The Chessington Oak, Chessington

Large pub om road junction, mainly aimed at family dining during the day and locals drinking in the evenings. Reasonably tidy bright and modern interior, with numerous different areas all interconnecting. Three ales on offer of the Doom Bar/London Pride variety and condition reasonable - even has a Cask Marque listing. Nothing much wrong with it, for what it is.

This is a member of the Sizzling pubco chain so obviously it does the usual bogstandard pub grub advertised in glossy menus on all the tables. Inside there’s the usual mix of bucket armchairs, sofas and normal tables and chairs. Games machines, fruit machines and the inevitable pool table are all here. With a predictable inevitability, the only ale on was London Pride (£2.80 a pint) which was just about OK and thus a notch or two better than at the William Bourne down the road. I reckon that overall this pub is a better bet than the William Bourne, but that’s not saying much, and is probably because we didn’t seem to have the same sort of coarse and vulgar customers in here. This is a bogstandard cheap and cheerful pubco chain pub in the ale and pub wasteland of Chessington. This is another pub to which I probably won’t return.