WE love to shine the spotlight on our top venues in the Pub of the Week feature.

This time, we have headed to Tockholes to find out more about the Royal Arms and the reasons for their success and find out more about the history of the venue

Name of the pub

The Royal Arms

Address of the pub:

Tockholes Road Tockholes BB3 0PA

Landlord/landlady name:

Ruth and Robin Tillbrook

How long have you been the landlord/landlady for?

Five years

Bar staff and their names:

The team include Claire, Mollie, Arwyn and Isabella

Give us some history about the pub

It has been a pub since 1862 in the heart of this village community

Is food served? Is so what’s on the menu?

We serve food from 10am with our very popular Royal breakfast using all locally sourced products, our kitchen team pride themselves on delivering freshly prepared locally sourced dishes. We have lots of themed nights and events, we even had a Bake off event recently

Is there a beer garden

Yes we have outside seating for over 100

Do you have any darts/snooker/pool teams

No

Most popular drink served is:

Cask Ale sourced locally

Most memorable moment at the pub

The building of our new extension housing our new commercial kitchen and new Bistro cafe bar during lockdown

Do you have an entertainment line-up?

Not at present

Have you faced any challenges within the industry

Most certainly during the aftermath of Covid, however we have a great team and all worked very hard

The best thing about running a pub is

Working together as a team and we see this as a big family, when we receive reviews and comments about our service this really makes us smile

The worst thing about running a pub is..

The current challenges we face daily due to the economic climate however we soldier on and our motto is “ the strong survive”

The perfect hangover cure is...

Another drink