The Regent, Walton Town, Walton-on-Thames

Still spoonsesque but with better service, some decent background music and live footie. Housed in an interesting building, a former cinema there were a few decent beers on from the likes of Titanic, Twickenham, a couple of micros I now forget backing up the more ordinary Abbott and Doom Bar along with a couple of ciders, my Adnam's Ghostship was in good form despite being a tad on the cold side. Not really my cup of tea but not too bad for this type of pub.

Official site of The Regent - www.theregent-waltononthames.co.uk

Official site of The Regent - www.theregent-waltononthames.co.uk

This was a furniture shop in a previous life and before that a cinema. It opened as a Spoons in December 1994. It's not that large for a cinema conversion and is unsurprisingly quite dark inside. The bar is on the right after you have entered and the usual sort of Spoons furnishings are around. At the end of the building there seemed to be some sort of raised area which I didn't have time to investigate. It is GBG listed so I was optimistic of finding something interesting to drink, and I wasn't disappointed as the Triple fff Jabberwocky Black IPA (£2.45) was an outstanding pint in superb condition. The twelve pumps were taken up by the two GK usual suspects doubled up, Ciders from Gwynt Y Ddraig and Weston's (Old Rosie), Wadworth / Chelsea Sunset Red, Adnams / Sixpoint Bengali Tiger, Sambrook's Wandle, Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale, Bingham's Space Hoppy IPA and as mentioned the Jabberwocky. Given the quality of the beer, I was disappointed that I didn't have time to stay for another couple of pints. This was by far the best of the four GBG listed SW London Spoons visited on the day and on this evidence fully deserves the GBG status.