A thought occurs. You may wish to know of tea shoppes. Obv there is the Duddleswell Tea Rooms, which is lovely to sit outside on a sunny day (and yes, I did note the date of your ride before ai said that...) and open almost always. The food and drink is good and reasonably priced. There is also the garden centre on the left before you reach them, I do not know it but it might do you. Apart from that there is surprisingly little on The Forest itself. Edenbridge has a lot of things open but that is probably too far north, although from Kingstanding car park (ice cream van every single day of the year including Christmas Day) the route to Edenbridge is surprisingly hilly and the newly tarmaced bit from Gills Lap car park is an absolute joy to whizz down and thoroughly enjoyable. Hartfield is prob your best bet, the pub up the road to the church is likely to be closer to your tastes, I think. Also there is the new shiny tea shoppe on the north side of the road, east end of the village and that has been there a year or so and looks very nice and civilised. This might be your best bet. There are a few other pubs around but building restrictions mean there's not many places to eat. The Junction at Groombridge is at the bottom of a fantastic long downhill and has a tea shoppe, but it is at the bottom of a long downhil......
