Royal Oak Newsletter (Interim)

Just to a short note to let you know about Charlies, our new fine dining restaurant on the first floor of the pub.

Overlooking the village of South Brent this superbly appointed room is ideal for special occasions or just to treat yourselves to a fine dining experience on your doorstep.

We used this room as our temporary restaurant last year  modern during the major building works to the back room/bed and breakfast rooms and it was very popular.

Simon, our head chef, is busy putting the final touches to creating a superb  modern European a la carte menu and it opens tonight, 2^nd July. Check out our website to see the new menu  - www.oakonline.net  It will only be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 6pm. All the meals will, of course, be cooked fresh to order and we will be taking bookings only for the room.

Our current restaurant will become part of the bar area serving good quality bar meals with a regularly changing special board. We eventually aim to have some comfy seating in this lounge  bar area as well as in the main bar.

We can still cater for large parties and private functions as before but wish to separate our fine dining experience and allow Simon to show everyone what he can do.

The restaurant has been named Charlies to tie in with our history. The popular pub name of The Royal Oak came from King Charles II's escape from roundheads by hiding in an Oak tree along the way. Many landlords helped him with his escape at no thought of the danger they would be in if caught doing so, many of them went on to rename their pub The Royal Oak in memory of the oak that hid their king. In this way we felt that Charlies (in the Oak) was an appropriate name for our new dining experience.

Full newsletter to follow later this month.

Bye for now