The Royal Oak in Herefordshire, County of

Used to be a great summer earing and watering hole. Sadly NO LONGER OPEN.

Great friendly local and always great food .

Excellent local public house. Great atmosphere with happy and helpful bar staff. Sunday lunch is a must😊

Six of us when for a lunchtime sandwich between Christmas and New Year. The sandwiches were excellent and the prices competitive. Only 4 stars instead of 5 because there was only one member of staff performing the role of waitress and serving behind the bar so service was a little slow.

Great lunch out with friends, piles of good food. Great service.

Food is very nice and always a friendly welcome.

Delicious food. Friendly staff. Lovely relaxed atmosphere and country decor. Great for families.

Fantastic food and service well recommend

Great service, great atmosphere, great food and drink. What more could you ask for?

Excellent food (very promptly served) and very welcoming staff. We were on holiday in Bromyard this August, and first used this pub on the 23rd, and we enjoyed it so much we came back on the 27th. We cannot recommend this pub highly enough!

I have visited this pub for real ale and meals with friends regularly over several years despite living some distance away. We return because the beer and home-prepared food are always of a good standard. The staff are friendly and they play interesting music. The building and location are lovely which makes it one of the best country pubs in the county.

Very friendly and very nice food

Lovely place and setting put no pies.☹

Nice pub on Bromyard Downs. Take a stroll on the downs and finish up at the Oak for a great pint and good hearty home made pub grub

Very friendly and welcoming. Good food

Had a lovely time food and drink great . Had a fun time with the family .

Lovely beer gardens, very welcoming. Great food and drinks.

Always a warm welcome, absolutely fabulous meals and snacks on offer. I always pop in when I'm up this way

Great place & great food Definitely visit again.

Gorgeous sunny Saturday. Pub surprisingly quiet. Lovely building and situation. Good beer, but unexciting expensive food let down by cheap low quality ingredients.

Very friendly staff and nice olde pub style. Unfortunately the food tasted like ready meals. Oh well 😐

Brilliant good food excellent prices

Lovely food, nice service, will come back again.

Good food. Nice atmosphere. Courteous staff.

The Royal Oak is a lovely countryside pub. A perfect stop after a walk on the Downs. It has enough parking and loads of space for kids / dogs to run around while you sit in the shade and enjoy a drink. They serve food too, although we didn't try it this time. We'll be back for sure.

Lovely friendly country pub, serving great food in a beautiful location, with plenty of parking. Really made to feel welcome,

This is a gem on the edge of Bromyard Downs in Herefordshire and well worth a visit. We always find a warm welcome from the hosts. The beer is well kept with plenty of other choice. Good home cooked food reasonably priced and more than enough choice to suit your tastes. There's a flagstoned area which is dog friendly, or choose the area by the log fire, or the quiet restaurant if you prefer. I've recently held my leaving do here and they were so helpful and very accommodating. The curry was just perfect! I travel an hour to get here and I'm very happy to do so, it's special. Please use it or you'll lose it and that would be a real shame.

Fab place great food and great views.

Lovely oldy worldy pub. Good food, friendly helpful staff. Ideally set for walking on Bromyard Downs or for a pleasant lunch/ dinner/ drink stop. M y of the original features remain, with beamed and low ceilings.

Only popped in for a few minutes but the place and location are impressive.

Lovely country pub in beautiful surroundings, great atmosphere, friendly bar staff, serving delicious home cooked food.

#Excellent service. #Fantastic food. Friendly and very helpful staff. #Dog friendly.....Will definitely go back again.

Absolutely excellent!! Great service, great ambiance. Superb food! Will be back when we're next down this way!

Lovely food, comfortable surroundings, friendly host

Friendly but ordered fish got 2 thin slivers of salmon more of a starter than main dish

We visited yesterday, 4 adults, 1 child and 1 baby. When I called to book table the lady was very friendly and when we arrived the table had been set us as I had asked, in fact we wanted to move tables and that was not a problem, the young girl behind the bar was very nice. We ordered food, 2 ploughman’s, a baguette, sausage and mash for child and chicken burger. Bearing in mind there were only 2 hot meals we aired over an hour for the food, which then turned out to be disappointing, the ham on the ham and Stilton ploughman’s was pre packed and the salad was a very poor attempt. When we asked the “manager” small bald guy why we had waited so long his reply was “you can see we are busy by the number of cars in the car park, and it does state on the website you can wait up to an hour” there were 3 other couples in the pub at this time, and the cars were probably belonged to the staff, and nowhere does it state in the website about waiting an hour for food. I then pointed out to my husband, as trivial as it’s seems that it did state the ploughman’s should have come with crisps, so when he went to pay at the bar and was asked if our meals we ok he broached this with the manager. I then went to the loo to hear him mocking us to another customer, I had also heard him earlier in the visit slagging off another customer whose order had come out wrong, blaming the customer only to be told by his kitchen staff that it had been their mistake in fact! He then bought 2 packets of crisps over to us before we left and told us there would be no charge! I should think not considering we had already paid for them as part of our meal. Overall I would not recommend the manager was rude and clearly could not take any negative feedback without becoming aggressive, and the food was mediocre.

Great evening in a very welcoming pub. Reasonable prices lovely atmosphere. Very rural with weak phone signal so would have liked wifi.

Could not be better.Wonderful ambience, excellent food and service.Full marks!

Lovely traditional pub in a beautiful rural setting on Bromyard Downs. Very friendly, accommodating staff & wide range of food on the menu.

Always very friendly and polite excellent food

Always delicious food with ample portions. All staff are friendly and welcoming.

