Carluccio's - Kingston in Kingston upon Thames

Lovely restaurant good atmosphere and great food

Excellent lunch in the sun. Vlad was excellent

The food and drink at Browns is always delicious but Vlad is truly their best ever waiter. He never lost his smile, patience and warmth as we asked for things off the menu and multiple glasses of ice. His service was exceptional and made lunch with my son very special. Thank you.

Browns Kingston is a popular riverside spot known for its great food and elegant atmosphere. Guests have praised Vlad for his attentive and friendly service, especially during special occasions. The restaurant is well-reviewed overall, with highlights including the scallops, pork belly, and cocktails.

The very definition of a mediocre chain restaurant. I was shown to my table and noticed the all of the chairs had dirty, stained seats, like someone had, had their feet on them. Added to that I had to brush mine clean, not sure what it was, salt or worse. Whatever, it wasn’t a great start and things didn’t really improve after that. My first course was crab on toast. Whilst the “toast” was the warmest thing on the plate it was only because everything else was chilled, presumably having literally just come out of the fridge. The main was a dish of scallops and belly pork. The food was utterly bland with almost no taste and the pork was not only tasteless but dry. I decided to go for ice cream for dessert as I was confident it would come straight out of a tub. Service was about on par with the food. The first person could barely be bothered and gave up after the first course. The second person did at least to make an effort and to be fair was probably the best thing about the meal. Definitely a chain to avoid.

Absolutely adore this restaurant. Always attentive service and exceptional food. Great atmosphere and right on the river, which we will be moving to very soon, so Browns may be the firm favourite for breakfast too. 😊

Nice afternoon tea, shame we had to wait over 40 minutes to be served as they "made a mistake" with the order. Definitely I wouldn't recommend

Awful quality of food well over priced for what they offer ! Steak £31.50 not fresh chewy and dry! Monkfish curry very salty cocktails were nice service was ok not enough staff won’t be visiting again

Came here for Mother’s Day lunch and it was a very good experience, good quality affordable food matched with super friendly service

Food and Service is phenomenal. Our waiter, Josh B was brilliant.

The most perfect location with lovely views of the river and park opposite. It’s relaxing, kind of Sanctuary. Staff are always friendly and attentive.

We had an incredible Easter lunch here and truly enjoyed every moment. Josh B was an extremely attentive host he went above and beyond to make our time special here. Indeed there are a many wonderful staff members here who make dining here such a treat we have always had an amazing experience. From the moment you walk in, you’re made to feel genuinely welcomed and valued. The food was outstanding—so fresh, beautifully cooked, and full of flavour. The live music added a lovely, relaxed atmosphere, and the service throughout was warm, attentive, and left us wanting for nothing. This might just be the nicest place to eat in Kingston if you’re looking for a special meal. For the price, the quality is excellent, and you really do leave feeling like you’ve had a real treat. Highly recommend!

Food and staff are always great here - super friendly. Their food is great and good portion sizes too - I would recommend their cod & chips which is lovely to eat if you’re outside (as you’re by the riverside anyway!). Prices are decent, too.

Great elegant place to have your lunch or dinner, by the river wich is a great vibes. Food was delicious and service by Alban was excellent. Highly recommend

Very expensive for what you get, seafood pasta was very bland, nice atmosphere though

Visited on a perfect sunny spring day, the food was great!! Service was great, especially I must mention about Gina, she made our visit even more enjoyable. Loved the Sunday roast.

Fabulous meal for our daughters birthday. Staff were all so lovely and food was amazing. Highly recommend the pulled lamb shepherd's Pie. Would definately come back if in the area again. View out onto the Thames was lovely too watching the sunset

Gina is really nice and makes us feel really welcomed.

Loved the service here, especially miss Gina was very sweet and the food was great. Will visit again.

Would recommend the place for any occasion. It’s by the riverside and received exceptional customer service from Gina. She has given us the best food recommendations. Good vibes with live music.

