The Rat and Parrot (Woking - Surrey)

The Rat and Parrot

From across the way beside the wetherspoons this pub looks like your bog standards "Sunday lunch" pub with chrome chairs and tables populating the walkway outside. However, enter and you are met with a huge staircase ascending to a bar and galley with tables and chairs upstairs. To your right you see an area dedicated to sofas and lounging and to the left a raised dining area. Ahead you find a large right-angled bar sweeping off further into the venue. Serving are slow badly- trained bar persons serving cocktails at £4 each of 2 for £5.5, not the cheapest thing around but a good deal none-the-less and at least the food it very cheap. Under the staircase you find a lot more seating, booths, pool tables and games machines which trail all the way to the back of the pub beside a rear entrance. There a re romantic spots upstairs for such events but the place gets jammed packed of an evening despite the size and quiet as a bank in the day.

Overall 7/10, it is a good all round pub and the prices reflect the atmosphere- average and it would have a rating to reflect this if it was so big!