The Royal Oak in Bath and North East Somerset

Went here for their folk session evenings they do on Wednesday, lovely ambience and mix of customers, some lovely draught ciders for a good price, and a very nice beer garden

Great old English pub, amazing selectionof beers and largers, also live music

Awesome pub !!! Awesome venue with a fab band playing (the railspikes)

Good choice of ales and a lagers, cider.

Proper pub serving quality beer. Friendly staff, nice atmosphere, good outside section. Really good place 👍

Great live music, friendly knowledgeable bar staff and good selection. Nice beer garden too - will return!

One of my favorite! Good feels all day long!

Nice pub good selection of beers

We come here sometimes on a Friday afternoon as there is an excellent range of Ralph's Ruin beers especially the stout at the moment.Live music events are good to go to as well. Friendly staff and great host.

Really lovely pub just outside Bath city centre. The Ralph's Ruin beers are excellent, and I'm drinking my way through them! Staff are friendly and I can't wait for the nicer weather to use the patio.

Fantastic friendly staff and a great choice of ales bitters and cider we will definitely be back, the bar staff really make this place!!!

Great little pub with a friendly atmosphere, good music and super selection of drinks.

Great selection and knowledge of the beer and cider 👍🏼

Lovely little award winning real ale/cider pub. Chris and his team are really friendly and the pub is a superb live music venue especially as there are very few in Bath these days.

Great selection of locally brewed beers and ciders

Excellent night with three awesome bands, affordable drinks , lovely bar staff and lively, friendly atmosphere.

Great little folk band providing a soundtrack to some great beers. Lovely broad selection of craft ales, ales and more mainstream drinks.

My local serving the best range of ciders in Bath together with the most rock and roll music. Excellent place, highly recommended.

Great to go outside wed eve with wife and friends for a few drinks,we'll worth a visit,music most weekends too

Spent the evening with three mates. This is a good spot. Enjoyed the beer garden and some of their brewed beers. Very friendly tender. Lots of good beer selections to choose from. Prices are reasonable.

Banging. Always. Proper boozer with live music and its own characterful staff and regulars.

What a great pub! Fantastic atmosphere, great beers (brew their own cask!) Line of craft beers and sours........plus MONSTER MUNCH!

Great selection of Craft beers from their own brewery

A lovely pub! A little way out of town but worth the walk for the cider selection and excellent atmosphere 💜

It's a local community feel which can get busy and loud, they have a great choice of alcohol beverages and have live music some days. Old decor with steps down to toilets that could do with being renovated. Lovely staff with friendly manners.

Nice little pub, lots of choice regarding beer, and friendly staff. Can't ask for much more!

Fab live band venue. Karaoke night was special!

Friendly bar staff, cosy wood burners, nice garden, and great choice of drinks

Called in on Tuesday with my Old Man between appointments, and our kind of pub. Fantastic pints and good to see a nice choice of ciders. The barman was welcoming and couldn't have been more helpful. Old Man saw the Irish Sessions on the board outside, so I predict we'll be back!

Great pub, wish cask ales and live music.

Traditional pub with strong ales

Always my favourite pub in Bath.

Real ale. No fruit machines. No sports. Live music. Garden. Open fires. On site brewery. Bliss.

Friendly bartender, had some Irish folk band play which was lovely, always enjoy the service and atmosphere here 🤗

Great pub. Microbrewery on site. Some really good ales at very reasonable prices. Live music two or three times a week. What's not to like?

Ok, to be clear, there are TWO pubs called The Royal Oak in Bath, this refers to the one on Lower Bristol Road, though I think some reviewers (and photos) are confused. (I do not beleive this pub does food at all.) This pub is a no-nonsense beer pub, with a fine beer selection, some now brewed by themselves, others a fine selection of keg and cask, UK and foreign brewers. If you are in need of a proper pub, look no further.

I've been here a number of times. As a local I would say it is one of the best pubs in Bath. They have a great selection of drinks, especially ales and ciders. The outside area is really nice and the staff are great. They often have live music here as well which is a bonus! Really recommend a visit is you're in the area!

