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The Duke – Richmond

Posted in Bars, Pubs, Restaurants, tagged , , on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We are creatures of habit (at least Mr and Mrs Riversniffers are). We never used to go in the Racing Page in Duke St when it was there, so when it changed to be The Duke a couple of years ago, we didn’t check it out. However, a reader wrote in recommending it. So we [...]

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The Cabbage Patch 10 2008

Posted in Bars, General Interest, tagged , , , on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

    Riversniffers’ No 1 son is quick on his feet. In fact when he was younger, a family friend used to call him “Billy Whiz”, after the character in the Beano. The boy has never trained properly and never had any coaching, but he’s always done well at school and cadet running. Then someone [...]

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Updated: Parvinu – St Margarets

Posted in Bars, Restaurants, tagged , on October 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »

       Parvinu has now been open for a couple of months. Mr & Mrs Dipsophile visited on a recent Friday evening to see how it was getting on.   We’ve remarked on the wine list before (see below) but now we’ve found something we like drinking (the Chilean chardonnay, £18.50) and we spent [...]

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The White Swan – Richmond

Posted in Bars, Restaurants, tagged , , on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

      Dipsophile has been drinking in this pub for more than thirty years. Not continuously, you understand (Oliver Reed-like figure lurches briefly across the reader’s mind), but on and off since John Foster was the landlord in the Seventies.   To read the press today you’d think binge drinking was a modern invention. [...]

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