Anchor Bankside Review

Here I have eaten my first fish & chips. It was very delicious.

Here you will find a nice, typically English pub with a great atmosphere.

Typical British multi-level pub. Food is delicious, the ambience and the view great and the prices are also very humane for London. I'll definitely drop by on my next London trip.

Service was friendly. Has a nice rooftop garden and food was OK.

Busy riverside bar. Good selection of beers. Outside seating on the South Bank available.

Good for a typical pub. Busy, noisy and big TV screens with sports being played. Not the location for meeting up for a big family catch up meal.

Old clocky pub with nice seating options indoors and out. Good choice of drinks from shoots, beer, wine and goblets

Had my birthday there yesterday and wanna say thanks again to the amazing staff! The Anchor is the best! Cheers for the cake and funky balloons!

Great atmosphere.. Gets very busy.. Reasonable prices

We loved the Pub, the great atmosphere and delicious food, we will be back

The food is really good! The selection is a bit limited, but otherwise really great. Especially when you want to eat fish and chips.

Tourist but really nice and good beer with a top view on the thames

Loved this place, bit of history behind it, nice food, nice drinks and pretty friendly staff.
What more would you want

We were served very friendly. Unfortunately, the food was rather bad.

Decent pub for meeting friends and former colleagues over some beers

Exactly what you'd expect from a London pub. Nice location by the river

Nice little pub near the Thames, great atmosphere, can be busy some days, but the staff were very fast, and helpful.

Authentic fish n chips, very very large portions for good prices. Upstairs seating.

Cool and cozy location but average food. Mushy pies were cold and hard. Pie was decent

Replica of the pub or go Shakespeare. Typical English really very nice. Beers quite expensive

Nice traditional pub, slightly touristy but not enough to be annoying, predictably pricey

It's a shame that this one went down the pan after being taken over by a big brewery a few years back. It used to be a truly historic pub with a small, quaint feel and packed with locals. Now it's a tourist shop selling average beer and lousy food at high prices with the sort of service that makes me feel embarrassed for visitors. If you're looking for historic English pubs, there are many better in the area. Check out The Blackfriar for example.

Booked a table for my daughters birthday we had 6 in our group.. waited nearly an hour for the food, when it did arrive it was awful all the roast potatoes was aunt bessies & not proper roast potatoes veg was hard.. lady came over asked if food was ok I replied no not really & she walked away..
will never come here again or recommend it to anyone... awful food & bad service

Extremely unprofessional service. Lady at the host (girl in red hair ) was very rude. No Hi no good afternoon . Drinks outside are being serve in a cheap plastic glasses. Wine is poured into plastic glass too so u not sure what are u getting as they might give u anything. There are better pubs to go along the river so don t bother to stop by.

Beautiful outdoor area but the most rankest bathrooms I've ever seen for a trendy pub sorry

Walked past this pub not long after it had closed. Looked in the window to see what the inside looked like and see 4 mice running around the floor and tables. That was only looking through one window. So who knows how many more there was running around and how many there are in the kitchen area. Food hygiene should take a look into this pub.

Best fish and chips ever, kitchen was closed for half an hour

Expensoid. Great stop when quiet, at peak times find a spot further from the river.

First of all, the location is great. Riverside views, a stone's throw from Shakespeare's Globe and the Tate Modern.

Inside, there's lots of space across two floors with an additional roof terrace which is small but crams in a decent amount of tables.

Having queued at the bar for quite a while to order food and drinks, the staff member suddenly closed down the till and asked me and an another customer to use the other bar in the main room. Instead of just agreeing to serve me after I told her I'd been waiting for ages, she made me requeue at the adjoining bar. Not a biggie, but considering there was only one other person waiting to be served after me, she could have just taken our orders instead of closing the till.

Anyway, the menu is classic pub fare, intended to draw in tourist crowds looking to sample "traditional" Brit dishes like fish n chips and pies.

I had the chicken and mushroom pie with mash. The pie was decent but the mash and veggies were woefully dry.

Nice place but maybe one for the tourists...

Really tasty, not sure what I expected before I came here. The steak pie though was great and the prices were reasonable. Will come back if in the area

Nice patio area on the river. Stopped in for drinks and they don't have all the booze on the patio that are on the menu so that was disappointing.

Nice place with TV, excellent for a football match evening

Great atmosphere. Very busy, lively pub. Would definitely return and would recommend.

