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The Richmond, Shepherds Bush, W6
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W6 7LU
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Tris C left this review about The Richmond
Dating from the late 19th century, this pub was rebuilt in the 1930s for the Cannon brewery; you can see little metal cannon-shaped brackets just above the ground floor windows.
As mentioned, the exterior is a little like a turret, especially the recessed area at first floor level. The interior is a bit like a distended hexagon, with broadly six areas around an island bar. Some areas are stepped with divisions, some featuring leaded stained glass; in one instance, you have to go up steps to one area, then down some steps to get to the next. Otherwise, the interior’s very grey. The front of the bar’s floor is paved with slate, then it’s grey carpeting, with a modern wood floor as an apron to the bar, which is dark grey field panelled, with an angled mirror above it. The colour scheme comprises dark grey wainscoting to the dado, then pale grey to walls and ceiling; it’s a very grey pub indeed. Furniture is fairly conventional, with some banquettes to the front. Décor comprises a few token knickknacks, the odd framed print and a soupçon of shamrockery, completely outgunned by the sheer quantity of ugly Six Nations bunting and flags; much of the interior can be seen on the pub’s website gallery. Lighting comes from filament sconces, with spun copper shades over the bar and unlit tealights to tables. Customers are very local and mixed in age, which is at variance with the pub’s website gallery, which shows bored elderly people sitting about, as if in the day room of an old people’s home, waiting for death. There’s one pool table now, but the one inescapable thing you cannot miss, is the complete domination by large TVs in every area, with one megavision screen in the main pool room, commentary playing at the expense of music; there are games machines too.
There’s real ale up to a point, in the form of one unused pump, then Old Speckled Hen and Abbot at £2.45 a half and as ok as its ever going to get.
This pub’s alright for sports’ obsessives and those wanting a late pint of lager, but it has little to offer the more discerning pubgoer and real ale enthusiast, but I would have loved to have seen it in its heyday.
On 17th February 2022
- rating: 4
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Richmond
Rather a splendid old pub building with a sort of turreted add-on at one end, but now housing a sports-dominated pub, although retaining some original feature. It is divided into several different areas round an island bar with 2 pool tables and a dartboard in the rear rooms. TV screens abound throughout. The ales were a little disappointing, being just Old Speckled Hen and Tribute
On 30th October 2019
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Richmond
Sizeable wedge-shaped building, with a large island bar and several seating areas (a couple slightly raised, and the best being at the rounded end). Further back there is now just one pool table (there having once been three), and five TV screens showing sport are scattered around the interior. Several patio tables can also be found outside. Old Speckled Hen and Tribute (£4.30) available from two of the three handpumps on this visit (my first for seven years).
On 4th May 2019
- rating: 6
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Richmond
Doom Bar and London Pride were on, the latter at £3.40 a pint. There was no food that I saw at 2.30 PM on Saturday. The ambience of this pub changed instantly when the Liverpool v Man Utd match ended and all the QPR supporters hot footed it off to Loftus Road. The racing was put on, and it turned into an Irish pub. The large Kilkenny flag on the wall was a clue I suppose, and I detected several Irish accents.
This is a fairly large pub with a central island bar, and with several interconnected drinking areas – up a few stairs from the front bar area to another one; then down a few stairs to another one. There’s a pool table at the back. Some of the walls are painted cream, but the overriding colour scheme here is red – some of the walls are red, as is the carpeting, the curtains, the banquette seating, and the upholstery on the stools and chairs. I did spot a tall table/stools, but no sofas, and the majority of furnishings were normal tables and chairs.
This is a no-nonsense straightforward pub. I don’t think that I would go out of my way to visit here just for the ale selection, but it’s a decent enough place to stop off for a pint if you’re passing.
On 17th October 2011
- rating: 5
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