Address

42 Guildford Road

West End

Surrey

GU24 9PW

Telephone

(01276) 858652

Opening Times

Weekdays

12 - 3, 5 - 11

Sundays

12 - 10.30

Clean-cut dining pub, with prompt friendly service; excellent food and wines, and terrace The licensee at this immaculately run place is passionate about wine. He holds regular tastings and has recently opened a wine shop here. Needless to say, the wine list is fabulous, with around 20 by the glass – sensibly in a good range of sizes - and includes several sherries and dessert wines, with many from Spain and Portugal. Polished to a shine and well organised, the pub is open-plan and café-like, with bare boards, attractive modern prints on canary-yellow walls above a red dado, and a line of dining tables with crisp white linen over pale yellow tablecloths on the left. The bar counter, with Fullers London Pride and a guest such as Exmoor Ale on handpump, and over 25 malts, is straight ahead as you come in, and is quite a focus, with chatting regulars perched on the comfortable bar stools. The area on the right has a pleasant relaxed atmosphere, with blue-cushioned wall benches and dining chairs around solid pale wood tables, broadsheet daily papers, magazines and a row of reference books on the brick chimneybreast above an open fire. This opens into a garden room, which in turn leads to a grape and clematis pergola-covered terrace and very pleasant garden; boules.

Licensee name

Gerry Price

What they say

We are a dining pub, but still a pub! We have Fullers London Pride as our pouring bitter and another ale such as Black Sheep, Timothy Taylor Landlors, Adnams Bitter, Greene King IPA etc. It tends to be a sub 4% beer as many of our customers drive to us.

We have about twenty Malt whiskies - not a huge collection but worth dipping into all the same.

Our wine list is huge and we tend to have a lot from Portugal as we have got to know them pretty well and they are under represented in the UK.

Our food is all fresh. We must be mad but we have just bought our own pigs - a Sow, a Gilt and eleven weaners. They are eating us out of house and home and are pretty demanding but great fun. You can just stand and chat to them for hours - make more sense than most people I speak to!

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Skilfully prepared using carefully sourced ingredients (some of the herbs and vegetables are grown here), they pluck their own game and use organic meat, the not cheap but very good bar food might include smoked pigeon pâté with beetroot relish, crispy mackerel with sorrel and sweet chilli and passion-fruit sauce, chicken caesar salad, sausage and mash, quails' eggs, onion and broccoli tartlet with tomato sauce, guinea fowl in puff pastry with thyme mousseline, sesame crusted bream with honey and soy and pak choi, and well hung steak; they also do lunchtime sandwiches.