First look at the Royal Oak pub in the Shambles chesterfield

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First look at the Royal Oak pub in the Shambles in Chesterfield

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00:00with Megan Patrick at Royal Oak which is opening on Good Friday after four years closure how are

00:07you guys feeling? Excited yeah no we're looking forward to it it's been a lot of hard work

00:13we've been a couple of weeks now since we've just been focusing on this and not been teaching as

00:18well so that's been a bit easier but it's been a lot of hard work and we're delighted to the

00:24point where we've got it got it to still a few bits to go before we open but we're just excited

00:28to get people in it yeah definitely what have you had to do to make Chesterfield's oldest pub

00:34fit for reopening? A lot of scraping a lot of painting a very very large deep clean

00:45and then just sort of bringing in elements that make what's already here sort of shine basically

00:55the bar's probably the best example of that yeah um yeah it's been a lot of work but you know it

01:00looks it looks well we think it looks great um yeah what have you had to do to the bar then?

01:06um oh delivery um so we've had to uh scrape off about 17 layers of paint and um

01:18vinyl stickers and just some really bad interior design decisions um well I think yeah choices of

01:30the times choices of the time yeah we've had a lot of different layers of various different things

01:35but we've just tried to basically strip everything back we want it to look as well um original as

01:42possible to itself um by sort of removing various bits but we don't want to we don't really want to

01:46change and the building itself is speaks for itself it's a wonderful building we just wanted to sort

01:50of yeah let that let that shine through. How have you put your mark on the um

01:55I think the yellow walls is probably quite a good place to start. I believe it did have once have

02:02similar similarish color walls but I'm not 100% sure. Um a good dart setup. Oh yeah we've uh yeah

02:09we're big on big on darts at the Royal Oak I think that's probably the most personal to me. Yeah um our

02:14collection of beer artifacts and a suit of armor. Yeah Gerald. Tell us about Gerald then.

02:23Gerald is uh Gerald's just a suit of armor that uh exists next door um as you'll hopefully all come

02:29and see and uh yeah he uh he will be dressed according to the season he just fits in with the

02:35theme of the Knights Templar which obviously runs through this pub um and a bit of historical

02:40historical twist in yeah in a very historic room. What are you offering customers in terms of liquid

02:49refreshments? Um so we've got eight cask, eight keg and box cider all from sort of independent sources

02:58around the UK um we've got a good selection of spirits and whiskey and lots of nice organic wine.

03:05And to satisfy appetites for tea water. Ah well uh we've gone we've gone for pies so we want to keep

03:17it as traditional as possible. We were umming and ahhing about whether we were going to do food

03:21at all but we thought that it would be as welcoming as possible to be giving a food offering and we've

03:27certainly gone for something that we think befitting a pub such as this which is just a selection of fine

03:31pies from pie minister who Meg used to work for. Yeah back when I was a student. Yeah we've sampled them

03:37they are fantastic there's uh something in there for everyone we've got um a few meat options vegetarian

03:44gluten-free vegan all sorts um yeah in our seven pie choice but yeah. What activities will you have to

03:52attract people? Well first and foremost we do have darts set up um which although it's it's difficult because

04:00it's quite a cozy pub and you'll have to move tables around but we will certainly be playing here

04:06downstairs on our Wednesday leave nights and we've also got a very good selection of board games which

04:13i have curated over many years um which clearly i had a purpose for that i didn't know about um we'll

04:21also be having regular quiz nights and regular folk sessions also. Yeah we're a big fan of quizzes so a lot

04:28of the board games are just quizzes uh but you know it's nice to go into a pub and pick up a quiz and

04:32yeah give it a go over a pint and a packet of crisps or whatever. What plans do you have for the future?

04:39Ah well we um hopefully going to have an outside area that's sort of the big plan on the horizon

04:46um we're sort of working towards that over the next probably next few months hopefully by the summer

04:50because again we just want it to be somewhere that people are able to come as well on a sunny day

04:53it's going to be a great winter pub um i think it already is but we also want to attract um yeah

04:59sort of people want to sit in the sun as we would um and it's gonna hopefully yeah just bring something

05:05new fresh to the shambles having an outside um outside beer area so that's that's a big plan for

05:10the future um but we're hoping really to just be you know um having sort of changing beers having as many

05:18different things on as possible for people to try and be interested in coming down to taste i'm

05:21interested in yeah and you're open six days a week yeah uh closed on mondays yeah everyone needs a day

05:30off everyone including us yeah so we're going to be closed on mondays and then we're going to be open

05:35from 10 a.m um every other week past sunday when we're open a little bit later but we do want it to

05:40be somewhere um where people come for coffee as well so that's why we're open from 10. what time are we

05:46open on sunday then 12 12 12 yeah

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