Table of 5 and every Sunday roast served luke warm. 3 sent back and 20 mins later served with new plates of food so we didn't eat together. Roast veg was putrid colour with no browning in the oven and beef like leather. Chosen deserts sold out. Custard had curdled, creme brulee like egg. Service staff couldn't fault with excellent customer service skills along with the manager. Given complimentary drinks and removed all costs for food from the bill. The chef is very very poor. Ruined a special afternoon of celebration. Will never return.

Great atmosphere in the sunshine on a Saturday. Shout out to Vlad for the service

Great meal, had the veg burger which was great and great drinks. Was even able to sit outside halfway through with great views. The service was spot on by santos.

First visit to Brown's today, very impressed. Husband had the vegetarian breakfast and I had Eggs Florentine. Both tasty and hot, good portions and superb service, especially from our wonderful waiter, Santos. Will be back for dinner very soon!

Nice drinks Perfect food Izi took care of us for a nice table over the river ! Thanks will be back again

Delicious lunch and excellent service

Absolutely perfect place to have a few.cocktails, bits to eat and watch the world go by. Vlad and Carlos were great!

Lovely breakfast. Great service, no hovering nothing too much and great atmosphere.

Honestly the food and customer service was OUTSTANDING!! We went for the lunch deal which was 3 courses for £24.95. Every single course was 10/10 I started with the duck which was melt in the mouth and my friend had the salmon and we both had the seabass for mains which was soooo delicious and then I had salted caramel profiteroles for desert which didn’t disappoint and honestly I could’ve had 4 more 😊 We can’t wait to come back and bring some more friends with us next time.

We came to browns for my mothers birthday, it is one of her favourite restaurants, service and food is unreal

Extremely pleasant and friendly staff, clean and tidy environment, delicious food. Lovely views with plenty of seating by the riverside. Will return with friends

The food abd coctails are very Good. thanks for everything.

Lovely evening at Browns for dinner. Served by Santos, very attentive and friendly. Highly recommend for people in Richmond.

Great food and fabulous service from Santos.

Delicious scallops and pork with excellent service!

Fantastic service! Thank you so much Santos, you were excellent!

I love coming to Browns! The atmosphere is always lovely and the service really good!

I've been to the restaurant a few times and each time has been lovely.

Excellent choice for lunchtime menu. Food was delicious and well presented. Attentive and friendly service from our waiter, Santos. A great venue on the Kingston river front

All things are excellent in here. More than 5 times brought my friends here! Will definitely come back again!

Top spot ! Overall the best on the riverside! Cocktails recommended by using where delicious !

Wow What a place ! Definitely my spot for this summer ! Își Foundation us a table outside and made my experiente excepțional!

Amazing location thanks isi for your amazing hospitality!

Amazing service and clean atmosphere

Lovely food and fab choice for vegans! The lunch deal was also great value for money.

Lovely restaurant, very speedy service and delicious food - thank you Vlad.

Food was great and We got the table we requested.

Superb lunch today, service by Santos was charming and lovely. Highly recommend, will be coming back. Thank you!

Lunch for 4 friends. Been here many, many times so thought this would be a safe choice. Took a while for service and drinks but we're a happy bunch and busy catching up. Starters arrive... Calamari was room tempreture, not even luke warm, the prawn cocktail was made with shrimps and way too much mayonnaise which I'm assuming is to deceive and bulk it out. The tomato and mozarella salad was OK. Literally as the empty plates were still being removed, 3 servers stood by to serve our mains. I stated it was too soon, we'd like a break plus we still have the table booked for another 2 hours. The waiters plonked the food down and meandered off. 5 minutes later, we are asked if everything is OK to which my friend said no, this (risotto) is inedible. OK good came the reply and walked off. It was at this point we asked to speak to someone as the Caeser Salads were also in inedible. Bright yellow/brown leaves, clearly past their prime. The manager took one look and apologised, said that there are issues with the new menu. Offered replacements for us all but tbh we wanted out. She offered us free desserts. Sherry trifle, no sherry, amaretto peaches, no amaretto.. An absolute disaster. A complimentary round of drinks was offered and again more apologies. We left and sadly will never return which is a great shame as we love the location but there are better restaurants to explore.

