The Royal Oak, Wolverhampton

Pub with a community local feel. It's been opened out into one large room with what looks like an extension/conservatory at one end, there's also a raised outdoor seating area. There's plenty of red comfortable seating to the left as you enter and a couple of wall display arches along with a few rather faded Johnnie Walker prints and a quiz machine plus a big screen TV. To the right there's another couple of seating areas and a few bar stools. There's some unusual mullioned glass over the bar but it's not anything special décor wise. There are six handpumps doubling up with Banks's Bitter and Original and last night they had Marston's Lord Taverner's Ale on as well. I had a pint of it and very nice it was too. It's a pleasant enough pub.

A good traditional red brick suburban corner pub built around the end of the 1800’s I believe, which is owned by Banks’s (Marston’s), it’s definitely a place for a sociable drink with friends rather than a family meal (I don’t think they do food anyway!). This is a small one room pub with a long bar counter dominating the middle of the room. To the left of the entrance is a small area with two flat screen TV’s on the wall and on the right as you enter is a slightly larger extension with a single flat screen TV and a door leading out onto a raised patio with picnic tables. Seating and tables inside the pub are at a premium. Regular ales are Banks’s Mild and Bitter with two changing guests from the Marston’s portfolio such as Brakspear, Jennings, Ringwood or Wychwood beers. Note that there are six hand pumps three of which are on a little counter on the right of the bar. This is a great local’s pub with a nice traditional feel to it, I’m surprised this isn’t in CAMRA’s current Good Beer Guide as I’ve personally never had a bad pint in here and all my real ale drinking friends love this place. I think it has been overlooked due to other good pubs such as the Chindit and Combermere being in close proximity.

Open plan, with extension and beer garden. Has some nice memorabilia on the walls. A Banks's pub, which has Bitter and MILD always on handpull, with a guest, last night being Brakspear Honey Bee. For once, the consistent MILD was having an off night, but the Honey Bee, the only Brakspear drink i like, was good. A nice locals pub, one that everyone feels comfortable in - always worth a visit