The Royal Oak in Daventry - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

A pleasant pint. Welcoming staff.

The Royal Oak is our local pub and we’re so lucky! Anna, Seth & Ada are fantastic- so warm, so welcoming and offering such great food with a frequently changing menu. We feel so lucky to have such a great offering on our door step, and love going there.

Lovely food and staff, first time visiting and will definitely be returning.

First visit and what a nice surprise, the food was nothing short of amazing. I had the steak with triple cooked chips and peppercorn sauce. It was cooked to absolute perfection and so was the gammon steak and mash. We raved about the place all the home. Highly recommended.

Good food and we had good service.

Been twice since under new management, really wonderful food and service. The team are welcoming and helpful.

A Really Lovely Country Pub. Great Service by Friendly Staff. Very Highly Recommended AAAAAAA ************

Lovely local pub, friendly staff and fabulous food. Always a nice beer or 2 on as well.

We met a few family members here for a get-together and Sunday lunch. What a pleasure to visit and eat here. Only sad that we live so far away, and a little envious of those living more locally. Really good food, lovely staff, nice atmosphere. (Also really helpful concerning gluten free options.)

The food was amazing. Staff were all very friendly

Delectable meal in a cosy village pub, lovely open fire, & staff are friendly & accommodating 👌

Best Sunday roast I've had in years (the slow roasted lamb shoulder) highly recommend!

Quiet, cozy, rural pub serving simple, tasty food with friendly staff and a good choice of menu options. Dogs welcome. Free car parking at the rear

Lovely couple running the pub with exceptional staff. Extremely good food, freshly prepared and a nice choice of beers! I'll probably increase to 5 stars when I get my head around opening times! 😁

We love this perfect little pub. Extremely friendly staff and landlords, the food is brilliant and the atmospheric welcoming. They do great events such as book clubs and a quiz each month.

Fabulous pub, well kept beer and great food. Most welcoming staff, highly recommended

Was at an event at Naseby village hall field for a weekend and dec7ded to go to the Royal Oak for dinner. A friendly welcome, nice beer, and lovely food, what's not to like? Would happily go back for food and drink if I was in the area again.

Our first visit to the royal oak . Very friendly staff and great service. Excellent Sunday roast with all the trimmings.Lovely well kept real ales too

Great light dinner last night many thanks. Interesting food not just the boring run of the mill pub grub. many thanks

Great pub, we stumbled across it whilst camping nearby had a great roast dinner

Closed when I rode past but looks like a good village pub

Closed the pub when it got busy, could have made a fortune last Saturday.

Staff very jolly. Nice to have a nice pub locally

Nice atmosphere, friendly staff. Dogs welcome, always a bonus

Food excellent. Staff very friendly and helpful.

Stopped off for some lunch on Sunday Nothing booked , greeted and seated by a very cheery landlady , asked about our day in polite conversation making us feel very welcome Drinks were served quickly , food was excellent, all in all a lovely place to eat , would recommend it again

Wonderful Sunday lunch very good value and really tasty . lady behind the bar was so cheerful and obliging would definitely recommend this pub we will definitely return mick

Great atmosphere, friendly attentive staff and fabulous food.

Just had a great meal and a few drinks, it was outstanding food and drink with a great atmosphere

Lovely food (a really diverse menu) - we loved the Lincolnshire sausages and the vegetarian peanut and sweet potato curry. Super friendly staff, welcoming atmosphere and cosy chic decor. If we were locals, we’d feel lucky to have such a great pub on our doorstep. We were staying at the Old Post house B&B and couldn’t have been more happy to have a delicious dinner just a very short walk away.,

Amazing Pub, Amazing Food, Amazing owners. Well done Seth and Anna 🔥🔥🔥

Excellent food. Great service, very friendly!

Another wonderful meal at the Royal Oak in Naseby, fantastic service, lovely atmosphere, and the food is 🤩 amazing!!! Highly recommend!

Stopped here for lunch. It is ery convenient for a stop off the A14. The pub looks modern and inviting and there was a warm welcome. Service was exceptional with reassuringly good awareness of food allergies. We had a range of mains and all were well presented and tasty. Fresh chips and cooked perfectly. You should give it a try if you're passing. Highly recommended.

Nice pub, comfortable atmosphere.

Very impressed with recent visit. Delicious main presented well. Lovely clean surroundings and friendly staff and land lady. Would revisit when next in the area!

Great village pub with excellent food and welcoming service. Thoroughly recommend the puddings - in particular the chocolate nemesis and sticky toffee! Will definitely return when visiting Naseby again.

Great service, excellent food, nice quiet retreat as a country pub should be.

Clean, light and airy with a modern feel. Very pleased with the alternative options for Sunday lunch on a hot sunny day. Nachos were very tasty, shame only 2 as the main course option. Service very friendly and generally good

This cozy pub/restaurant is the cutest little spot for well presented delicious food (...chicken wings are to die for...), great selections of beer & ales, hospitable hosts. They know what they're doing and what they're talking about, you can tell that happy customers is their priority. Can't wait to visit again. Highly recommended.

