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Cherry River is a Chiswick jewellery studio creating colourful pieces that layer well together. Founder Mihaela Wiseman makes most of the collections here in the area, with the rest sourced from Europe and India.
The range spans gold hoop earrings with charms, chunky bracelets, necklaces in vibrant colours and fun rings, with charms in crystals, pearls, semi-precious gemstones and glass. Everything comes in recyclable or reusable packaging, and the prices are genuinely accessible. If you’d like to see the pieces in person, Mihaela will be at Green Days on 13 and 14 June.
Reader offer: 15% off all collections with the code CHISWICK. Valid until 31 May.
w: cherryriver.co.uk
ig: @cherryriver
Welcome back to Inside Chiswick, your weekly guide to the people, businesses and stories that give the area its character.
This week leans into the things Chiswick does well when it slows down. A Persian dining room that has to be seen to be believed, a Chiswick-made jewellery brand built on colour and craft, and a roster of local specialists from dentistry to longevity to IT support. Plus the Chiswick Pier Trust as our social spotlight, and Silver Swans, the ballet class for over-55s that has been a fixture in W4 for eight years.
Glad to have you with us.
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Each week, we’ll be spotlighting a local food and drink business that adds something special to Chiswick. If you’d like to be featured, or know a local favourite we should include, please get in touch.
Piano Restaurant on Chiswick High Road serves Persian cuisine in a room that looks like nowhere else in W4. Floor-to-ceiling pink wisteria, gold statues holding floral bouquets, pink velvet chairs and marble-topped tables on one side; a bar, a shisha lounge and a private room for groups on the other.
The kitchen runs noon to midnight, seven days a week. The à la carte covers Persian classics, from skewered prawns and saffron rice to fresh mezze, all served on cobalt-blue ceramics. A good one to know about for a long lunch, a date night, or a group dinner that needs to feel like a proper occasion.
w: pianorestaurant.co.uk
ig: @pianorestaurantbar
Each week, we’ll spotlight a local social media account that captures something interesting, useful or distinctive about Chiswick. If you know an account we should feature, or run one yourself, we’d love to hear from you.
This week: @chiswick_pier
The Chiswick Pier Trust is the charity that keeps this stretch of the Thames alive for the community, and their Instagram reflects exactly that. Expect river photos, event announcements and a reminder that one of W4's best assets is just at Corney Reach, at the end of Edensor Road. They run everything from Boat Race gatherings and jazz cruises to monthly talks and guided river walks, and with summer coming up, their feed is well worth keeping an eye on. Membership costs £15 a year and gets you free entry to all the talks.
We also want to make space for the positive things happening across the area. This section is our way of highlighting the community moments, local successes and uplifting stories that help make Chiswick such a good place to live.
Proper Mexican food is coming to Turnham Green Terrace
Forget Tex-Mex. A new restaurant called Mirtala is taking over the former Sam's Kitchen site on Turnham Green Terrace, and it's bringing something genuinely different to the area. Run by Chiswick supper club favourites Benaisha and Rishad Mehta, the menu centres on Northern Mexican cooking from the region around Monterrey: sharing plates, a 16-hour British Wagyu barbacoa slow-cooked in handmade limestone pots, and Sonoran-style flour tortillas made on a press shipped over from Austin, Texas. Cocktails built around rare mezcals, tiger-nut horchata for non-drinkers, and coffee from Mexican beans roasted in Paris. They're aiming to open in July. Source: ChiswickW4.com
Wildlife is moving back into Ravenscourt Park
A neglected pond near the Goldhawk Road end of Ravenscourt Park has been completely transformed. Once fallen into disrepair and attracting anti-social behaviour, the wildlife area has been transformed through a partnership between local residents, schoolchildren and green investors. Two linked ponds now sit at its heart, surrounded by water lilies, purple loosestrife and marsh marigold. Frogs and tadpoles are already back. A fox family has moved into the new hedgerows. Nearly 300 local people shaped the redesign, including pupils from Brackenbury, John Betts and St Peter's primaries. The area is still closed while the planting beds in, but it'll be worth the wait when it opens later this year. Source: Chiswick Herald
The King came to Chiswick. Quietly.
