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Farnham Feast of Food

The Farnham Feast of Food celebrates the importance of buying local produce. Through a fortnight of different activities and events Farnham Town Council hopes to encourage new audiences to source food locally, as fewer food miles are travelled which means products are fresh and full of flavour and helps to support local businesses at the same time.

One of the events during the Feast of food will be The Farnham Food Crawl. The Farnham Food Crawl gives people an opportunity to discover Farnham's range of eateries, with a different pub or restaurant offering a three course menu for £15 a head every night for two weeks.

The Sandrock will once again be taking part in the Farnham Feast of Food and the Farnham Food Crawl, with a World War Two themed menu. Our Food Crawl evening will be on Wednesday 22nd of September and we are now taking bookings.

Last year we were fully booked within two weeks of Farnham Council releasing the food crawl dates and menus, so to avoid disappointment we recommend booking early.

As last year was so popular we have decided to run our World War Two themed menu for an extra 4 evenings, from Monday 20th to Friday 24th September 7pm to 9:30pm.

To see our menu and more information on The Farnham Feast of Food please click here

Pirate Seafood Night

Once again we would like to say thank you to all of the customers who supported our Pirate Seafood Night, which was fully booked again. All the feedback we have received has been fantastic.

As our themed food evenings have been so well supported and the feedback has been so positive we are planning to hold more in the near future, with our next themed food evening near the beginning of April, details will be be placed on this page soon. If you would like to be kept up to date about up coming themed food evenings please click here and put 'subscribe' as the subject and we will email you with information about the next evening so you will have a chance to book before anyone else hears about it.

Medieval Night

We would like to say a big thank you to all of our customers who made the Medieval Night such a big success. Everyone that attended said they had a fantastic evening. Pictures of the evening will be available in a picture gallery soon.

We are already planning our next themed food evening which will be on the 24th of February. The theme will be A Pirate Seafood Night, more information will be availble shortly.

**NEW** Spring Lunch and Evening Menu

Our NEW Spring Menu is now available, featuring Great British Classics plus our new healthy eating range. This menu is available for lunch, Monday to Saturday 12pm until 2:30pm (2pm on Saturday) and in the evening, Monday to Saturday 7pm until 9:30pm. to view our new menu please click here.

To book a table you can email us on bookings@thesandrock.com or call us on (01252) 715865

The Morning Advertiser PubChef Awards 2010

We are very proud to announce that The Sandrock, and in particular Carol, has been short-listed down to three chefs at The Morning Advertiser PubChef Awards 2010, in the Game PubChef of the Year category. As part of this we will be attending a cook off in January and an awards ceremony in March to find out which lucky chef has won. The chef that wins each category will also go forward to the PubChef of the Year Award. More information is available on our awards and reviews page.

Medieval Themed Food Evening

On the 20th day of January in the year 2010 you are invited to a 7 course feast celebrating the food and drink of our Medieval forefathers. We will explore the wide range of dishes from pickled quails eggs with slow roasted pigs cheeks to toasted cheese with honeyed wine plus there will be riddles to test you in between courses. All of our staff will be dressing up and if you would like to join them Carol and David would be pleased to buy you a drink.

More information is available in the Food section of our website.

Eat Out, Eat Well Award Presentation

We would like like to thank Surrey County Council, the Mayor of Waverley, Pat Frost and Surrey Trading Standards for coming to The Sandrock on Wednesday the 30th of September and presenting Carol and David with our Eat Out Eat Well award. We would also like to thank all of our customers, that came down to support us. It was a fantastic evening, enjoyed by all.

The Publican Food and Drink Awards 2009

The Publican Food and Drink Awards 2009 are were held on the 3rd of November. The Sandrock was short listed as one of four finalists in the 'Food Pub of the Year' and as semi-finalists in the 'Cask Ale pub of the Year' categories. Unfortunately we didn't win either award this year but we did get the chance to spend an evening enjoying the company of Ron and Jack from our category sponser, Booker.

