This is an awesome crown jewel of a pub/restaurant close to Reading, Uk. The atmosphere was exactly…read morewhat we dreamed it would be and the beer and food selections were outstanding. After our fourth visit in one week, we were treated like royalty. The staff was very attentive. The facility was vintage in appearance and very clean. (It appeared to have been recently remodeled pubstyle.) Don't miss out on this!

I used to take my late father here when he visited us in Reading…read more Since then the pub has been renovated and is nice and bright inside. The food is beautifully presented and the wine served at proper temperatures ! We tend to go for the full menu with a starter main course and a dessert. The service is very good and the staff friendly. Highly Recommended

This pub is a great place to go for lunch or dinner- I have done both. My favorite dish is their…read morefish pie, closely followed by fish and chips. They have a vegan menu and the staff is helpful and friendly. I love stopping in here for a meal. The food is top notch and the staff is great. It is on my list of must stops (along with the Cinnamon Tree) in this area.

Best pub I've popped into yet. The atmosphere felt so homey, the meals looked and smelled great,…read morebut the service and staff's attitudes were lacking. Alcoholic coffee on a chilly Sunday afternoon? Fantastic. Watching families gathered around tables and booths for Sunday roasts? Also pretty nice. If the service stepped it up a bit, I'd definitely check this place out again if I were in the area.

Now apparently under new management we saw a vast improvement…read more We have been here on a number of occasions recently with friends and family. The food is extremely good, well cooked and served and the service friendly with someone there when needed. We seem to major on the chicken and beef dishes and my son has the lasagne washed down with one of a nice selection of wines perfectly chilled when it is white and nice temp reds. We have also enjoyed the spagghetti carbonara..Start with their lovely, warm bread !!! I feel the person who assessed above should give this restaurant a new visit and try the food again. We found it to be perfect but I recommend you book.

Have drive past here many times,so on a Saturday night decided to go.It has new management and what…read morea difference.The interior is nice and modern.A selection of fish,pizzas,and meat meals.Prices are moderate but good value for money,you get a lot for your money.Price of drinks are as per the market,food we had was very nice and presented well.Service was good and waitress service is good.Overall I will be trying again a good 9/10.

I've been to The Warren a couple of times, it's an upmarket gastro pub venue with modern decor. The…read moreservice is quick and the menu is complimented by a varying specials card. The menu is fairly broad and varied, with a few seafood dishes, lamb and chicken, the obligatory steak as well as the odd off the wall dish such as pigeon. Service is prompt and unobtrusive, the setting is clean and appealing. It's a good versatile place to go with friends and family or with your partner for a meal which is a cut above a standard pub meal but without a ludicrous price tag. 4 covers including a couple of drinks each and tip was £160

This is a top place for Sunday lunch... make sure you book as it gets very busy on a Sunday…read more Clean, modern interior and friendly staff.

We stumbled upon this place after ending work early and were looking for a lunch place to eat and…read moredrink at. When we walked up, we saw a sign that said Tuesday Buy 1 Get 1 Free Burgers, so we were excited about that. When we walked in, the place was fairly empty and we found a table to seat 7 and started looking over the menu. They had several options for burgers and I decided to go with the bacon cheeseburger. We had to go to the bar to order which was fine since I wanted to get a beer anyway. The bartender was super nice and patient let me try a few of their local brews since I wasn't sure what I wanted. The burger was very good.....juicy and full of flavor. The fries that came with it were really good as well. The food came out fairly quickly. This is definitely a nice local pub/restaurant. The decor is a bit eclectic, but it's cool. I would definitely visit this place again if I make it back to Reading.

This is most certainly Reading's hippest pub/bar with a good sense of humour. The place is huge,…read morethe decor is lounge like, they have a great range of beers at the bar including guest ales, they have live music, funky DJs 2 beer gardens (front and back) and reasonable food. What's not to like? On the downside, the interior is perhaps looking a little rough around the edges and could do with a lick of paint here and there - but in some respects that adds to divebar-ish charm of the place.

Decent country pub with lots of outdoor seating and kid friendly…read more Popped in for a quick soft drink with friends whilst visiting and as the weather was decent we sat outside. Lots of seating outside and a good space for kids to run around supervised in. Only popped inside for toilet but they were clean and tidy. More stars if I'm back for food and drink (eg. To check out the wine list or see if they do a decent G&T) but would be happy to return to investigate further.

