The Royal Oak Laxfield in Mid Suffolk

Excellent lunch menu and great value coupled with very friendly staff. I wish that there were more pubs like this

We always get a very warm welcome and great service . The food never disappoints and is very reasonably priced with a great selection of dishes including ’Daily Specials’ and currently a Special 2 course lunchtime offer(main & pud) for £12.50 which is served Monday through and including Thursday. If you are not familiar with Laxfield it’s a gorgeous village, full of character, charm and history and you will instantly feel very relaxed and smiley.

Fine pub with excellent ales, and friendly personnel & customers.

Nice friendly pub, very tasty lunch and a good range of beers. Handy location with lots of good cycling and walking in the area. Nice outdoor area.

Clients are reluctant to engage in conversations with strangers. A bit offish, territorial, stand offish, insular, not teribble friendly; a little prickly.

To lovely ladies very nice place 😊

Lovely food, great atmosphere, friendly, a great place to visit

Great pub, visited for the first time tonight. Excellent food and friendly staff. Recommended

New to laxfield everyone so friendly.

Great pub and enjoyed a few games of pool with friends

Booked us in at short notice. Good honest, pub food. Sarah, our host was a diamond.

Proper friendly relaxed local's pub that gives a warm welcome to visitors from staff and locals. I've stayed in the village for a few months and have been very much welcomed in the Royal. Well kept ale, 3 regular pumps and a guest that changes one barrel at a time. Roaring open fire in the winter. Food is great, homely well cooked and reasonably priced. Fresh fish and chips on a Friday including takeaway. Great steaks and burgers, steak specials on Thursday. Children's menu too. Pool, darts and outside seating. Occasional special events and music, certainly worth a visit. Open every day.... Early until late. Cracking atmosphere ...... The kind of place you really want as your local.

Delicious food with a perfect homely atmosphere! ❤️😋

Lovely Village pub. Perfect for a quick drink with friends or a family meal. Service is friendly and welcoming.

Sunday lunch for my aunties birthday 🎂 Absolutely lovely homemade roast, very homely/cosy feeling to the pub and fab, friendly hosts. Very good value and great menu with something for everyone. It's a little journey for us but hopefully we'll make it back soon.

Lovely pub and staff, tasty food & well kept ale

Fabulous local pub. Friendly service. Wonderful home cooked food. Highly recommended if you appreciate village pubs.

Lovely find! Staff were fantastic, very friendly and attentive. Food was good pub grub.

Didn't eat hear but had a drink a excellent range of beer and friendly service

Just a quick cuppa but awesome people. Very friendly.

Everything was great, the food was very tasty and got served to us quickly, would definitely come again.

Poor food. Had the roast pork. I remember school dinners tasted better then that.

Nice food and drink. Local pub. Local people not too friendly 🙄

Wonderful piece of olde England

Average at best. Barmaids served their locals over holiday makers. Food plain and small portions. The picture says it all there was 5 of us.

Great food, quick service and friendly but very busy probably because it was market day. Recommended

First time ,brilliant food,great service from Bethany Will be going again

This is a village community pub and it is fine for a drink. Food service hours are unfortunately reduced, which is a shame but understandable in the current economic situation. As it is a local pub it’s clientele seems to be almost exclusively local people, so you do get the startled stunned silence and looks of surprise from the regulars when you first go in! The single member of staff on duty when I visited was distracted with conversations about holidays or something similar, that resulted in an few awkward moments just standing in front of the bar feeling a bit ignored. This type of pub is clearly very important to its community but it could try a bit more to appeal to visitors to the area and village as I am sure more people would stop by

Lovely staff and very friendly and very reasonable price indeed but the food is a little basic and not that tasty alas .Seems all home made which is good to see

I have frequented this establishment for the last five years and the staff and local customers are most convivial..,all together I thoroughly recommend this establishment 😃

Went there to the Laxfield pub had a drink and catch up with my mum and dad as we were away for my dad's birthday

Great food here again last night, friendly staff and great atmosphere.highly recommend

Staying in the area for the weekend with friends. We went here to watch rugby. Great pub, good selection of beers and just a lovely village pub.

