Royal Hotel, Runswick Bayback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Went in 2 days ago. We were greeted by a lovely warming log fire and a big smile from a friendly barmaid. A very well kept pint of Black Sheep , then some toasties. Great warm friendly atmosphere . It's a fantastic bonus that this pub is so dog friendly especially as the beach is close. Other pubs should learn just how easy it is to accept dogs and look at the increase in trade.
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Went in there on Thursday.Great views,nice beer and friendly staff.The only thing was that the menu was very unappealing,could of been more variety and less curry on it,after all how many people want a foreign dish when overlooking the sea? Ploughmans,salads,seafood more fish and local foods wouldnt of gone a miss.Not difficult really afterall the prices werent that cheap either! Shame.
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Thank you for the nice comment but I think that you are confusing The Royal with The Runswick Bay Hotel (my place. The Royal is nice too though.
Thanks again,
Robbie
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This is a lovely friendly pub just taken over by new landlord Robbie. Good food and excellent beer (so my partner tells me). Really good atmosphere and comfortable bedrooms just upstairs if you really want to make a night of it. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay and will definitely be back.
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Correction to July 4th review: With apologies to The RUNSWICK Hotel, it was there we found the beer much better, not the Cliffemount as stated.
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I wonder if this pub has recently changed hands? For a CAMRA listed pub in the 2007 Good Beer Guide, I came away very disappointed.
Both the Black Sheep Ale and Black Sheep Best Bitter were woefully over-chilled to nigh on lager temperature, killing any flavour stone dead. More disconcerting was the way the head sat separated and scum like on top of the beer, similar to those awful cappuccino mixes in sachets.
The food was no great shakes either, althought to the pub's credit they did serve us ten minutes after the kitchen had supposedly closed.( Bizarrely closing at 8 p.m. on a Saturday evening in June. In winter I could understand it.)Most of it was bog-standard pub fare but the vegetarian ravioli was particularly unpleasant industrial gloop and stodge.
Yes, the setting is wonderful but that in itself is not enough. Incidentally, the village had a ghostly feel to it owing to all the unoccupied holiday homes.
Having staggered up the bank, on the way back to the campsite, we popped in to the Cliffemount Hotel for a night cap and found the beer, from a ocal micro much tastier.
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Wonderful setting by a small bay; pub is fairly basic but tidy. Had a lot of tourists on my visit
but I can see would also feel very comfortable for locals. Good John Smiths ( yes really) - hard to leave for the beach.
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Lovely friendly local pub, with great views of the sea from the front room and tables outside the front. Food is fantastic, thoroughly reccommend the Seafood Platter!
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