Roebuck

If Carlsberg did gastropubs, they'd be just like the Roebuck. The bar is spacious, the seating comfy; alfresco tables populate the wide Chiswick pavement in summer, and there's a beautiful garden at the back. The cool dining room has widely spaced tables from where you can watch your food being cooked.

Cheerful and helpful staff bring a regularly refreshed, succinct menu that seems to have something for everyone - including some of the best hand-cut triple-cooked chips in the known universe.

Prices are very reasonable for this part of town, with a chargrilled sirloin steak accompanied by those cosmic chips and peppercorn sauce for only £16, and melt-in-the-mouth, slow-cooked pork belly with parsley mash, savoy cabbage and glazed beetroot at £14.50. 'Seasonal' and 'fresh' seem to be the watchwords, even for the amazing-value £5 lunches on weekdays (a great draw for locals), and the two-course dinner on Sunday and Monday evenings (a mere £12.50).

The drinks menu is impressive and the wine list cleverly arranged by type; you'll almost certainly like it if you usually go for sauvignons, pinot grigios, chardonnays or merlots. Probably the best gastropub to be found in this part of the world.