The Shirker's Rest
A micropub in New Cross, SE14 🍻 Mon 4-11.30pm, Tues-Weds 3-11.30pm, Thurs-Fri 3pm-12am, Sat 1pm-12am, Sun 2-10.30pm
http://www.theshirkersrest.co.uk
- Planning a party or putting on a show? We’ve an event room for up to 30 people. And it’s FREE to book! We just ask that you use the fully stocked bar downstairs. That’s it. No booking fee, no minimum spend. Email ben@shirkalehouses.co.uk Or book via: www.theshirkersrest.co.uk/hire-us/
- Cask ale for £4 a pint, you say? Every Wednesday? Well, tell us what’s on! Fresh on today we’ve a a red ale from @elusivebrewing.com & @unbarredbrewery.bsky.social. Plus a pale from our chums at @ironpier.beer and (we predict) a last chance to sample Elusive’s black IPA, Midnight Oregon Trail.
- We are honoured to have been nominated for Lewisham Area CAMRA Pub of the Year! And in some very fine company, too. Check out the contenders here (but you have to be a member of CAMRA SE London branch to vote). sel.camra.org.uk/lewisham-are...
- A reminder that we host the New Cross Songwriter’s Circle tonight. Upstairs from 6.30pm. Free and open to all.
- London Black 20% off until 6pm. Oregon Trail new releases on tap. Come and support an independent pub!
- Join us on Saturday, the last day of Jan, for Support an Independent Pub Day. We're aiming to sell 150 pints and we need your help! And to help reach that, we're going to give 20% off London Black from 1pm-6pm. A perfect time to sample this luscious porter. #independentpubday
- It’s Trilogy Time at the Shirker’s today.
- Follow the Trail to the Shirker’s, partners! Three new @elusivebrewing.com releases for 2026 and we’re pouring all of them this Friday.
- Join us on Saturday, the last day of Jan, for Support an Independent Pub Day. We're aiming to sell 150 pints and we need your help! And to help reach that, we're going to give 20% off London Black from 1pm-6pm. A perfect time to sample this luscious porter. #independentpubday
- Tonight at the Shirkers…
- The ever-popular @queerbrewing.bsky.social return to our taps this Thursday. Join us then to see what they’ve been up to lately. Plus there’s comedy upstairs with Your Friend And Mine Comedy at 7pm. Classic Thursday night dubble bubble 🍻
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- Our feature cask beer this Cask Weds is Surrey Hills’ Ranmore, a fine hoppy session pale. Plus two bangers from Verdant: a bitter and a porter. All 4 quid, all day 🍻
- Back this Sunday, local songwriters playing short sets upstairs. Support local talent as well as your local! From 6.30pm.
- Follow the Trail to the Shirker’s, partners! Three new @elusivebrewing.com releases for 2026 and we’re pouring all of them this Friday.
- The ever-popular @queerbrewing.bsky.social return to our taps this Thursday. Join us then to see what they’ve been up to lately. Plus there’s comedy upstairs with Your Friend And Mine Comedy at 7pm. Classic Thursday night dubble bubble 🍻
- Plenty coming up at the Shirker’s. More details thru the week on a lively end to January 🍻
- Line up for the Verdant Tap Takeover tomorrow and the weekend. Let’s Putty!
- Starts Friday. #PuttyDay
- Putty first pour at the Shirker’s. Putty plus five other @verdantbrew.bsky.social beers. Pouring Friday and all weekend, while stocks last. #puttyday
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- The latest addition to the snack wall, Yummy Yum's Pappadum Dippers featuring integral dipping pot. Everything's gonna be alright. #CrispNews
- Featuring… Elusive - Fillmore Three Acre - Skylark Stout Surrey Hills - Shere Drop Think I’m right in saying it’s the first time we’ve had Shere Drop on, a former champion beer of Britain and bloomin’ lovely. All £4 a pint, all day Weds.
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- We loved this cask lager at the London Brewers Alliance bash so much we immediately put in an order for it. Come and have your lager assumptions blown to bits by this excellent piece of work by Wimbledon Brewery. #nowpouring
- Last remaining tickets for tonight…
- Here’s a rare treat for comedy fans. An hour of work-in-progress stand up from the 2025 winner of So You Think You're Funny, Madeleine Brettingham. Just £2.99 will get you seat. How much? That’s right, £2.99. Don’t wait around, book your spot now. www.eventbrite.com/e/madeleine-...
- Putty first pour at the Shirker’s. Putty plus five other @verdantbrew.bsky.social beers. Pouring Friday and all weekend, while stocks last. #puttyday
- Save the date, beer-lovers! We’ll have six Verdant beers on keg and cask, pouring all weekend.
