The Critic Sports Bar is one of the bars inside The Borough, the Richmond Club's venue at 75 London Street in Richmond, Christchurch. The club has been around since 1888, and its building holds squash courts, pool and snooker tables, a Taproom and The Custodian as well as the sports bar. The Borough serves morning coffee, drinks and family dinners, and it hosts small business meetings and weddings.
Live music, sporting events and promotions are held in the venue. Within a kilometre there are two other sports bars: The Sideline Sports Bar, 0.1 km away and rated 4.2 from 233 reviews, and Pomeroy's Old Brewery Inn, 1.0 km away. For a visitor, the Critic is part of a club with more than a century of history in Richmond.