Welcoming pub in the heart of Naseby, central if you are visiting the battlefield viewing points.

We stayed in Naseby for three weeks while my father convalesced. A huge positive for our trip was this pub. The beer is exceptionally well-kept and selected. The food menu imaginative but balanced, tastes great and good value. Service wonderful. The ambiance just what you need. Thank you, Royal Oak, for helping make our trip happy and rewarding.

Selection of real ale and other beers, tasty food well presented, friendly staff.

My family and I thoroughly enjoyed our meal last night at the Royal Oak. We could not fault the food, service or atmosphere. Everything was cooked to perfection and we couldn’t be happier to have such a a wonderful pub back in the village!! We will undoubtedly be returning soon!!!

The most wonderful, welcoming pub with an absolutely delicious and elevated menu! We have lived in the village for the last 15 years, we had only been to this pub twice - the food menu was never very good and decor/ atmosphere wasn’t great either. Glad to say that since the new management, that has completely changed! We have been twice in the last two weeks and plan to visit regularly. The decor has been completely uplifted and the Royal Oak is now a beautifully designed country pub with a tasteful and modern twist. The menu is creative and unique, not your typical ‘pub grub’ but much more fine dining at a still affordable and appropriate price for the quality of not only the food but the amazing service. The vegan options are very tasty and the chef was very accommodating, even offering an option for Sunday Roast. The lasagne was by far the best I’ve ever had. Couldn’t be happier to finally have an incredible local pub in Naseby! Thanks also to the waitress Lucy who was very friendly. Can’t wait to return soon.

Really Yummy food and amazing service

Just had Sunday lunch here this afternoon with the family. The food was really well cooked and tasty with generous portions and a friendly service . The cauliflower purée was sublime and the red cabbage was really well flavoured which went well with the meat. Deserts also top quality , the crème brûlée was the best I’ve eaten . Lucy who served was very polite and attentive. Compliments to the chef for a great meal , we will be back again soon .

Great food, lovely family run pub highly recommend

Probably the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had . Nice place to stop off when driving from the south east ,back to the midlands. Might go metal detecting and pick up a souvenir musketball. Go Roundheads # We won the civil war...

The new management have done a wonderful job. Anna and Seth are lovely and so are the drinks and food - the menu had something for everyone. Will definitely come again

Incredible food and lovely new owners! Definitely worth a visit, we will be back!

Can't recommend more, beautiful food and the couple there are so welcoming. Great combination of quality food and drinking atmosphere which is so hard to find these days.

Great atmosphere, good food at reasonable prices.

Having reopened under new management it is simply brilliant! Lovely staff, great food and superb atmosphere. The Sunday lunch menu sounds EPIC, if the burgers are anything to go by it will be a knock out! We will be back for sure!

Very comfortable and in a great position by the river. Plenty places to eat nearby.

Nice little village drinking pub. Good selection of beer but would be next level if they had a regular food offering.

From the depths of despair this lovely village pub has risen from the ashes again shame on naseby if they dont support the effort put in

Its a great shame that you do not have s permanent landlord / lady. This pub will shut through lack of vision by owners.

Nice beer, nice vibe, nice staff. Lively local sort of place.

We called here for lunch as we had seen it listed in the Good Beer Guide. While the beer was truly excellent, the pub is under new management and no longer serves food. If you want to try a super village local and have a great pint, this is well worth a visit, but not if you are hungry.

Village pub. Clean and tidy. Very quiet when we went on Saturday lunchtime. Several real ales on offer. Pub is not doing any food.

no food. Decor sad and dated. Staff unfriendly

Atmosphere is fantastic staff very helpful Needs a menu soon

Lovely traditional village Pub. Dogs welcome

Need to update the web site, BE WARNED THIS PUB NO LONGER DOES FOOD. Found this pub on the internet as a good mid way point on a 200 mile journey for a lunch stop. Reviews were pretty good but when we got there all that was available to eat was a packet of crisps, hardly the super burgers or scampi as advertised on the net. Not impressed.

Great country pub with friendly staff and a welcoming atmosphere

Absolutely top class establishment with a great bar team and super locals. Bonus being excellent beer.

What a great place to spend the night

Pleased wilh service over priced bottles

Old fashioned village pub with no food but a nice range of beers, friendly local's and staff and a skittles table.

Authentic English pub in a great little village

New owners keeping it lovely and old school. Old fashioned country pub. Good food too.

Typical village pub with typical village prices but nice for a change

Visited because of the location and because we saw some food reviews which are obviously out of date. Decor is 'rustic' and could do with a little TLC. The menu was limited, definitely pub-grub (#with chips) however it was very reasonably priced, good value for money. Beer was excellent, a very good selection of ales.

Nice place very pleasant landlord

A wonderfully friendly pub with ample car parking and traditional pub games in the historic village of Naseby with its unique C17th century battle history.

