The Golden Anchor Public House in Southwark

🚇 Nunhead 🍺 £6.50 Camden Hells The Golden Anchor is located in a residential area in Nunhead, Southeast London. The nearest station is Nunhead mainline. This pub was built in 1867 and looks that it may have been altered at some point in the 1930’s. This pub may look familiar to you, as it featured on Tom Kerridge's “Saving Britains Pubs” series back in 2020. This is a spacious two bar pub that has the main bar located at the front and a similar sized bar located at the rear. The decor here is contemporary with an eclectic mix of colourful and traditional furniture and bold fixtures and fittings. Just by the servery in the front bar is a table of dominoes which is a regular fixture here. At the front of the pub is a cosy outside space with parasols. The beer line up was all keg and included familiar mainstream brands. I decided on a Camden Hells lager, my pint hit the spot, price point was a tad above average. This pub has served food in the past, but I couldn’t see a food menu when I visited. We arrived just after 5pm on a warm Saturday afternoon in July. The pub had not long opened and was fairly quiet with one other local punter in attendance. We got talking to the Landlady and a member of the bar team, both were friendly and welcoming. It would seem this place comes alive in the evenings, it opens most days late afternoon and has a late license at weekends. This pub shows sport on Sky and TNT, has Dominoes practice three nights a week, Vinyl nights on a Thursday and Karaoke and DJ nights. As highlighted in the series with @cheftomkerridge , pubs are still facing a tough time of it, so it was great to see @thegoldenanchorpub surviving in this difficult climate. Next time you’re in the Nunhead/Peckham area, be sure to pay a visit. 📅 27th July 2024

Nice place to chill with friends.

WoW....Been driving past here for over 20 years. Watch this space.

Went on a Thursday good music good atmosphere has a drink or two really good time

Staffs seems to be Extremely helpful and Landlady is lovely

Great Thursday night strictly vynal keep up the good work

Great place. First time visit and loved it. The various spaces. Will visit again 💥

Chubby lady with short hair very rude.

Fantastic night last time I went , back tonight ❤️

Underrated renovated pub in Nunhead/Peckham

I visited the Golden Anchor with my friend last night, great atmosphere and the food was lovely. The host Lona was very welcoming on our arrival, very nice that be greeted with such warmth. All the staff members were friendly and welcoming. Highly recommend a visit to The Golden Anchor.

Thursday night was vinyl night...tunes had us singing and reminiscing. Must wear your dancing shoes

The Golden Anchor pub party atmosphere is simply brill the best in classic and modern reggae music from start to finish 👌 you cant help but dance the night away 10/10 to the DJs and the promoter... The dining experience at the Golden Anchor Pub was brilliant 👏🏾👏🏾 food was very tasty and well presented.. nice friendly atmosphere 10/10 compliments to both chef and staff ...DQ

I absolutely loved my nights here! Prices are very reasonable and Staff are so beautiful and welcoming deffo coming back❤️

Great atmosphere and friendly staff, incredible food. Been there numerous times for Sunday lunch or drinks mid week or after work on a weekend. Never fails to disappoint with a lovely atmosphere and a lovely night especially when they have live music.

I’ve been coming every week for the past few months and I love that the variety of events and DJs they put on every week! The staff are so beautiful and friendly especially the owner and her daughter! The drinks are very reasonably priced!

Golden anchor is a lovely venue which caters for the black community. The last Saturday in the month was my last visit 4tune FM radio DJs were gracing the decks playing some sweet tunes of the reggae, rare groove, RnB and soul genre's. My friend and I danced the night away after eating some lovely Jamaican patties with wedges to work the food off ,obviously! 😏.My community doesn't have many clubs left this place is a great place for raving as I did in my 20s ,30s and 40s ,loved it !!

I really like the surroundings, atmosphere and space, I would certainly look to have an event here in the future.

This is a great place, would deffo recommend people coming!! Especially locals.

Absolutely amazing food from Iyanams kitchen. Staff are very friendly can't wait to go back.

Another rude public house that is not welcoming

I go here for the clothes swaps and the otjernkihht for a disco. It's a good pub with a welcoming atmosphere.

Lively pub tucked away, met the chef new chef lovely guy, staff were lovely felt like I'd been coming here for years they really aim to please.

