A Glasshouse Brasserie — Est. 1908

Dinner among ten thousand leaves.

Jardin is a working Victorian conservatory in Richmond — citrus trees overhead, ferns at your elbow, and a kitchen that cooks whatever the garden gave us that morning.

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Sunlight falling through the glass roof of a conservatory dense with palms and ferns
The palm walk, photographed at noon
A dense bank of fern fronds in deep green shade
A plated dish of garden vegetables served at a candlelit table

The Glasshouse

Built for orchids. Kept for dinner.

The glasshouse at Petersham Lane was raised in 1908 to overwinter a collector's orchids — a cathedral of iron and hand-blown glass at the foot of a walled kitchen garden. The orchids left. The light never did.

We lit the stoves again in 2019 and set forty tables among the beds. The ferns were here before us; the citrus trees fruit over the pass; and on warm evenings the roof vents open and dinner carries on under the moths and the early stars.

— Elodie & Marc Aubert, gardeners first, restaurateurs second

The Seasons

One garden, four kitchens

Pale pink cherry blossom branches against a spring sky

Spring

The garden wakes. Wild garlic under the orchard, sorrel by the wall, and the first asparagus cut while the glass is still misted.

Ripe tomatoes still on the vine, beaded with water

Summer

Tomatoes ripen against the south wall faster than we can pick them. Basil, courgettes, and frankly too many beans.

Orange pumpkins resting on dark earth at harvest time

Autumn

Squash and quince, the orchard's last plums, and mushrooms carried up from the woods at Ham in paper sacks.

Oranges with glossy green leaves still attached to the branch

Winter

The citrus house earns its keep — Seville oranges, bergamot and bitter leaves growing on under glass while the garden sleeps.

The Greenhouse Bar

Infusions, tinctures & long drinks

Everything green in the glass was cut within sight of your table. The citrus is ours; the rest we forage, steep and bottle ourselves.

  • The Conservatory glasshouse gin, lemon verbena, flowering tonic£12
  • Bramble Under Glass blackberry, crème de mûre, pressed mint£12
  • Smoked Citrus Old Fashioned bourbon, dried orange, bay£13
  • Garden Negroni rosemary vermouth, burnt grapefruit£12
  • Rhubarb 75 forced rhubarb cordial, lemon, champagne£14
  • Verbena Highball no alcohol — verbena, cucumber, soda£8

Under the Glass

Postcards from the garden

Deep green leaves layered in soft shadow
A bright bowl of garden vegetables — tomatoes, avocado and leaves
Trailing house plants climbing a pale interior wall
An amber cocktail garnished with rosemary on a wooden tray
A gravel path through a walled garden lined with camellias in flower

Visit

Take a table under the glass.

Find us

The Walled Garden
Petersham Lane, Richmond
London TW10 7AB

Five minutes' walk from the river; ten from Richmond station through the deer park gate.

Hours

Lunch — Wednesday to Sunday, 12–3
Dinner — Tuesday to Saturday, 6–11
The bar pours until midnight

The glasshouse is unheated in high summer and gloriously warm in January.

Reserve

020 7946 0908
tables@jardin.london

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