The Amersham Arms

My first time here, came to watch a friends band. Great location for getting train (opposite) and easy to find. On entry at 6pm the barman was welcoming and venue is quite cleverly laid out with under a of the floor space as front bar, with rest being the live music venue out back. Drinks were average for London.

At some point in the night the door staff started work and made me uncomfortable by staring at me every time i moved around the venue. At times they followed me (I'm in my 50s so not a threat).

By 8pm there were 4 members of staff and although I was 1 of 2 people waiting for a drink, only 1 of them was serving. 3 of them were having a lovely chat in the front bar. I made a comment to my mate and the barmaid went and told them. I then had a different barman from earlier walkover and rudely dropped the card reader in front of me on the bar to pay before serving me my drink. Didn't say please or thank you. Rude as hell.

At the end of the evening I witnessed a guy with a disability having a disagreement with the door staff who showed no empathy to his well-being.
The promoter in the rear was really friendly all night and the bands were all chatty.

What started off as an exciting evening soon made me keen to leave. It wasn't busy with locals so maybe this is a reflection as to why.

When I left after the venue, an older door supervisor was on the front entrance and was really friendly, exactly how I believe all staff should be.

I'm mixed as to going back as it might have been a coincidence that the evening bar staff and inside door staff all being rude, but I won't make a point of returning over going somewhere different.

This battered old boozer still hides some charm deep within its walls. My friend and I were looking for a place to start our evening and being a sunny day my boyfriend recommended this place for its roof top bar - I was easily persuaded.

Sure it's no pretty picture but it has character, the pub has a large open standing area with bar in the middle. I wouldn't say there's much seating but I don't think I'd come here to sit inside anyway.

What's great is that they have a lovely, large rooftop area with plenty of seating available on large benches. There's also a BBQ serving up traditional jerk chicken and other street food type foods. We were offered a £1 off voucher for our jerk but sadly on this occasion we weren't eating here. I'd definitely come back to try it though!

They staff are pleasant and attentive and we had a nice experience! I'll definitely be back over the coming summer months.

This pub was on the map of our Time Out Deptford art tour. We came here looking for art but the bartender said their not having a show until summer. The work would have been from the Goldsmiths collage students.

It was quiet Saturday afternoon and a much needed rest and drink was needed. Its a great big pub next to New cross station, the interior was lovely very old style looking and wooden They put out the Saturday papers for your enjoyment, if they had free wifi, that would of been the icing on the cake. They seem to attract trendies here, that's due to the collage not being far. They seem to have a lot events happening here whether that be club nights or a band's playing.

I noticed that the bus 453 from baker street comes down here which is good plus it helps that you can use your oyster card fully on the overground now. If you want you can also take trip down Amersham vale road at the end of it is the Old police station (check out the yelp review for that) highly recommended.

Its a shame this pub is not my local, but would definitely come back.

The Amersham Arms was renovated last year, going from a rather dodgy old man's style place to an almost painfully pretentious new venue, associated with the famous Lock Tavern in Camden. Pretentiousness aside, they have done a really good job with turning the Amersham into a welcoming and cosy new place with a vartiety of attractions and nights on offer.

The food is amazing and wholesome, and not too pricey for what you get. The sunday roast is something to behold with an almost canteen style distribution of food; you line up with your plate, chose your meat and then take your pick of veggies and potatoes and of course condiments. Seconds if it all hasn't been gobbled up! Good fun and great for hangovers. The burgers are delicious too- the real real deal.

During the day it's a great place to just hang out, read your paper catch up with friends etc but at night it turns into a proper venue with up and coming bands, DJs, theme nights, comedy etc. Upstairs is an art gallery showing off local artist's work- quite hit and miss but by no means the main attraction.

The crowd is very studenty and fashionable (sometimes perhaps a little too fashionable for my liking) and bodes for a good atmosphere.

Looking for a decent place down Souf to celebrate St. Paddy's, my wife suggested the Amersham Arms. She told me stories of how she used to come here all the time because it was cheap, had Irish music and a good indie club attached to it. Her twin brother even used to DJ there nearly 20 years ago.

What did I find? To start, Guinness for £2.50. £2.50! I don't think I've ever bought ANYTHING in London for £2.50. What a deal. A very friendly place full of live music, very social people and a rather solid looking menu. Definitely a place worth coming back to!

I dig this place. Nice refurbished pub, new painted outside and interior decor. Cool crowd - the young, hip residents of New Cross (see Goldsmiths students.) Plenty of indoor seating - just wish it had some patio tables for those rare sunny days outside...

Great 2-for-1ish drink special (Buy one drink for 5.95, get another for 1 GBP 5-10 M-Sat and ALL DAY Sunday), with a healthy selection of fancy cocktails like the "Bloody Hell" bloody mary or a cocktail made with ginger beer and vodka. Yum.

Haven't tried the food yet but saw it coming out and was lookin' pretty tasty and (actually) homemade, as they advertise on the building. Definitely want to hit up the Sunday Roast to start off my week soon.

Not many doormen go as far as to rummage two fingers around in your pants (not why I gave four stars) but at least I felt quite sure that those who pass through the Amersham Arms doors are deemed "safe".

Looking like a standard pub on the outside, the inside is quite run-down. Dark and only partly decorated. But wait, it's supposed to look like that. This is a trendy boozer for the trendy crowd of New Cross. So, not "run-down", "dark" and "partly decorated" but instead, aesthetically distressed with moody lighting.

A main bar area and adjoining function room comprise the downstairs but our group was in the upstairs room. I'd been told of this room before my arrival and wasn't disappointed.

Much like a large room in an empty, old, haunted house there's just some old sofa's and a coffee table at the far end of the room and some tables and benches along the large windowed wall. With only a neon sign and an old lamp in the two far corners and a vast mirror above a fire place at the opposite end, bearing over this particularly tatty/distressed eerie room. And balloons. The floor was covered with a dozen or so colourful balloons. We were here for some birthday drinks but none of our party had brought them, there were just balloons left around the place. This room could be a metaphor for David Lynch's psyche, a room that will stay with me.

All in all a good pub and one I'd be happy to go back to,
Ian

This place stands like the Bates hotel in Psycho, in a sea of grey, there it is, this freestanding neon light building. I thought it was forward thinking from the people that renovated this place; those behind Lock Tavern, maybe they are heralding the rise of the new hip area in London, with the Goldsmith University so close, who knows. I liked the fact that the beer is super cheap, and they host amazing music nights, from Peaches, to Rusty, to The Mystery Jets, really not too shabby. The only thing so that it's so far from Central London, it took me a long time to get there, and get back. I keep telling myself I took the wrong bus, so that next time I head there it wont be that long to arrive.

My band played a gig here a few weeks ago. The audience, bar staff, security, sound and audience were excellent. We look forward to playing here again.

Looking back at my student days, I'm not sure even why I got dragged here so often.

It's one for the people who 1. live in charity shop clothes from the 20s/30s/40s/50s/60s/70s/80s or 2. pay stupid amounts of money in 'vintage/moch vintage' shops to look thus.

Either way, its good for groups, big tables and no roaring music. Drinks are pricey and there's nothing special there.

However, The Amersham has a lot of things going on. Club nights, indoor markets, comedy and stor- telling nights. For that, its awesome, for everything else meh.

I would recommend the comedy. It's always hilarious, well priced and when I went Lenny Henry turned up out of the blue. Good times.