The Lamb in Kingston upon Thames

Lots of character in this pub - I love the vibe of the clientele and the vibe. However, the bartender couldn’t have been more disinterested in service. I politely asked if I could taste a beer. Her sighs were exasperating after my request and she reluctantly slammed glass on the counter. I felt like I was asking for a kidney donation. I brushed it off and thanked her profusely after my order, with a smile. Came back later for another round and it was even worse. At best, she was having a bad night but there are still basic ways of treating customers so they don’t feel like intruders.

Great intimate venue for bands and good local pub, independent with good service and very reasonably priced. Good atmosphere.

First time visiting and what a delight - beer garden that's way bigger than expected, great service behind the bar and a great atmosphere. Immediately felt like a nice place to spend an evening, and look forward to returning soon

Our American visitors were keen to visit a quaint English pub. I wouldn't class the Lamb as quaint - it's better than that. It's quirky. The decor is crazy, the beer is excellent, and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

This pub feels like home from home has hit Glastonbury! I've gone on my own for quiet drinks and chats and had the most incredible gig nights ever! It's a unique and special place. Don't write it off on appearances, the staff are great, the community events are epic and the people are super lovely.

A huge post lock effort is being made by this pub to welcome people back in a safe and as always quite lovely environment. The staff are a delight as is the complete overall experience of sitting undercover outside, with heating enjoying the live music and ambiance of this unique and inviting venue.

Great time last night, they had not water bottles and blankets as Evreone was outside. My group was cancelled on by our last booking at hotel bosco but we managed to get a seat here, had a great evening!!

Came here on Friday night with two older mates. Unusual venue....not in a bad way. Hard to put into words....it feel partly hippyish, grungey, retrospective. Very small inside. In fact, the outside feels like a larger area. The owners have done well to set up a covered, segmented, seating area outside.... Ordering is via an App only - you can decide whether that’s good/sensible or a bit irritating...or both. Atmosphere inside was very decent and chilled.

Just that. An amazing extension of their home, Adam, Liz and their girls have created the most warm, welcoming and brilliant place to hang out. With regular games, a changing provision of fabulous fresh food, arts and crafts, and the most astonishing selection of brilliant live music. Not just now and again, but every week, something amazing happens here. If you've not been, you absolutely should, come and join in, come and play.

Visiting Hampton Court palace and being a fan of real ale we stopped by here after our evening meal. Very friendly welcome and customers were very chatty. Offered a sample of ale before choosing.

Very warm and friendly pub that makes not only locals but foreigners like myself feel welcome. Very friendly bartenders and great bands.

Where to start? This legendary hostelry is known around the world as the most eclectic, friendly and community minded tavern in the known universe. A small but carefully husbanded selection of ales nudges elbows with some of your mass market favourites. Good selection of spirits including a non-alcoholic gin if that's your thing. Great bands here play all the time from quiet, thoughtful modern folk to foot stomping crowd pleasers. The atmosphere for the favourites is, shall we say, intimate. In addition to all this, The Lamb is the heartbeat of community events, pumping love through the streets and parks of this leafy commuterville. Urban downhill skiing anyone? If you're in need of food then it's mostly limited to cheese, though there is a particularly fine selection on offer. Besides, didn't someone once say that a person with beer and cheese is a king/queen/royalty of self-specified preference indeed?

Always 4 great ales on. Ran more and Summer Lightening plus 2 guests. Good crowd too. Check if it’s music night.

Enjoyed an afternoon here with a friend recently. Quiet but ‘good quiet’ with friendly regulars. Family-run and you can tell by how cheery everyone is. Will frequent again.

Pretty dirty, holes in the sofas, food hygiene questionable, clientele rowdy and rude - won’t be going here again

Ignore the slightly shabby frontage and the rusty camper van outside because this is an honest, unpretentious, no-nonsense boozer with quirky dated decor, friendly people and a lovely large outdoor area to the rear with a slightly hippy vibe. Old sofas under gazebos. All a bit shabby and not caring one jot about chic; a fascinating feast for the eyes. Sensible prices, decent beer and unique surroundings that ooze charm. I suspect they often have music there quite often too.

The Lamb is an antidote to the gentrification and branding of most other pubs in the area so I do see the appeal...but then I visit and I remember this place sadly isn’t for me most of the time. It’s cramped bordering on claustrophobic, it looks like a hoarder’s living room, the selection of cheeses looks better than the selection of pints. The place makes more sense to me in the summer when you can escape into the beer garden and stretch out a bit. Still, there’s a genuine community feel to The Lamb and I’m glad it’s always there as a (very different) option.

