The Royal Oak's Soul Shack in Stevenage

Needs a refurb. Tarty and smells musty. When I visited, there were kids in the bar sitting around using their phones. Very unprofessional. There are far nicer establishments a short distance in the Old Town high street. Won’t be visiting again.

Beware of parking restrictions. Fines issued with no help from the pub. Anybody falling foul of this should NOT pay as the fines are not legally enforceable, instead take your claim to the Resolver website or failing that the small claims court for a small fee of £35. As the pub do not support their customers I would recommend ‘voting with your feet’ and not giving them your custom.

Good parking. Nice staff. Excellent food. The seating was a bit like public transport but I forgive them that for the rest of it. Wonderful. Give it a go.

Absolutely brilliant New Years Eve party, live band Five Rose and DJ definitely got the party going , Karl and his staff were fabulous. Would definitely recommend a night out in the pub. Thanks Karl from the Boro/ north east friends x

We were here for the Adele tribute and bottomless brunch Your staff are fantastic The act was totally brilliant Great value for money We danced and danced We didnt leave until after 7 at night...even stayed and tried the philipino food which was lovely! We will be back for more bottomless brunches and of course the amazing drag queen bingo This small pub does great entertainment, at a good price with good food and lovely staff. Its a fun and intimate local venue and I love that I live close by

Don't use this pub Came on a very sad occasion, the wake of a friend. Saw the sigh saying sign in to car park and asked inside where to sign in and was told there was no need to sign in as it is a private lunchtime booking. Guess what, a £100 parking fine from ce services. Complain to pub that we were told no need to sign in but told that their staff would not have said that and it's nothing to do with them anyway. Won't be going there again and would strongly recommend that you don't.

I rang the day before and asked to reserve a table for a gaggle of girls celebrating a birthday. The lovely young lady allowed us to pick our chosen table, and to dress the table up with decorations. We do come to themed evenings here and the staff are great. Once they start doing food I will be really happy!! Go online and check out their Soul/Jazz Funk evenings. They're brilliant. I can't walk the morning after!

Love, love, love this Pub, regularly visit on Friday and Saturday nights for their live bands including Repertoire Dogs (brilliant) The Smash, Jam 69, Back to the 80’s and many more, haven’t seen a bad band here - they’ve all been great. Friendly and attentive bar staff, great drink prices, foods good too and a fantastic environment with people singing, dancing and having a great time. As for the people giving 0 rating because of the car park, there are signs everywhere advising to log on the screen inside and register your car and number plate (it takes 2 minutes) and would’ve saved you £100!

I used to love this venue. Fun, good events, lively and vibrant. However, last visit was not so good. No atmosphere and hostile. We got picked up from the venue and slapped with a £100 car parking fine after appealing. The car was running and parked for 12 minutes. We didn't register the car as it was a pick up. Still fuming and won't be returning

Went to pick up my brother from this pub as he was drinking and (obviously) couldn’t drive. The normal thing to do if you pick someone up is to wait in the customer carpark. Left at the time I was asked by my brother and waited 14 mins (we didn’t leave the vehicle) until my brother finished his drink. We got hit with a £60 and no remorse from the car parking companies appeal process. We also spoke to the pub and asked for their assistance in the matter but they claimed they weren’t able to do anything even though it’s their car park. I wouldn’t recommend going to this pub, who choose to team up with an unnecessary and questionable “civil enforcement company” (I’d recommend googling the company as some interesting stories appear about the legitimacy of this business).

Just had the worst pub Sunday Roast. Completely tasteless. Food arrived cold. Sent it back. Still not as hot as should be, Tasteless frozen veg, potatoes not like roasted at all. Beef as tough as old boots. Serviettes were damp? Service miserable. No popular beer. Needless to say , they will not be getting my money again.

Walked down from our house with family for a Sunday Carvery. It's not often we go in even though it's on our street. However, totally worth it this afternoon! Great service, great price and deserts are free throughout February when you have the carvery. The beef was the only thing I can comment on, It wasn't the best cut I've had and was a little tough. The gammon was spot on. None the less, great grub in a nice family run pub and i am glad i parted with my money there today. Keep it up gang!

Lovely lunch, beautiful gammon. Friendly staff in a real country pub, nice atmosphere. most people were outside but it was nice to sit in the cool.

