Petersham Nurseries Cafe (Richmond Upon Thames)

• Beautiful setting all the dishes come accessorized with petals from the
• Pastas and cakes probably the best place I can think of taking your Grandma for lunch/tea (if she's stable enough for uncomfortable chairs)
• If it's a nice day Richmond Park is next door for a walk think it's really nice to go for an hour's stroll before lunch to build up an appetite
• The nursery is tucked away in the corner of Richmond Park and is filled with a stunning array of flowers
• The glass house is filled with french furniture and gorgeous bouquets with tables sitting on exposed dirt
• Halibut Acqua Pazz with Rocket &
• Chocolate and Almond cake with Jersey Cream &
• Everything was fresh and beautiful
• The Mango sorbet was absolutely outstanding
• First serve and parking is incredibly limited
• My starter of salt beef on sourdough toast with mushroom duxelle was fine
• Me fraiche with dill hardly contributed to the dish (barely 3/10)
• My John Dory was the best dish of the night
• The mustard lifting the dish and working well with the ham hock
• Dover sole is a very simple dish so lives or dies by the sourcing of the fish and the accuracy of the cooking
• This particular fish was oddly tasteless
• The problem was that there were two sides to the kitchen on display
• I had to change my booking three times and each phone call to the restaurant was extremely pleasant
• We walked into the restaurant with a huge smile on our faces and a lovely hostess welcomed us and brought us to our table
• Petersham Nurseries Cafe (Richmond Upon Thames) felt like a childhood dream where you are being looked after by a young and friendly group of people
• I ordered the partridge with leek and pancetta and my mother went for the vegetarian tagine
• A good match with the dreamy &ldquo
• The presentation was simple yet elegant
• T mentioned on the menu and Moroccan cuisine is not known to be spicy
• The partridge was still bloody and raw near the bone
• Were a real shame as they made me think the food was slightly overpriced
• We ordered the fried chicken on salad which was cold and average at best (4/10)
• Cold pasta salad with grains (7/10)
• Tomato salad which was extremely plain (5/10) and a poached egg salad with unfortunately pre poached eggs (6/10)
• It was a light feast and though nothing spectacular I would definitely come back to try the main restaurant and perhaps enjoy a coffee with my dog enroute to Richmond Park
• 10k in around 5 seconds on gorgeous pieces of furniture (in my head) it was time for lunch
• Both cafe and restaurant are housed in beautiful Victorian glasshouses and are completely full to the ceiling of flora and fauna it is a rather magical place to be
• Especially this time of year where twinkling Christmas lights are entwined throughout the climbing plants and branches
• The emphasis here is showing the ingredients off in the best possible way
• Fresh and the type of food which makes you content with each mouthful
• With the cold Autumnal air outside there was one thing on the menu I knew would warm me right up 'Fish stew'
• Served with a good dollop of a punchy Aioli it really hit the spot and was a wonderful bowl
• I absolutely loved it here and left with a beaming smile and a warm feeling of content
• A place never to be missed and one that is now firmly at the top of my favourites list
• Perhaps it was the airy fairiness of it
• Or the worry that I was going to have to trek across London to feel short changed
• When the Great Fire of London of 1666 broke out the one thing the great diarist Samuel Pepys wanted to save was his Parmesan cheese
• The wonderful cheese that is the root of Italian cooking
• I really enjoyed that dogs were welcomed (and almost encouraged)
• If you miss out on a table in the restaurant there is a tea &
• The chicken was succulent and juicy
• After lunch wandering around the various nursery glasshouses is a great finish

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