Good Vybes on a Saturday with DJ until 2am

Was a quick pitstop but they had a good selection of drinks and the staff were very friendly

Tried to book a table for Mother's Day (11 people) which was way too stressful. Communication seems to be the biggest issue, the night before we received a call informing us that they were unaware of the booking until today! we ended up cancelling all together. Staff didn't seem bothered, no apology made for the disorganised management of our booking.

The staff were informative but it was to loud for conversation at that time. Atmosphere was good but would suggest you check it out for yourself before using regularly. Otherwise it was OK and I will go again.

The pub needs to be looked at by licensing authority. Despite being an offence they asked for 50p for a glass of tap water - from paying customers, in between rounds of drinks! The bartender is a rude woman and we suspect she only tried to pull this stunt as we were a (and the only) brown couple, and she was trying to make a quick few easy quid of us. The pub owner need to know this, if they don't. The person behind your bar claims the manager forces them to do this. This is illegal.

Nice quiet little pub. Proper. Not some trumped up expensive gastro rubbish. Nice staff too.

We stopped by on this rainy afternoon on the way home as I really needed to use the loo, stayed for a pint and...I really loved the atmosphere! The place seems to have been recently revamped, it was extremely clean and you could see how much the owners/staff care for it by the attention to each detail in the furniture and decorations. There's a real wood fire and some classic reggae tunes were playing in the background (hadn't heard Beres Hammond in a pub in ages and my heart just melted). Haven't tried their food but will surely be back for that and some Saturday night jam!

Great ambience and food on Sundays are delicious

It's a friendly relaxing environment and the jerk pork was good.

Lovely, friendly owner. Pub with a boho vibe and outside seating.

Beautiful ambience, excellent service, Lovely entertainment and very friendly staff. ♥️💯🎵🎸😍

Had the Wednesday special bangers and mash, onion gravy. Did not expect it to taste so good. Great friendly staff and service. Will definately be frequenting this establishment again. I also think Fridays is Jerk night, so my visit back may be quite soon.

Lovely old time pub with a modern twist . Drinks are reasonably priced . The Caribbean menu looks great for the next time we visit Peckham . The landlady was nice and super friendly

Lovely pub for a quiet drink & there are different pop up restaurants. Call beforehand to make sure they are serving food.

Great service, nice atmosphere and banging food!

Great beers, sunshine in the front and really helpful staff!

Still seen as a pub for the local West Indian drinkers but it's long way from old guys playing dominoes stereotype of my youth. Great service, decent pint of Guinness. Lots of seats inside and out. To sum up its a good boozer, not as "fake" as some of pubs in the area, and I like that.

I have not been 2that pub for many years around 10 or 12year ok from Elvis

Lovely open mic, friendly service cool vibe

Excellent! It is really nicely decorated inside. So accommodating, great staff, we had a wonderful party there.

Lovely pub. Run by the same Landlady, Lara, for 23 years, and made famous by the Tom Kerridge BBC 1 series #SavingBritainsPubs. It's been updated brilliantly, It's comfortable, good feel to it and really welcoming. A Proper Local

Great refurb and fantastic service!

Had a wake here for a relative nice food and great service ,helped to make a sad day a calm happy social event.

Love this pub! Run by an absolutely lovely and welcoming team. Great food and great atmosphere. A proper genuine south east London local. And great for private party hire including kids parties. So lucky to have these guys just around the corner in Nunhead!

Lovely, friendly south east London pub with a very accommodating attitude. Great food, good atmosphere and we’re very happy to call it our local! Kid friendly and great for private party hire.

Nice people whoever doesn't know about this place is missing out

Used to be a place where the community came to celebrate but things have changed. Onwards and upwards

Lovely! Great place for our family breakfast.

Excellent food and nice atmosphere...

Great food and great service! The night we went they had a very cool DJ and a Beatbox performer… what a night :)

Very nice food 😋 cocktails are 👍🏾

Visited last week on recommendation from a mate. Great pub, friendly staff, will be back to try some food, the menu looks great!

Went for a pop up on a Sunday. Food was amazing, nice music and atmosphere. Staff were friendly. Thank You

Reinvigorated venue. However prices should be more competitive

Good food, friendly staff, lovely surroundings.