Top quality Sunday carvery. We live across the road and our 3yr old has chicken pocks, on Father’s Day. I called ahead to ask if we could get a carvery and eat it at home, the lady on the phone was very friendly and more than happy for us to do this. The staff were even more friendly when I got there, so accommodating. Meat was good, gravy was good, potatoes were good, me and my family were well fed and will definitely go there again. If there’s one draw back it would be that there was no veggie gravy, but as we had a ‘takeaway’ we made some at home. Sticky toffee pudding is a massive portion and tastes so good, too. With service and food like this it’s no wonder this place is so popular

I love this pub, it's rarely so rammed you can't get to the bar and has a delightful little beer garden outside. In fact it's so lovely I don't want to tell you about it incase you go and make the bar cue even one person longer. So please don't go and leave one place in Stevenage for me that isn't filled with the chavviest, chavvie, chavsters the world has ever seen. Thank you. The only downfall is the carpet. It needs replacing, although I do love a sticky carpet it's no good when you've a little one for lunch.

As a previous review has pointed out this is far from a family friendly pub! If you are after noisy night/evening out this place is for you. The poor neighbours that have to put up with the noise, traffic , vomitting and urinating outside not to mention the mess. It is hardly the best kept secret in Stevenage as proudly displayed in large letters outside the pub. What a shame it had such potential to be a great place!

Very good for sunday carvery Quality of produce is very good and of course you can help yourself to whatever veg you want All the staff are very cheerful and efficient Highly recommend giving this carvery a try

We went here on Friday for which we had bought tickets to get there and part of it had been cancelled. It the entertainment was still coming this was 8pm so you would think they would be there setting up. We were then told about...

hadn't been in this pub for years I was pleasantly surprised, the bar staff were pleasant and curious and helpfully even bringing tea to the table for the driver, drinks were reasonably priced entertainment was ok all in all it was a good night enjoyed...

All home-cooked and fresh, couldn't ask for a more beautiful meal out - no more need for Toby's! The service was impeccable, the staff were so welcoming and polite! Will definitely return with more family! After seeing the advertisement and hearing about the place from...

We popped in here on a recent overnight stay in Stevenage for a quick pint, drank it and left. There was loud music and burger cooking taking place which on the face of it doesn't sound too bad but the music was far too loud,...

There is a varied entertainment programme we have been on numerous occasions and the acts have been very good. It is quite a small area so it can obviously get very crowded and hot however they do have air conditioning. The staff are very friendly...

Fancied a Sunday roast and having visited before knew this was one of the better in Stevenage. On this occasion took advantage of the 2 courses for £10 offer (dined as a couple) - However, as soon as the starter and drinks arrived several (5-6)...

They look after customers well, and care for local custom a lot. Food is brilliant, Sunday roasts especially. Good for watching the football, bar staff are nice and attractive, and very friendly.

Fab drinking place that has acts on every weekend including Motown, Soul, 80's Disco & SKA, they also show all the live sports. The food is lovely, there's always a great atmosphere and the staff are even better, polite, friendly & welcoming especially Tina the...

Lovely family meal great food & service was fast. Very friendly helpful staff would highly recommend. Nice quiet location easy access from high street.

Friendly bar staff great carvery excellent servise would highly recommend and does great music nights

Friendly local pub, nice atmosphere and friendly staff. Great live music and didn't take forever to get served! Would definitely recommend

First time coming to the Royal Oak this Friday with friends .. The atmosphere was fantastic and the staff were very friendly and helpful ..Defiantly will be coming again

Cannot thank Tina enough for making this a perfect night. We hired out the back room for my 50th, they supplied the food and back ground music, was nice to have a place where you can actually talk to your guest without to much noise....

We visited on a Friday night one evening and saw that they done carvery so we thoughts why not. We rang in advance to book a table for 6 of us and was we surprised, for such a small local pub what a transformation from...

I came here one Sunday with my partner. After reading the reviews online we thought we would give it a try. Best service we have ever had when eating out. The tall young blonde boy was very polite and very welcoming. Very skilled member of...

Visitamos el domingo con un grupo grande de 18. Hicimos la reserva tras leer críticas recientes en Trip Advisor, junto con varias recomendaciones personales. Nuestro grupo fue admirable atendidos por el camarero. Nos decepcionó un poco que habían anunciado pavo en el menú, pero no estaba disponible, sin embargo el camarero nos ofrecieron pollo como una alternativa a la carne y sobresaliente que se sirve. La variedad de vegetales era insuperable puedes encontrar en oferta en otro lugar, la miel asado patacas Chirivías eran especialmente delicioso. El asado ollas estaban "casa" y no "la tía Bessies" como algunas de las cadenas servir. 18 Así que los platos vacíos más tarde y un poco de habitación que era hora de traer a los pudines. Hacen una opción dos platos por £10 que hubiéramos estado seas bobo que perdimos, como desierto era Apple crumble/ruibarbo y crema pastelera. Fue un lujo. Sin duda volveremos por unos segundos.