No fanfare, no road closures. King Charles III slipped into Chiswick on Monday 18 May for a visit to Voysey House, the beautifully restored Arts and Crafts headquarters of Sanderson Design Group on Barley Mow Passage. The occasion marked 100 years of Sanderson holding a Royal Warrant, first granted by George V in 1924. The King toured the design studios, watched a live demonstration of traditional block printing and was shown a piece of William Morris wallpaper originally made for Balmoral in 1887. Not a bad afternoon in W4. Source: Chiswick Herald
We’re passionate about highlighting the local businesses that help give Chiswick its character. If you’d like to be featured, or know a business we should have on our radar, please get in touch.
Three specialists this week who are, in different ways, exactly who you want looking after you. An IT support business run by someone who actually picks up the phone. A family dental practice with real depth in cosmetic and orthodontic work. A medically led aesthetics and longevity clinic with thirty years of clinical experience behind it. Exactly the kind of businesses we set Inside Chiswick up to find.
Deeplogic is a local IT support business run by Dino Scott, a West London native with over 17 years of experience helping people in W3 and W4 with the tech problems most of us quietly put up with. Slow MacBooks, Wi-Fi that drops at the wrong moment, printers that refuse to cooperate, new laptop setups, small office IT. Dino covers both Mac and PC, works remotely or on-site and is usually available same-day. Most jobs start under £45, and he'll always tell you what's actually worth fixing rather than talking you into something you don't need.
Inside Chiswick readers: 20% off your first call-out or remote support session. Mention CHISWICK20 when you get in touch. Valid for 60 days.
D&F Clinic is a dental and facial practice in Chiswick, run by Cristina Daguerre alongside her husband and a business partner. The clinic sees both adults and children, covering routine dentistry through to composite bonding, porcelain veneers, dental implants and Invisalign. For parents, they offer early orthodontic assessments from around age seven, which can identify developing issues and address them at the right time. They also take on more complex adult orthodontic cases, including patients who've been told treatment isn't straightforward elsewhere.
Renée Grace Aesthetics is a medically led clinic in Chiswick run by Kerry Renée Grace, a Nurse Prescriber with over 30 years of clinical experience. Kerry offers a full range of non-surgical injectable and skin treatments, and has recently expanded into longevity, covering health testing, treatments and products focused on longer-term wellbeing. It's a relatively rare combination in a local clinic, and the medical background matters in this field.
Inside Chiswick readers: 20% off all treatments in May and June. Excludes prescription-only medicines.
A few highlights from the week ahead, hand-picked from our events calendar. New events are being added daily through summer; worth bookmarking.
Looking for a new way to move?
Chiswick Silver Swans is the Royal Academy of Dancing's life-long learning programme, running in W4 since 2018. Classes are designed for those who want to learn ballet for the first time or pick it up again later in life, with a focus on balance, posture, brain agility and general fitness.
Sessions are taught by a RAD-registered Silver Swans licensee and run every Saturday (11am–12pm) and Tuesday (2pm–3pm). £15 per class, payable on the day. Inside Chiswick readers get their first class free.
contact Judy: 07905 242898
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Giffords Circus: Waterfield Friday 22 May, 7pm at Chiswick House Gardens
Giffords Circus returns to the beautiful grounds of Chiswick House with "Waterfield." Inspired by the English countryside and its creatures, this is their most ambitious show yet, with some genuinely spectacular set pieces.
More details: giffordscircus.com
Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker Saturday 23 May, 10am–5pm at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing. Chiswick-based designer Marthe Armitage — now 95 — gets a long-overdue exhibition celebrating her iconic hand-drawn, hand-printed wallpaper and fabric patterns, all made in her Chiswick studio. Free with general admission.
More details: pitzhanger.org.uk
Henry Moore: Monumental Nature Sunday 24 May, from 10am at Kew Gardens
The largest collection of his work ever shown outdoors, set among Kew's gardens. A good excuse for a Sunday at Kew.
More details: kew.org
Gunnersbury Park’s 100th Birthday Party Sunday 25 May, from 11am at Gunnersbury Park
Gunnersbury Park celebrates its 100th birthday with a huge free community party featuring live music, family activities, street food, performances and a chance to explore the park’s fascinating local history. Expect a lively day packed with entertainment across the grounds, celebrating one of West London’s best-loved green spaces. visitgunnersbury.org
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