Brewery Inn, Ashtead  

The Brewery, as the smallest of Ashtead's three pubs and challengingly positioned opposite the overrated if externally attractive Leg of Mutton seems to suffer from an inferiority complex. Fair enough. It is inferior. It's long since passed that line between scruffy and battered and probably overdue being dropped to a one-pinter. Outside the once cream stonework is grubby and peeling and the window frames are mushy with rot. Inside painted and wooden surfaces are worn, scratched and chipped with holes and tears here and there in the upholstery The Brewery should be the standard Surrey-villagey package: it has a decent selection of real ales, lots of yellow fizz on draught, and the usual Ember Inns mildly upmarket formula food. The furnishings are comfortable enough, the staff, cheerful enough and the garden at the back big enough. Nothing intrinsically wrong with it but until it gets some sort of makeover there really is no reason to make this your Ashtead pub of choice.

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