Red Peppers

Busy Mediterranean style restaurant, perfect for families with young children. The service is friendly and attentive and the food is varied from pasta to steak and everything in between. Expect to have to book.

A younger crowd eat here, good food and service, but if you looking for a quiet romantic place to eat this might not be the place for you.

I admit it, I am a bit of a food snob. I would rather stay away restaurants that are part of a group and frequent the smaller, more individual places. But last Saturday evening me and my friend were hungry, we had both had bad days, and we wanted food pronto. I didn’t particularly care to drive around for an hour while I found the most authentic place to eat — I’m not stupid! So this is how we ended up at Red Peppers, my choice of sophisticated dining back when I was a teenager.
I was actually quite pleased to be back; it was lively and fun, packed full of families and groups of friends — it seems Red P is the place to be for a celebration in Esher on a Saturday night. The moment we sat down our helpful waitress brought us a dish of free olives — you should know that I get disproportionately happy when I get free food, however small.
We ordered a couple of glasses of Cabernet Sauv, nothing to write home about but perfectly decent to wash down dinner. The menu is huge, almost a bit too much choice. A lot of it is quite generic — starters are things like nachos, garlic mushrooms, baby back ribs, mains (which are huge), are foods like steak, burritos, fish, pizza or pasta. There are lots of side dishes as well. We ordered the Calamari to split as a starter which was very good, although my friend said that her main of fish cakes was ‘so-​so’. I had a small salad of roasted halloumi cheese over cous cous and roasted veg, which was perfectly decent, but didn’t make me ooh and ahh in delight. The garlic pizza bread with caramelised onions and goats cheese that I had as a side was much tastier.
I walked out completely stuffed, and the amount of carbs consumed had raised our serotonin levels sufficiently so that our bad day had been revised to a good evening, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the food was responsible for that.

Good fun place to go, usually busy. Mixture of food, reccomend the Ribs and Chicken. Particularly good to take a party.