London’s Best Beer, Pubs and Bars updates
West London: Twickenham and Hampton Hill
Prince Blücher, Twickenham TW2 (London)
Contemporary pub (Fuller’s)
124 The Green, Twickenham TW2 5AG
T 020 8894 1824 w www.fullers.co.uk
Open 1100 (1200 Sun)-2300 (2400 Fri-Sat). Children very welcome until 2100.
Cask beer 4 (Fuller’s) Cask Marque, Other beer 1 keg, 9 bottles (mainly Fuller’s), Also 28 wines.
Food Enhanced pub grub, Outdoor Large beer garden, Wifi.
Thu quiz, big screen sport, functions.
This smart but homely place on Twickenham Green, like many pubs round here, has something of a rugby theme, welcoming “all the rugby clubs of England” – but its welcome also extends to drinkers who don’t know their tries from their conversions. An old fashioned exterior, complete with door glass naming separate bars, conceals a much bigger interior than expected, opened out and contemporarily furnished though with several distinct areas including some cosy sofa-strewn corners. It’s also very child friendly with a play area in the extensive garden.
Run by a former Fuller’s cellarman of the year, this is one of the pubs the brewery is targeting as a showcase beer venue. Chiswick, ESB, Pride and a seasonal occupy the handpumps, and there’s a good range of Fuller’s bottles including 1845, Bengal Lancer, London Porter and latest Past Masters issues. A sturdy pub grub menu – steak and ESB pie, honey roast ham, Pride-battered cod, burgers, wild mushroom risotto – is complemented by kids’ meals, daily specials and two for £10 lunchtime deals.
Pub trivia. It’s unusual to find a British pub named after a German who wasn’t also a British royal, but Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt (1742-1819), enjoyed a fan following here for contributing to the defeat of Napoléon as the commander of the Prussian forces at Waterloo. He had a locomotive named after him as well as pubs.
National Rail Strawberry Hill, Twickenham Bus First Cross Road (110 Twickenham, Hounslow, 490 Twickenham, Feltham) Cycling Link to LCN+ 37, Hampton Wick, Brentford Walking Thames Path
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