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Your guide to eating out in Surrey

Whether you are looking for fine dining in Michelin starred restaurants or a cosy meal in an old fashioned country pub, eating out in Surrey has a little bit of everything. Here, we give you a brief overview of some of the options...

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Surrey Restaurants - Layla in Esher

Keen to take a break from all the craziness of Christmas, JOHN HUGHES sneaked into the Lebanese restaurant Layla in Esher, where he enjoyed a mouthwatering meal

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Tony Tobin - Use your loaf this Christmas!

Kitchen Diaries - This month our celebrity chef Tony Tobin comes up with an innovative idea for a vegetarian Christmas dinner

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What to drink with your Surrey Christmas dinner

In December's Surrey Life magazine, we spoke to six of the county's top food and drink producers to see if we could make a Christmas dinner purely from Surrey produce. Here, Denbies winemaker Marcus Sharp offers some menu matching wine suggestions...

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Tony Tobin - Back with a banger

Kitchen Diaries - Our resident celeb chef Tony Tobin aims to create a new seasonal Surrey trend

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The best of Surrey beer

Whether you fancy a firkin of Shere Drop, a polypin of Posh Pooch or just a bottle of TEA, there’s an excellent choice of original beers to be had in Surrey. JANET DONIN visited a few of the independent breweries to discover the best pints in the county

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Tony Tobin's 2008 Surrey Life cookbook

Join Tony Tobin and get confident in the kitchen, as we take a look back at some of the fantastic recipes our resident celebrity chef has cooked up during 2008... 

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Pub signs are England's number one icon

An online public vote by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has found pub signs to be the most cherished of all English icons. Do you agree?

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Christmas lunch with Surrey produce

We all like using local, seasonal ingredients, but is it really possible to cook your entire Christmas lunch using only Surrey produce? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’, as DEBBIE WARD discovers in December's Surrey Life magazine...

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Surrey restaurants - McDermott’s Fish and Chips

There’s nothing quite like tucking into fish and chips every now and again, and believe it or not, here in Surrey we have one of the best places in the UK to do just that. John Hughes finds out more

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Surrey restaurants - The Glasshouse, Kew

There are only three restaurants in the county with a coveted Michelin star to their name – Drake’s in Ripley, Drakes on the Pond in Abinger Hammer, and the focus of JOHN HUGHES’ attention this month, The Glasshouse in Kew, near Richmond

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Behind the scenes

We were there as Sir Michael Caine was officially unveiled as a patron of Leatherhead Theatre... 
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We're not celebrities... get us out of here!

The Brunei jungle isn’t perhaps the first place you’d expect to find five 40 plus Surrey mothers. Yet, that is exactly what happened recently as a group of women tested their survival skills to raise funds for Help for Heroes. Here, is their first hand account...
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The Surrey Life guide to golf in the county

Well-known for its fantastic fairways, Surrey is the perfect place to take up the ever-popular game of golf. So, join MATTHEW WILLIAMS as he speaks to the people in the know and picks up some top tips from the county’s pros
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A year in the life of Surrey Life – 2008

Join us for a look back at the year that was, via 2008's Surrey Life magazine cover stories...
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Your guide to eating out in Surrey

Whether you are looking for fine dining in Michelin starred restaurants or a cosy meal in an old fashioned country pub, eating out in Surrey has a little bit of everything. Here, we give you a brief overview of some of the options...
READ MORE »


Your Surrey Life

DISCUSS the latest news; SHARE your favourite Surrey pubs and restaurants, ideas for days out, cookery tips, home and garden ideas and more; VIEW pictures from the best events around the county and let us know about the ones you're organising; and SEND us your beautiful Surrey pictures
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