Decided to go out to lunch today and went to The Royal Oak pub at Paley Street chosen at random from the Michelin Guide “Eating out in pubs”, partly due to wanting to go to Ascot on the way there and this seemed closest.
The outside was ordinary looking, but was warmly greeted as soon as we walked in. The inside was quite small (being an old building I suppose) but nicely laid out.
The service was excellent and certainly felt welcomed and looked after. The choice from the daily changing menu was pretty good for me, even with the large choice of fish (which I don’t like much!) The menu was a bit limited for Lynn, as there wasn’t any chicken on the menu :-) In the end we decided to go for the beef, but on ordering were told it would take 90 minutes, so we changed our minds ! I ended up going for (in effect) Cod and Chips with Lynn having the Grouse. Both dishes were excellent (although I was disappointed by the chips) and the two deserts were also very tasty. I didn’t know the restaurant had a Michelin star, else I probably would have expected the eye watering prices (£30 for a main course and £7.50 for a pud…. plus 12.5% service charge on top!)
At that price, as you would expect, even the toilets were nice and felt “posh” with the individual towels to wipe your hands…. but not sure it represented value for money compared to other gastro pubs we’ve been to.
In the end, it was a nice meal in pleasant surroundings and we felt well attended to, so have no complaints. It is the most expensive of all the gastro pubs we’ve been to though, so doubt we will go back as there are other gastro pubs that give the same level of excellence but at a more reasonable cost.
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