The Punch and Judy, Tonbridge

A very good pub, Stacey and the rest of the staff are very friendly. Pleasant environment and bar billiards too! Only downside is the live music starts a shade too early at 6pm on a Sunday when most are still in their post-prandial malaise. Top marks though.

5 Apr 2012 20:40

The Cross Keys, Erith

Rightly closed down, this place was a fleapit only to be drank in if eight generations of your family drank there and also appeared in 'The Hills Have Eyes'.

5 Apr 2012 20:36

The White Hart, Erith

Clean but soulless and a drafty front entrance. Friendly staff and clientele but not the sort of place you could sit back and relax in for the afternoon. Better than its previous incarnation though!

5 Apr 2012 20:35

Running Horses, Erith

I drank in this pub from 2002-11 and find some of the comments risible. Yes there is bad language but that is probably because it is a public house, a sanctuary for adults. From the nature of the negative comments, I'm guessing the patrons in question are the sort of people who faff about ordering, complain bitterly if there is no free table and pay only by credit card. My advice to such people is eat in a restaurant where everyone else is anonymous. as for cliques, this is a phenomenon known as 'locals' and 'regulars' a bastion of any British pub and part of the the fabric of British life.
For the record, I am a law abiding subject, university educated and a Daily Telegraph reader and never saw any trouble in the place and got on very well with the locals and staff, and equally saw a flourishing transient trade of diners who mostly seemed very happy to be there.

5 Apr 2012 20:33