This place is a gas. It's a bit wild..a little off beat and a really great place to drink good beer. The burgers are fantastic. Good live music...not every night...interesting and engaging owners. A very good vibe any night of the week. Great.

The concept of The Lamb could have been clever. Unfortunately, the place looks tired and worn down, while it smells like the place hasn’t been cleaned in years.

Viajar con el trabajo puede ser un derecho dolor en las noches en largas tandas de distancia. Yo frecuentado este lugar en el pasado por lo que me sorprendió ver que aún es un lugar extremo. Viajar por su cuenta pueden a veces dejan de hablar con usted. Pero no el cordero cuando pronto ser charlando con los lugareños, ver música en vivo, clases de arte y restaurantes de unirse en los distintos pop-up cocinas durante toda la semana. Rutas clásico tradicional con un ambiente relajado para los hippies. Sin duda un lugar para relajarse después de un día de 12 horas.

A really good slightly off the wall establishment. Fully recommend the beers, these seem well kept. Never tried the food. Just an intimate interesting boozer.

Me encanta este pub. Siempre hay algo sucediendo aquí, ya sea música en vivo, clases de arte, fiestas, etc. Tiene una ecléctica mezcla de gente que aumenta el interés, y las conversaciones nunca son difíciles de huelga. Esto, junto con una cerveza y un gran servicio a sumarse a una fórmula ganadora.

The Lamb offers a step back in time to another era where glossy fitouts couldn't be afforded by small, humble local pubs. A benefit of the establishment being so unreconstructed is that the visitor focuses on the basics: good beer, friendly service and relaxed conversation.

Fantastic quirky pub. Great beer and cheese board. Sometimes Bbq sometimes sausages. Often music. Fantastic community hub

Esto no es un pub para juzgar por la primera impresión.

Wonderfully odd surroundings to have a not particularly pleasant pint. Only had one so not sure if the poor quality of it was a one off. I'd go back.

Un pub peculiar. Tiene una bonita zona al aire libre con calentadores y mantas! Sirve comida de la calle recién preparados. Nos sirvieron rápidamente, el personal amable y agradable en el pub multitud. Sin duda volvería.

Pub decente un poco estrafalario, pero excelente para unas cervezas. Tiene un precioso jardín grande también fantástico en el verano.

Amazing staff, great music, lovely atmosphere. The friendly vibe is what really makes this place the special watering hole that it is; a true surbiton gem.

This place is awesomeStreet food. Live music. Great prices.Staff are lovely and a proper community feel about the pub (the owners organise a lot of local events!)It's really quirky as well...first impression was "what a dive" but I couldn't be more wrong - it's cool and just has a nice vibe and you just have to give the place a chance. My only criticism (that I emailed owners directly on) is that their beer options are terrible. A free house should be smashing it and churning out some incredible beers but sadly they are very very limited in a decent option (in my opinion). Again a testament to the place is how respective of my feedback they were (even asked what beers I like etc)Fix this and I'm here all the time and it will be my go to pub for good.Till then it's The Antelope for me and a cheeky on the way home in The Lamb

Quirky, fun and cosy pub in the heart of Surbiton. Local musicians performing each week, great food and lovely staff. Amazing outside garden area!

Came here on Wednesday for the music. Great atmosphere and very friendly. I would definitely come here regularly if we lived nearer.

I have popped in this place and known it for years. It is a very good pub in Surbiton. It is popular with well behaved students and folk from every corner of the local area. The beer selection is good (although Ranmore? Really? Do they pay you to serve it?) and the place as a whole is pretty comfortable and popular with a good crowd. It has a large outdoor area, needs a clean up but marquees and large tent things put up with sofas inside for seating. Quirky has been used before but this place is a gem.

This is a great family owned and family orientated local pub. It is not a sanitized soulless chain pub with awful music so loud you can't talk- if you want that, there is an all bar one in Kingston.The walls and garden are decorated with paraphernalia from various charity and fun raising events, whether it be the life size hungry hippos, life size mouse trap or funky stuff from a steam punk evening. If conversation is slow there are various games to borrow.Sorry, should really tell you about the beer and food! The beer is second to non, I've never had a bad pint in here in all the times I've visited,equally the cheese board and pop up chefs in the garden always manage to serve genius food.

The pub area is a mess, the back garden is appalling with ash flowing out the ashtrays, mismatched furniture and rubbish everywhere. I've only been here twice but both times a couple of children and a woman stared up at me when I walked in as if I was burglar. (They were the only people in there.) The beer seems OK, but I couldn't really enjoy it as I'm worried they take as little care about the taps as they do the pub.I'm giving it 2 stars rather than one as I admire the fact they patently don't even pretend to care and it has a certain 'take us or leave us' charm, but I wouldn't waste your money.

