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The Berrylands, Berrylands, Surbiton
Surbiton
KT5 8LS
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Moby Duck left this review about The Berrylands
Still as described below,beers on were Greene King IPA and IPA Gold, Hardy & Hansons Olde Trip and Youngs Special, so not much of great interest.There was a Breakfast menu as well as a main menu for later in the day. It's ok but nothing particularly special.
On 4th May 2017
- rating: 5
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Berrylands
Large 1930s suburban pub of the roadhouse type, but located next to the eponymous station in this case. Retains a split-level, two-bar layout; one with a further seating area down some more steps. Fairly basic furniture and decor, but tidy. Plenty of patio seating out front. Reasonably-priced menu. Only two of four handpumps on the main counter were working, dispensing the regular Youngs Ordinary and the guest Bingham Delta (£3.20 for a pint but later just £1.25 for a half - obviously wrong, "but that's what the till says"). Several more handpumps in the public bar (where the pool tables and dart board are located).
On 13th July 2014
- rating: 6
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Berrylands
The pub sign still has this as “The Berry”, as does another bit of exterior signage, but the original “Berrylands” name is still on the parapet, as well as on the menus inside, so it’s still the Berrylands as far as I’m concerned. There are still three distinct drinking areas – the area on the left has a couple of pool tables and several tall tables/tall stools; the central area is furnished solely with tall tables/tall stools; but the larger area on the right has normal tables and chairs, plus a sofa and a few bucket armchairs. This area is mainly carpeted. There are also a few picnic benches outside.
There are four handpumps in the central bar and three in the left hand “sports” bar. There were three ales on – Young’s Bitter, GKIPA (£3 a pint), and Pilgrim progress (£.30 a pint), with Wells/Dogfish Head DNA “coming soon”. The three pumps in the sports bar repeated the ales in the in the central bar when i was in, but are clearly in use as the barman went over there to pull my pint of Progress. Food was available on Thursday afternoon, and seemed to be very reasonably priced with most sarnies at £3.75 but with then classic bacon sarny at £2.75. Main courses are in the £6.50 - £8.50 range, with the Berrylands burger/chips at £7.50. There’s a disabled toilet on the ground floor, and I saw a sign referring to a recent ale festival.
This just has to be an inter-war station pub, and still serves its original purpose in providing a local for the area around Berrylands Station. It’s much the same as several other staion pubs in this part of the world. It’s nothing exceptional, but it does have a reasonable ale choice at reasonable prices. Not a destination pub by any means, but it’s good that it’s still here for the residents of Berryland as there’s not another pub for miles.
On 11th May 2014
- rating: 6
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Malden man left this review about The Berrylands
This large 1930's pub is one of the type found throughout the suburbs built to serve the expanding population. There are three main areas all with changing levels as the building steps down the slope. There seems to have been a recent refurbishment as everything looks shiny and new, but the result is that seating is either on a big stool at a high table, or at a low sofa with a low table.
The bar runs through all three spaces, the room to the left has pool, and a few gaming machines, and the far right room was set for dining, although I reckon that would be a tad ambitious in a routine suburban location such as this. The frontage has a few benches outdoors.
Some original features remain in addition to the seperate rooms, the art-deco ceiling is worthy of note.
The centre room contains four handpumps, on my visit serving Hogs Back HBB, Ringwood Old Thumper, Youngs Bitter and Bombardier. The three pumps in the left room were unclipped so I suppose are unused currently.
In short certainly worthy of a stop by for a pint, handy for Berrylands Station, but the abbreviation of the name to "The Berry" on the pub sign is a bit crappy to be honest.
On 24th May 2010
- rating: 6
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