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 – [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Richmond’
The Petersham
Posted in Restaurants, tagged fine dining, Richmond, The Petersham on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Britannia
Posted in Pubs, Restaurants, tagged Britannia, Richmond on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Riversniffers has confessed before how outdated we can be on Richmond pubs.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 [...]
Canon Julian Reindorp retires
Posted in General Interest, tagged Richmond, Richmond Parish Church on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
St Mary’s church in the centre of Richmond, Sunday evening 1st November 2009. The church was full to overflowing for choral evensong, marking the retirement of Canon Julian Reindorp, who has been Rector of Richmond Team ministry since January 1992. A fanfare started the service. Long standing Richmond resident Lord (Alan) Watson attended, as did Richmond’s MP, Susan [...]
La Buvette
Posted in Restaurants, tagged fine dining, French, La Buvette, Richmond on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A Good Idea
Posted in General Interest, tagged Richmond, Richmond Venturer on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The poster below is self-explanatory. What a good idea. If you know someone for whom this might be of interest please draw their attention to it. Good luck to all involved with the Richmond Venturer.
La Buvette
Posted in Restaurants, tagged fine dining, French, La Buvette, Richmond on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Ringing in the New Year
Posted in General Interest, tagged bellringing, Richmond, Richmond Parish Church on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Riversniffers witnesssed the ringing in of the New Year at Richmond Parish Church. The bellringers gathered at the church of St Mary Magdalene (the one right in the centre of Richmond) shortly after 11:30pm. After unlocking the bell tower and sorting out positions etc. ringing started at 11:40pm. At two minutes to midnight, the [...]
Christmas pictures
Posted in General Interest, tagged Christmas, Richmond on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a few Richmond pictures with a Christmas theme. One of them (The Castle pub at night) is not particularly Christmassy, but is interesting as the place ceased to exist a long time ago – do readers remember it? Anyway, here are the pictures: [...]
Terrace Gardens – Richmond
Posted in Parks and Open Spaces, tagged Richmond, Richmond Council, Terrace Gardens on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a hill beside the silver Thames Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems. Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. Robert Bridges – Poet Laureate There won’t be much text in this post. [...]
