From the site and the various images on their website, it looked an interesting pub / restaurant to visit. After a search online, I found The Black Swan in Ockham. We were staying over at a hotel in Ascot, so on the way back we decided to try out a Roast somewhere new.
#THE BLACK SWAN AT OCKHAM CODE#
Gourmet Society Card – Promo Code & 3 month trial.Please check with pub directly before making a special trip. Pub details supplied by members of this site to the best of their knowledge. As a pub in its own right, it doesn’t quite work despite the decent beer quality, although I suspect this isn’t a problem for most of the pub’s current patrons. This place seems to be very popular, at least judging by our Saturday early evening visit, and I would say if you’re looking for somewhere to break a journey with some good, if rather pricey, food in a nice garden setting, you could do a lot worse.
We stopped in here for some food with friends and found the food was good quality but overpriced and the waitress forgot about our desserts order which meant we were sat around for ages waiting for food that the kitchen didn’t know we wanted! There were three ales on at the bar – Taylor Landlord, Greene King IPA and Surrey Hills Shere Drop, the latter in good shape. There were also signs for a ‘Bubble Garden’, which appeared to be a grassy space filled with a set of small domes, ideal for socially distanced private dining. Perhaps the pub’s best asset these days is its huge garden with ample parking, tonnes of picnic benches and smart garden furniture dotted between well maintained hedges, table tennis tables, bar and BBQ area and outdoor DJ booth. Décor throughout involves lots of white walls, smart floorboards (which have replaced the characterful cobbles that once used to skirt the bar area), bland paintings and a few decorative ornaments but not all that much that you would deem inherently ‘pubby’. Comfier furnishings with a few bits of partitioning make this spot perhaps the best bet for those not wanting to eat and there is also easy access from here to the bar which runs down the back wall, with a long counter and modern bar back, both rather devoid of character. Meanwhile, the right-hand side feels a bit more homely, or at least as much as that is possible in a pub like this. The left side is perhaps set up a little more formally with tables and chairs in rows down either side, supplemented by a few benches. Nowadays, you enter through one of two sets of front doors to some large, open-plan seating areas. Pentagrams were also conspicuous by their absence.
#THE BLACK SWAN AT OCKHAM MOVIE#
Film buffs might better know the pub as ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’, as it was used for interior shots of the rural boozer in the movie ‘An American Werewolf in London’, although the interior is unrecognisable from the old-fashioned inn shown in the movie, having been opened out and smartened up in a bid to appeal to Surrey commuter-belt types. This is a large gastro pub in a small village conveniently positioned just off the M25/A3 intersection and a short drive from RHS Wisley. Pub SignMan left this review about Black Swan Please Note: This review is over a year old.
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