The Great British Food Crawl

We would like to thank everyone who supported the Farnham Food Crawl at The Sandrock, we could of filled all of our tables three times over. Due to this success, we will be holding a Medival themed food evening in the near future, watch our news page for more information.

Farnham town council are running a "Feast of Food" between the 18th of September and the 3rd of October 2009. As part of this there will be a "Food Crawl" to celebrate all things British. The Sandrock will be running our "Food Crawl" menu on the 23rd of September.

We are now fully booked in the restaurant and bar, plus we have a long cancellation list. Unfortunately we will not be able to take any more bookings and we will also not be able take any walk-in tables on the night.

Eat Out, Eat Well Awards

We are proud to announce that The Sandrock is the first and only establishment to be given a GOLD award in Surrey County Council's 'Eat Out Eat Well' awards scheme. More information on the 'Eat Out, Eat Well' awards scheme, can be found on our Awards page by clicking here.

Sandrock Pencils

Every customer who is in the bar at five to five on a Friday afternoon, will now receive a fantastic Sandrock pencil. They are 'behind a builders ear' size with our phone number and website printed on them so you will always have it to hand, just in case you need to check our menus or which beers will be on when you pop in.

If you can't be here on a Friday afternoon, shame on you but we are now having a pencil amnesty every evening between 4pm and 7pm. Bring in your old pencils and we will swap them for a shiny, new, gold Sandrock pencil.

Hurry! There are only 500 in circulation and will become very valuable in the future, just look what happened to the 20 pence pieces and there were 20000 of those!

Christmas Early Bird Special

We currently have an early bird special available for Christmas bookings taken before the 31st of August 2009. The special 3 course menu is just £15 per head and can be viewed by clicking here. It will be available every lunchtime (except Sunday's) between Tuesday the 1st and Wednesday the 23rd of December.

Pay and Play Computer

We have just installed a computer for customer use, whether you need to settle a bar argument, check your emails or read our website, you will now be able to sit down and have a beer while doing so. It costs 20p for 5 mintues or £1 for 30 minutes which will give you full internet access in the comfort of our main bar!

New Pictures of The Sandrock

We have just added some new pictures of The Sandrock to our picture gallery page, so you will be able to how the pub looks this year. We are constantly trying to improve the inside and outside of the pub so we will update these pictures regulary.

Vegetable and Salad Garden

Following the success of our vegetable and salad growing last year, we have once again started to grow a wide selection of items that will be used in our kitchen throughout the summer. So far we have planted 6 varieties of lettuce, brocolli, parsley, corriander, chilli's, water cress, carrots, radish, beetroot, tomatoes, peppers, grapes, basil, mint, apples, cherries and spinach. Most of these are on display in the garden, if you fancy having a look at them or we have added some more pictures of our vegetable and salad items to our picture gallery page which you can access by clicking here.

New Bookings Email Addess

We have added a new email address to handle the increased amount of bookings we are receiving via email and to keep them seperate from other email enquiries and speed up the response time. To book a table or pre-order a meal please email us at bookings@thesandrock.com by clicking here, or you can still call us on (01252) 715865

**New** The Sandrock Summer Menu

Our new summer menu will be starting from 7pm on Wednesday 29th April 2009 and is available lunchtimes Monday to Saturday between 12pm and 2:30pm (2pm on Saturday's) and in the evening Monday to Saturday between 7pm and 9:30pm. You can view our summer menu by clicking here.

Bar Bites Menu

As well as our new summer British classics menu, we have also launching our 'Bar Bites Menu', simple snacks to share. The new bar bites menu can be eaten at the bar or at a table from 7pm until 9:30pm Monday to Saturday.

The Publican Food and Drink Awards 2008

We are proud to announce that we were finalists at The Publican Pub Food and Drink Awards 2008, in the 'Classic Food Pub of the Year' category. As these awards are open to every pub in the country we are very happy that we were short-listed down to four pubs.