The best restaurants serving British food in Bookham North Mole Valley South East

Located in small parade of shops of shops in Fetcham a terrific range of freshly mad sandwiches, paninis , pastries etc Great Carrot cake. The service was both professional and welcoming. Cheaper than many sandwich shops.

Cookham is a lovely little village which deserves a lovely little teashop, but this ridiculously over-priced establishment isn't it. It is described as shabby (which it is) but chic (which it definitely is not). Firstly, there was no friendly welcome and when I said I was there to eat in rather than take-out the woman at the counter looked annoyed and wordlessly handed me a menu. I make a point of being polite to cafe staff and I had no conversation with her beyond simply answering her question, but I sensed I was not welcome. I wondered if this might have been because she had just cleaned the tables because they were wet and the scent of some sort of bleach-based cleaning product permeated the room. The lack of welcome was reinforced by the same waitress when she bought me my food, as she glared at me and handed me the plate rather than place it on the table, as if she resented me being there. So much for the 'service'. As for the meal, the tea was weak and made with cheap teabags or old water. The salad garnish with my meal was laughable and, piece de resistance, there was a hair in the Welsh Rarebit. I didn't bother to tell them as by this stage I had decided I would definitely never go there again. The one star is for cleanliness.

Had Sunday lunch with my partner, me roast and she Sea Bass. The fish and accompaniments were apparently good. My roast OK, pork a bit of a small portion, very small piece of cracking (not off a joint but backfat crackling made separately and not flavoursome) and a bit of a disappointing 4 small roasties. Was only eating functionally so not worth raising at the time with staff who were all pleasant. We eat frequently in this chain and probably this was in keeping with our previous meals in Chef & Brewer. It did seem that they had a lot of bookings arriving as we were eating and I do think portions appear to have been calculated to ensure all bookings could be covered. Also seemed from surrounding tables many items were off the menu.

Excellent food, great price, lovely service .