This local pub in Barnes, south-west London, serves lunch and dinner as well as brunch at weekends. Interiors feature open log fires, wooden tables and chairs and leather banquettes. The menu concentrates on modern British cooking with a focus on seasonal ingredients.

• Opened: 2 January
• Owners: Alan Lempriere, Nick Jackson, Jamie Prudom
• Head chef: Steve Guntrip
• Manager: Jamie Prudom
• Capacity: 30
• Food: Includes pork and thyme terrine with onion marmalade and toast, fillet of sea bass with spinach, new potatoes and wild mushroom cream sauce, lamb shank braised with root vegetables, mashed potato and sprout tops and apple and rhubarb crumble with vanilla ice-cream
• Prices: £25 for three courses excluding wine
• Address: 28 Cross Street, London, SW13  0AP
• Telephone: 0208 8392 2200
• See a map of The Brown Dog here