More often than not there is some quirky activity of plans being plotted for such like around the bar. Evidence of past japes litter the place, from giant Hungry Hippo heads to old posters for Surbiton Ski Sundays. Great beer too, served by friendly bar staff and a fantastic atmosphere on live music nights.

Filthy Dirty Pub....had a rancid smell.Full ashtrays everywhere,smelly seats and blankets outsde in the scruffy garden area.Not chilled at all...just plain dog rough.Nice Staff though.

I love this place. It has a super chilled atmosphere and you can make yourself at home. The kids had a great time playing with the other children there so we were able to relax. They usually have a pop up cook on Sunday afternoons and a live band so it's the perfect way to end the weekend.

We pop into the Lamb occasionally, a quirky pub which seems to have a cult following and good selection of beers, but most importantly, in a setting which hasn't been generically modified as most pubs have now-days. Seating areas around the horseshoe bar, and rear garden, it can get busy but service is normally quick and their beers are kept well. Friendly staff willing to have a chant and normally someone half-cut at the bar to keep you entertained. Good music in the background.Rated 5/5 as these unique pubs show the character of an area and should be supported.

Myself and my boyfriend have visited the lamb a few times now after being told it would be right up our street. being cheese lovers we ordered a cheese board and were served stale bread and dirty side plates. So since then we've stuck to eating elsewhere and coming in for drinks. We've worked out if you sit too close to the men's toilets you can smell them at your table which is pretty off putting and I myself can say the ladies is not much better. The garden is a good size but looks more like a messy unused back yard than a pub garden and the blankets provide would be a cute touch but they're dirty and smelly too. Overall hygiene in the place is very poor which I feel lets it down hugely. my boyfriend enjoys the beers there and drinks are reasonably priced but increasingly we find ourselves walking further and paying more to go to other places in the area because from our few visits so far we know the place isn't very clean and the standard of service is often hit and miss. Love the unusualness of the place and they seem to host quite a few events but if they just bothered to tidy up a bit and keep the place clean I'd feel much more comfortable there. FRiends of ours in surbiton love the place and have told us the landlords are very relaxed but from what we've seen its just a polite way of saying they are lazy as we have witnessed a very unrelaxed landlady shouting rudely at us and other customers regarding noise in the garden on a Friday night.

Gem of a small pub in a desert of an area for good real ale and good pubs! Genuine free house with four hand-pumps serving Surrey Hills Ranmore, Dark Star, Hophead & Robinsons - we stuck on the Ranmore especially as it was a new barrel! Fabulous cheese selection in a special cool cabinet for storing cheeses - choice of three cheeses with bread and pickles is good value at £7.50 per platter bearing in mind the perfect quality of the cheeses - the best accompaniment to real ale! Rear garden partly covered by a couple of marquees with sofas. Enthusiastic welcoming owner with friendly staff. Free parking after 4:00 pm in surrounding streets leading to river. We cannot wait to return.

A unique place in Surbiton with a great down to earth and friendly atomosphere! Lots of interesting events always happening, good ales and amazing cheese boards! Certainly one of my favourite pubs. There is nothing really bad I can say about the Lamb but if I was forced to then it would be nice if all the staff knew at least some basics about the cheese they serve ;) I usually choose alone but some insight would always be appreciated.

I love little places like that. Even though the place is tiny and often stuffy it has a great atmosphere and plenty games to choose from

Walk in here and start chatting to whoever you meet and you will feel as though you have been part of the community forever! The Lamb not only offers excellent ales and a stunning cheese counter, it is the creative hub of the local community. There is often as not some hare-brained dress-up party or niche sports activity in the offing (examples include 'Now is the Winter of our Disco Tent' and urban skiing). Family friendly and a safe place for singles to drink without getting harassed. Pop up dining is now a feature in the back garden, local chefs have been turning out burritos, tacos, Vietnamese baguettes, gourmet hotdogs, burgers and other home made dishes at weekends. Live music is also a regular feature, with local talent (and acts from further afield) showcased in the bar.

BoomTing Burgers grill here every Friday evening in the beer garden. I consider myself a bit of a burger connoisseur and wasn’t disappointed by either of the burgers I tried. There was the fresh soft steamed bun holding together oozy cheese and sharp pickles, but above all the patty – seared to juicy perfection and with a seriously deep, long in the mouth beef flavour. I’ve been to the Meatliquors, Shakeshacks, Honest Burgers, Dirty Burgers of this world and can safely say BoomTing is up there with the best of them. Maybe I could have done without the addition of mayo as the beef was rich enough on its own, and personally I prefer my pickles on top of the meat so that the bottom bun stays bare and sucks up any beef juices, but these are minor quibbles. All in all it’s a damn fine burger and I can’t wait to go back and try their Green Chilli Cheeseburger.

