The Inn @ West End (Surrey)

Our Home Counties location spoils us when it comes to food. Many of the best restaurants outside the capital are situated within a short drive (under an hour) and so we really can take our pick. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of mid-priced good restaurants; we go from one extreme to the other. If you don't want fast food and you don't want fine dining, with the exception of a rather good curry house or two and the odd oriental eatery it's pubs, pubs and more pubs. Now, don't get me wrong, some of these establishments are more than adequate, particularly for a Sunday lunch but few actually live up to much else all the more so when they describe themselves as ...

On one of those roasting hot summer Sundays that we seem to be enjoying more and more these days, thanks to Global Warming, we had two choices; go home and sit out on the patio with a selection of cheeses and biscuits and a chilled bottle of a good rosé or let someone else do the work. At the time we were just passing The Inn @ West End located, not in The West End but in West End, near Lightwater in Surrey. I had noticed the pub before and had been intrigued by the ampersand in the name, assuming an owner with more than a passing familiarity with the Internet. I was right. A little search of the Web uncovered a website that is not afraid to blow its own ...