The Surrey Oaks, Newdigate

Beginning to think that you just can't trust anything on beerintheevening anymore. This pub was thriving on the first Friday in December; complete with a fully decorated indoor Christmas Tree. Guess what? It has a loyal following of locals and if you try to chat to them, you might be surprised... they will talk back! A great pub, selling great real ale and if you want to eat here as well, the food is great too. For me... the perfect pub 8-)

2 Dec 2011 21:35

The Stand Up Inn, Lindfield

A Real Pub! We love this place, it attracts loads of different people from loads of different backgrounds... what a real pub should be. The pub, amazingly, for a tied pub (Dark Star), supports different micro breweries and varied cider/perry producers as well. The thing here is that Dark Star are a great brewery and they believe in choice and all their pubs (all three of them) will sell whatever drinkers actually want... choice. We will always make an effort to visit this place.... brilliant!

1 Aug 2010 22:10

The Cowdray Arms, Balcombe

The Cowdray Arms used to be one of the pubs we would make an effort to visit in the early 90's when Mike and Claire used to run the place. Mike used to run Beer Festivals that were really great. Anyone know what Mike is up to these days? Anyway, we popped in on Saturday and it was sad to see that there were no guest ales to speak of although there was one pretending to be guest ale that was in fact brewed by ... Green King (something from Westgate). Green King also have a bad practice of pretending that the brewery's they have shut are somehow guest ales (ie. Morland). It was also sad to see that the waiting times for food were one and a half hours! OK maybe we were unlucky with out timing, but far too many people (we counted 14+), faced with this wait, promptly left. This place can still be better than it is and we hope it will improve before our next visit.

1 Aug 2010 22:00