Nice layout, good selection of beer, helpful staff and a warm atmosphere, Sadly, I'm only awarding three stars, as while the food on paper looks good, the actual product is disappointing. A good drinkers pub though.

Good food, extensive menu, very reasonable prices and good service, highly recommend.

Seven of us have just been in for Sunday lunch. We were all impressed with the meal, service and price.

Very nice village pub, huge fireplace is just fantastic.

Had the most delicious meal at The Royal Oak today. One of their specials: Duck breast, sautéed potatoes and red wine gravy. Absolutely fantastic!

Great atmosphere lovely friendly staff great beer 🍺 👍

Very friendly and welcoming staff. Warm (real fire) and comfortable for a meet up, eat up and chat.

Food is excellent and service is very good

Had a lovely enjoyable meal for my anniversary, lovely staff

Lunch was good and staff really helpful . Will happily go there again.

Wouldn't go here again Staff were polite

Very enjoyable lunch and your waitress who chatted to us about her Lancashire roots was absolutely lovely. Food was spot on and the Brewers Gold and Wherry very tasty.

Great pub, lovely food, very welcoming

Lovely food and very friendly staff

Lovely pub, has a good atmosphere, the food is amazing and the staff are outstanding, first time I have been and will definitely go back and such good value for money, recommend a visit to all.

Well presented good value meal, with very nice pint of real ale and friendly welcome for our first time visit to this characterful pub in the heart of an attractive Suffolk village. Hope to return soon!

Nice frendly staff good food peaceful

Lovely village pub, friendly staff and helpful with the menu advice. Some great local ale and tasty food to go with it. Nice seating areas outside when the sun is shining 😊 We were staying local for a few days and ate here more than once, which says it worth more than one visit 👍🏼

Pleasant sunny afternoon siting outside with a great pint which was recommended by customer focused staff👍

we were camping close by and fancied something other than stove food..we tried here..my god we were not disappointed..friendly staff and the food....I had deep fried whitebait as a starter..was enough for a main course..the lad that served us did a great job..overall 10/10

Fantastic pub, good beer, helpful staff, highly recommend.

Nice little country pub, good beer and always a few folk about. Covered outside seating and heated, also a pool table and even still a dukebox. Food is available.

Great staff, lovely 🍺 and food.

Had a delicious lunch of lamb chops and veg

We didn’t like the food we thought it was not very good value for money .

A great British pub!! Enuff said!!

A perfect village pub - right next to the church and market square (which has community market on Saturday mornings), very friendly service, good selection of real ales, extensive menu and enjoyable food. We had a lunchtime drink, morning coffee and evening meal (not all on the same day!). Dog friendly too.

Super dog friendly village pub very friendly staff with a pool table and nice outside area and best of all Brewers Gold ale !

Lovely pub...keep up the good service 👍

Stopped off on our way back to Metfield and so glad that we did. We received a lovely warm friendly welcome and superb food. Thankyou.

Stopped by on our way back from Dunwich after spotting the pub on the way there. So glad we did, the Sunday Roasts were spot on, easily the best I've had from a pub in a very long while, if not ever! Really had got that home cooked taste and not mass produced rubbish you can get in some places. The staff were lovely, will definitely return. Thanks peeps 😎👌

Great sea food platter, nice staff, good price

Warm welcome. Decent ales on tap as well as fairly priced food. Nice outdoor seating adjacent to church.

Decent pub grub, and pint of Adnams, plus helpful & friendly welcome from staff : what more do you want ? It's a popular place, and it allows dogs in too ! Seating available outside, under canopies ~ reasonable selection of beers and spirits as well.

Good honest pub good food great prices

Was here for a wake. About 400 people present. The Royal Oak staff were well organised and everything went smoothly.

Had a lovely meal there very friendly staff

Lovely local pub, decent food and friendly staff. Not a bad place to stop on a drive and chat to the locals. Acoustic nights available.

Nice meal in a lovely country pub. Beautiful village.

