I really didn’t want to write about Reigate. Much better you read BRAPA (here). “I don’t know if rain is particularly acidic in Reigate” wrote Si in 2020, and I’ll leave it there. Mrs RM groaned when she heard we were finishing Surrey in its dullest town (and I’ll defend Redhill, just make me), but… Continue reading SURREY HAS FALLEN
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THE WORD THAT DIVIDES REIGATE
My last Surrey GBG pub was the Blue Anchor in Reigate. Every year I make the train journey to the town expecting something new and exciting, and leave bewildered. Last year, the Bell promised craft but gave us a Greene King identikit dining pub, and a classic Bieber v Coldplay argument. This year the Bell makes… Continue reading THE WORD THAT DIVIDES REIGATE
A RARE TRIP TO REIGATE
Approaching the end of Surrey‘s Beer Guide entries now, and still no sign of a great wave of craft flooding down from Bermondsey (or up from Brighton). Instead, the new entries are nearly all your typical eateries with lots of handpumps, rather like Oxfordshire in fact. I like the county a lot though. Box Hill apart,… Continue reading A RARE TRIP TO REIGATE