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    The Horseshoe

    2.8 (5 reviews)
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    Open 11:00 am - 11:00 pm

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    Absolutely charming place. Yes, it's a chain pub now, but the menu stays varied and seasonal. I haven't had a bad dish yet -

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    The Harrow Inn

    The Harrow Inn

    4.0(6 reviews)
    3.4 miCaterham
    ££

    This was a very welcome pit stop on our ramble today. On this lovely mild winters Saturday we were…read moredoing a round walk from Farthing Downs which took in the wonderful, and aptly named, Happy Valley and the very picturesque village of Chaldon. The Harrow Inn is situated just off the famous and well used Pilgrims Way at the far end of Chaldon so it's a popular choice with both locals and the walking fraternity. It's an old pub from the 16th century which still has plenty of character, with a real fire, a nice large wooden bar and tiles on the floor (which is probably a very good floor covering with all the muddy walking boots tramping about). There is plenty of seating, including a good set of stools at the bar, and a separate restaurant area out the back. Staff are young, welcoming and quick off the mark which is just what you want when you are walking and do not have the option of watching the afternoon drift away over a few lazy pints. The pub carries the Cask Marque which normally means that you can expect a decent pint of well-kept real ale. There were 4 cask ales on today but it was a pretty standard selection so we went for the Tribute from the St Austell Brewery in Cornwall. After a good tramp through Happy Valley and a fairly muddy section of North Downs Way this went down very well; cool and clear, bronze of colour with plenty of flavour. We soon ordered up another to go with our lunch which was not long in arriving. My haddock, chips and peas were a good choice and at £8.25 it's a reasonable price for this part of the country. The fish was the size of a whale, fresh and came encased in a crisp beer batter. Chips were ok but I would be very surprised if they had been peeled and cut in the kitchen. B's choice of sausage and mash with braised red cabbage was much less successful. The two sausages were fine; well-cooked with a nice colouring and a good meaty taste. What let this dish down was cabbage that had far too much crunch for this kind of comfort food and the ultimate crime - iffy mash. Lumpy, undercooked and badly seasoned. What a shame!! However, I would hope that this was just a one off from the kitchen and this is a pub I would still recommend if you are walking in the area or just passing through. The many locals in the bar with their very well behaved kids, watching the rugby, certainly seemed to like the place. 3 stars because it's a crime to make a hash of the English pub classic of sausage and mash but I'm sure this will be amended on a future visit.

    Super nice food! Good value for money and great atmosphere…read more Bar staff are lovely and good customer service. Good and quick service with a great buzz in the pub Nice walking surrounds too, meaning you can stop off mid walk for a quick drink

    The Fox

    The Fox

    3.3(9 reviews)
    2.7 miCoulsdon
    ££

    This pub/restaurant was the respite destination following our two hour trek through Kenley Common…read morein the thick snow yesterday and I'm pleased to say it didn't dissapoint. Although the pub was packed with walkers warming their cockles, and despite the fact we were an un-booked party of 9, we were seated immediately. With these sort of places, the charm is always magnified in winter; when the fire crackles in the background, the heavy wooden beams conjure country cottage cosiness and the view of the snow falling through the windows looks like a picture postcard. That's not to say that this pub is all surface and no substance, it's just the substance is rather.... mediocre - just a nice local. The Vintage Inn chain always tend to find these large country cottages and at first many think that this is an independent. Our table tucked into the tasting platter to start, which was warming and tasty (breaded mushrooms, XXL pigs in blankets, toast, onion rings and onion marmalade surrounding a pot of melted camombert) but nothing ground breaking or not covered in wheat. Roast beef was the main of choice and although none of it was of awarding-winning-gastro-quality, you have to remember you are paying only £6.95. And when you consider that - it's a pretty darn good meal. It was served with the traditional trimmings; baby carrots, green mixed veg, roast potatoes and parsnips, Yorkshire pud and gravy. The service was good and the house wine, a rather nice Australian Shiraz, was only £9.95 - a bottle! (I'm sure I just paid that for a large glass recently in Central London....). Good value = quality + price and I think this place just about sums this up.

    Service was okay, bit slow and not too approachable…read more Food was okay, but nothing to write home about, good atmosphere and good settings as far as location so nice to stop off when going for a walk. Dog friendly too which helps.

    the white lion

    the white lion

    2.7(3 reviews)
    0.0 miWarlingham
    ££

    The White Lion, just off The Green at Warlingham, is a beautiful old pub, all higgledy-piggledy…read moreinside, with lots of little rooms all coming off each other, making it cosy and intimate. The nicest spot is the little snug just opposite the bar, where two small tables are totally enclosed in a wooden panelled snug built in around an ancient fireplace, which roars in the winter with logs and newspaper. The pub is one of the Ember Inns chain, meaning there's a kind of restauranty feel to it now, and many people go there just to eat, which is kind of a shame as it's such a great old pub, and a lovely place to while away the afternoon with papers and pint, but when it's busy you almost feel as if you ought to move on to let someone have their dinner, which isn't what a real pub is about, as far as I'm concerned. It's got a big beer garden out the back, again, ruined slightly with Ember Inns furniture bolted into the ground, but some of the older bench style tables remain towards the bottom, and there's a lovely old apple tree which the kids like to hang off in the summer, and which the landlady let me pick the apples from a couple of years ago to make apple pies with (very tasty). The reputation is, and probably always will be, tarnished by its association with a shooting which took place a couple of years ago, but that's unfair to the place, really, and it has several hundred more years of history than that.

    The pub was a disappointment for me and my friends. I have chosen this pub to have a birthday…read moredinner of my other half. The day was lovely, so I thought that the pub with the garden will be perfect for it. We have ordered the food and was waiting for it for a nearly an hour (50 minutes). Then when it arrived, our stakes looked like they have been burned and we actually couldn't cut it with the knife (we asked for medium rare), so we had to return our food. Then I went to get a drink at the bar and food there for about 30 minutes as it was only 1 person at the bar and it was Saturday evening. The toilets are very smelly, without locks. So I don't think I will come back to this pub again.

    The Horseshoe - pubs - Updated May 2026

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