Food was amazing - the quality, quantity, the presentation and the taste was great 👍.

Very delicious food and first-class service. Carlos was very kind and took great care of us❤️‍🔥 Without a doubt, we will visit them again

The food and service was 10/10 the staff couldn’t have been any friendlier and accommodating! As for the food it was absolutely delicious, all 3 course so I would highly recommend the 3 course deal for £24.95. We both had the seabass for mains which was melt in the mouth.

Lovely food, service and atmosphere. Carlos was lovely and very helpful

Beautiful place, wonderful views, first class service and above all a well executed and impressive menu

At Browns Kingston we had a pleasant time, the cuisine was very good, I was treated by Carlos in a very cordial and excellent manner. Thank you Carlos for making this visit an extraordinary experience, I recommend this restaurant for excellent attention and good service.

Amazing day with delicious food on the terrace , our server Carlos was very friendly and easy to approachable, really enjoyed my meal at the restaurant.

Love the place, amazing atmosphere and good vibe. The food is tasty and staff friendly, recommend! 🖤

Team members was so amazing we have to just need to praise and the window seats were just icing on cake and thanks to Bipin chef who taken a pride and made wife day as per taste he made her paste so delicious she was so impressed she could not resist it thank you to team All over and we will back soon ❤️

Amazing staff, dedicated and attentive. Food out of this world and amazing ambient.

Absolutely amazing! Beautiful interior Xmas decorations, perfect for drinks or dinner in the evening. Great food options, would recommend to go in a group to share lots of different food. Great vegetarian options an cocktail menu, service from Ana was excellent Could not recommend it enough!will be back

Browns Kingston without a doubt an extraordinary restaurant!!! They have an exquisite menu to taste the best Kingston dishes and delicious desserts. A stop that you should not miss if you go to London. During our visit we were assisted by Carlos Esparragoza who advised us on our tastes and made us feel at home. Thank you Carlos for the excellent attention.

Lovely Browns by the river in Kingston, staff are always extremely friendly and the food is very good.

Carlos attended me, he was nice😍

Place, food and service is amazing . Carlos thanks for you atention.Amazing

Great service and experience. Wonderful lunch

We had Sunday roast and the schnitzel for lunch. I must say, the food came out faster than McDonald’s !!! Chicken roast tasteless, we sent it back . It wasn’t even a chicken roast, it was a tiny piece of breast for £21. I guess you can’t go with a schnitzel. But the salad came soggy and tasteless… the server was not very happy with us. You would think he cooked it himself! Never coming here again.

We visited this place as a group of four and decided to try four different dishes to get a feel for the menu. Unfortunately, all the food was disappointing. The salad was not tasty, the chicken schnitzel was dry, and the steak was also overcooked and dry. Although the service was good and the waiters were friendly, the food does not match the price. We do not recommend coming here for a meal.

Visited Browns today, first time in a long time. The food was fantastic and the service was equal to that. Our server/ Waiter Aaron was charming, polite and attentive. First class service. I definitely would be back. I hope management sees this and Aaron gets the recognition.

What a car crash. The food was disgusting and poorly cooked. The service was inattentive; the waiters took ages to anckno us and were visibly annoyed when asked if we could order. At one point, a waiter took my glass for a refill of ice and never returned. Half the items on the menu were not available… To top it off, the LOUD piano and singer, who couldn’t hit a note, made the atmosphere unbearable. Overall, a truly dreadful experience. Please go elsewhere, many other lovely places in Kingston.

Service was very slow and on two occasions brought out dishes we hadn't ordered Food was good quality though and the live piano player and singer was a nice touch

Very nice roast beef, Ana and Xhesi were amazing !! Recommend!

Always nice to come here. Carlos and yayo are a stars, they were very attentive.

Amazing Mother’s Day dinner, food was great, staff extremely attentive and Ana made this occasion very special. Restaurant extremely comfortable with beautiful setting, good atmosphere, well managed.

An excellent restaurant to visit

Beautiful night and also the drinks are so nice in my tummy and also it was so fast from order to pint in hand. It made me so happy.

