The Leg of Mutton & Cauliflower, Ashtead  fancyapint.com rated pub, rated2 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

location:

Ashtead

address:

48 The Street, KT21 1AZ

phone:

0871 258 5452*
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nearest station:

Ashtead railway station
(1.1Km)

how to find it:

From Ashtead Station head into Ashtead up Woodfield Lane crossing Barnett Wood Lane after a couple of hundred yards. Just keep following Woodfield Lane as it bears slightly to the right and another 800 yards or will bring you to The Street where the Brewery Inn will be on the right hand corner and the Leg smack opposite on the other side of the road.

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This allegedly 300 year old pub-come restaurant now seems settled into a roughly two year cycle of going from pretty rubbish to almost quite good and then back again. Currently we seem to be in pretty rubbish mode. Somehow the varying mood furniture and simple stylishness of 2007 has vanished to be replaced by a very ordinary bar - OK a few squashy leather settees remain - and a flat atmosphere. The sometimes excellent, sometimes awful restaurant has been reborn as a Thai kitchen -hurrah, that's cutting edge for these parts. On Sunday, only roasts - or, to quote the menu "slow roast" beef or lamb is offered. It seemed a bargain at £5.95 - until the plates arrived. You know the old chestnut? Waiter: "How did you find your meat sir?" Diner: "Easily - just moved the cabbage leaf and there it was." One medium slice of meat does not a Sunday roast make and even slightly poncy slicing and arrangement does not boost the calorific value of a pair of small roast potatoes and some matchsticks of what were probably parsnip. Let's try again in two years time.

reviewed:
26/04/2009
reviewed by dino

second opinion:

posted by Fray Brentos - Friday 22nd January, 2010, 12:49pm
It pains me to say this but this pub was infinitely better when it was run by Bass in the 1990s. Since then, it's slipped from owner to owner who have left various marks on the place. As the reviewer rightly says, the pub's reputation fluctuates between good and rubbish with a concerning regularity. Right now, it's plumbing new depths. I can't vouch for its daytime goings on, but Friday nights are nothing like they used to be. The pub used to be packed with all sorts of people, young and old. There used to be a good juke box, a decent selection of beers and friendly staff (mostly antipodeans). Now, at night, this place is dark, largely empty and clique-central. It seems to want to be a late night music venue more than a pub. Bring back the old landlords who concentrated on getting punters through the door with good food & drink, a jukebox, dartboard and all manner of other things that people actually want from a pub, and not pandering to his own tastes and those of a handful of bachannals that spend every night of the week there. Hopefully "The Leg" will once again rise to greatness but not without a hell of a lot of work.
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