The Royal Oak - Richmond Upon Thames

An excellent pub to visit either before or after a game in the twickenham stage. eating is delicious and there is a great choice of drinks. the service was great and they can easily deal with the additional traffic generated on game days.

Friendly staff a beautiful place for a g t. dog-friendly great outdoor seats. there are a few delicious looking vegan options on the menu, so will try again the

I've been her a good number of times and I still can't work out what it is. They have multiple TV screens showing different sports simultaneously, people playing pool, people just sitting and not drinking or eating, loads of empty space, conflicting decor, and no neating. The bar staff are nice, friendly but there isn't a sense that it is a welcoming pub. The food is mediocre and one thing I can't stand is frozen chips. If you can make dough for a pizza you can peel a spud and pass it through a potato cutter and you can also check that the condiments are full before dropping them off at the table. I just feel like something is missing in here and I think it is customers. It's a big pub in a great catchment area but nobody goes there. The atmosphere is lost somewhere. I wouldn't rule the place out altogether as they have a good range of beers (at a high price and don't mention the price of cocktails), however, it isn't alive enough for me.

Lovely pub and friendly bar staff, at least from when I was a regular a few years ago but the increase in TV screens makes this more of a Sports pub now and no pub should be charging £3.50 for an Americano coffee when it's not a coffee shop with trained Baristas

Worst food I have ever had in a pub. Went with the family expecting to order a Sunday lunch. They don’t have a Sunday menu only burgers, wings and pizzas. The first issue is when I phone to book a table and got told they weren’t taking any more booking for today, but the lady could check if there is room for a walk in, she put me on hold and then the phone was answered by someone else she said that she didn’t know who I was talking to but there is room. When we arrived the pub was totally empty we could have sat on any of the 30 plus empty tables. There were only 2 members of staff both behind the bar, although 1 moved to the kitchen. We ordered 2 burgers and a share platter, 20 mins later the food arrived, 2 mediocre burgers with chips, although one had onion rings that were totally over cooked. The sharing platter was a different matter it was inedible not over cooked, burnt looked like everything was chucked in the deep fryer or microwave from frozen and then forgotten about. There wasn’t a single bit that was probably cooked. My wife complained to the waitress/ bar lady who said that it was meant to look like that. We asked what was on the nachos, that can’t be right that we couldn’t identify what it was, the answer was beef, what type of beef? Sloppy Joe. There was nothing sloppy about this. The staff seemed oblivious to the issue, or not to care. On a day when Twickenham was packed it is not surprising that the pub was empty.