The Vanbrugh, Greenwich

The Vanbrugh ticks all the boxes for me. A good selection of beers (only two real ales, but good ones, and a great selection of lagers) and wine; great food with all you'd expect on a menu and more (the Vanbrugh Burger is especially good); sport on tvs and a big projector screen for big match day; and good humoured and approachable staff all packaged in a great space offering a bar area, a restaurant, a marquee and a garden.

It is unashamedly family friendly (and yes I have two toddlers) but kids are generally excluded from the bar area and tend to converge on the marquee. You'll also find there are peak kid times but these are few and very rare in the evenings. Mondays they have a great quiz, evenings the atmosphere is friendly and fun. It's a shame that the full garden area is not available (a long running issue with usage) but there are plenty of tables, many under the cover of vines which makes it very picturesque when covered in grapes.

All in all a cracking place and well worth the walk through the park from central Greenwich.

6 May 2012 08:10