Where to Play Darts in Kingston, Surbiton & New Malden (2026)

Surbiton British Legion

Best for: Serious darts, snooker, regular competitions

The British Legion opposite Fishponds Park is the best setup for darts in the area, and most people don’t even know it exists. Two dartboards in the games area, regular darts competitions, and Fun Killer Darts every Sunday afternoon — this is where you go if you actually want to play properly rather than squeeze past someone’s pint to reach a board in a dark corner.

The snooker room is a bonus — open daily from noon until 11pm at just £1 per 30 minutes. There’s a cafe serving home-cooked food, a Jubilee Bar, and a large function suite with live music and tribute acts on Saturday evenings.

You don’t need to have served in the military to join. Membership is 90p a week, and you get subsidised drinks and food. Worth it for the darts alone.

Hollyfield Road, Surbiton KT5 9AL · 020 8399 3993 · surbitonrbl.club · Google Maps

Fox and Hounds

Best for: Darts league, pool, all-round pub games

The Fox and Hounds on Portsmouth Road is the pub to know if you want regular, organised darts. There’s a league running on Thursday evenings, a dartboard and pool table through the back, and the kind of atmosphere where games are part of the culture rather than decoration.

It’s also the only pub with a pool table in Surbiton, so if you want both in one session, this is it. The front garden catches the sun and sits close enough to the river that you can almost see Home Park, though Portsmouth Road does its best to remind you you’re on a main road.

Real ales on the bar.

60 Portsmouth Road, Surbiton KT6 4HS · 020 8390 3408 · Facebook · Google Maps

Waggon and Horses

Best for: Casual throw, excellent pizza, beer garden

The Waggon and Horses on Surbiton Hill Road is a proper local with a dartboard in one of its multiple rooms. It’s not a darts-first pub — it’s a good pub that happens to have a board, and that’s perfectly fine when you want a throw between rounds of pizza.

The pizzas are the real draw here. Hand-fired in proper pizza ovens, thin-cut, under a tenner, and genuinely good — multiple reviews call them “unreal.” Served lunchtimes and evenings until 9:30pm. The huge garden at the back is heated and covered, and the uncovered area at the front fills up on sunny days.

Monday night pub quiz (£2 entry, cash prizes) if you want to stay on after your arrows.

1 Surbiton Hill Road, Surbiton KT6 4TW · thewaggonsurbiton.co.uk · Google Maps

Prince of Wales

Best for: Good board in a quality pub, beer garden

The Prince of Wales on Ewell Road recently added a new dartboard in the far corner of the back section — a proper setup in a pub that already had plenty going for it. It’s a Fuller’s pub with well-kept cask ales, a food menu that takes itself seriously (chef Dimitris runs a changing seasonal menu), and a spacious beer garden with outdoor TV for sport.

Five minutes’ walk from the back of Surbiton station. The garden has family-friendly games and plenty of seating, so there’s something for everyone even if not everyone in your group throws darts.

117 Ewell Road, Surbiton KT6 6AL · princeofwalessurbiton.co.uk · Google Maps

The Surbiton Club

Best for: Members’ club, pool, snooker, cheap drinks

A members’ social club on St James Road that’s been going since 1899. Dartboard, pool table, and snooker tables — all in a relaxed environment with competitively priced drinks and Sky Sports on the screens.

Around 350 members, all ages, and they’re welcoming to new faces. If you’re interested, you can email or just drop in and speak to the bar staff about joining. The bar prices alone make membership worthwhile if you’re a regular player looking for somewhere to throw.

34 St James Road, Surbiton KT6 4QL · 020 8399 2350 · thesurbitonclub.co.uk · Google Maps

Royal Oak

Best for: Darts in New Malden, traditional pub, good food

The Royal Oak is New Malden’s entry on this list — a handsome 1897 corner pub on Coombe Road with a dartboard and a proper traditional atmosphere. Two bars divided by the original open-top wooden partition, with the smaller former public bar still on flagstone floor.

The food here is strong — 45-day aged beef, a well-regarded Sunday roast, and a classic British menu. Local craft beers on tap alongside the regulars. Dog-friendly, family-friendly, and with a garden out back.

If you live in New Malden and want somewhere to throw without trekking to Surbiton, this is your pub.

90 Coombe Road, New Malden KT3 4RD · 020 8942 0837 · royaloaknewmalden.co.uk · Google Maps

The Black Horse

Best for: Games room, sports screens, Kingston town

The Black Horse on London Road has a dedicated games room to the right as you walk in — dartboard, foosball table, and a pinball machine. It’s the most “games room” setup on this list, with the darts tucked into its own space rather than sharing floor with drinkers.

The pub itself is a big, well-known Kingston landmark near the roundabout, with a large front terrace seating around 80, Sky and BT Sports on big screens throughout, and a kitchen doing British classics. Bottomless brunch on Saturdays, roasts on Sundays. Five minutes from Norbiton station.

204 London Road, Kingston KT2 6QP · 020 3198 4227 · blackhorsekingston.uk · Google Maps

Worth the trip

These two are outside the Kingston–Surbiton–New Malden patch, but both have boards up and both are worth knowing about if you’re in the wider area.

The Bell

Best for: Historic pub with serious character, family-friendly darts, destination visit

The Bell in East Molesey is the kind of pub you’d make a trip for even without a dartboard. Built around 1460, it’s one of the oldest pubs in Britain and locally known as “The Crooked House” — a name the brewery tried to make official in 1969 before a local campaign saved the original. The timber-frame facade tilts and warps visibly, the roofline ripples, and the patterned bargeboards look like they’ve been gently arguing with gravity for five centuries. It’s Grade II listed, and the 19th-century coach house to the rear has its own separate listing.

Inside, it’s all nooks and crannies — stone and wood floors, period photographs on the walls, and the kind of low-ceilinged rooms where you have to duck through doorways. The dartboard area is tucked away in its own cute space, separate enough from the bar that you can throw without someone’s elbow in your backswing. It’s not a competition-grade setup, but the atmosphere more than makes up for it.

The garden has a children’s play area, so it works well as a family outing — throw some arrows, let the kids run around, and sit outside with a pint from the changing cask ale selection. Quiz night on Tuesdays, occasional live music. The highwayman Claude Duvalier allegedly hid here from the Bow Street Runners, and the building served as East Molesey’s first post office around 1880. Greene King runs it now, food served noon to 9pm daily.

4 Bell Road, East Molesey KT8 0SS · 020 8941 0400 · greeneking.co.uk/pubs/surrey/bell · Google Maps

The Griffin

Best for: Local option in Claygate, heritage interior, cask ales

The Griffin on Common Road in Claygate is a 1920s family-run pub with two distinct bars separated by a timber-and-glass partition — the kind of interior that CAMRA rates as “of very special national historic interest.” The dartboard lives in the public bar side, and while the throw is slightly tight on space, it’s a proper board in a proper pub.

Real brick fireplaces, Surrey Hills Ranmore and Young’s London Original on the hand pumps, and a garden out the back. The Sunday roasts get consistently good reviews on TripAdvisor. If you’re in the Claygate area and want somewhere to throw without driving to Surbiton, this is your pub. It’s not a destination for darts specifically, but it’s a good local with a board — and the heritage interior alone makes it worth a visit.

58 Common Road, Claygate KT10 0HW · 01372 463799 · Facebook · Google Maps