Kinghams Restaurant

Visited here for my 50^th birthday celebration, they really produced a wonderful meal, delicious food, excellent service, I was really impressed, had so many compliments from my (50) guests! Would highly recommend and am already looking forward to our next visit.

Shere is one of the most attractive villages in Surrey with its old black and white wattle and daub buildings and stream running through the village centre. At one time in used to get a lot of passing trade as it was on the main route from London to Portsmouth. Nowadays more of a tourist trade especially in summer. The village and surrounding area has also been used as a film location — perhaps the best known of which was Four Weddings and a Funeral.
The restaurant is located in an 17^th century building on the road leading towards Gomshall and is well worth a visit as it provides the best dining in the area. It is more expensive than average, but not overly so, and the food is always to a high standard. Attractive conventional furniture is in keeping with the age of the cottage but if you are over 5’10″ watch out for low beams! Service is friendly and informal but it can feel a little cramped inside when busy.
The restaurant regularly features in the various food guides — overall I would rate this venue as 4 stars +

Been several times and always sat in the lovely little garden! It’s even worth doin on a more mild night as it is a lovely way to dine alfresco!
Food is almost always perfect and the wine list is great too. The fact that they have now introduced a special lunch menu at £15.50 for two courses just makes it even better.
Try it as it is a very well kept secret at the moment and you’ll love it!

Kinghams is recommended in several dining guides and my sister and I headed out into deepest darkest Surrey to dine here. It is situated in a little village and the journey is quite an adventure in itself!
Although its location means it must be a destination restaurant, it retains a locals’ restaurant feel with all eyes trained on us as we entered. Perhaps they don’t see oriental people in this part of the world very often!
The menu at Kinghams is concise but has nice options on it. The prices are certainly on the higher side — £7.95 to £9.95 for starters and £14.95 to £22.95 for mains.
The best surprise of the evening was the bread — a whole freshly baked, still warm from the oven round loaf arrived and with butter melting into the warm, fresh bread, it was divine.
My starter of smoked duck breast didn’t have enough smoky flavour for me and I can see the concept of the sweet papaya and melon timbale to offset the rich duck but the balance just wasn’t right for me. My sister’s seared scallop on filo pastry with artichoke cream, watercress purée and parmesan crisp saw the classical marriage of some ingredients that eat well together.
For main course, I seized the chance to try goose, which you don’t often see on menus. The breast of goose was served with confit of goose leg with a rhubarb compote and brown bread walnut sauce. It was well cooked and as far as birds go, nicer than turkey but not as nice as duck.
My sister’s trio of Welsh organic lamb with an aubergine and parmesan tart was nice but nothing special. The faggot of lamb shoulder and kidney was particularly disappointing as we had expecting it to be bursting with flavour.
At the prices we were paying for a main course, I wasn’t happy to see that we had to order side dishes at £3 each.
The large bread course had filled us too much to try dessert.
The food was probably 3.5 stars but the bread pulls it up to a 4. However, the remote location of this restaurant means that we wil be unlikely to be returning soon for above average food at high prices

This traditional restaurant is hidden away in the pretty surroundings of Shere. The 17^th century building houses an intimate dining area (s) with lovely roaring fires in the winter– this place isnt big so would advise to book.
The cliente are generally of the elderly variety, but a good mix — somewhere to go for a family outing, or to take your grandparents out to. Though the establishment seems traditional, the menu takes on a more imaginative twist, with traditional and modern infused. The menus are presented to you on the old fashioned blackboards, sat at each table. I visited on Sunday lunch time, and had a lovely piece of Roast Beef, cooked to perfection, and the biggest Yorkshire puddings, which are yummy. Followed this by a trio of Crème Brulee’s which were small portions, so not too over stuff me!
Most of the staff here are quite young, but all seem very knowledgable and firendly. I think this would be a good place to take someone for a traditional English experience. Only downside is, the dining rooms are quite small and quirky with low beams and small windows, which whilst is endearing, also means you can’t really see much of the pretty scenery outside.