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The Weir, 22-24 Market Place, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 8EQ.

Reservations: 020 8568 3600

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Welcome to The Weir

The Weir Bar & Dining Room is a well-established family-run gastro pub offering high quality food, service and drinks, set back from the high street in Brentford. The Weir enjoys a beautiful position with its large garden running down to the water's edge.

The Weir only prepares its dishes from fresh produce and we understand, as a small family business, the importance of supporting our local traders and farmers. We work closely with them on a day-to-day basis, with our frequently changing seasonal menus, to offer customers the best quality at the keenest prices.

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The Weir annual barbecue party, Friday 6th August

Book your table now for an evening of Lobster, steak, crabs and live music by David Jelley.

New Summer menu options

Click onto our menu bar to view our new Summer party options,
including BBQ, Canape, platter & sandwich menus.
Book your function by sending us an e-mail to info@theweirbar.co.uk

New Summer lunch menu

Try our new Summer lunch menu, you can pre-order your dish via e-mail and it will be ready when you arrive!
Call 020 8568 3600 to reserve a table and we will send you a pre-order form.
You can view the lunch menu here

Monday Quiz Night

Calling all intellectuals, get ready & test your knowledge, we begin another season of brainteasers, starting Monday 6th september at 8.30pm.

Dates for your diary

Friday July 23rd
Summer garden party, Champagne, oysters & live music by David Jelley
Friday August 6th
BBQ in the garden with lobster and steak and live music by David Jelley
Friday September 17th
80s theme night, be an 80s star for the evening, bad hair, electric blue makeup, padded shoulders, cheese & pineapple hedgehogs, classic cocktails, and disco with live music by Mike Allen.

An historical insight to the Weir Bar & Dining Room Brentford is a very old and historical town infamous for its pubs and inns. Located on the main road to the west of London and at the point where two rivers and a canal meet. It was once one of the most important towns in Middlesex, dating back from the late first century A.D. It grew in importance through the Middle Ages as traffic on the road out of London increased, providing a stop off point for refreshment and extensive stabling for travellers.

The Weir Bar & Dining Room formerly the White Horse, is today probably the oldest pub in Brentford. It was first licensed in 1603 and is mentioned in the burial register, recording the death of one George Wood ‘dwelinge at the signe of the White Horse in market place’.

It was an earlier house on the site of the left hand building of the present pub premises that J M W Turner’s Uncle Joseph William Marshall lived and worked. He was a butcher catering for the local residents of the surrounding area. In 1785 Turner, aged 10, was sent to stay with his uncle for one year due to his mother's unstable mental health, in part, due to the early death of Turner’s younger sister. It was here that he first expressed an interest in painting, especially with the movement of water. Throughout his stay, Turner attended John White’s free school at 125 High Street. His first adventure as an artist whilst living in Brentford was colouring engravings. He was then employed at the age of thirteen by Thomas Hardwick, an architect whom it is said advised him to concentrate more on painting than architecture. Then in 1789, a few months shy of his fifteenth birthday, enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy.

The Weir’s cellars give an insight of what once was. Window bays that would have looked out to narrow alley ways, large open fire places and dated wooden beams all show a fascinating building history.