Second pub I visited in Surbiton, it was quite busy and stank. Not a great opening sentence I know but the atmosphere was great, lively and upbeat. Good selection of ales. Had a Summer Lightening and a Hophead if my memory served me correctly. Both were well kept and tasty. Staff were attentive and friendly. Defo will come back if I get the chance.

Helt vild hyggeligt, mange gæster og god stemning, gode steaks, salater og fish/chips, ikke så dyrt, 2 fl rødvin, 4 vand, 2 rump steak, chefs salat samt fish and chips, £ 102,00 , og det var rigtig godt - kan anbefales, vi havde hørt om det på TV2

This pub is both classic and unique. There is what is called I guess a "snob screen" around one of the tables to make things more private, but the couple sitting there left it open. Great selection of cask ales. The atmosphere is relaxed and it is a great place to sip a pint and imagine Dickens writing near you. Very classic and worth a look when in this area of London. Loved it and was thrilled to be there,

This pub has a great selection of real ales, continually changing, and well managed by the slightly eccentric landlord ( or LambLord, as he is known!). The staff are all very friendly and well informed about the beers they sell. The music isn't too loud, the atmosphere is always great. I've never seen a place quite like it - a must visit if you're in the area.

If like me you aren't too fond of pubs with loud music then come here. It's an original and very creative pub that is making a big point on the Surbiton scene. The cheese plates are lovely, they also have a good range of ale and wine, and the staff are helpful. The managers are a bit bonkers but that's part of the fun, they would have to be with some of the activities they set up. Lamb Surbiton, brilliant.My only quibble, and it's a small one, is if they could put a kitchen in they would be able to do more than just cheese plates. This is what I call a good pub!We took our friends here for the once a month, Homage de Fromage cheese night event and we all had a fab time.

Have visited about a dozen times in the last year, and love the pub. The cheese board is out of this world, with some really great unique cheeses to choose from. This pub changed my opinion of children in pubs completely. Saturday daytime expect to see lot's of children, but they are busy making crafts and playing games together while the parents catch up. I almost want to have kids just so I can take them to The Lamb!Beer wise, Surrey Hills Ranmore seems to be on permanently and has buckets of flavour for a weaker beer. Two guest ales have changed ever visit and are interesting and well selected(don't expect Doombar, and other bland guest beers)The service is fantastic, and it's clear that the family that run the pub play a MASSIVE part in the local community.We had one bad visit when we popped in for a quiet pint one Sunday evening, and a large group of people who seemed to have finished a shift at a nearby bar were acting so drunk and rowdy that we had to leave. We are fully confident that this was a one off.Stop reading reviews and go try a lovely pint!

While staying in Surbiton for a few days I discovered this pub enroute to the Thames Pathway. Not your traditional English pub, it's hip, quirky and unique, with a fine selection of traditional ales on tap. I didn't sample food,but just sat near the door and enjoyed the buzzing atmosphere on a Saturday night. The locals are quite friendly and I was invited to the Seething Wells festival, which was a gesture I really appreciated.

E' il luogo giusto se si ha voglia di provare il "vero" pub inglese. Non fa parte di nessuna "catena", è unico. E' uno dei pochi posti dovo siamo riusciti ad assaggiare qualche piatto inglese, diverso dalle solite fritture.Ottimo il tortino con lo spezzatino di carne!!! Assolutamente da provare!!!Disponibile la wi-fi gratuita per i clienti.Unico neo: la cucina chiude alle 22, dopo si può solo bere.

The Lamb is a small pub that sells several kinds of good local beers and specialises in British regional cheeses. It is also the centre of many local activities such as sports days and charitable events and as such attracts a mixed crowd, far from the stereotype of 'real ale pub' though it is deservedly popular with real ale fans as well. It is the kind of pub that should be visited and made use of as much as possible. In my view it is the best pub in Surbiton for its mix of good beer, atmosphere, and its contribution to the community.

The Lamb is a unique and relaxing pub with good food and nice beer. It also has an interesting cross section of punters which just adds to its appeal. If you are in Surbiton and fancy reading the paper with a nice pint, don't go anywhere else.

Good food plus a barbeque on some weekends. The normal menu consists of a selection of quality british cheeses and terrines, pates and pies from the family farm in DorsetDrinks include draught cider real ales, guinness, organic soft drinks leffeThe atmosphere is great, full of an eclectic mix of people from around the local area. Really welcoming staff and a laid back feel. Always a good evening out.