The Grape Variety Dorking in Mole Valley

Awful! We went to this wine bar for lunch and ordered sandwiches. Firstly the sandwiches were awful! We ordered a cheese sandwich and opened it to find no cheese inside! The staff then went on to have an argument in front of us, leading to a waitress snatching a lunch off a customer because they gave it to the wrong table. For being a wine bar you would hope the staff could open a bottle of wine instead she struggled and handed it over to the customer to open! The food was slow, well below average and awful service! Don’t go!

If you want the quality of Mayfair with the beautiful backdrop of the Surrey Hills then this is where you need to go! I recently had a party here and I could not have been more happy with how it all went. Bosseau and his team were so accommodating and helpful. We were pretty much given carte blanche for decorating, a brilliant deal on a large charcuterie and cheese board and other snacks as well as a wine tasting competition on top of everything else this fabulous venue already has to offer. A really big thanks goes to the team for the wine tasting. They’d never done a wine tasting competition before, and nothing like the en masse tasting we requested, and yet everything was managed with grace and ease. It went down brilliantly and it was so professionally handled. The venue itself is gorgeous, it has the bougie elegance of Mayfair but it doesn’t make you feel uncomfortable. It’s warm and inviting and beautifully decorated. They have an area at the back where you can visit the wine wall and then a larger area at the front by the bar. People might hear wine wall and think it’s a gimmick… well it is, I suppose, if you think carefully selected wines that you can pour yourself is a gimmick. I’ll take that any day! The wines are all brilliantly picked, and the charcuterie and cheese you can have to pair with it is gorgeous. Even if you don’t fancy wine and cheese you can grab a pastry and a coffee. Or, if you’re feeling a bit more adventurous they have a delicious selection of cocktails to choose from too. Everyone at the event was so impressed with the wine, the venue and the food, as well as the cleanliness of the place (bathrooms included, because let’s face it that’s important too!) And the team… I would say the team make the venue, but that wouldn’t be fair. If the venue needed making the team would do that tenfold, but the place is already wonderful. The team add an extra dose of wonderful to really ramp up the experience to faultless. They read the room, they know what kind of customer you are and they work with that. They got involved with my party because that’s the sort of person I am but, equally, for my more reserved guests they knew a lighter touch was needed. It is hard to come by a team who understand their customers this well. Would I go there again, absolutely, no question. Would I have a party there again… how’s their diary looking same time, next year?

Amazing bar with great ambiance. We visited dorking for the first time and struck gold coming across this bar, shame we do not live in dorking. Would like to say thank you to Olivia who looked after us and helped us choose our wine

Stumbled across this bar by accident and so pleased we did. Not only were the cocktails great but there was a really cool and friendly vibe about the place. All created by Anastasia and her team. They were so smiley, welcoming and really knowledgeable about coffee beans to wine varieties and everything in between. What a great, unplanned, evening we had.

Our first visit and we really enjoyed it . The place was really buzzing it had great atmosphere and super friendly staff can recommend the Expresso Martini ..