The Red Cow - Richmond Upon Thames

Red Cow delivered what we expected and so much more! Steve his staff run a quaint little pub and inn amazingly well. They took great care of us with very pleasant welcoming personalities. Great atmosphere inside out. Rooms were small but enough for us on our stay. The pub was full of locals, nice place to enjoy a pint or two (great beer choices). Their restaurant Heng Heng offered food that was an usual choice for us, Cambodian, but it was delicious! Conveniently located in the lovely town of Richmond.

Booked a table here for 4 people to watch both six nations games with food. Turned up and the table they gave us only sat 2 people. Bar staff seemed uninterested to help. Shocking service. Avoid at all costs.

Much like my Exes I leave this establishment feeling terrible the next day however I can’t stop going back. When I walk into this establishment I see a montage of happy evenings made a blur by the solid pints enjoyed with friends and locals. The Red Cow fills me with more than just spirits but happiness and warmth. In a time of desperate need of a helping hand upon a Sunday I ventured past the pints and opted for a roast. And boy did it deliver. Great value for money for an outstanding roast, is there anything more you could want in your local pub? I think not

Though the staff are very friendly, and the pub food is very nice paid for separately) we would not recommend the rooms to stay in based on our room). Room badly in need of being modernised poor decoration, dated furniture, no view from window faced a brick wall), fridge in wardrobe, lukewarm water in shower and was expensive £271 for two nights). We left after the first night.

Left the hotel on a Monday and powered up tripadvisor on the mobile to look for a place to get a good beer and some pub food. Hey wait, why has the place just 50m away more stars than the places i know in Richmond center for years now? Let's give it a try. No one sitting outside, i handfull of locals at the bar (which is always a good sign but the reason we stayed for the night and the next two as well was because once we entered (and had no clue which beer is local, we like, etc... it was not the typical questions and answer game. What do you have, how does it taste. We were given beer tasters of every beer we wanted to try and quickly found the beer. If I remember correctly, kitchen open 5:30pm and we went for the finger food. Never had such spicy chicken wings outside of a chinese restaurant in China (for Europeans it is just bodily harm and not to mention the Mac-Cheese-Fries the Humus or the other deep fried finger food. That day it was PL football, so we grabbed the chance to order our fish and chips before the game started. This was the best fish and chips i had in England since 25 years and could compare to the one i had next to the motorway to wolverhampton wrapped in two pages of the daily newspaper. Service is great, food and beer is awesome and you are still surrounded by locale people. Great place to come back to.