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Royal Standard, Deptford, SE8
SE8
SE8 4PN
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 2½ of 10) see review guidelines
David Walton left this review about Royal Standard
Visited 11/03/26. Visited previously 30/09/19.
No cask. Keg offering of Asahi, Mahou, Camden Pale, Stella, Guinness and their own branded Royal Standard Pilsner.
Curious venue. Rectangular bar from corner entrance with the bar counter is the rear right-hand corner. Boarded with a tiled skirt around the bar counter with tall stool seating. Otherwise, regular tables and chairs with a sofa in the rear corner opposite the bar counter. Screens showing the evening footy action on my visit, the larger projector screen to the side of the bar counter unused. The venue seems to have a takeaway food offering and that was the greater part of the action on my late evening visit. Not one of the leading lights here, or indeed, anywhere.
On 15th March 2026
- rating: 3
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Royal Standard
A street corner pub which has been ruined inside,someone has used a machine to abrase all the wooden window frames,panelling and doors into a mottled pattern.Weird.The interior is open plan with cheap pine furniture,some worn sofas,a large flatscreen off,and Sky Sports playing silently on three small screens above the bar.The rear has a kitchen with a small window and a tatty corridor containing the loos.
As I walked to the bar all eyes were on this stranger.No handpumps,so half a Stella at £2.60 in a Madri glass and flat as a pancake.The south asian barmaid didn't want to make eye contact,probably because her two brothers were pertched on bar stools and watching closely . In the main body of the interior there is a side door with a punch code leading to the hostel upstairs which is the main reason d'etre for this dump. Some words in urdu were exchanged among the bar staff and shortly afterwards several residents from the hostel upstairs just walked outside .Maybe they thought I was a snooper for the Home Office.The only other white face,a middle aged woman hurried to finish her tea and then disappeared upstairs while another punter just came into the pub,sat down but did not order a drink and seemed to be waiting for me to depart.
I finish my terrible lager quickly,something is not right here and members of the bar staff's community are not know for their love of pubs nor alcohol.I'm never returning and would advise caution if you are in a completist mood.
On 4th January 2026
- rating: 2
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Tris C left this review about Royal Standard
This Courage pub still displays its red and gold Courage box sign and dates from the 19th century.
As mentioned, this is a totally modernised pub with a modern boarded floor, bar fashioned from planks with some corrugated iron sheeting, lots of dangling filament bulbs with some hanging lamps created from barrels, mixed furniture and games machines with a Space Invaders arcade game housed in a repurposed K9 phone box. Customers were young and few on a Saturday evening, probably backpackers from above, then a multitude of helmeted Deliveroo drivers collecting food from a kitchen hatch, completely dominating the barman’s time. However, what I didn’t initially realise is that there was a barmaid sitting across from me at the bar, sipping a drink and ignoring me. I made a note of the time, gave her five minutes then pointedly walked out, dodging a lousy fizz range hence the grade which if served with a drink, would have elicited a '3'.
No doubt built as the sister pub to the Royal George at 85 Tanners Hill, one of these pubs is where you’ll want to spend an evening, one of them is one you’ll want to avoid.
On 27th July 2023
- rating: 1
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Moby Duck left this review about Royal Standard
Although it looks a decent boozer from the outside but it's pretty desolate within, the lone handpump is no longer there the keg selection limited. Not much else to say about it really except I won't be back.
On 28th August 2022
- rating: 3
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Rex Rattus left this review about Royal Standard
There was no real ale on in here - the lone handpump hiding at the far end of the bar counter was not in use when I visited. There are some less usually seen keg (some might call them "craft") lagers, such as Lucky Jack, which is an American style pale ale brewed by an unpronouncable brewery in Stavangar, Norway, and Big Wave, from the Kona Brewery in Hawaii. The latter was £2.50 a half, but it had presumably travelled a long way to get to St Johns. This is the sort of place where you are given your change with a receipt. I guess this must now count as a gastropub judging by the prices and the stuff available (for some reason I didn't have the enthusiasm to list the menu items and prices). The kitchen doesn't open until 5.00 PM - or at least it didn't on the Wednesday afternoon when I dropped in.
This is obviously an old traditional pub whose interior has clearly been wrecked - others may say that it has been given a modern and quirky twist. There's the typical exposed brick wall; some reclaimed wood is on another wall; the modern bar counter front is painted a sort of distressed blue/grey; and the ceiling has some sort of wooden thing on it as decor presumably. There are several bits of artwork painted directly on the walls and ceilings - the ceiling has an opening blasted through the ceiling painted on it showing a blue sky above it, and one of the wall has painted on it an aeroplane crashing through. All very surreal.
All of the modern canteen style tables were laid for diners (obviously I sat at one to drink my half of Big Wave), with a clutch of sofas at the back. This struck me as a caff pretending to be a pub. The only other customers in were a bloke at the bar engaged in conversation with the barman, and a couple of builders in high visibility jackets (presumably from the building site opposite) sinking their pints of lager. It looks as if a lot of money has been spent on making this place look as charmless as it does. It's not for me.
On 12th February 2017
- rating: 3
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