Admiral Nelson, Whitton, Twickenham

Official site of Admiral Nelson - www.admiralnelsonwhitton.co.uk

Official site of Admiral Nelson - www.admiralnelsonwhitton.co.uk

This is a Fuller’s pub with just about the full range on, including the excellent Bengal Lancer, but I didn’t see a Discovery pump. The Chiswick tasted very good, and was well under the £3 a pint mark. The pub occupies a big corner site, but now with a single island bar with inter-connected drinking areas (which would have been completely separate and unconnected rooms in years gone by) wrapped around it. It’s mostly bare-boarded, although the Lady Hamilton room is carpeted, with normal tables and chairs. There were quite a number of those solid and chunky high tables and chairs in several areas of the pub. There is some decent wood panelling, which looked like the result of an inter-war fitting to me, but unfortunately it had been painted black in the Lady Hamilton room. There is a fair amount of memorabilia around the pub – mainly rugby related, although there is a fair bit of Nelson and maritime based stuff, including a rather splendid model of HMS Victory in the Lady Hamilton room. The usual one-armed bandits and TVs (but switched off during my lunchtime visit) were present, and the usual pop music was being played. The lunch menu featured typical pub fare at reasonable prices, although the sandwich I had (for £4.25) wasn’t brilliant. The pub itself is not really worth going out of your way to visit, but is a decent enough functional pub to stop off for a pint if you happen to find yourself in Whitton.