We could give you 100 other reasons to spend time at The Royal Oak, but here are just 14:
‘It’s after visiting The Royal Oak, where Eastbrook Farm produce is served, that I decided to break my vegan diet. I just can’t believe the difference in taste.’ Red Magazine, November 2007
We can take you home—and bring you here if you wish. Our big red Land Rover seats 10 and we use it as a taxi service for large groups
We also do superb vegetarian food-none of your standard, dull pasta and cheese bakes
Crab apples, blackberries, even nettles all foraged and used in the kitchen as the seasons allow
Do it yourself barbecues in our garden—we light the fire, you choose your meat, we bring the salads and clear up after you. You do the cooking
‘all in all, quite a find’-the Lambourn Village newsletter who sent Bon Viveur to check us out after they heard three ‘enthusiastic reports’ in the space of a week in February 2008
A farm shop. Open every day for Eastbrook eggs, milk, fresh organic bread, frozen meat (sometimes fresh); and lots of everyday basics, but good ones
We provide farm maps, and regular guided walks to meet the pigs and check out the orchids
A comfortable bed. Our bed and breakfast is not The Dorchester, but the service is more personal and the breakfast worth getting up for
Summer cocktails, winter warmers, a big sofa, newspapers, some erudite magazines and books, great open fires, proper coffee
Jasper Ayckroyd the head chef is one of Slow Food UK’s chosen participants at the biennial Slow Food world convivium in Turin in October 2008
Summer picnic hampers-you order, we provide, you find somewhere, with our help, on the farm to enjoy it
Fantastic Sunday lunches, Eastbrook ribs of beef and legs of pork, done stunningly
Arkells real ales, the local family brewers
We love food. Growing it, serving it and eating it. Which is why we are developing a variety of places you can get it. Quite apart from Tesco and Sainsbury, and Chicago Rib Shack and Tom Aikens, why not try our own village pub, The Royal Oak; our home delivery service direct to your front door; our new and slowly expanding farm shop in Bishopstone; our food business that goes with the movers and shakers at Goodwood, Ascot, Hampton Court and the like, Helen Browning’s organic Flying Pig.
We like people. We think they should be made happy, whether they’re eating our food, or working alongside us. You can’t get it right all the time, but it seems an instinctive ambition of ours.
EASTBROOK WOOD
Our 18 acre baby wood interspersed with paths and glades is broken into lots of different woodland mixtures, including Oak, Ash, Willow and Yew.
Planted in 2005, it was designed by Paul Barney, our brilliant local landscape architect.
Come and have a walk around, and imagine what it will be like in 30 years’ time! It is close to the village – ask for directions from The Royal Oak or contact us
