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Ah cheers Tom, that's a great rundown. Closer for me to get out into the Kentish lanes too!
Went to the Lord Northbrook the other day with the NCT crowd as was presently surprised. Always thought it was a bit shitty up that end :)
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Good restaurant opposite, too I think. Keep going that way and you end up in Blackheath, and there be dragons. Standard further-afield shout-outs for Rox Burger on Lee High Road (there's none better) (although currently inaccessible by road due to a coach in a sinkhole) and the Dacre Arms a little further north, nice old-style cash-only boozer.
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Lee has the Crown on Burnt Ash Hill, which (with the footbridge over the railway from the cemetery) is probably the 'closest' for you. Good solid chain pub. Also the Lord Northbrook up by Lee station. Antic have the Baring Hall Hotel down by Grove Park station which is a good pub in an ok area (but if you spend too long down that way you might bump into @amey or @chainbreaker so be careful). Catford has another Antic offering with the Catford Constitutional Club, which is by most accounts great although we preferred its sister pub The Ravensbourne slightly further up the A21, now closed. The CCC is the other side of the gyratory from you; on the gyratory and up a bit is a spoons-a-like (Black Horse and Harrow) and a spoons (London and Rye). Service is nice in the BHH, locals not so much. Can't speak for the spoons. The Corbett Estate, which is where we are and between you and Catford proper is covenanted, so no sit down boozey places permitted, although there's a bar (Ace's Bar, I think) on Verdant Lane. Can't speak to the quality of the place, but its clientelle, at least in the early days, caused a few headaches for the residents association.
There's also hidden gem under Eros house Pizzeria Italiana, as well as Sapporo Ichiban for good Japanese. A pizza van also appears on the north side of Hither Green station most evenings towards the end of the week that's worth a visit, and you can pop into The Station Hotel for a pint after. You're smack bang between two middle-class-caff epicentres, Archibalds on Manor Lane and the other Archibalds on Sandhurst Road parade. Manor Meats for quality butchery has just shut down by most accounts; but Dave on Muirkirk is worth a chat. Good Food on Sandhurst is my source of overpriced tasties and pastries (and yer fancy beers).
That should be enough to get you started :)
@hoefla 's also in this neck of the woods, as is @1_n. It's pretty dense with retired fixieskidders tbh.