The Riverdene Roti pop-up was delicious - salt fish fritters were great and the service is really warm and friendly. Come often

Amazing spot, really great atmosphere and cool music selection too!! Augustas was a friendly and helpful server ! I recommend ripper ipa for a great beer !! Thank you Golden Anchor

We went here after seeing the Tom Kerridge programme. Lana has done a very good job at turning this place around. The food was nice and the service was also just as good.

Great find, great music , very relaxed atmosphere and reasonable prices..

Shambles. Chaos. Wasted time. The only take cash. This is not mentioned anywhere on the website,no signs on the door or told to us upon arrival. Waited 1 hour and 10 minutes for food!!! The food was nice. Not amazing. Just good. Not worth waiting an hour. Every single table was complaining about the same issues, wrong order, late orders, waiting for drinks.... WAITING FOR AAAGGGESSSS. No particular sense of urgency from the staff. Lots of customers eventually left. So disappointing. It's also out of the way so a real waste of time. Will not be returning. I took a photo of a table who were so fed up they left full drinks on the table to go home. Several families with children were waiting over an hour for food! Kids falling asleep!

Great rotis and saltfish fritters, super friendly pub

Good food and Drink lovely staff

Stopped at The Golden Anchor last night for some post-dinner pints with a friend. Our server Augustus was incredibly warm and friendly, efficient and gave us some great suggestions on beers! Overall, fantastic and quick service. I have yet to try the food but will definitely be back. Thanks Golden Anchor!

Augustus at the Golden Anchor is an amazing bar tender. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit. He is highly skilled and so, so friendly! Thanks, Augustus!

Really nice pub with good vibes. Food was tasty too. Would have given more stars but the food took too long to come (90 mins) and the staff were a lil disorganised (would be good to assign waiters their own tables to prevent confusion resulting in long waits before placing orders), if you want to go for the brunch, make sure you order before the cut off time even if seated because some people were left disappointed because of this.

Very friendly staff and relaxed atmosphere

Nice, spacious, relaxed pub with a good drinks range and generous portions of food. Occasional guest menus.

Great drinks, brilliant staff who are really always trying to help and make you feel welcome, good amount of outdoor seats, just a bit of a shame it's on a busy street but certainly not their fault. They've really made the place a great little pub for nunhead.

Great food and drinks table service was quick had a great few hours.

We booked our table with ease..by phone, as we found out later the website is old and underdevelopment...the food is great ...the wine was a cheeky little number plus I can recommend the ripper ale.

Great spot with great beer (recommend the mangolicious!). Our server Augustus was friendly but professional. Will be coming back:)

The staff are amazing . So kind and helpful, we visited when we could only be outside and they were so helpful and catering. Would 100% go back agin.

Great vegan plantain and aubergine wraps and the superb Ripper IPA on tap.

Cozy pub...I look forward to visiting again soon. Highly recommended 👍🏼

perfect local pub, friendly staff, decent food offering and a welcoming & relaxing place to be, will deffo come gain

It is possible that I went in on an "off day" but there is zero excuse for an unsavoury attitude. Don't know if they were staff, management or owner but I do know I will never be returning.

What a great local! We went in for a late lunch on a Saturday afternoon and wound up staying for four hours. The place has had a nice glow up, with comfortable seating, a roaring fireplace, a revamp of the drinks menu. Good selection of beers, with all the usuals plus some craft beers, wine and a great selection of spirits (including some good rum, which is key for me). The food is well presented and very tasty. I loved the wings, especially the jerk wings, tender and delicious. The goat curry was fantastic too. But the key thing for me here is the friendly vibe. The people here are so lovely! Literally every staff member came over to say hello at some point, very friendly but not overbearing, just enough to make you feel welcome. We also had a nice chat with the landlady/owner; you get the feeling that they really care about what the locals think. Much love and respect to the owners and the team here, you deserve it.

The landlady is the real star here, she made the effort to talk to us and made us feel welcome. The pub itself has been recently refurbed and now has rich, dark panneling and splashes of vibrant colour that give it character. The beer selection is small but decent enough and the food is tasty, the jerk wings and curried goat were bursting with flavour. COVID provisions were good and proper with plenty of hand sanitysers dotted around. Looking forward to returning once we're out of the shark infested waters of Tier 3.

