Where to Fill up Your Belly this weekend with a Sunday Roast!
Updated: Feb 16
Sunday Roast at The Porchester
It's that time of year when all we want is to get ourselves to a favourite pub and have a big old plate of food to fill up our bellies and warm our hearts!
One of the best pub meals has to be a traditional Sunday Roast with lashings of gravy! (The human is a Northerner so loves it as much as we do).
Here are some of our favourite places where you can get your gravy fix this weekend.
We are so lucky to have The Canbury Arms as our local because they always spoil us and the humans enjoy great food.
The Canbury promotes seasonal British ingredients and every dish has something a little special.
On Sundays you can get dishes like Rump of Beef with Braised Ox Cheek, Slow Roasted Pork Belly with Ham Croquettes and Slow Cooked Welsh Shoulder of Lamb. There are also vegetarian options and the staff always have treats for us.
The Shaftesbury is a great pub in Richmond which has plenty of space for dogs of all sizes and a great garden at the rear.
There is a doggie station for pooches to help themselves to treats and water and for humans, they serve great steaks and a fabulous Sunday roast.
We highly recommend their trio of roasts where you get West Country rump, Dingley Dell pork belly, Sutton Hubbard chicken, crackling and all the trimmings.
The Goat is one of our favourite places in Chelsea!
As you know we class ourselves as Gastronomes so we still seek out the best places each area has to offer and The Goat certainly falls into that category.
We went with our friend Cedric and received the warmest of welcomes from the staff who immediately asked to cuddle us and encouraged us to take as many photos as we liked.
We were even more delighted when the staff brought us water and a whole plate full of treats.
Their Sunday roasts are amazing! You can choose from chicken, beef, pork and veggie Wellington and you get UNLIMITED Yorkshires and roasties with every meal!
The Coach and Horses in Isleworth is a great pub with a lovely garden for those warmer months. Dogs are treated really well here with our very own feeding station and we even got our own sausage roll while the humans tucked into their Sunday roast.
Male human had his favourite beef but she decided to try the vegetarian roast which was beetroot wellington and she said it was delicious. The gravy might not have been meaty but it sure was tasty enough for her to ask for more!
The White Hart is a fabulous pub on the river at Barnes.
It is in the perfect place to watch the annual boat race but also serves great food which you can enjoy on the terrace or in the spacious bar area.
For Sunday roast we highly recommend the Lemon and Thyme half roast chicken and the vegan wellington made with squash, quinoa, pine nut & spinach is also delicious.
Barnes is a super dog friendly area so you will be sure to meet some friends over lunch.
The White Cross is an iconic pub that has held pride of place on Richmond Riverside since 1780!
The pub is large inside and on multiple levels, it had a fabulous terrace overlooking the river which has some cover. There are treats for pooches on the bar and water is provided.
The human food is a step above pub grub, especially the seafood and the Sunday roasts. The Dingley Dell pork belly melts in the mouth and is accompanied by goose fat potatoes and double egg yolk Yorkshire puds.
Afterwards you can walk it all off with a stroll along the river or on Richmond Green.
The Duke of Cambridge is perfectly located opposite Battersea Park so if you need to work up an appetite (we never do) before your roast dinner, then this is the pub for you.
The Duke is a personal favourite of ours because they have a doggie roast just for us! There's also a roaring fire to warm up the humans after that walk!
Be sure to look out for pub dog Frank the Chihuahua!
The Anglers is a fabulous pub on the Thames with a HUGE outdoor space.
The pub is the perfect place to stop off after a walk along the Thames path. We can’t wait to go back in the summer and try out the garden.
The Sunday roasts here are huge so make sure you are hungry! They also get very busy so make sure you tell them you have four legged guests so they can reserve you a special place.
The Spreadeagle in Wandsworth is a magnificent pub where you can enjoy a smashing Sunday Roast and even stay the night.
The pub has been around since the 1800s and still has the feel of a Victorian gin palace with many of the original features restored.
Dogs are welcome throughout the pub and in all of the 21 bedrooms in the hotel next door which are tastefully decorated and spacious. You can read our blog about our stay here.
We enjoyed a hearty Sunday Roast by the fire on a cold January day after a walk in nearby Wandsworth Park.
The Regent is a fabulous neighbourhood pub in Balham where dogs are treated like part of the family. If you are lucky you will meet pub dogs Max and Marley.
We visited for Sunday lunch because we needed to sample the Sunday doggy menu, and it didn't disappoint! We got a whole Sunday Roast to ourselves along with treats and doggy beer. We then relaxed in the comfy beds while the humans ate their roast dinner.
The pub is very busy on Sundays but there is lots of space and a large rear garden with more outdoor space on a side terrace too.
The Alma is a fantastic Youngs pub and hotel in the Old York Road part of Wandsworth.
Pooches are welcome throughout and in the hotel rooms.
We stayed the night after one of the most amazing Sunday Roasts ever - highly recommend the Roast sharer. There is so much food, the humans can’t eat it all, which is always good news for us.
It was lucky we only had to walk a few steps to our room for the night. You can check out our full blog about our stay here.
The Prince of Wales Townhouse in Hammersmith is a super spacious pub so plenty of room for dogs of all sizes to watch their humans fill their bellies.
Because our human is from Yorkshire, she loves their Sunday Roast sharer - a huge Yorkshire Pudding filled with a choice of 3 meats and a big jug of gravy!
If that makes you too full to move, you can even stay the night at Prince of Wales Townhouse.
We like the sound of the Swingers Sunday Roast where you get to try a bit of everything (but maybe that's because we are greedy). There's also a full Vegan menu including a vegan wellington with all the trimmings.
