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The Royal Oak, Bexleyheath

Mount Road
Bexleyheath
DA6 8JS

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Bexleyheath Town

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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Royal Oak

Tucked away in a housing estate,there is some good teched glass in the entrance door and the front windows .The interior winds around an L shaped bar with a couple of flatscreens with the racing on and quite a bit of mock tudor.The bar has a wooden frontage,there is bench seating and some sqare seating booths with a side room with dining type tables leading to a large beer garden. At one end of the bar sat a lifesize dummy of an American GI looking a bit like Patton.
The three handpumps stood felorn,the heating was off ,so was a lot of the internal lighting and there was only one other punter in ,cursing his luck with the nags.A half of Stella set me back £3.20.
This pub could be so much better with some care,in its current guise not worth a visit sadly despite the cheery welcome from the young barmaid wearing a coat.

On 13^th October 2024 - rating: 5
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Malden man left this review about The Royal Oak

This must have once been a rural or village pub, now engulfed within a 20th century housing estate. It has an attractive weatherboarded exterior, inside maintains some rustic charm with a black and white beamed ceiling, padded pew benches, a copper fireplace hood and high shelves laden with bottles. The main room is L-shaped with a squarish side room situated to one side. Carpeted throughout apart from the immediate bar area the pub felt warm and homely. There was a busy buzz about the place on Sunday afternoon with a local feel although both staff and the chaps watching football from the bar stools all came across as friendly. There were bits of cheese with pickles and crackers laid out on the bar as nibbles. We settled in for a decent session here after the football at nearby Welling Utd finished, mainly because we heard that The Robin Hood and Little John closes from 4-7 and the micropub the Door Hinge closes at 3 too. It is however a comfortable place to sink a few.
Three handpumps, Bombardier Gold, Exmoor Ale and Skinner's Betty Stogs.
One unusual twist I spotted, there was a skeleton wearing a hat sitting on a bench at the rear of the pub. Oh well!

On 9^th March 2015 - rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Royal Oak

There were three ales on in here - Doom Bar, Master Brew, and Wells A Good Stuffing (£1.80 a half). This a reasonable selection without being anything too special. The Good Stuffing is obviously a Christmas ale, and was actually rather good. There was a small chalkboard propped up on the bar counter advertising three lunch specials of the day (chilli/rice; beef stew; and cottage pie) all for a fiver a pop. There was also a rolled up menu in a jar on one of the other tables, but I didn't examine it.

This pub has an alter ego - Polly Clean Stairs, and so named after a 19th Century landlady who seemed to be obsessive about cleaning the pub's steps. This is another cracking little pub in this general area, where it has to be said isn't exactly overendowed with great pubs. It's carpeted (apart from a bare-boarded splash area around the bar counter) and furnished with settles, small round stools, and normal tables and chairs. Black painted beams/posts on the walls and ceiling, coupled with cream painted walls give it a "brewer's rustic" appearance, but it's not overdone here and doesn't look out of place. Apart from the main bar area to the front and left of the servery, there's another small room on the left that seems to be as a result of an extension to the pub at some stage. There are all manner of knick knacks around the place, making it more interesting - to me at least.

This is definitely a locals' pub, and I reckon they're lucky to have such a characterful pub as their local. This is another one that's worth going out of your way to visit if you're anywhere nearby.

On 20^th December 2014 - rating: 7
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