Square Meal

Square Meal Review - August 2009

"At a spot on Chiswick High Road where business gets tricky & the route to Hammersmith starts to slip downmarket, The Roebuck was seen as one gastropub too many by local sceptics. Its savvy, worldly-wise owners (Lots Road in Chelsea, The Queen’s Arms in Pimlico) knew they could make no concessions in giving it broad appeal. So they mixed style, comfort & class with cocktails, sofas & chandeliers, & added a garden escape screened from the traffic, plus some great food – & now locals can barely stay away. A sophisticated £5 lunch draws in office workers & kids-at-school mums, while the daily changing menu (with additions for dinner) lifts old favourites above the ordinary: cod with borlotti beans, black olives & cherry tomatoes or cauliflower, sorrel & parmesan risotto on a typical day. Accessible wines range from ‘clean & easy going’ to ‘rich & gutsy’. "