The Royal Oak

This unpretentious village pub in Okeford Fitzpaine serves a range of traditional home-cooked dishes using a wide range of produce sourced from local growers and suppliers. With a varied menu and frequently changing specials on offer you'll always find the right meal whatever your appetite - at a very reasonable price.

The menu is seasonal, fresh and made up of good village-pub grub. Alongside the regional dishes you'd expect to find in a country pub, you'll also find alternatives like homemade curry and a range of vegetarian options. Desserts are also homemade and hearty, featuring a mixture of classic comfort puddings and more contemporary sweets.

Okeford Fitzpaine really is a classic Dorset village, with its pretty 14th-Century church, not to mention the many listed 18th-Century buildings. The surrounding countryside of Blackmore Vale and the Dorset Downs is simply outstanding, its gentle hills and patchwork fields a rambler's paradise. And if you're into the outdoors, the Royal Oak's large family beer garden is the ideal place to sit down with a good pint of real ale on a late summer afternoon.