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The new decor much better and warmer than the previous phoney castle decor. Good food, friendly staff, bright warm and with a nice ambience. Recommended.
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The refurb is good and the place is now light and bright. But the emphasis is very much on food (we were asked if we wanted a table for 2 as we walked in) and there is only Adnams Broadside on tap. A good location and good decor but not really a pub.
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I am not sure if the new owner wants this pub to be family friendly or not! We went for Saturday lunch, great staff but the rest was below average for the price. The children could choose from spagetti with tomato (£5) or Fish cake (£7) - for one fish cake with lettuce and some tartare sauce! When we asked for some green beans we were told that the beans had been pre measured out so we couldn't have any! The location is great as opposite the park and swings - we visited the swings and came back for desert. Lovely beer garden but the only hitch being that we were told that the owner would prefer our children not to run about in his garden (he didn't come to tell us himself but sent his staff!!)One point for smiling staff, two points for my risotto, three points for location.
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The refurb went well and is sympathetic to the period and style of building, enhancing original features and sympathetic lighting. Good sound system and some great musicians are featured - an excellent guitarist the night we went for a drink. Snack menu as well as full menu now, a good wine list and a fine wine list which changes regularly, and is exceptional for the price. Not an average pub.
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The Dysarts has class with excellent food, music and ambiance. The wine list is very good and they have a guest real ale to complement the beer list. We held my husbands 40th birthday party in the private upstairs room, which was a very good venue and have been since many times to dine and for a drink. An excellent venue for a meal with your partner where you can actually hear each other talk! It is very popular with local families for lunch on a Sunday. Looking forward to seeing the downstairs refurbishment.
anonymous - 6 Oct 2007 18:08 |
Went past on Sunday 30th September. Still closed with boarded up front door. No pub sign outside either.
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The Dysart Arms is just closed for refurbishment.
It will reopen on Saturday 29th September.
There will be live jazz every Thursday, live classical music every Saturday and varying live music every Friday.
anonymous - 24 Sep 2007 13:27 |
Went past the Dysarts today and it was closed... Surely not another pub in Richmond closing?!
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Appeared top be closed when I passed this week. Anyone know if it's a refurb or a closure?
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This pub looked absolutely delightful - sadly the welcome and attitude was lousy. Staff very grumpy and the gothic interior completely at odds with the real building. Instead of stopping here we went to the Rose of York a few minutes up the road which was delightful. What a contrast! Shame - the Dysart has loads of potential and a great location.
anonymous - 16 Aug 2007 16:19 |
This pub looks like Noel's House Party, the staff are generally quite down in the mouth and unhelpful, they often run out of beer and it isn't cheap. The location is really all it has going for it.
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Went here for Sunday lunch and was hugely disappointed. The head waitress/restaurant manager was deeply unhelpful. After grudgingly finding us a table which 7 of us could actually sit down at, and ignoring us for 10 minutes, she refused to take our order on the grounds that we were "4th on the list - I'll take your order in about 10 minutes". The food arrived 50 minutes later and was overpriced and tasteless. The IPA was fine (sadly the Doom Bar was off) but the second pint I ordered never arrived (although made it on to the bill). OK beer, nice location, below average, expensive food and useless service. Never again. If you want a pub near Richmond Park go to the Roebuck on Richmond Hill.
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Visited here last Thursday and liked it. A really good bitter (Sharp's) and some excellent live jazz. It was quite loud though.
As everyone else has said, is it a pub or a restaurant? The menu was better than most pubs.
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We ventured out from Kingston hoping to add a local destination to our list of ‘good food pubs’. At the Drayton Arms we found good, fresh food that was well presented. Nice touches such as homemade tomato & tartare sauces were offset by the chips – why use frozen French skinny fries – and sliced supermarket baguette that did not do justice to the very, very tasty olive oil it came with. The rest of the ingredients – fresh fish and well cooked steak – were all so good it seemed a shame not to go all the way.
The atmosphere was confused like the comments noted below. Is it a pub or is it a restaurant? We would personally prefer more of a pub atmosphere. Therefore no table service, get rid of the old function chairs and put some character back into the place. The gothic feel to parts of the interior were just a bit too overbearing!
