The Sun Inn, Chobham

The Sun in Chobham has been a great little pub in the High Street for many years but now seems to suffer from lack of funds and in a poor state outside.
The car park is full of craters, the outbuildings falling down (for the last 3 years) and just propped up, the garden overgrown and which was once lovely.
Unfortunately they have recently put in a TV on the wonderful brick wall over the fireplace (dumb down, why do people do this?).
The management behind the bar are nice and friendly but seem temporary and have no great experience in running an English pub.
Beers are very good, customers can be cliquey but this is usual for Surrey, we are all guilty here!!
A nice village pub and I sincerely hope they sort out their financial problems and re-invest in the site - Still Recommended.

31 Dec 2013 16:32

The Castle Grove, Chobham

It is noticeable that the below comments are old and refer to the previous pub owners of the Castle Grove in Chobham !
The new owner intended this pub to be a friendly, good old local pub but forgot their promise, a great disappointment, it is run in a very unprofessional & lazy way.
When we recently visited, the landlady, a young surly lady was deeply engrossed with her boyfriend at the bar and insisted they were closed and that we must leave at only 10.10pm on a Sunday evening.
From here we went to the Sun in Chobham High Street which welcomed us.
How does the Castle Grove management intend to sell beer and make a profit if they are not prepared to welcome and serve customers ?
This was not the first time we experienced an unprofessional welcome at the Castle Grove under the new owner, the first time the surly landlady was more interested in her laptop than the clients and another time spent more time chain smoking in the garden than serving.
We also previously learned from this Landlady that she managed to alienate an entire housing estate just up the road from the pub with her bad attitude which she seemed quite proud of.
Why do poor mannered, inexperienced people think they can run pubs ?
What a shame, this pub should be good, it has a nice garden, has great potential if only the right owners/management were running it as in the past (Brian and wife), hope this changes soon when the Brewery sees their poor low profits !!

31 Dec 2013 15:57