The Royal Oak, Kings Bromley

No real complaints with the beer (they serve a decent pint of Pedigree) but the food is pretty awful. Surely, with todays savvy food customers, you wouldn't serve powdered mash? But unfortunately they do! As for the rest of the menu, it's a bit hit and miss (more miss really). I think it's been created with the convenience of the kitchen in mind - What can we knock out quick and easy and make a decent margin on? Hence the powdered mash, frozen veg, bought in pies, oven chips etc, etc.

As for the pub itself, I think it's suffering from an identity crisis; it's not quite sure whether it's meant to be a pub or a restaurant and, unfortunately, it ends up being neither!

It has so much potential to be a nice pub that serves food (it's recently undergone a very tasteful refurb) but it's not quite there yet.

1 Aug 2008 13:05