Where to eat in Richmond
8 places
Planning a whole day here? Read the Richmond area guide.
Al Boccon di'vino
£££There is no menu. You are brought course after course of whatever is being cooked that night, the way an Italian wedding feeds people, until you stop.
Antipodea
££All-day Australian cooking that runs from brunch through laksa and Thai squid, which is a far broader range than Richmond's pub-and-Italian default.
Napoli on the Road
££Named best pizzeria in Europe for the third year running. Michele Pascarella's Chiswick pizzeria, a long way from the tourist centre and worth the journey.
Ranked #1 in Europe by 50 Top Pizza three consecutive years to 2026. Began as a truck touring London's food markets. Now three sites: Chiswick (the original), Richmond, and Soho - where the basement runs a tasting menu and is filed separately as napoli-on-the-road-soho.
Pembroke Lodge
££A Georgian mansion inside Richmond Park with terraced gardens and, from King Henry's Mound just behind it, the protected ten-mile sightline to St Paul's.
Petersham Nurseries
££££Lunch inside a working plant nursery, under glass and surrounded by what is for sale - the setting is the entire proposition and nothing in London repeats it.
Lunch-led. The Richmond site and the Covent Garden one are different propositions - check which you are booking.
The Dysart
££££A Michelin star at the gates of Richmond Park, in an Arts and Crafts building, on a menu that changes with what Kenneth Culhane can actually get.
The Roebuck
££Directly opposite the protected view from Richmond Hill - people buy a pint and carry it across the road to the wall, which is the accepted way to do it.
The White Cross
££On the towpath where the river regularly comes over the road and floods the entrance - there are tide tables on the wall and wellingtons by the door.