Staff is unprofessional, slow and hardly speak English , during the day time it's rarely someone behind the bar, - I was waiting for about 10 minutes, when the barmaid showed up she served the guy who came after me, then she disappeared again. For some unknown reasons they do play X FM alike radio, which is really annoying.. I could imagine there should be some neutral music at least during the day time.

Ambience, experience, view, "must try", fish & chips, bier

Great place for a drink - small but cosy and popular to a nice crowd. Havent tried the food but will go again

Lovely traditional pub. Family friendly and good selection of food and drink.

We went there around lunchtime on a Saturday and as expected it was very busy with only tables outside available. The atmosphere was great inside, a very cosy vibe, and a mix of tourists and locals. We ordered food which was fish and chips and a BBQ pork burrito. Fish and chips was quite bland with a strange acidic taste to the ketchup (side point) The fish was quiet nice however especially considering it's a touristy venue. In terms of the BBQ pork burrito, it was heavily weighted to the rice with minimal pork and clearly had been in the heat in the kitchen for some time as the foil had stuck to the wrap in some places and couldn't come off. Bit annoying as had to spend time peeling it off the food. Also the nachos you get are pretty pointless. Clearly they were in the heat for ages as the cheese was glued to the nachos. Also they only came with cheese and peppers. Overall the food is edible to ok given the location. However in terms of atmosphere - great.

Well located. A few nooks and crannies make this more fun!

It can get a teeny bit touristy here, but it's actually a decently furnished pub with a nice chilled vibe, well stocked bar and friendly staff. It's views of the riverside are quite stunning, too, so it's worth staying for a round or two.

Bars on multiple floors with outside section upstairs

Above all, do not hesitate to avoid an emergency tourist trap and bravery on the menu after a lunch attempt today

Love this place! Fab food and drink, lovely quirky building! Highly recommend it!

Visited the place after a friend recommended going there for fish and chips and it was worth it. In case you are a fan of ciders the Recorderlig with strawberry and lime taste is what I would suggest you try.

Such a nice and cosey place on the banks of the the river Thames.if you are passing by bankside or Shakespeare's globe or borough market, don't miss the chance to visit this place. Staff and facilitate are really cool.

Just flopped down for a nice beer (plenty of choice) and a quick snack. Too bad the plastic pint glasses but what they poured in was nice. In short, nice tent in a nice place!

This place has a great location and you can sit right along the Thames. Drinks are good and average-priced for London. Unfortunately, ordering and eating our food was a sub-par experience. Even though the bartender said to order from him, he proceeded to tell us he didn't know how to ring in what we wanted and we'd have to come back. So we sat with our drinks a while, came back, waited in line, tried to order and were told they were out of that. Back to our table to find something else. Back to the bar to wait in line again for the one bartender. Ordered. Back to our table, looked at the receipt and realized the bartender rang in the wrong thing. Fine, at this point we just want food.

Hopefully it was a fluke experience and perhaps their other food is better. I'd come back for a pint and a seat by the water, but that's about it.

Great Fish-n-Chips with a pint makes the walking much more fun.

Always feel at home coming to the Anchor foods great, no complaints, I highly recommend it..

A very good English tavern at an affordable price. A lively atmosphere and with somewhat low light, it is between a pub and a restaurant.



Without a doubt, a place to consider for dinner if you are in the area

A real good meal! I liked so much. At the bar it could be a little bit messy to order your drinks.

Nice place to grab drink and enjoy your evening near riverside

Lovely setting but the staff always go home in the evening without cleaning up the rubbish and glasses their customers have left... the plastic is all over the streets and falls into the river Thames. Owners don t seem to be very considerate about the neighbours nor the environment!

beautiful vintage English pub inside you can breathe a truly British atmosphere, savoring one of the abundant dishes of the house, you can admire the thames through the enormous glass windows. It has outdoor tables and a lovely terrace great for when the weather is mild! I tried the lime and berry cider ... yummy!

It is a very nice and pleasant place. Variety of food and beers, soft drinks, you can eat or drink

Good food and atmosphere, it's pretty full of tourists, though, so can be a bit hectic and rushed. Lovely spot!

One of the oldest Pubs in London! Worth the visit !!! Drink beer. The house has several table settings. You feel like you're in a movie.

Nice pub facing the river, amazing view.
Standard drinks and prices but definitely worth to stop by

Great typical pub on the south bank of the Thames with a huge outdoor area and delicious IPA drinks and food

Riverside seating with a view of St. Paul's, why not? The only downside is the price which is quite a bit expensive.