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This bright and inviting bistro and lakeside restaurant is part of the Inn on the Lake at Silvermere, a golf centre set in the Surrey countryside between Cobham and Byfleet. It offers a well-stocked bar, eclectic menu and a heated lakeside terrace for alfresco dining.

Whilst admiring the wonderful views across the lake, guests can avail themselves of a leisurely meal or a quick snack. The breakfast menu offers a full English breakfast, with smoked bacon, spiced Cumberland sausage, grilled tomato, hash brown, sautéed field mushrooms, fried egg, baked beans and toast. Then, there are blueberry pancakes, strawberries with yoghurt, croissants and muffins too. Hot rock grills allow diners to have lemon and garlic rubbed breast of butterfly chicken, Scottish fillet of salmon and yellow fin tuna steak. A summer menu offers light meals of mussels in white wine, Thai fish cakes, chunky ham with Cheddar cheese and deep fried camembert. The Sunday lunch special includes roast beef with all the trimmings. Finish with a selection from the dessert tray or just coffee. Wine by the glass or bottle adds a celebratory touch.

Whilst the 42 Loch Fyne restaurants have a shared background there is a welcome degree of individuality encouraged throughout the group, which makes for customer interest. If you like wholesome, fresh and reliable seafood caught and reared under carefully controlled conditions, well presented in unfussy surroundings, and you enjoy being well looked after by pleasant staff, Loch Fyne is for you.

There is an increasing awareness of other food staples with an extended choice of meat dishes, but it is the original fare upon which their success was created that prevails. Loch Fyne kippers, a fine bouillabaisse, braden rost, kiln-roasted salmon fillet, and the toothsome oysters on ice, with a selection of accompaniments, all are to be found throughout the various restaurants, as well as Glen Fyne 21 day aged rib-eye steak and Scottish smoked venison. There is invariably a well-travelled wine list available which is sensible, both in content and prices.

Loch Fyne's greatest achievement has been to prove to a sceptical populace that chains or conglomerates can be made to work in the eating-out public's best interests.