Toby Carvery Redhill, Redhill

Still known to older locals as Lakers, unfortunately the marketing department at Mitchells & Butlers, the pub company now owning the property, have decided to apply corporate branding to this large pub. The interior of this Victorian bar-cum-hotel has been so thoroughly modernised that not a single original feature appears to have survived and it is now impossible to discern the original layout. Having said that, today's pastel-shaded and light-wooded decoration is still in a traditional vein and the many wooden dividing screens help break the large interior up into more secluded and intimate drinking areas. Heavily food oriented, as the name would suggest, meals are available every day from 8 in the morning to 10pm. "Bob's Bar", now the administrative offices, once rivalled the Home Cottage for popularity in the 1970s. Attached is a 37 bedroom Travelodge. Earliest parts of the building date from 1846 when it was originally called the Reigate Junction Railway Hotel in "Reigate Foreign" (as Redhill was called in those days) and owned by one Richard Laker. Renamed the Railway Hotel when Redhill finally became a town it became known as Laker's Hotel from the turn of the 20th century. Charrington's took it over in the early 1960s and it is now part of the huge M&B chain. To make it even less pub like, handpumps were removed in 2019 and only keg beers are available.