The Kingston Mill, Kingston Upon Thames

Too many people smoking outside the door! Could not even walk in, it was so smoky! If you want customers you need to make the smokers go a bit further away from the door as not all of us want passive smoke on the way into a pub!

29 Dec 2009 18:10

The Anglers, Teddington

Update on my bad review a few months ago, for a while the Anglers got a lot better as they even changed the nut roast to be vegan, so showing willingness to be vegan-friendly. We went quite often but sadly without warning they no longer do the nut roast. They did a stuffed pepper for us as vegans, made a special effort because of our disappointment on going there and finding no vegan nut roast on the menu, but on some of our friends' orders they got it wrong and kept bringing out the one with cheese! It's a shame after they made an effort, that they now seem to have forgotten the difference between vegan and vegetarian. As I represent the local vegetarian and vegan group I have recommended this pub to lots of people as one of the most vegan-friendly ones in the area but to be honest, although they make the effort they can be a bit hit and miss for vegans.

1 Oct 2009 12:09

The Royal Oak, New Malden

We found the staff worse than indifferent! Last year a few of us in our vegetarian and vegan group were going to this pub quite regularly because they had a vegan falafel burger. Now they have taken it off the menu and were not even willing to customise anything for us although we had come a long way to this pub. We were stuck with chips and beans, boring! We will not be back, they were vegan-friendly last year but dropped that side of the food despite it having gained them lots of new customers (who they will now have lost)!

1 Oct 2009 12:03