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The River Ale House, East Greenwich, SE10
SE10
SE10 0RJ
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Reviews of The River Ale House (Average Rating: 8½ of 10) see review guidelines
Old Boots left this review about The River Ale House
Small ale house type bar with just two rooms. The corner pub has a front bar with the counter in the rear left while it has bench or pew seating elsewhere. The back room is equipped with a long bench down one side with tall stools on the outer edge, a drinking shelf is opposite with more tall stools. The toilets are beyond and are marked Gents, Ladies and “Ambulant”. Beer is served from the cask behind the scenes and is very good, a series of Camra and SPBW awards testify to this.
On 16th October 2026
- no rating submitted
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The River Ale House
I concluded my day's drinking around the area with a return visit to the River Ale House, my last visit having been in 2019.
The River has a couple of small rooms. The main bar is at the front, with a smaller overflow area to the rear right, through which you can access the toilets. Although the gents is currently under refurbishment.
The landlord here is a Charlton Athletic fan and I'm told it gets quite busy when Charlton are playing at home. The pub very much follows the micropub theme with bench seating along both sides and casks underneath. Cask ales are listed above the bar, with ciders listed on the right-hand wall, just opposite the bar. For our visit, the ale range was Park Kilcat, Siren Memento, Tonbridge Ebony Moon & Blonde Ambition, Ossett World Hop Series: USA & Kent Tropic Ale. Castle Rock Promises was also pulled through during our visit. Ciders were Thistly Cross Whisky Cask, Burrow Hill Farmhouse Medium & Dry, Eltham Gold, Broadoak Draught & Pheasant Plucker, Dunkertons Craft Organic Medium, Ascension Pilot, Snail's Bank Apple & Ginger, Very Perry, Toffee Apple, Mango & Pig Squeal & Nightingale Discovery.
Music was playing in the background for our visit. I'm reliably informed that the landlord has a good soundtrack. As stated previously, the pub is also on several bus routes with stops outside on either side of the road. I was at North Greenwich tube station for a Jubilee line train within 5-10 minutes of walking out of the door. There aren't many better pubs in London than this one, in my opinion.
On 12th November 2025
- rating: 9
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Graham Coombs left this review about The River Ale House
A thoroughly good micro in a corner shop. There are two rooms, either side of the little bar which has a stillage room behind, all in bare brick and plain woodwork with little other decoration. In proper micro spirit it offers good beer and a welcoming atmosphere. Ales on at time of visit were Redemption Trinity, Mad Cat Pow Wow, Milestone Crusader, Canterbury Saisons Greetings, Leatherbritches Shafted and a superb Weird Beard Black Perle coffee stout, which demanded a second helping. A short walk from Westcombe Park station or the Marlton Street bus stop is right outside.
On 3rd February 2022
- no rating submitted
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- Accommodation : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 30p per pint, 10p per half - last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Darts : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Function Room : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes - Tuesdays 20.30 folk. - last updated 24 March 2023 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Micropub : Yes last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : No last updated 24 March 2023 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 13 November 2020 by Pub SignMan
- WiFi : Yes last updated 20 September 2021 by Quinno _
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