The Royal Oak

delicious Sunday lunch! Super Sunday Roast Beef! Beef so tender and tasty! Been so disappointed with preheated, dry, grey and cooked days before nonsense tasteless lacking passion and overpriced - it's a treat to find a chef that knows how to make an amazing roast beef Sunday lunch!! Roast Pots and all trimmings super and banging Yorkshire puddings! if i could make any changes it would be to serve prawn cocktail in a dish more practical!! That being said it was still fab and super tasty!! Great great lunch! buono buono

Oh dear what has happened to this lovely pub. Believe me I have had to think long and hard about putting this review on but I have to give an honest opinion. We have visited the Royal Oak 2 to 3 times a year for 2 to 3 days for the last 8 years and as per previous reviews you will see we rate it very highly. We visited the, last weekend in July and it appears two weeks prior there's been a complete change of staff and chefs and boy can you tell. The front of house management is now very poor, inefficient and unfriendly. First,problem was a problem with our table for the evening meal which had been booked 8 months ago. When first moved around then returned to the original table we found the table dirty not wiped, cutlery and glasses dirty and ketchup all on the condiments holders. Then found that our choices of mains from a small selection were unavailable. This was early evening at 6.30 on Friday night. Made new choices. On arrival the food was ok but small portions compared to previous. No dish of veg as before just 2 broccoli stems and half a sliced carrot on the plate. The sweets were again not great. Sticky toffee was a catering pack ginger sponge with about 2mm of diameter left for a small amount of custard. Due to it being dry asked for a bit more custard which eventually arrived with a not happy waitress. Whilst on food the breakfast used to be excellent and in both quality and portion sizes. Only one slice of toast each now and any further request met by it's only one slice now as we are under new management now. Don't we know it The second breakfast was the same and it appeared they had run out of hash browns and black pudding and gone and got some from a cheap freezer shop. The service is now very slow at both breakfast and evening meal. They even get the breakfast order wrong even after completing the breakfast order form as requested the night before. Also lots of flys about morning and evening, in the country yes but not a problem before. A few weeks prior there was a large publicity article in the main Yorkshire post paper claiming a new chef / manager was arriving from Salvos in Leeds and the food menu was going to go to a new level. It certainly has, but it's a lot lower. It is sad to write this but it has really changed for the worse in our experience and this was backed in conversations with other long standing customers. We were in one of the new rooms Willow and have to say it is an excellent room. A good size and excellent shower. There is a system where you leave a note if you require any further milk etc. However nobody checked the notes so no service. We tried to catch someone in the bar area but nobody about and we were going out for the day and not back till late. All in all it was a poor experience after many great visits. Not against change but the service and quality has dropped dramatically. Just go back to what it was a good Yorkshire moors pub with great food and staff.

Lovely pub stay A lovely stay at the Royal Oak for one night. Very friendly and attentive staff. They were more than happy to arrange late access to the property due to us having to return to the room late at night. Breakfast was excellent, with options for full English or kippers, plus plenty of toast, cereals, fruit, yoghurt. The car park is very small, and can't accommodate all vehicles, however there is ample parking on the road at the front of the property. The room was comfortable with clean linens. The shower water temperature was a bit hit and miss, but overall fine.

Excellent! Very comfy rooms, lovely food, and very friendly staff.

Short break Evening food a bit over priced

Great Country Pub Room was clean and tidy, food was excellent especially the breakfast