Great place. Great decor. Good selection of beers and ales. Really nice bar staff.

It's a nice sociable friendly place to wind down after a crazy/hectic day. It must've been the first time I imbibed for months. Nice warm day for it, too. Interesting, initially confusing layout, but they squeeze in two Bars, an outside partially-covered area, a separate carpark, toilets, and a stage area. They encourage small bands and experimental music, and one of the bands in the night I was there, were from Germany, so it's not just local musicians as you might expect. I'd been thinking of popping in for a while, ever since they made themselves more visible on social media, by posting a mug a day during the lockdown, but it wasn't until a vocalist from one of the bands invited me, that I went. They're only open from late afternoon onwards: That's surprising until you remember all Pubs used to be like that.

Great pub. Great atmosphere. Would have it as my local if i lived near

Good selection of ales. A live music venue. Well worth a visit.

Called on Saturday lunchtime. Knowledgeable young man behind the bar who knew his real ales and how to serve them. There was a good selection including from their own brewery, Ralph's Ruin. A good craft ale and cider selection as well.

Superb pub with friendly staff. Great real ales and ciders. Locals are a good mix of ages. Bands, decor and garden all make this a must visit pub.

Simply the best, most, welcoming in town. The Bi-polar manager & the cross dressing assistant manager really look after you.

A great place to drink which hasn't the trappings of a 'chain' pub and a large selection of real ales if that is your fancy. It is relaxed and complerely unpretentious.

Great variety of drinks (loved the ciders!), friendly staff, live music, nice atmosphere

Excellent pub and a great brewery. Fantastic live music as well

Great local pub, excellent beer and good live music

I had the most amazing time here! I consider this pub my current favourite now, firstly though-although the front entrance is just off the main road, when sat in the stylish, cosy beer garden I honestly forgot that a busy road was so nearby and genuinely had a complete absence of noticeable road-noise for my whole visit, (that is applicable to all, unless in the rare circumstance I would intentionally notice and pay attention to the road. a skilled job has been done ti make the garden feel enclosed and cosy as an important addition ti the main indoor space of the pub. Through covid I have been very careful, especially as I had major surgery and had mobility confinements- the Royal Oak is - in my opinion - a haven, I love how they are one of the increasingly small pubs in Bath that offer local small-brew/batch ciders and not just thatchers. The bar staff were exceptional at going above and beyond to suit our groups needs, but yet also ensuring that between them they managed the tables already seated. Despite the other positive notes- in all honesty even if the pub was in a ditch I genuinely would have a drink again just purely due to the bar staff alone. Sam and Alex are exceptional at their jobs and I am struggling to find adequate words to praise them if I'm honest. I will DEFINITELY be back, and I will also be telling friends how lovely my experience here was. Too marks, and Sam and Alex- please don't change, you both deserve the highest of commendations😊💚✨🎅🏼❤️

Fantastic pub with a great range of ales on tap, something for everyone here.

My son's arranged this visit,enjoyed this little brewpub and the company of Bar staff

Excellent helpful staff. And awesome ciders.

Excellent pub, great atmosphere, great musuc

Super hoice of ales, bags of character, hip live music. Recommended!

Brilliant pub with a micro brewery attached. Nice ale and a good selection of malt whisky. And really pleasant staff!

What can I say! Baths hidden out of town chav free watering hole can only be given 5 stars! Awsome staff awsome customers and awsome drinks.

Great selection of beers including from their own on-site brewery. Good range of ciders too. Lovely little beer garden. Friendly and helpful bar staff

Plenty of real ale choices. Outdoor area.

Excellent traditional pub with a great range of real ales and some fantastic live music.

Bar staff were friendly, drinks reasonably priced but the clientele a bit mixed. Couple of horrible blokes outside (also been in the pub) who were making inappropriate comments about my girlfriend as we walked out. Briefly challenged them but it had the potential to escalate. Put me off going again unfortunately.

Great place and throughly worth a visit.

Lovely little pub . little walk out of bath centre, would reccomend it. Nice outside area and great staff.

