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The Petersham on a sunny Sunday lunchtime – a special occasion. We were seven, two families celebrating a double birthday, one in each family. Tipped off about the double birthday, they had kindly given us the best table in the house. Our table was at one o clock. By one thirty the place was completely full – [...]

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The Britannia

Riversniffers has confessed before how outdated we can be on Richmond pubs. The last time we went in the Britannia it was full of shaven-headed tattooed folks with pitbulls. Yes, skinheads – remember them? Well it ain’t like that now. This must be the only place in Richmond that regularly serves oysters (Thursday to Sunday, when there’s [...]

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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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We came, we saw, we were conquered. The fit-out must have been expensive. Rustic Italian, it has a relaxed, urban feel (if that’s not a contradiction in terms). Starters were slow-cooked cannellini beans with Tuscan sausage (intense flavours) and prawn and crayfish cocktail (utterly refreshing). Main courses were tagliolini with crabmeat, and calves liver, both perfect. We [...]

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This St Margarets Italian from the same stable as Twickenham Church St’s rock-solid duo of Pincho and Osteria Pulcinella has been open about ten days now. The first signs are that this is a major asset for St Margarets. Riversniffers bumped into two seasoned restaurant goers who ate at Brocca on the first Saturday. Their verdict? [...]

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After the recent great review in the Guardian we went to see for ourselves   The Guardian did not get it wrong. I won’t go through what we had, as the menu can be seen here. But in summary, our meal for four was superb in every respect. As well as seriously impressive food, the [...]

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Bibi – Twickenham

Bibi may be shut. I don’t want to call time prematurely, but just passing by recently on a Friday or Saturday night, it’s been dark. Phone first before you travel.

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Friends tell me that Bibi is now charging £4 corkage on BYO. Seems fair enough, now they have a licence. It might be simpler just to drink their wine – apparently it’s good  and good value for money. Just like the rest of what they do then…   Bibi Persian Cuisine, 157 Heath Road, Twickenham [...]

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“How so affluent a suburb went so long without a brilliant neighbourhood joint I can’t explain, but it certainly has one now.” Thus Matthew Norman, a restaurant critic at the Guardian, in a recent review of La Buvette, Richmond. So Richmond’s very long period without a first-class restaurant (see my review of A Cena on [...]

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A Cena

      We never go out for dinner on Valentine’s Day.   After a run of bad experiences (overbooking, price ramping, shoddy food, couldn’t-care-less service etc) Mr and Mrs Riversniffer vowed some years ago never again to dine out on that day.   But when Mrs R said in January she’d booked A Cena, [...]

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