Great service, and great drinks

The staff were wonderful, served the most amazing cocktails and even gave us our own section for our large group for a games and drinks night. Had the most amazing time and Santos especially, was a diamond.

We were asked to attend a 40th birthday and thevfood was disgraceful. My main came out and the fish was off. I took one smell and sent it back. The service was OK and the atmosphere was good but I woukd not recommend this place if you like good food. Wonderful location spoilt by the terrible kitchen.

Isi is the best waiter, so friendly and attentive ☺️ Perfect restaurant for mother’s day

The brunch was so scrumptious and Leo and Eirini were super kind and friendly! 13/10 would recommend x

Food was delicious, atmosphere lovely and service very quick. Isi was wonderful with us and made our day start well.

Absolutely loved bottomless brunch with my daughter today. Service from everyone was spot on but I must give a special thank you to Santos our server who was so attentive! Santos you made our afternoon!!!

Went for afternoon tea even though its was pre booked we waited 45 minutes for service . I would not recommend their afternoon tea food was not great service was bad hardly u call it an afternoon tea experience. I rather pay a bit extra and go somewhere special .

Food was lovely and it’s a nice setting. Waiting staff didn’t leave us too long without attention. One star off for ambiance - it’s a large, hard walled and hard floored space, so unfortunately any noise (e.g. loud kids, etc) just reverberates around. We asked to be moved and that was done with no issues.

Really enjoyed our experience recently. Everything was on point as usual. Amazing!

Love it! Everytime it's beautiful, especially this time of year on the terrace

It was a bit loud inside but outside was great and staff were really friendly Food wad good

Outstanding service, food and live music! Can’t wait to go back🎹🎤🥂

Always a lovely treat to go to Browns. The service is friendly and prompt, our waitress on our most recent visit went out of her way to accommodate our particular needs. We have always enjoyed the food, drinks and overall ambience. Thank you.

wonderful staff yet again and service is excellent will go again

21/3/25 went for my birthday meal, we got seated on time, but it took over ten minutes for the server to come and ask if we would like a drink, we ordered starters prawns with chorizo, the prawns were overcooked and rubbery, then we both had fish pie which to be honest was tasteless had to put so much pepper on it just so it would taste, then when I got in the middle of mine it was only luke warm, we both sent it back, they did offer an alternative but to be honest it was such a disappointment I just wanted to leave, we paid for our starters and drinks and left, such a shame as we had been last August and it was delicious, sadly will not be going back, also the server did not come and check to see if everything was ok my partner had to go and find someone to tell them about our meal

One of the best place for having lunch/dinner in Kingston. In front of the river. . Good music and very good atmosphere. Great service from Santos.

Sandwiches were very basic grated cheese and pickle and hard bread we're it was done before hand this was a voucher from our great nephew then on top we had to pay service charge 😭

I don't normally write reviews (good or bad) but feel compelled to write a bad one about this restaurant. The main cause for this was the food. Firstly the peas on the side of the Fish pie were sent back because they were barely warm and then after obvioiusly being microwaved, very hard. My partner's gluten free pasta was al-dente to the point of being uncooked oh... and there was no crab in the Crab and Shrimp Pasta (the main pricey ingredient?). He ate only half and to be fair he mentioned this and they took it off the bill. The service was not great as well as we often had to call various waitresses over for attention. This has happened before where a separate device and waitress was needed to take a gluten-free order and then it took ages for us to pay our bill. Overall a very poor experience and it means that Browns have lost my custom for a long time.

Sourdough with crashed brown off avocado, almost no feta cheese and lame and weathered cherry tomatoes is embarrassing to present!!! The rest of my party had a great experience with their various options.

Excellent menu choices and top notch service.

Fantastic food and excellent service. Ate here 2 days in a row as the menu was great.

Good atmosphere, nice cocktails and nice sized seafood platter. Seafood is fresh

Everything was perfect. We had a lovely dinner and our waiter Alban was so friendly and profesional . I will come back again .

Lovely food and service. We had an amazing dinner and our waiter Alban was very helpful and friendly. I recommend the place