The Queen Adelaide, Epsom

This is now essentially a carvery restaurant, apparently with a bar as a bit of a sideline. As you enter you are confronted by the “wait to be seated” sign. Ignoring this irrelevance, I headed for the bar area on the left, which turns out to be deserted – no customers and no bar staff. Having the place to myself, I had a good look round, although there really wasn’t much to see, just the usual sort of tables and chairs that you see in this type of quasi restaurant. The dining area was to the right and only had a couple of customers finishing a late lunch; and there is a garden/courtyard area to the left of the pub through an archway from the road. There’s a Premier Travel Inn next to the pub, from which I suppose it gets some of its custom. On the bar counter there were two handpumps, advertising Young’s Bitter and Bombardier, but I didn’t get to sample either of them because by this time I had seen all I needed to see, and in the continuing absence of any bar staff, I left.