The Antelope

I hate to write this as The Antelope was my favourite pub for a long time.

Food: The food in The Brewhouse is POOR. The food made me very sick - literally. Scallops were old and nasty.
If I'm paying £22 for steak, I atleast want some chips and a little salad or something with it. Instead, I got given a small steak... £22 for a sad, gristly and shrivelled up sirloin steak. £6 for a side of overly salted chips. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Drink: I'm a cider drinker and used to enjoy seeing what new ciders they had. Nowadays, it's the same ciders on tap constantly. The ciders also taste watery.

Service and staff are excellent.

Their burger is 10/10! Served with super good chips and a delicious salad. Always busy and noisy btw. Benches outdoor to sit and enjoy the weather, located at the beautiful Maple Road.

Great food - had a mixture of starters as a meal and it was lovely. Service was great too, waitress was very welcoming and attentive. Highly recommended.

Excellent venue run by the same folk who own The Sussex Arms near Twickenham Green. I first visited there a decade ago or so. And this place also has an most relaxed atmosphere with live 33⅓ rpm records playing on the bar.. There was a queue going out of the door to get served. Go if you can..

Some people move to areas because of the schools or the commute. I moved to Surbiton because I fell in love with a pub. The Antelope is the birthplace of the now huge but still independent Big Smoke Brewery. The old brewery in the garden moved out to Esher to meet capacity demands and has since transformed into a ‘Brewhouse Restaurant’, a more refined, quieter atmosphere than the front venue. This has the welcome side-effect of allowing the inside of The Antelope to continue to be itself. Out of all their sites – which include near Heathrow and Luton airports – this is probably the most pub-like: not the polished, brightly-lit newer spaces you see Big Smoke opening now, but cosy and dark, with an eclectic vinyl selection that soundtracks your drinking and a roaring fire in the winter.

The main draw is still the beer: the walls and ceilings are decked out with hundreds of pump clips from the ever-changing 10 real ales and 14 keg beers they have had on. It’s a pub that remains consistently busy in the evenings and, despite its suburban location, a steady flow of customers dip in and out all day. And while the beer selection alone will always keep me coming back, the hospitality of the team that work here, past and present, cannot be overstated. A total package. My favourite pub in London.

We really enjoyed our meal at the brew house. We went for my mums birthday and a lovely Sunday roast. Staff were so helpful, the man was rushed off his feet but nothing was too much for him. Will definitely be going back again.

Very friendly and helpful bar star. Excellent selection of beers, ciders and ales. Food was good too. It did take a while as it was a busy Friday night. Well worth a visit!

Nice pub with a large variety of beers. Usually crowded on the weekends. Friendly staff and nice environment, though service tends to be a bit slow when crowded.