Pubs in Guildford

Old Guildfordians Rugby Club

The Pavilion, Stoke Park, London Road, Guildford GU1 1TU

Bar Thirteen

13-15 Bridge Street, Guildford GU1 4RY

Night Club close to the Railway Station, where there is normally a door charge. Formerly Bar Med, which closed at the the end of 2012.

Pews Wine Bar

21 Chapel Street, Guildford GU1 3UL

A compact wine bar and courtyard situated on the attractive cobbled Chapel Street, near to Guildford Castle. Walk in the door and you are immediately upon the bar, with some seating to the left. The single room goes back a fair way, up some steps and opens out into a larger drinking and dining area. Sky sports shows live football in the lower area. To the rear is a compact, courtyard, with comfortable sofas, which is a glorious sun trap in the Summer and is heated in the Winter, with a retractable roof! Over 21s only on Friday and Saturday nights, with live music every Friday at 8.30pm. Some where between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019 it stopped selling real ale (Doom Bar).

Thirty3Hz

16 Park Street, Guildford GU1 4XB

This was formerly a traditional town drinkers pub called the Plough, featuring in the Good Beer Guide regularly until it's closure in 2006. After period of uncertainty it was completely refitted in March 2014 and reopened as Thirty3Hz, a cocktail bar that evolves into a nightclub later in the evening, blasting out house and R&B into the small hours.

Prince Albert

85 Stoke Road, Guildford GU1 4HT

A small locals pub, visitors are made very welcome. There is no cooked food, but pre-made rolls with various fillings are available on a daily basis until sold out. Real ale kept well and staff are very helpful. There is a rather nice collection of toy lorries above the main bar.

Rodboro Buildings

1-10 Bridge Street, Guildford GU1 4SB

Once threatened by demolition, this Grade II-listed building was reopened on 17 December 1998 as a large spacious Wetherspoon on a number of different levels and of many contrasts. Upstairs is a quiet area with masses of exposed pipework and a separate bar that opens at 10:00am every day. On the ground floor the curved main bar serves another group of contrasting drinking areas, including a row of snugs down one side. Families are welcome until 9pm. There is always a a good choice of guest beers with local breweries Surrey Hills and Tillingbourne regularly supported. There are always two real ciders rising to eight or nine when a festival is on. The Community Notice Board, publicises a range of local events. The pub also hosts meet the brewer nights and brewery battles every so often.

Rogues Wine Bar

Epsom Road, Guildford GU1 3PB

Whilst promoted as a wine bar for the over 25s, it has quite a pubby feel, especially earlier in the week. This reflects that it is a former pub and Good Beer Guide regular, the Sanford Arms, which closed in 1999. The single bar room has a slate floor and a compact bar in one corner dispensing the single real ale and a wide selection of wines. Passing through to the rear of the bar area, you come to a conservatory which in turn leads you to an attractive large terraced garden, which boasts a covered smoking area with sofas to relax in and table service. Monday night there is an open mic, Tuesday is quiz night and is very busy, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Row Barge

7 Riverside, Guildford GU1 1LW

Reopened in August 2013, under new management, following a few months of closure. This former Branch Pub of the Year, has retained its commitment to real ale with up to 6 available. Built in 1856 and extended for the post-war Bellfields Estate, this two-bar pub with pool room is 1.5 miles along the River Wey tow-path from the town centre. Day and night moorings for customers. Poker night Thursday, open mic on Tuesday. A roast is served on Sunday. Food until 7pm (5pm Sun).

Guildford Royal British Legion Club

68 Northway, Guildford GU2 9SG

Royal Oak

Trinity Churchyard, Guildford GU1 3RR

The Royal Oak has been serving real ale for 150 years, since 1870. Built as an extension to the then next door rectory, with a hall upstairs and rooms at ground level. These rooms are now the opened up bar area and show the building’s heavily beamed structure. The ambience is one of a cosy village pub with an airy modern feel. A patio area is to one side of the pub plus a couple of outside tables overlooking Trinity churchyard. Three ever changing guest beers available here. They are planning to introduce real cider in the near future.

Olde Ship Inn

Portsmouth Road, Guildford GU2 4EB

This is a beautiful old roadside pub where eaters and drinkers are equally welcome. There has been some form of drinking establishment here since the mid 1500s but the pub now has more of a 1900s feel. There is a lovely wooden floor, and lots of wooden pew-style seating a well as more usual tables and chairs. You can enjoy an open fire at one end of the pub, or a wood burning stove at the other. Fairy lights abound inside the main area, wound around the wooden beams giving the pub a cosy feel. Boating memorabilia adorns many walls. The pub has a wood burning oven which cooks the pubs wonderfully popular pizzas. In the summer you can enjoy the garden with "fire pit" style heating.

Star Inn

2 Quarry Street, Guildford GU1 3TY

A well known Guildford institution, taken over by Shepherd Neame and spruced up a bit, after being a bit run down. A pub for more than 400 years and famous for live music and entertainment, with band and performances taking place in the back-room bar, down a corridor displaying photographs of various artists. Performances are as diverse as blues, rock, stand-up comedy and an the 'adult' pantomime that takes place at Christmas. In 1974 the founding members of The Stranglers, then called the Guildford Stranglers, gave their first public performance, an event commemorated on a plaque presented by CAMRA in 2006. In July 2019 the pub won a landmark legal judgement when a noise abatement notice issued by Guildford Council was been overturned by a district judge. The pub itself is an engaging mishmash of inter-connected drinking areas, wooden beams and low ceilings, on a number of different levels. A wood-burning stove, heats the huge sofas and table at one end, whilst the bar itself caters for vertical drinkers towards the rear and an area, popular with diners during the day, occupies the lower level. Throughout the dimly lit pub are photographs associated with pubs and brewing.