and still managed my alcohol intake limits !!!!

Great choice of new generation ales. Great service. As a pub should be. Did not eat, so can't comment

With a family reunion booked and people coming from all over we arrived only to be told that the kitchen was closed. Apparently they forgot to call us and tell us..bit late for that by then with people arriving by car, bus and train. Obviously it was a mistake but a shocking one. Be very careful to double check your bookings as they clearly aren’t on the ball. It’ll be our last visit there.

Was here to do portrait drawing. Had a lovely evening. First time going to something like this and really enjoyed it.

Been here a few times now and have always enjoyed chilling over a beer. Staff are very hospitable and knowledgeable about the draught offerings. Would definitely continue visiting when back in the area

Had dinner at the RA last night (30th July). We were served by the same waiter as too long ago. He was, as usual, on top form: friendly, efficient, just the right amount of attention. We had medium (her) and rare (me) roast beef and it was delicious and nicely presented. There was plenty of it with Yorkshire pudding, caramelised carrot, white and red cabbage, roast potatoes. We now intend to come more often although other New Cross restaurants are closer. We've been missing out! A band was setting up, too late for us on a Sunday, but you could see jazz devotees aplenty waiting for a good performance.

Revamped local with excellent live jazz on Sunday evenings.

Fantastic Roast!!! From a East Londoner to come to South London to this lovely Pub. Very nice indeed 👌 Seb the main guy that served us, wicked energy fantastic guy and all the staff there really nice people.

Waited 40-50 minutes for main courses to arrive, of which the second meal turned up after the other person had finished. The restaurant was quiet and the manager seemingly disorganised. Food was average on arrival.

weird atmosphere this evening. very loud pop punk music which left the bar inside empty. really intense and wanted to stay outside. not enjoyable, have come here for years

Lovely evening! Perfect ambience!! Great music in the background 😎😎😎 Will be back soon!!!

Fantastic Pub lovely enveriment, happy staff who are always tgere to assist and make us laugh. Have been coming here for years and will be for years to come

I marked this great place down due to its Sunday roast. They don't do lamb, but steak, or chicken. or vegetarian. But that wasn't the issue. The chicken roast was delicious, but the potatoes were not good. In fact, they were hard. I thought they hadn't been cooked properly. My guests said they were frozen Aunt Bessy. Unfortunately when I spoke with staff the response was somewhat bemusing: "Unfortunately we don't have any more potatoes left." This seemed strange. We were the first people to eat and other customers later arrived and had what appeared to be potatoes on their plate. So mark down and don't return.

Wonderful sounds being made in the back room tonight.

Quality beer, quality service. Varied interior so plenty to choose from- quiet spaces and big outside tables. Well done

Good vibe from the place and a good selection of food and alcohol

What a find! We were going to a gig at the O2, and staying in Deptford for the night, so we wanted a place for a meal and a couple of drinks before going to the concert. Found the Albert through Google, and booked a table for two hours at three in the afternoon. When we got there, the place was locked, but Don (the chef) let us in after hearing our story. He looked after us until John (proprietor) arrived, then prepared the BEST tapas we have had outside Spain. John was the perfect host and insisted on standing us our first round by way of apology for the misunderstanding. This is going to be a regular visit for us when attending the O2. We can highly recommend the staff, food and excellent choice of beers and wines available. Thanks, John and Don, and see you again very soon.

The classic southern pub, almost in the point when New Cross Road meets Deptford High street. Especially nice on Sundays with high quality live music.

Lovely little pub, friendly staff and chill atmosphere.

Brilliant food & atmosphere. Staff are friendly. Well priced for the quality of food! We had the cheeseburger croquettes, cheese and jalapeños bites and the crispy chicken wings. All cooked so well and tasted amazing!

Friendly staff and relaxed atmosphere, good range of beers