Dorking, Food, Photographs

The Brockham Bonfire is one of the largest in the country. Brockham itself is a gorgeous little village between Dorking and Reigate with the classic village green and is overlooked by the Surrey Hills. This annual event is a big deal here - they shut down the local roads and you have to [...]

I have always intended not to bring fish and chips home, and stink out the house, and Superdish in Dorking has a little cafe style restaurant next to it’s fish bar.
Last weekend we went to Brockham Bonfire and Fireworks but needed some quick food to take with us. While waiting for my fish and [...]

For a third anniversary celebration, we took ourselves to (Royal) Tunbridge Wells to check out what it had to offer. It has similarities with Guildford to some extent but the new (commercial) and old (’Pantiles’) ends of town were very separate, different kettles of fish.
We pre-booked a table at Thackery’s at 1.30pm so wandered [...]

Husb decided we should take dinner at The Parrot after our trip to Horsham. The Parrot is part pub, part restaurant part farm-shop and ticks many boxes next to words such as snug and friendly.

Picture courtest of the Parrot website
We found a particularly nook to sit in, but realised there was a bit of [...]

I have never seen such a vast Steamer Trading in my life. Mostly this meant a huge variety of stock, but it also meant there was space to swing a cat, which is often what is missing in this chain.
I gawped at the Marimekko, the Norman of Copenhagen, the Alessi and Gaggia…but came away [...]

Today we decided to go to Horsham, as it is close, and we fancied a wander around. Parked in the Swan Lane carpark (shudder) and wandered through a lack luster shopping centre and onto the streets of Horsham.
During the drive from Dorking we predicted that it would be like a cross between Farnborough and [...]

Ok, we were invited there for a pre-gig dinner before heading over to the Royal Festival Hall for a spot of something musical (as in ‘a band’, not…’Annie’). This place does have the worst restaurant name I have ever heard (’Rolled Steel Joists’ anyone?) and possibly the crummiest website I have seen in years [...]

I am very pleased to see that the Westerley has now won the excellence award from Rémy Martin in the
Harden’s UK Restaurant Guide 2008. Well done to them, and read the Times article

While writing the last entry, Husb says to me (with a chuckle in his voice) ‘ “Go there” - you always write that!’.
I retorted ‘well of course I do, its my catchphrase!!’
yikes, I’ve admitted I have a catchphrase…that’s like so Bruce Forsyth of me… *grimace*

Having both finished late ‘at work’ (I was working, Husb was drinking in a bar at work which is not the same at all) we squeezed onto a puny train home and decided to test out the Gurkha Kitchen. I was a bit worried that the place would be empty, even on a Friday [...]