The Royal Oak, Halifax

The Royal Oak stands in a fairly prominent location at a junction. A large poster on the side proclaimed its entry in the 2016 Good Beer Guide, albeit the pub was called Dirty Dick's Food & Ale Emporium back then. It hasn't made the Good Beer Guide since then, the reason for which soon became apparent. Inside there is a fairly dimly lit interior with one large sub-divided room around the bar and a separate games room where a few young locals were playing pool. As has been said below, much of the woodwork comes from HMS Newcastle. At the bar, the house beer (Royal Oak) is from Acorn and Saltaire Blonde is also a regular. Guests for our visit were Timothy Taylor Landlord & Landlord Dark & Titanic Plum Porter. CAMRA discounts were offered even on halves, if you asked for them. However, the conditioning of the cask let it down. I chose the Royal Oak which was the worst quality beer I had during the day. I suspect it was their Yorkshire Pride re-badged. More of a locals' pub than most of the other places we visited in Halifax, with quite a few down-to-earth characters. TVs were showing sports.

A traditional pub with an old school locals feel about it, the beer lineup was decent as described by BF below, I went with the Landlord Dark which was in fine form.It's maybe not an "A" list pub but more than worth a visit.

This one provides quite a contrast to all the fairly new shiny craft beer bars in town, in that it is a traditional decor two-room pub whose interior has clearly seen some life, something that you could also say about it’s clientele on this particular early Friday evening. But it was a friendly enough pub and you can overlook the shabbiness of the interior for the decent range of ales on the bar. For our visit five different ales were spread amongst the eight hand pumps in the shape of TT Landlord and Landlord Dark, Acorn Royal Oak, Titanic Plum Porter and Saltaire Blonde and good to see a CAMRA discount offered. A good option when you fancy a decent ale in a more earthy old school environment.