The Jolly Farmer

The Jolly Farmer is a pub in Weybridge that also cooks Turkish and Lebanese food. Not a pub with a curry night bolted on, and not a restaurant that happens to have a bar — the two sides run alongside each other, with grills listed next to the usual pub dishes. That combination is more common than it used to be, but it is still worth knowing before you walk in expecting one thing or the other.

It is described as a small place with a loyal following, and that is the useful detail. A local favourite behaves differently from a destination restaurant. Tables turn over on familiarity rather than occasion. Staff are reported as friendly and the atmosphere relaxed, village-ish in feel, which suits Weybridge — a town with money in it but a preference, in most of its pubs, for not making a fuss.

The ££ price band puts it in the middle. This is not a cheap eat and it is not a special-occasion spend. It is the band where you can have a proper dinner for two with drinks and not spend the evening totting up the damage. For a Turkish grill that band is about right; charcoal cooking is straightforward food done well or done badly, and the price reflects a kitchen doing it as a matter of routine rather than as theatre.

Who it suits: a weeknight dinner when you want more than a sandwich but not a production. A group that cannot agree — grills for some, pub food for others, and everyone settled. A Sunday afternoon that runs long, though we cannot tell you what the kitchen does on Sundays specifically, so ring ahead if that is the plan.

Before booking, two practical points. First, small pubs fill up, and a place with a loyal following fills up faster on Friday and Saturday. Book rather than chance it. Second, we do not have opening hours, menu details or booking policy verified here, so check directly — pub kitchens often close between lunch and dinner service, and it is not worth a wasted journey.

Weybridge has no shortage of places to eat, from the chain end to the more expensive. The Jolly Farmer sits between them: a neighbourhood pub with a specific strength in grilled food, kept going by people who live nearby and go back. That is a decent position to hold, and a hard one to fake.