Barmy Arms, Twickenham

The Barmy Arms is in a nice location facing the Thames. There are a few picnic tables at the front of the pub with large ugly green umbrellas, this spoils the look of the pub from the outside. I went in a smallish room inside and this had an olde worlde feel to it there may have been other rooms but i did'nt look. There were three real ales on here i had a drink of Youngs Winter Warmer and this was very nice the other beers were Directors and GK IPA. Pub visited 13/12/2003

They had London Pride, Harvey’s Best, and Spitfire on. Food seemed to be available all day, with the usual Punch menu available. For a Punch Pubco pub it’s really rather good. I don’t usually go much for Punch pubs, but this is one of the nicer ones that I’ve encountered. Perhaps I’m influenced by the setting, right on the river looking over to Eel Pie Island. There’s a large patio area on the river side, with lots of picnic benches, and even an outside bar which presumably gets brought into play when crowds are expected. I saw mainly lager fonts on this bar counter, but I did spot a London Pride pump doing its best not be swamped by the plethora of bog standard lager fonts. An interesting feature on the riverfront by the pub is a board dedicated to the greats of jazz, blues and R&B (but not the pop/soul version that they call R’n’B nowadays) that played on the island in the Eel Pie Island Club. You go up a few steps to enter the pub, and the bar counter is right in front of you. There’s a bit of seating in this area, both to the right and left of the bar counter, including a couple of high tables/stools, but mainly normal tables and chairs. As a previous contributor has said, there’s another room around to the left, down a few steps from the main bar area. There were some TVs on the walls, but switched off during my midweek, late afternoon visit. There was, of course, some rugby memorabilia on the walls. I imagine that I will be back, as this is the sort of riverside pub that Mrs R takes to.