Orange Tree, Richmond

I virtually used to live in this pub during the 1980's.

I remember the first refurbishment in 1975 when it won the Pub of the Year award I think in the following year.

Then it had another makeover about five or six years back and yuck what is this ????

If I can get today's opening (15/09/05)they may have taken it back to how it was in the 1980's?
But I doubt it?
Trendy Style over substance rules OK !

For the poster who commented that the beer is crap I suggest they stick to the American Budweiser(Budscheizer) and other related pisswaters.

To illustrate the point there used to be a Watneys brewery next door to a Youngs pub in Mortlake. A customer ventured in one day and asked for a pint of Watneys,"sorry sir we don't sell it.". The barman gave him a pint of water as the customer then asked for the nearest thing to a pint of Watneys as they didn't sell the stuff.
The furious customer threatened him with ,"I'll write to John Young and get you the sack !"

The letter from Youngs said in effect - 'The barman gave you the correct drink, the specific gravity of Watneys is **% and the specific gravity of Youngs is **% - There for the nearest thing to a pint of Watneys is a glass of water'.

15 Sep 2005 15:14