El título lo dice todo, no creo que incluso en esta área separada del restaurante pub seriamente.

We visited on 26/07/2015 for the sunday lunch carvery having looked at trip advisor we decided this was our best bet. The dining room was very nice and the staff good if a little over attentive, key words from our waitress - faaantastic and grrreeatt. we decided on a retro starter the prawn cocktail which was very nice, however the bread which was a part baked roll had obviously only been shown the oven as it was very hot but otherwise completely raw. When we had initially ordered we were told by our waitress that when we had finished our main meal we could revisit the carvery as many times as we liked and refill our plates. We decided on the roast beef which looked good , the vegetables were plentiful and varied and cooked to a high standard. The beef however turned out to be a different story altogether, it was completely over cooked , dry and very very chewy. When we had finished our vegetables (not the meat or we might still be there) we asked another waitress for fresh plates so that we could return to the carvery and try a different meat, she said that she would have to go and ask someone if that was alright. She returned and told us that we could have more vegetables but 'no more meat', we explained that the earlier meat had been inedible but she just repeated 'no more meat'. We left........ over £40 pounds down the drain, avoid this carvery at all costs, maybe we should have realised on arrival that it was pretty unusual at gone one o'clock on a sunday afternoon for there to be only one other table taken. Again .......avoid.

Fui a cinco 30 p. m un martes, preguntaron si la cocina abierta. Después dijeron "Sí pero orden rápidamente" pero creo que la respuesta era realmente 'no', ya que tengo algunas pechuga trozos muy secas (pollo Jerk) de pollo que estaba claro que lo habían recalentado. El arroz y guisantes (alias habichuelas) era (eran?) bien y todo fue bien presentado en una madera, pero me decepcionó, con calles de 7 libras en un taxi para llegar aquí basado en TripAdvisor. En resumen, y en base a las otras críticas, creo que el lugar debería tener suficiente confianza para decir "no", si alguien viene en demasiado temprano o cuando no puedo recién preparar la comida. (No plantear esta cuestión con el personal, pero no estaba de humor para tomar algo más allá de simplemente un comentario.)

The carvery at The Royal in Stevenage is fantastic. The best in town. Great food and the staff look after you. A lovely atmosphere. A must for Sunday lunch!

This is the place I went to for my anniversary meal ,it was truely the best place to eat .comany was lovely and staff very friendly and helpful .

Mi marido y yo estuvimos en este restaurante/pub en viernes 13/2/15. La comida era deliciosa - teníamos pollo y alma pollo Jerk - no me puedo quejar de nada. El servicio era impecable y la presentación de la comida hermosa. Muy buena relación calidad-precio. Luego nos fuimos al lado de la zona de pub, que tenía un DJ de alma, nos lo pasamos de maravilla - bailaron toda la noche - los otros patrones eran todos menores de 35 años, y el ambiente era encantador. Si nos visita stevenage - ¡sin duda volveremos aquí!

Esta especialidad del pub es cocina caribeña y también hace un domingo carvery regular. Cena de Navidad es como su carvery estándar, pero con todos los adornos típicos, 3 campos en 37,95 libras no es demasiado caro para cenar el día de Navidad. He pasado mucho más para el día de Navidad en otros restaurantes y ha decepcionado.

Had an excellent Sunday roast, great friendly staff. Get there for 1 though, it was busy! A bit different from your normal country pub.

Popped in for some lunch. Was very impressed, lovely food, friendly service, very welcoming. Would highly recommend.

Booked my 30th party private function on the restaraunt side of the Pub and i must say it was very good!, good service throught the night, can take your own ipod to play music and food was included in the package can choose veggie or meat or both!

El comentario anterior es perfecto. Este pub es ideal para cualquiera con capacidad para grupos grandes. El asador es el mejor que hay en la zona y es realmente sólo £7.95 o dos platos por £10. Hay asientos al aire libre, un montón de aparcamiento, no es demasiado lleno, no es demasiado tranquilo. Tienen un lado del bar y el restaurante. El restaurante es South American/Caribe pero esto cegamiento rotisería los domingos de 1 pm. Literalmente todo lo que pueda comer. El mejor asado que he tenido. Y el personal es sublime; realmente amable, educado, felices y tratar cada cliente como rey. Muy recomendable. El propietario ha mejorado realmente este pub.

Yo estaba planeando para reunirse con algunos amigos para comer y decidimos ir a the Royal Oak. había estado allí anteriormente con algunos amigos diferentes que recomienda muy encarecidamente. Reservé una mesa por teléfono muy fácilmente y cumplía con mis amigos a la hora acordada.