Worth the trip to the Downs from Hereford excellent food and good choice of drinks, staff always happy and helpful

Lovely setting, large patio and charming inside, food was excellent and plenty of it, welcoming thoughtful landlord. Very happy to recommend

FAntastic walks and what a great way to finish a walk with fantastic food.

Lovely country restaurant ,not expensive wide variety of food also has gluten free if order, very friendly

Found this place by accident after breaking down just up the road, whilst waiting for rac to come out to us we decided to order food, excellent, what a find, staff very welcoming and attentive, came back again two days later even though it was an hours round trip for us it was worth the journey, lovely food and loads of choice .

Food was good, very dog friendly in the bar, beautiful beer garden and lots of lovely walks from the pub.

friendly pub, dog friendly and lovely views food is ok,

Very nice place, and spotlessly clean. Also staff were very friendly.

For the mediocre quality of food, it is very pricey. Battered fish seemed to have come from cheap freezer stock. Service was good.

Perfect! A nice and comfortable place, nice food and a big list of beers to choose.

Lovely staff, delicious food. Lovely place. Highly recommend

Just out for a walk on the Downs, loverly place to stop for a bit of refreshment.

A proper pub that serves great food, not some pretentious place trying to be something it isn't. The Royal Oak is a warm, comfortable place run by friendly people serving good beer and excellent pub food. All the pub classics you would expect, at very reasonable prices.

Great menu and food wonderful staff and service highly recommend the chicken burger! Lovely rustic building and in great location

Great pub friendly staff great food was made very welcome

This is not a dog friendly or human friendly pub at all. I would give 0 stars if I could. There was virtually no service, the food was obviously reheated and microwaved and took a very long time to be served. We were a group of 8, wanting to celebrate my daughter's 18th birthday. Our dreadful food was brought to us in dribs and drabs. Most of us didn't even eat half of the food served, infact the burgers were in edible and unrecognisable as meat - more like hard cardboard. The vegetarian menu that I was reassured they had was virtually non existent. When paying and asked about our food I was honest - saying we were disappointed and was told by the manager I was rude! Avoid the place, I wouldn't have fed our meals to our unwelcome dog. Dont waste your hard earned money on, at best, mediocre food in an unfriendly, unwelcoming atmosphere. (I've just read another review where someone was treated in s similar way by the 'manager')

Excellent service, warm and friendly

Great meal after a long walk with the dogs

Nice pub, friendly staff and dog friendly

Good food, pleasant staff, superb view.

good place to go after a walk in the downs

Welcoming host. Good good and dog friendly.

Over priced didn't get what we asked for had to wait a hour for a ploughman's and there was items missing off the plate told it was busy the place had an empty garden and no apologies don't recommend go elsewhere

Had a nice pint sitting outside in the sunshine. Can't comment on the food.

Amazing! We arrived as it started to rain heavily and the gentleman at the bar was so accommodating Getting the door for us and walking home is in even though we made his floor wet with our coats and boots Amazing selection of well prepared and delicious classic pub food (with a few alternatives thrown in) craft and local ales available and the desserts were incredible (jam sponge was like being a kid again!) Just a shame I don't live close enough to make it my local! If you're in the area do yourself a favour and pay a visits! A true English pub!

Good value food and a great selection

Friendly service. Great food. Dog friendly. Staff friendly and very helpful.

Quirky, quaint and good beer. Weekday lunch prety good.

I had the misfortune to visit this place on Sunday the 9th April. It could hardly be described as busy.I waited 45 mins after ordering two baguettes .The waitress apologized for the delay. A fat bald headed man appeared, presumably the manager, and declared that he told me when I ordered that they could only deal with thirty customers an hour, a strange thing to say in itself, which he didn't, and the waitress confirmed in his presence that he said no such thing. He was in short down right rude.His attitude seemed to be , take it or leave it. The food is expensive, a sausage baguette cost £6.95 and consisted of two cheap tasteless 'basic' supermarket type links of sausages . All in all an experience I will not be repeating .

Lovely pub. Welcoming, friendly staff & atmosphere. Lovely food and reasonably priced. Highly recommended.

Excellent food and excellent service, would always recommend this place

Really lovely with good, reasonably priced bar meals, dog and children friendly

Visited here a number of times for various occasions, as a family and as a couple. We have sampled the lunchtime menu and the evening menu and the food is delicious, tasty home cooked meals every time. Staff are friendly and welcoming and service is excellent. It's a rustic and calming atmosphere set on the Bromyard downs with views of the Malvern hills. Our 2 children feel welcome and are happy with the facilities and love the food, which is fantasy, particularly as one of our sons is autistic and it's rare for him to feel calm when he visits unfamiliar places. I would highly recommend visiting this beautiful place which is suitable for all. Thank you for your warm hospitality. See you again soon 😀

If I could give it no stars I would.....dirty glasses all over the bar and in the beer garden. The miserable guy behind the bar was the most inefficient person I have ever seen with a magpie attitude to work. People behind us at bar left from wait. When he finally came back he served different people, I asked him why when he had already told me to wait one second earlier...his response "Not my fault who is first, you are free to drink elsewhere." We got the first drink, he continued to be rude so I handed it back and we left. So, in all, eight people walked out in twenty minutes thanks to poor management and awful service.

Staff and service very good food excellent highly recommend

Always a warm welcome. Lovely log fires in the winter, & the Tex Mex Burger is outstanding.

Wide choice available on the menu and specials board. Thoroughly enjoyed what we had.

Just had a lovely Valentines meal at the Royal Oak. Food and hospitality are always wonderful and the atmosphere is so friendly.

Good food & beer except for the chips which seemed to have been hanging around for a while. Excellent service