- Here’s a rare treat for comedy fans. An hour of work-in-progress stand up from the 2025 winner of So You Think You're Funny, Madeleine Brettingham. Just £2.99 will get you seat. How much? That’s right, £2.99. Don’t wait around, book your spot now. www.eventbrite.com/e/madeleine-...
- Cask Wednesday arrives and we’ve great beers from @burtonbridgebrew.bsky.social, @ironpier.beer and @elusivebrewing.com at £4 a pint, all day. Open from 3pm. Life’s not so bad, eh?
- Our cask Wednesday lineup for today, featuring a welcome return for Track’s Sonoma. £4 a pint all day.
- We had nearly 50 events upstairs in the last three months of 2025. Might our little room be suitable for something you’re planning too? To book, email ben@shirkalehouses.co.uk or use the form on our website: www.theshirkersrest.co.uk/hire-us/
- Now pouring: the beer that generated the most discussion at the pub in 2025. Hackney Church explain: “We love gazpacho but all agreed the one thing it needed was more bubbles. And alcohol.” Amen. A work of genius. Evil genius perhaps, but genius nonetheless. Would you?
- Open from 3pm till late today for NYE. Drop in any time, no tickets required!
- Cask beer at £4 today. NYE shindig tomorrow. Life’s not so bad.
- Treat yourself at the Shirker’s this Twixtmas. We’re pulling £4 pints of cask beer today and Tuesday.
- Turns out it’s Saturday. Which means we’re open from 1pm 🍻
- Join us on NYE for a relaxed & convivial night welcoming in the new year. No tickets required! We’ll have great beers on from Elusive Brewing, including the last cask of our Green Hopper, plus games & prizes - yes, Rosie’s NYE pub bingo is back. See you at the Shirker’s for 2025’s curtain call.
- Thanks to everyone who came down on Christmas Day, especially those who brought some grub to share. We salute you! A reminder that we open a little later today, Boxing Day - 5pm. #merryshirkmas
- Christmas Eve tomorrow but also, of course, Cask Wednesday. All our cask is £4 a pint. NB We’ve reduced Xmas Eve opening hours of 3pm-8pm so get along early doors!
- Alas David is no longer able to join us due to an illness in the family. We wish them a speedy recovery and apologies for any inconvenience.
- Ever wondered what a Beer Writer of the Year (twice) looks like? Come and see first hand on Tuesday 23rd when @davidjesudason.bsky.social joins Rosie to pull a few pints, 5.30-8.30pm.
- Ever wondered what a Beer Writer of the Year (twice) looks like? Come and see first hand on Tuesday 23rd when @davidjesudason.bsky.social joins Rosie to pull a few pints, 5.30-8.30pm.
- We’re doing our traditional Xmas Day opening. Andy G opening for 12 noon, Doddsy along to take us thru to 3 (and a bit). As ever, we’ll have some snacks to share and feel free to bring your own. And if you’re feeling a bit skint, come anyway and we’ll sort you out. No purchase necessary.
- Open from noon, Christmas Day.
- Our feature cask beer this Weds is a pale ale delicately spiced with orange zest, ginger & juniper, hopped generously with Columbus, Bullion and Bramling Cross. Well played Anspach & Hobday! Joining it are two faves from Three Acre and @ironpier.beer. All £4 a pint, all night! #CaskWednesday
- Christmas opening times. Hope to see you over the festive period 🍻 Our traditional Christmas Day opening is a food share, so bring anything you might have or want to make. Open from noon!
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- Friday 19th Dec, join us for an evening of poetry, spoken word and artful heckles, upstairs at the Shirker’s. 7-10pm, free entry!
- A chilled A20, a foaming pint and English tapas. Sunday afternoon in New Cross.
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- Honoured to have made Will’s Top 10 London pubs for cask ale. In some seriously good company! 😳
- This month's @londonbeercity.bsky.social is going out now - featuring the revival of hand-painted pub signs, two central London street-corner classics and (my first bit of shameless clickbait) the 10 best cask-ale pubs in the capital. And much more! Sign up now: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...
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- Get into Orbit - on today and for the weekend. Meet the Orbit crew tonight at the Orbit Tap Takeover 🍻
- Cask Wednesday this week features Fast Friends London Porter, a collab between Wimbledon Brewery and Loughborough Junction’s Supercute, plus Mallinson’s Archer Columbus, a dual hopped pale. There’ll be another one on too, but not sure what yet! #caskwednesday