Lovely welcoming pub in the centre of Laxfield village. Plenty of room with a lovely fireplace, staff were very nice and the food was great. A selection of beers on offer. Definitely worth a visit.

Met up with friends for coffee during Laxfield Community Market (1st Sat of month) and decided to have brunch. The full English was great value and delicious as used high quality ingredients, especially the sausages. Coffee was great too, definitely recommend.

The food is excellent, only pub open in this area. I'll be back tomorrow for steak night.Yum

Great food and a very friendly welcome. Warm cosy fire and a pool table for those who wish to play.

Great pub. It was lively on a Friday evening and the locals were lovely! Nice little fire place to keep us warm too

Thanks to restaurant staff.so lovely and friendly.. will be coming end of February xx

Bit slow service. Waited over 30 minutes for a cooked breakfast when we were the only guests there

Great place for a meal and drink great food great atmosphere terrific staff very attentive.

First visit too the Royal Oak. Superb old pub excellent food and very friendly staff. Highly recommend.

Somewhat surprised, village pub and was just expecting a bit a pub grub , the food was amazing! Really good highly recommended 👌

Lively old pub with great atmosphere, great service and great food!

Excellent staff, food and beer! We often pop in for breakfast or evening meal when we camp in the village. We always geta warm welcome and a cold pint 🍺👍

The staff are friendly, brilliant it's a shame I was to late for food after 2 o'clock my bag you have got to visit this village its straight off a picture post card.....

Lovely place to stop to have a drink or something to eat. We decided to do both with some friends that were visiting us. We each had something different to eat and we all cleared our plates. You could decide if you wanted to eat in or outside at the front that was under cover. Staff were friendly and polite.

Very much a local pub which was reflected in the cold reception we recieved. Despite feeling awkward we stayed as it was the 3rd pub we'd tried to get a table in. The food was alright, wine selection mediocre but sadly the welcome didn't make for a great impression and overall experience.

Love this pub. It has a lot of charm and a buzzy atmosphere. Staff are really friendly and accommodating. Had a lovely roast dinner here, you could tell it was freshly cooked and also had one of the best deserts I've had in a long while. They also do a take away service for you from the menu and we have had some lovely meals from this too.

Very friendly and accomadating!

Fabulous atmosphere, greeted by friendly helpful staff, good selection of local beers and a delicious menu of dishes to choose from 😊

Great little pub would 100% recommend for the food and drinks nice range of choices :)

The pub that made Laxfield famous! They have great selection of drinks and food, and the always smiling friendly bar staff looking after you. Perfect atmosphere to catch up with friends. Thank you to Tilly and all the staff, and special shout out to Amy as well!

Lovely village pub. Lovely staff. Excellent food and service

Lovely food, nice polite staff definitely will be going back

The food was the best food I've had, compliments to the chef truly beautifully done and fresh I ve had the grilled cod with mashed potatoes and a side salad, our table had the liver, fish and chips, chicken burger, halloumi butter and creamy mushroom starter, everything fresh and excellent. Other pubs have to raise their game if they want to keep up with this one. Best price for value I've seen. Will come again! Many thanks also to the waiting staff for the top-notch excellent service.

Such a lovely pub with the friendliest bar staff! They serve the best drinks and comfort pub food. Always a good time to stop by, have a drink and enjoy a chat and special mention to Tilly for being excellent, as always!

A gem in Laxfield where you get the best drinks, good quality pub food and best bar staff looking after you. Excellent service quality, no wonder people from afar flock here to enjoy the atmosphere. And thank you, Tilly for always being the best!

Lovely pub but my ploughmans was the worst I've ever had. Bread was part-baked from a supermarket and the cheese was plastic, tasteless cheese - rounded at the edges and creases visible from plastic wrapping! All for £9.50 so would have been better to go to the Co-op across the road. Very easy to fix this and hope they offer decent bread and proper cheese soon.

Beer was now very nice. Grandsons coke was flat. And not a smile from the staff. 1st & last time I will go here.

Stop there today friendly staff great food