I go here once a month as part of a group where we have dinner on a Friday. It's virtually in…read moreBarkham on the way to Arborfield. A lot of people go here to eat & on every Friday I've been, it was very busy. The food is pretty varied, the menu changes every so often & the food reasonably imaginative & tasty if a bit expensive. My only criticism is that this pub is a victim of their own success in that the food has taken far too long to arrive on several occasions. They have 4 to 5 decent beers on such as Adnam's etc. Plenty of parking & outside seating. Pretty varied bunch of customers as well. Worth 3.5 stars.

The Abbot Cook is a large Mitchel and Butler pub in an Art's and Craft style building at Cemetery…read morejunction. It's had an interesting and checkered history having previously been called "The Upin Arms" (a student style pub), "Jack of both sides" (reputedly a drug dealers pub and seedy dive). Now it's a gastro-pub where the food isn't quite Gastro quality, more good home cooking masquerading as something more. Prices are around £8 - £12 for a main meal. The Sunday dinners are good and the pub is always full on a Sunday with live jazz playing across lunch hour. I've taken my 80 year old parents in, My 40 year old friends, and see lots of young professionals and even some students. Everyone seems happy. It has large outdoor spaces and those heating things that blow heat into the outside air under large canvas umbrellas. It's my local pub and I love it because the staff are always friendly and chatty and clearly trying to do a good job, there are different events most nights - Monday is Quiz night, Thursday is open Mic night. It also has a reasonable range of real ales - at least 4 guest ales at any time.

Do not eat here…read more They must have been bought out recently as I have never been so disappointed by somewhere I have had a fairly decent experience with in the past. Came here on Monday evening for Dinner at around 8pm with my Mother who came to visit and my Fiance. I have been here before a few times for the Sunday lunch and their burgers are usually good. However, the food was terrible, the service slow and unhelpful and it was expensive. I ordered Code and Chips with Mushy pea's and, the Mother ordered Sausage and Mash and onion gravy and the fiance ordered Flat Iron steak and chips she ordered Rare. My code was so over cooked it was going grey and dried out. My chips tasted scarily similar to McCain oven chips (those frozen cook in the oven crap) and the Pea's where funky smelling. The mash was lumpy and under cooked with no seasoning, the crazy was basically Bisto gravy, and the sausages tasted terrible. Now, the fiance's steak, she ordered it Rare i.e. FUCKING Pink, it came out like old leather. Dry, chewy and clearly not fit for human consumption. The chips where also the same as mine. We sent it back, and they told us they would cook a new one. Well 5 minutes later they said the chef was cooking another one right now, but will need 5 minutes (what steak costs 5 minutes to cook???) When the idiot of a waitress returned she proudly said "here you go, sorry about that, we have made this as pink as we could" #alarmbells. Now, I do not expect top class food from a pub, but yet again it was not fucking pink. I complained again, and asked to speak with the chef, they refused. They clearly do not understand how to cook a piece of meat. Just cook it for less bloody time. They then refused to refund us as only she had not eaten anything. needless to say, we promptly left and will not be going back. Also, the food took 48 minutes to come in the fist place and was terrible and cost us £52 bloody quid.

Way out in the country, a nice place to take friends and relatives when you want to impress…read more The food is cooked perfectly and the staff smile and are there when you need them. You must book.

A very nice gastro pub. I didn't recognize the place after the refurbishment. We only stopped for a…read moredrink but ended up staying for a shared starter to snack on. The food looked so good we had to try. It was busy but we managed to find a table. Staff made mistakes with the bill and constant dinging of kitchen ringing a bell that food was waiting for service was annoying. Very nice! will be back.

The Royal Oak is a smallish Gastro pub but it does not feel cramped. The menu is varied and of a…read moregood quality. My started was the feta cheese and Parma ham salad. It was nice but there was too much feta cheese and not enough ham. My associates had soup and the prawns respectively and they both enjoyed their starter. My main was the chicken strips in mushroom sauce and rice, it was lovely, and the sauce was divine! One of my friends joined me in having the chicken and he was equally impressed. My other friend had the steak and potatoes and said the steak was juicy and tender. We decided to split four deserts between us and had the pancakes, chocolate brownies, raspberry Brule and bailey's cheesecake. I enjoyed the cheesecake but was in the minority. We all enjoyed the brule and the pancake but found the brownie to be overly sweet. All in all it was good food and I would recommend to anyone who was in the area,

Excellent food, warm welcome. Very good wine list…read more Lots of different beers. Restaurant and conservatory. Booking essential. Wheelchair access and WC.