Surrey Hills · Silent Pool
People come for the gin tour and then need feeding. We are, conveniently, the answer to that, and have been for a while.
Silent Pool Distillery makes its gin with the spring water from the pool, and runs tours and tastings next door. The food on offer there has long come from Mandira's Kitchen, which sits in a 400-year-old converted cowshed on the same stretch above the pool.
Before or after a tasting, sit down to handmade Indian food, masala chai, cake or Afternoon Tea, seven days a week, with a patio over the hills.
What you actually eat here
Lunch, seven days a week
Indian street food the way Mandira grew up eating it — samosa chaat, papri chaat, biryani, kathi rolls, keema pav, chilli cheese toast. All handmade. Gluten-free options. Eat in the barn or out on the patio over the pool.
Indian Afternoon Tea
Spiced scones, Indian-inspired sandwiches, mithai and masala chai. Available seven days a week, booking recommended.
Freezer meals to take home
The same food, cooked by hand and frozen the same day. Take a stack home, or have them delivered anywhere in the UK, free over £100.
A barn above one of England's strangest pools
Silent Pool is a spring-fed former chalk quarry on the Albury Estate — so still and so clear it looks lit from below. Our barn sits on the track just above all of it, where pilgrims once walked the old North Downs way. Four hundred years a cowshed. These days, something rather better fed.
Good questions, briefly answered
Is there food at Silent Pool Distillery?
The food at Silent Pool has long come from Mandira's Kitchen, a 400-year-old Indian barn cafe on the same stretch above the pool, serving lunch, chai and Afternoon Tea seven days a week.
Can I combine a gin tour with lunch?
Yes. Silent Pool Distillery runs tours and tastings, and Mandira's Kitchen is right beside the pool for lunch or Afternoon Tea before or after.
How close is the cafe to the distillery?
Both sit by Silent Pool off the A25 at Albury, a very short distance apart.
Where is it?
Silent Pool, Shere Road, Albury, Guildford, Surrey GU5 9BW, with free parking when you register at the cafe.
Book a table by the distillery
Open seven days a week, on the track above Silent Pool.
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