Pubs in Dorking
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Grove House Club
47a West Street, Dorking RH4 1BU
CIU affilliated club in a gated courtyard just off West Street. Home cooked lunches available Thursday to Sunday 12-2. Pool and darts played along with cribbage and chess. The guest beer is often Butcombe; a decent range of wine is also served.
Chart Downs Social Club
Chart Downs, Dorking RH5 4DD
Modern social club on estate to the south of Dorking.
Goodwyns District & Community Assoc Club
Trasher Mead, Dorking RH4 2NB
Friendly club on the Goodwyns Estate south of Dorking centre. The one bar has pool and darts and the amount of silverware on display shows that this is very much part of the community. Only keg and bottled beers sold.
Rialto Lounge
33 South Street, Dorking RH4 2JZ
Well established Italian restaurant and wine bar. Only Peroni is sold on draught, but bottles include Surrey Hills Shere Drop and Budweiser Budvar. A very good selection of home made food is available at fair prices, with lunchtime (until 6pm) and evening specials always available. A feature is the gelato which serves a variety of ice-creams.
Betchworth Park Golf Club
Reigate Road, Dorking RH4 1NZ
Members' golf club dating from 1911. The clubhouse is on the first floor and overlooks Box Hill and the North Downs. Opening hours are from morning to dusk. The two beers change, but are usually from Marstons and fullers. The Watermill Jazz Club puts on live jazz every Tuesday evening and often features well known acts. See www.watermilljazz.co.uk for details.
Deepdene
Unit 1, 285-293 High Street, Dorking RH4 1RL
Modern bar which opened in 2020. During the day on weekdays it acts as a business lounge with meeting facilities. It also offers safe deposit facilities and claims to be the only place in the UK offering this combination of facilities. There are several TVs on which terrestrial sport can be shown. A good selection of food is served from opening till 10pm. Keg and bottled beers and ciders are available. Last entry at 10pm on Friday and Saturday.
Trailhead Brew Co Tap
Goldenlands Farm, Punchbowl Lane, Dorking RH5 4DX
Brewery tap for the Trailhead brewery which specialises in very hoppy beers. The range will change on a regular basis and it is hoped that cask will be available at the brewery, although most will be kegged and canned. The beer at the brewery tap is poured straight from the conditioning tank and is therefore purposely hazy. The brewery opened August 2021 in farm buildings south of Dorking. Above the brewery is a large room with comfortable seating plus seating outside. The farm yard is also home to the separate and independently owned Gin Kitchen where food is available. Note that winter opening is Friday to Sunday only.
Lounge
Mill Lane, Dorking RH4 1DX
Modern bar at Meadowbank, which is the home of Dorking Wanderers Football Club. The bar is on the first floor and overlooks the pitch. There are three large screens which show live football and it can get quite busy at these times. Only keg beers sold. The bar is open on other days during the football season.
Cricketers
81 South Street, Dorking RH4 2JU
This small pub has bare-brick walls covered in old photographs and Fuller's beer adverts. Today there is one L-shaped bar, but etched glass on the unused exterior doors shows that this was not always the case. A TV is in one corner and this is used for major sporting events shown on terrestrial TV, especially rugby when a couple of extra TVs will be on if England are playing when it is often standing room only. A dart board is at one end, and past this is one of the pub's best features, a walled Georgian garden. A TV is put in the garden, in the covered area, for some of the largest sporting events. Occasionally there is live music. Children are welcome until early evening. As well as darts there is a selection of modern and traditional board games by the television and WiFi is available. The guest beer pump often has a Dark Star beer on but may have a Fuller's seasonal beer or something from the Fuller's list such as Thornbridge. Lunch, served 12-2:30, is sandwiches, a salad plus some things, like ham and eggs, with chips. Beer festivals are usually held over the first May Bank Holiday and in the autumn (usually September), when there will be about an extra ten beers on in the garden, with some local beers featured, and some real cider. A third festival may occasionally be held if there is a major national event. The pub also holds other events throughout the year such as an onion competition.
Dorking Halls
Reigate Road (A25), Dorking RH4 1SG
A modern cafe bar attached to Dorking Halls, which hosts mainly arts related entertainment in its halls. It opens earlier for food but the above are the hours when you can get an alcoholic drink. The closing time varies and it will shut when people leave after a show. It serves food, mainly sandwiches and cakes but there are some pies, with mash and gravy if wanted, available. Unfortunately only keg and bottled beers are sold, with your best bet probably being bottles of Hogs Back TEA and Hop Garden Gold. There is a pay and display car park behind the halls.
Falkland Arms
60 Falkland Road, Dorking RH4 3AD
Two bar pub just south of the town centre. At the back there is a partly covered heated patio area and a small lawn with tables beyond it. There are also tables on the decking outside the front of the pub. The guest beer may well be from a brewery such as Hobgoblin or may occasionally be from a local brewery such as Dorking. There are three main TVs, one in each bar and one in the garden which show sport including Sky and BT and there is a log burning stove in each bar. Darts are in the front bar, there is free Wi-Fi and dogs and children are welcome. Private functions can be catered for and there is poker on Thursdays and occasional live music. A couple of basic small pizzas are available all day.
King's Arms
45 West Street (A25), Dorking RH4 1BU
It is appropriate that Dorking's oldest and perhaps most traditional pub is found in a street full of antique shops. The pub started off as three farm workers' cottages, becoming a coaching inn during the 16th century. The split-level bar is well beamed and has leaded windows. The front part to the left of the bar has a tiled floor. To the right of this, and the main part of the bar area, there is some impressive wooden flooring and a slightly raised carpeted area. At the rear of the pub are a couple of smaller and quieter areas and a small restaurant. There is an outside partially covered area along the side of the pub and an inner area accessed either from the restaurant or the bar. This former Friary Meux pub was sold by Punch to Shepherd Neame in May 2009. The guest beer is likely to be either Shepherd Neame Master Brew or Whitstable Bay. There is a very small car park at the back which is for staff only but the pub is very near a public car park, which charges during the day Monday to Saturday. There is a toilet for the disabled and baby change facilities at the back of the restaurant, but they are only accessible using a step from the bar although there is a slope to a door at the back from the car park. There are televisions in one of the outside areas and main bar which may be occasionally used for terrestrial sport. Quiz night is Monday, there is karaoke on Wednesdays and music on Saturdays. Good food is served in the pub 12-3 and 5-8 Monday to Thursday, 12-3 and 5-9:30 Friday, 12-9 Saturday and 12-5 Sunday. Dogs are welcome in the bar, some board games are available and there is free Wi-Fi.