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Chiswick House & Gardens

Chiswick House is a magnificent neo-Palladian villa set in beautiful historic gardens in west London.

Built by the third Earl of Burlington in 1729 to showcase his art collection and to enthral his guests, the house continues to display many spectacular works of art and provides a stunning venue for entertaining.

The gardens at Chiswick are the birthplace of the English Landscape Movement and have inspired countless gardens including New York’s Central Park.

All profits raised help to support Chiswick House and Gardens Trust, a registered charity dedicated to the preservation and continued enhancement of the historic Chiswick House Gardens.

Please click here to host your next celebration at Chiswick House & Gardens.

Chiswick House Café

The café seats up to 80 people with additional outside tables and serves a wide range of refreshments during the day as well as catering for private events in the evening.

Delicious seasonal menus at reasonable prices are the order of the day. We serve top quality coffee from Union Coffee Roasters and lunch specials such as fish pie.

• Hot smoked salmon beetroot & horseradish salad
• Butternut squash & parmesan tart
• Blackberry apple crumble tart

We are open daily from 9.00 until 17.00 and dusk in winter and only close on Christmas Day.

A wonderful playground is adjacent to the café and we have a wide range of dishes, including macaroni cheese and sausages and mash to refuel exhausted children.

Chiswick House Café has been selected by Time Out Magazine as one of the top London park cafés.

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More information

Camellia Festival

Chiswick House Camellia Festival
18th February to 18th March 2012

Chiswick House and Gardens Trust are bringing a burst of glorious colour to the winter season with the second annual Camellia Festival. This year’s festival celebrates these beautiful blooms in the setting of the spectacular Chiswick Gardens Conservatory. To complement the Festival, the newly restored Italian Garden has been replanted with an early display of Spring flowers.

Come and visit our award winning cafe as we have a Camellia inspired menu available throughout the festival.

Conservatory opening hours: 10am – 4pm daily.
Tickets: £8.00 including free Camellia guide.

Please click here for further information and advance bookings. Please email for details of group bookings and specialist lecture tours or call 020 8742 3905.

Dates for your diary

Camellia Festival
February 18 - March 18

Gardening with Camellias - Lecture Series
February 22 and March 7

Camellias Around the World - Lecture Series
February 29 and March 14

A History of Burlington House - A talk by Caroline Knight
April 18 

May Fayre
May 13

Friends Summer Opera - Gala Evening
June 20

Friends Summer Opera - Madame Butterfly
June 21

Private Lives - Noel Coward - Open Air Production
July 12

Hansel and Gretel - Open Air Production
July 19

Pride and Prejudic - Open Air Film
August 30

The Blues Brothers - Open Air Film
August 31

The English Country Garden

Paul Cummins Ceramics is to create six installations collectively known as “The English Country Garden”. The six installations comprises of 12,000 individually hand thrown ceramic blooms mounted on metal rods.

The installations celebrate the quintessential British love of flowers. The blooms are displayed in a manner that is both unique and impactful and aims to provide an accessible way of viewing contemporary ceramic art. Each bloom has been selected on the basis of the historic relationship it shares with its historic and location.

The installations, 2,000 wildflowers, will be on view at Chiswick Gardens from May - June 2012.

Enjoy a tour of the flowers followed by lunch at our award winning cafe.