River Cafe

I agree with the other review. Definitely looks like it belongs on the 70’s show. The service was okay, yet the owner wouldn’t let my friend order exactly what she wanted in fear that it would be too much and food would be wasted. Weird. It’s a divey dump inside, which is kinda awesome and a bit scary at the same time.

I don’t really want to write a super-​long review for this place since it’s a while since I went but I felt it could do with some kind of presence on Unilocal.
It’s got a glorious exterior, really like it’s just fallen through the sky from the early 70s and landed outside Putney Bridge tube station, the interior is the same. It treads a thin line between bad taste and retro-​kitsch but that’s not really important. This isn’t the kind of place you come to notice the prints on the wall. It’s the kind of place to come if you want to spend less than £5 on your meal.
Busy, friendly, cheap-​as-​balls. The food’s not great but it’s edible. I wouldn’t go for a coffee, I think it’s instant but the tea was fine. I mean, like I said, it’s just like it dropped out of the sky from the 70s. Actually; from that Monty Python «Spam, egg, spam and spam» sketch.
Worth a visit if you’re skint but probably not worth a special journey.