A group of 7 of us had our book club Xmas meal here. The food was lovely and well presented with extra gravy brought on request. The puddings were delicious and we were spoilt for choice. This is the first time this pub had done a Xmas menu and hats off to Chloe and her kitchen team - they did a great job and I really recommend eating here!

Great pub, popular with the locals, had good food here before, but I've always said pubs can't do fish n chips, was hoping to be proved wrong tonight, but alas, good chips n mushy peas, but fish with no flavour, no flavour in a average batter, staff great and friendly as always, but fishless fish.

There are many village pubs owned by large brewery's which frankly have landlords that don't want to be there and are just barely staying open. This is not one of them. This is a pub recently taken over by a small brewery called the Towcester Brewery Company. The person serving behind the bar that night was Scott and he was friendly and obviously popular amongst his guests. The place was fun and people were enjoying themselves. It's great when a village pub springs back into life as so many are failing and closing. I didn't try the food but was assured by locals it was good value and reasonable. Definitely one of the better boozers this side of Northampton. The reason I have given it four stars instead of five is due to the lack of staffing from 5-6 on a Friday. The place is getting popular so staff it up a bit more and you've got a winner!!

We really value having a down to earth friendly pub in the village; it's a go to place to socialise and you will always find people warm and friendly, whether you are a local or passing through! Scott and the team are doing a fantastic job getting the food offering going and it's wonderful to have somewhere to go to eat in the village when you can't be bothered to cook! Quiz nights on Thursday are competitively fought out with witty banter and lots of heckling of the quiz master! Keep up the great work guys!

We were staying just around the corner at The Old Post House, and wanted something to eat in the evening. Nigel told us where the Royal Oak was, so we walked there in about 5 minutes. A Good Pub Grub Menu, with a Good Selection on Beers. Good Service & a Really Friendly Country Pub. Well worth going in, if you are in the area.

Fairly new owners serving good pub food and beer in a friendly atmosphere. Ate in the garden and found it good value.

Amazing customer service. The food was excellent, especially the burgers. I would thoroughly recommend this pub to everyone.

The service was excellent. The food was amazing, especially the burgers. Would thoroughly recommend to anyone.

Good,Pub Grub as you would expect from a small village pub.good selection.

We followed the 'historic sites' signs to Naseby, and also similar signs to the pub... and had expected something historic, perhaps quaint, and good for lunch after a long journey. The soiled nappy in the car park was the first clue that perhaps it would not live up to expectations, then the large screens on most, if not all walls... and when we asked for menus, they were crumpled and soiled A4 sheets of paper. I had a reasonable chicken and ham pie, but my vegetarian partner had probably the worst 'pasta and tomato' dish ever offered - cold and tasteless, she didn't finish it. The staff member who collected the plates understood completely (he was also vegetarian) and apologised. A good selection of beers - I would have liked to have sampled more that one, but was driving! Again, my partner was disappointed that there was no draught sparkling cider - she had a bottle of Bulmers instead of her usual preference of Thatchers/Stowfords/Ashton Press etc. I guess that this is a good local pub, but not one to break a long journey for.

The selection of well kept real ales here are outstanding. Very friendly & knowledgeable barman and a warm welcome. What's not to like!? Dog friendly too.

Set in the beautiful village of Naseby. Good selection of beers and a good village pub atmosphere. Everyone seems to know everyone which is nice. The food is very average but I'm sure with time they may give it more finesse. Burgers need more than just a bun, a bit of mayo, cheese, lettuce and tomato can make all the difference between 'meh' and tasty.

Nice pub recently taken over by the Towcester Mill brewery. Regularly changing real ales, and modest food menu

A good village pub.No bells, no whistles just friendly helpful service and a pleasant atmosphere. Good choice of beers including Towcester Mill house beer and the usual range of spirits. Quiz night, meat raffle and the promise of pub grub on the future ,the new licensees are making a real go of this quintessential English pub set in a historic village.

Had the pleasure of drinking in The Royal Oak last night. The place is looking much better now that the new owners have taken over. They're the same owners that have Towcester Mill Brewery so you know the beer is going to be good.

Stopped off here in the middle of a long car journey as it's just off the A14 before you join the M1/M6.

Thought we would give the food a try here again after disappointing experience previously, and were disappointed again. Food is really not good, most is fried if it can be, and there never seems to be anything fresh and seasonal on offer. Handful of teenage bar staff, mostly cheerful and pleasant with older chap swanning about not really doing a lot apart from looking like you are invading his space !

The couple who took this pub on in August 2015 really have excelled. Not only have they managed to get the place a face lift, (some sceptics said the pool table was a bad idea, ha!) they also now have a very varied and may I say ambitious menu, (especially as they manage to cope without staff). The sharing ploughman's has to be seen to be believed.

Well done to the lady of this house, she runs the kitchen single handed and manages to prepare, cook and serve, well cooked and presented food in good sized portions.