Great live folk music, great ales, very socially distanced. Friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

Wonderful place, incredible owner & staff. Excellent range of beers that are forever changing to keep your palate pleased.

Lovely atmosphere, good mix of people... Oh yeah, and the beer selection is fantastic!

Lush local beers. I couldn't resist drinking some before clicking the pic! 8 )

Pretty relaxed under the circumstances. No need to book. outdoor area, semi covered with about 12 tables. Reasonable beer selection, friendly staff. My perceptions may have been altered by the fact this is the first time I have been out in over a year...

The selection of beers, ales and ciders here are the best and varied of any pub in Bath! The live entertainment is great and it is one of the few pubs left in Bath that truly is still a pub, no gastro menus in sight!

It's a fantastic pub, great service, pleasant staff.!! Cheers, Paul W. :)

A real ale pub! Nothing fancy to be in but for those who like real ale and cider this is one of the places you should come to.

Cracking old school pub with decent beer offerings and live music attracting an enthusiastic crowd.

Great beer, great atmosphere, great music.

Wonderfully relaxed pub. Great beer and lovely service. Big beer garden which I can imagine would be even more fantastic in the warmer months. Very happy to have stumbled upon this gem.

Excellent evening of music and good beer. Come along!!!

Very very good beer just what you go to the pub for, excellent.

Good real ales nice atmosphere pleasant staff

That Welsh barmaid is a bit of alright

Good atmosphere and great selection of drinks. Especially good if you're a real ale fan. Great garden area as well.

Proper little boozer. loads of ales. live .music and a good mix of people. How pubs used to be and how tgey should be again !! pop in and see for yourself

This lovely, independently owned pub supports local music of all kinds. On any given evening you may walk into a folk music jam session, a unique solo performer, or a killer garage band. With a spacious, sunny back garden, great selection of ales and ciders and a friendly staff you can't go wrong with a visit.

Real ale, friendly and old floor boards that undulate to content with but that is part of its charm

Ralph's ruin darkside... Nnyum nnyum nnyum

Always great beer, cider and company at this fantastic local pub. Music nights are good too.

Roak is the best pub in bath. We love it so much and we frequent it often. Drinks are well priced and Chris is a spicy little morsel

Great place if your after a real ale pub and probably the cheapest in Bath

Very cosy - sometimes live music. If you want to relax at the weekend, this place is appropriate.

Good beer and good to watch folky type live music. Will be back!

Classic folk pub, excellent choice of ale and cider

We paid a visit to this pub as it was said that it was now a Gastro pub from the outside it looked hopeful. Sadly parking was an issue but we decided to park and walk . Once inside you find a normal city pub large screens showing SKY sports and a bar with a number of men all facing the back wall of the bar with half empty pints before them . The barman was helpful and friendly, the drinks were cheap . I can imagine that on a match day it would be busy, but other nights very quiet. Sadly the pub had an aromatic smell of stale beer, broken dreams and urine. We didn't try the food, in fact when the drinks were finished we left . The atmosphere was not one that I would want to take in for long . Having seen the gentleman who sat still looking downcast into the last dregs of their pints I could not help but feel that they should do the same and leave. It was sad in the right hands it could have a lot to offer .

good choice of beers and getting better st spirt selection

A good place for a social evening as different event every time I visit, microbrewery on site a good cider ale and larger range listed in CAMRA

Great pub we were on a golf weekend and they looked after us spot on we played arrows and watched football downstairs in skittle area nothing was to much trouble

Good selection of Belgian beers including Kwak! Old school spit and sawdust with live music.

Great place, lots of different ales and ciders, outside seating, bands parking, on a bus route

Good locals boozer with regular live music

Great place brilliant welcome and fabulous live music

Great real ales, atmosphere and dog friendly

Conversation terrible. Would bring my family

Fantastic pub! Everything right! Has a microbrewery and I cannot find a dud beer. The bar staff are superb, the locals are freindly - no music, no fruit machine, just great conversation, atmosphere and beer. Perfect!

Brew pub that brews various styles of ale plus a selection of guest ales exl