We also noted that two members of staff were off duty when we were there. One was possibly a manager who took up a table for ten people, munching on his crisps, reading his paper as he shouted jokey comments to the staff… as if there were no customers in the bar. The other chap sat at the bar having a pint and chatting to the bar staff (his mates). This is fine but it was then difficult to get their attention to pay. This sounds a bit petty, but it speaks of an operation that is not quite there, not quite slick enough, and not quite justifying the prices.
We will go back in the summer for a long, lingering lunch on the outside tables.
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This is a nice place. Yes kids are allowed (Good) Yes it's brightened up a bit (Good) and yes the food is good. The main thing is the beers still as good as ever and it's still looks the bees knees. I do tend to agree with the price of the wine - but then I don't drink it anyway. Overall 8/10
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This is a beautiful old building, has some impressive flagstone flooring, and my pint of Adnam's Bitter was excellent.
But sadly it seems to have given up any wish to be a traditional pub: it chooses instead to cater for the food crowd, and a family crowd at that. There were hordes of kids running everywhere when I visited on a Sunday lunchtime. I haven't been here before, but I was informed by my drinking buddy that the inside has been opened out and brightened up to make it look more like a restaurant.
Another nail in the coffin of the traditional British boozer.
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Very child friendly, big tables seating whole family. Serves excellent food, and children's portions of Sunday roast, a welcome change from the nugget and chips rubbish that so many pubs think children want and actually hate.
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As noted by a previous reveiewer, this place doesn't seem to know whether it's a pub or a restaurant. The ambience and service are pub-like, but the food prices are (expensive) restaurant levels.
The food is adequate, but the prices, the lacklustre service and a banal and overpriced wine list (£27 for a bottle of Gavi?)make this one to avoid.
anonymous - 12 Jun 2006 10:39 |
Fine is you like expensive posh nosh and are not that interested in the beer. At it's best in the summer when you can sit outside but, even then, you have the road traffic to contend with and a very limited choice of beers. You are meant to drink wine.
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Gone down hill a bit under the new management.
anonymous - 14 Dec 2005 00:26 |
Dysart very crowded on a Sunday just before Christmas; had to wait 20' for a table for two. Steak and kidney pudding and yorkshire good, but few and uninspired vegetables. Note to try the vegie option next time! Coffee more like brown water: didn't pay for it, but waiter didn't make a fuss over this. Beer: choice of two real ales, reasonable.
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During the half term holidays with the kids complaining as they do, we were driving through ham when we spotted this pub, a nice and quiet remote location, close to richmond park, a play area and a beautiful view for miles. The staff were very friendly and attentive, despite coming on a busy day, the food was top notch and not expensive, recommended.
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An amazing turnaround for this pub, under new management and with a refurbished function room for private functions. A brand new menu ensures that the standard of food and choice available are always fresh, my children were made to feel welcome and the addition of a non-smoking area is a real bonus, making this an excellent family location.
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Being born and raised in Petersham (school friends with Jim Tyrrell's <the guvnor> son in the 1960's). I knew it then as The Dysart Arms. It's image has been through many changes...Dysarts, The Dysart. None of them recapture my memory of it as a 2 bar pub. Left hand public bar complete with dartboard and the east european dart-player called Alex (a rarity in those days...Polish?). Right hand saloon for the country set. Most vivid memory? Drinking by Hurricane Lamp light during the constant power cuts caused by the miner's strike! Anybody else remember this era...email me?
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good place. like it. nice location and good in the summer.
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Like a lot of pubs along this strip, they are full of promise but dissapoint up close. It as if the proprietor is considering a shift into the restaurant business but hasn't quite got the nerve. That coupled with the suspicion a young group of people might be eyed with in these parts spells stay away.
Good for: Families
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Food can vary. Sometimes good, but can be really terrible, especially if you go for a late Sunday lunch. Staff don't seem to know what's what. Plenty of tables in garden even if it is a bit noisy being on the Petersham Road. If you are walking a long the towpath it makes a pleasant diversion for a drink, but you'd be better off eating at the White Cross or White Swan in Richmond before you go. Or the Lass on the Hill on Friars Stile Road if you walk up Richmond Rise to enjoy the views (Friars Stile on your left near top)or have a quiet drink at the Roebuck (great pub, great views), then walk past Star and Garter into Richmond Park or down through Richmond Meadow to the towpath. Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Jay - 14 Feb 2004 15:14 |
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