Nice and cosy pub with a very friendly owner and waiters. Good vibe with a huge potential of being the new local pub for many in Nunhead if they can improve just a touch the beer and wine offer. I can also see a great new venue with live music there

I booked a table for pre birthday eat and drinks, manager say I will save a beautiful table to my surprise we was put at back of house near kitchen and toilet. waited for half hour b4 order was taken, didn't have a drinks menu just food ridiculous, never had any drinks we ask for at this point. we wanted to go because we pay our food advance we waited hour later call server who was more in front of house what a bad experience manageress didn't even welcome me no star. Tom kerridge omd

Having seen Tom Kerridges documentary I was full of optimism. How disappointed were we? It was awful! Our promised special table was right at the back next to the toilet. We waited over 20 minutes to be served. There was no wine selection- just Blossom Hill. No full size bottles either- just miniatures. The order of drinks (wine and water) took over 20 minutes to arrive. So 40 minutes in all before we had a drink! The food is overpriced- and took well over an hour to arrive. As for the landlady? Unwelcoming, cold and distant. Tom needs to prepare himself for a loss on this one. We won’t be going there again and will be telling our neighbours and friends not to waste their time or hard earned cash in there.

All thanks to Tom Kerridge for making the BBC2 series ‘Saving Britians Pubs’ and feel rather guilty to admit that after living in Nunhead since June 2011, I finally visited this transformed lovely pub. Have not yet seen the documentary however the avalanche of positive feedback convinced me to put Dec 2nd 2020 in my quite empty diary. From the moment I crossed the threshold to my leaving was a wonderful experience. To walk into a pub full of customers these days can be quite a novelty, not here every table was occupied, and I understand the majority were Golden Anchor virgins. All the staff were so friendly and despite being so busy, the delightful Lana who runs the show went out her way to engage in conversation with me and all the customers which I am sure is quite rare in most pubs. I was bowled over by Lana’s enthusiasm positivity and sheer personality. Running the pub for over twenty years, with so many struggles in the height of an international pandemic you risked everything giving the pub a makeover. The Curry Goat with rice n peas with salad and plantain was to die for, delicious and reasonably priced at £12. So good was the meal that before leaving I asked the guy serving the tables if I could compliment the Chef, he replied ‘I am the chef’ With such a wonderful atmosphere, delightful staff, a terrific drink selection and wide ranging menu, what more could one ask for? Lana be assured that it will not be ten years before my next visit!

I've never been but having seen it on TV, I want to be a regular! Looks like it's definitely worth an Uber ride!!!

I haven't been, but as soon as it's possible I will come and support your amazing pub. You are providing a community and I take my hat off to you. Keep going. X

never been to this pub but after watching TV the efforts of Lana the landlady, I wish her all the very best in her endeavours. Good Luck Gal!!

Food, music, drinks and atmosphere was fabulous

Cracking boozer, the staff are lovely and the Guinness is good.

Excellent community pub. Turkish chef on a Sunday food was filling and tasty 😋

Just stopped here for a quick pint with my brother the staff were kind and welcoming, so we stayed. We enjoyed it so much me brought all our friends, we stayed for the food!!! It is amazing I recommend the pork , the food will blow you away. The kitchen is the best kept secret in South London !!! Drinks well priced and lovely staff - coming back asap.

Management is always friendly and so are the staff. This place is clean and fresh. I was very impressed with how clean the toilets were. Atmosphere was lovely. What a beautiful night out for me and my friend.

I've never had a 'local' pub, but if there was one laid out in my destiny it would be the golden anchor. The pub landlady was astonishingly friendly (after six years in london I didn't think there was such a thing) and the pub itself is really cool. Big fan, sign me up. Give it some love.

Just finished refurbishment. Lovely place to have a good evening and the food is good too!!

Amazing service, they were so friendly, attentive and made a real effort to cater to a large group of us. Pints were nice too

Really cool independent business. Have missed drinking in here through the lockdown. Cant wait to have a little bottle of red stripe and a magnum when they reopen!!!

DJ keep playing music for themself

Good place to go .nice people.

To all fans and support of the golden anchor .this is a place to be every weekend nice people and nice place.