The White Lion - Warlingham

This is tricky as work in hospitality so understand how hard and underpaid it is but honestly I’m not sure I will be rushing back to the white lion. A lovely evening we had but for me personally the food was terrible .. I had the steak .. chewy, horrible .. left a lot of it. From the moment we sat down, sticky table and a rocky table .. asked for candles to be lit … service good.. Manager under pressure friendly but working too many hours and probably not appreciated or paid enough! But we spent a lot and had a good evening so thank you for that .. x

Starter, cheesy garlic ciabatta was lovely, scampi and the peas were both overdone, so very average. Fizz weekend was advertised for prosecco type drinks after 5pm so I tried to do this, and then was charged normal prices, was then advised it needed me to download the app, which wouldn't open the code, due to poor signal in the pub, the bartender then advised me you're only saving 2.80.... so I paid, just not great service and not advertise that you need the app to qualify. The waitresses were very efficient. Overall, maybe a 6 out of 10 for the experience.

Great historic pub with a lovely spacious beer garden round the back. The manager was very welcoming and supported her staff with rigour. Andy was very helpful in accommodating for my disabled friend who required wheel chair access. Will be back during the Christmas period

Sadly despite visiting this pub regularly for the last 15 years I discovered today that this is not the pub to go to on a sunny Sunday afternoon if you have children and want to sit in the garden for a quick bite to eat. The staff were incredibly rude about our three children who were causing absolutely no harm, or noise or damage. We left feeling very insulted and will not be returning any time soon.

Lovely looking pub, staff fantastically friendly and very attentive which is why this is 2stars. The food however is atrocious. Breaded mushrooms were drowned in oil, crispy chipotle chicken was 3 tiny pieces of chicken for £5 and the steak chutney ciabatta was a small cold steak in a French loaf style bread that wasn’t even toasted so just became a soggy mess, and the steak itself was full of gristle so most of it inedible. Additionally confused by the seasoned fries which costs and additional £1 but appears to only have salt on them? I’d come in for a drink as the staff were friendly but would never recommend the food.