Red Cow, Richmond

This is a Young’s pub that had on Young’s Bitter, St Austell Tribute, Courage Directors, and Twickenham Pale Beauty (£1.90 a half), with a Young’s Special clip reversed. This is a reasonable selection, with a couple of genuine guests. I didn’t see a menu, but a blackboard advertised a £6 Credit Brunch (I was in on Wednesday lunchtime), including such staples as sausage & mash and scampi & chips. This is a narrow, wedge-shaped corner-site pub, with a bit of outside seating at the front. Inside it’s furnished with a number of tall tables (some butcher’s block style) and tall stools, settles, and a fair number of normal tables and chairs. All the corners have flat screen TVs on the walls (thankfully all switched off during my visit). There are a few miscellaneous prints on the walls as well as red cow’s head (false, I’m glad to say) and a gilded mirror above the fireplace. But pride of place goes to the impressive bar back (photographed by Quinno) with three decorative glass panels in mahogany surrounds. Although it’s been made over and is fairly modern in design, it hasn’t been given the full-on Young’s treatment. It’s a nice enough little pub, although by no means a traditional boozer these days. But I wouldn’t mind visiting again.

The Red Cow is up the hill from the middle of Richmond and is situated on the apex of two roads. The pub was quite smart inside and also busy on my late afternoon visit,this pub is a Youngs tied house and there were two real ales on the bar i had a drink of Youngs bitter and this was a very nice drink the other beer was Youngs Special. I thought this was quite a nice pub to have a drink in. I took the photo in the morning has i knew it would be dark by the time i got to go in this pub. Pub visited 14/12/2002

Prominent-looking Victorian pub, situated on a corner looking down towards you as you climb up the hill. A Youngs-tied house, so I was disappointed that my pint of Special wasn’t particularly special. The inside of the place is certainly *quite* pretty but modern flashing fruit machines, big screen TV and odd lighting sit uncomfortably with other aspects of the half-refurbed Victorian interior (apparently there used to snob screens at this pub back in the 70’s). Go once to sample the interior, but I can't imagine wanting to stay beyond a pint.

Randomness Guide to London - Red Cow entry

Randomness Guide to London - Red Cow entry

The Red Cow pub official site, includes menu and wine list - www.redcowpub.com