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Just a short walk from Woking town centre, Palette Bistro and Wine Bar enjoys a growing reputation. Their freshly prepared cuisine with high quality ingredients and a head chef who will delight your palate with his superb skills are among the main reasons for its popularity. The daytime Bistro offers Fair-trade coffees, Teapigs teas, delicious cakes, and fresh, seasonal dishes. The venue offers a relaxed atmosphere for family meals, a break from shopping, or a quiet place for business meetings.

The restaurant transforms into a stylish Wine bar from Tuesday to Saturday evenings, with live music every Friday and Saturday. You can choose from the menu for a full dining experience or just drop in after work and enjoy a glass of fine wine. Sourced from small independent vineyards, each wine has been carefully chosen for its high quality and unique characteristics, and all can be enjoyed by the glass, with expert advice on-hand.

If you're looking to relax over a fine meal in a restaurant where the ambience is laidback and casual, and yet the food is prepared with utmost care, then you might want to take a look at an Auberge restaurant. For over twelve years, they have been providing French inspired cuisine to their patrons and their popularity continues to be undiminished. Hunger demands can be met with their express menu with its sandwiches, burgers and salads.

Dinner options are also excellent, with typical starters such as tiger prawns with garlic, chilli, butter, parsley followed by herb crusted roasted lamb rump, gratin Dauphinois, French beans and rosemary jus. Sample the profiteroles filled with cream and covered with chocolate sauce for a light and delectable dessert and make sure you choose something from their selection of crisp Belgian beers or maybe a glass of wine from the eclectic list that spans both the old and the New World.

Drawing inspiration from the brasseries of Lyon and Paris, Brasserie Rhone located in High Street, Old Woking, offers Mediterranean style cuisine with heavy hints of olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, aubergines, fennel, peppers and herbs. Traditionally, brasserie food is a lot simpler than the haute cuisine associated with French restaurants and this is evident in the simple yet authentic preparations available at Rhone. Even the wine list is dominated by wines from the Rhone valley that are much like siblings to the recipes originating from the provinces of France, referred to as cuisine de ma grand'mère - grandmother's home cooking. The wines therefore, are excellent accompaniments to the meal and enrich the authenticity of the experience.

The escalivade, assiette de poisson fume au raifort, ratatouille en croûte, steak salad and poulet à l'estragon remain favourites, though every dish on the menu is an authentic reproduction of the original recipe from the provinces. The toasted brioche or pain au raisins is an excellent way to conclude the Brasserie Rhone experience.