The High Oak

26 High Oak Rd, Ware
01920 464327

Recent Reviews

Charlie

Lovely friendly

Emily Scott

Such a lovely pub. You are always made to feel welcome and the Tuesday quiz is great!

Derek Croasdale

Nicely finished inside has a piano sports tv and locals like it pleasant

anthony mccutcheon

Fantastic local pub, always friendly and always feel welcome... and the Guiness is top notch.

Martin Aylott

Great friendly local, warm and welcoming with some live music, would highly recommend. Can't comment on the food as we didn't eat here.will be back in the near future.

Beki Flanagan

Great pub, great

Bonita Miller

Love this little place very friendly hidden

Neil Kentfield

Great traditional pub

Ben

Absolutely amazing pub, one of the best in ware if you don't mind leaving the high street. Great for sport, a sun trap out the front and a nice little garden in the back. Dog friendly too.

Google user

Excellent pub with a great atmosphere. Looks like a 'locals' pub but far from it. New faces always welcomed by the fantastic landlords.\\n\\nQuiz on a Tuesday really good fun.\\n\\nGreat selection of beers on tap and varied offering of spirits.\\n\\nNicely decorated throughout and always spotless.

Kat Harter

Excellent pub with a great atmosphere. Looks like a 'locals' pub but far from it. New faces always welcomed by the fantastic landlords.Quiz on a Tuesday really good fun.Great selection of beers on tap and varied offering of spirits.Nicely decorated throughout and always spotless.

Mary Smith

Love this place. Previous reviewers are probably thinking of somewhere else as I've never experienced anything like they're saying.

Courtney Wilson

After seeing some of the replies I felt I had to write a review, mainly to correct some of the absolute delirious excuses that have been made up.First off, the little boy who was screamed at from across the pub was not running, he was not causing harm to anyone, he was simply walking through the pub holding a children's chair. He was in fact on his way to HIS DAD who was stood outside the front of the pub. He did not almost run in the road, at no point did any of our children run in the road. The language from the landlady to a child was completely out of order. Asking a 7 year old child ‘who he thinks he is’ is not acceptable in any circumstance, and neither is calling him ‘uncontrollable’ which I can see you’ve failed to mention.To assume that all the parents were ‘in the garden drinking, oblivious to the behaviour’ is an absolute lie as well. To begin with the child who was shouted at, his mother does not drink AT ALL, not that this is something we should have to explain. I also was not drinking as I was driving.I can see now that it seems other people have been asked to make up some information to make the landlords feel better about themselves. During our time at the pub there was always people from our family outside, at all times, so like another person had suggested a child ran out onto the road we are assuming that the PARENTS just let them get on with it? I don’t think so, yet another malicious lie.To refer to children as running riot, for being children and playing?When the landlady was asked if she was proud of herself for making a 7 year old upset her reply was ‘yes I am very’ she then continued to laugh about it and smirk to others in the pub.At no point did she try to make any parent aware of anything going on, instead she took it upon herself to shout across a pub full of people, who in turn all looked at the child making his situation worse. I fully support another adult coming to speak to me if there was something my child was doing, this however wasn’t the case.It is quite clear that this pub isn’t equipped to deal with functions of this size, especially when children are present. Children are children and they will play, laugh, shout and do things without knowing there’s a problem in it. That’s the whole point in being a child.

Barry G

Having been in the pub yesterday for a quiet drink, I feel compelled to provide a comment in light of todays unfair reviews of this always quiet and friendly pub.A pub, particularly a small, quiet pub like this is not the place for children to be running around. It is the parents/carers responsibility, not the publicans, to look after their children, and to stop them knocking down chairs and emptying hand sanitizer over the floor. However when the safety of the children, who I witnessed running into the busy road, was not being addressed by the parents/carers, then it is a good job the publican did intervene to avoid the children or a customer being harmed.I understand a wake is an emotional occasion and that minds may be elsewhere, but this pub does nothing but care for the safety and enjoyment of customers whether old or new and cannot be blamed for the behaviour of the children, and should be commended for the fact they cared enough to react to the potential dangers, and made the family of children aware.

Mollie Allen

I recently attended a wake at this pub and felt the need to leave a review in regard to what I witnessed that afternoon.After being out the front of the pub, I re-entered the pub to go to the back garden and heard a woman’s voice shouting ‘who do you think you are!’ Very loudly. I assumed there was an argument or something but then saw the woman shouting, was in fact shouting at children that were part of the wake, which was of course very upsetting to see.From what I could see, the children had some small plastic pink and blue kids chairs with them, I couldn’t see what the issue was, so I’m not sure why this woman was shouting at them in such a manner. I then saw her go back to the bar and start bickering about them to someone as if she was in a school playground!After one of them understandably cried to their mum, she of course went and asked the woman that had been rude to them why she has a problem, to which the woman replied, ‘they keep running through’. The mum responded telling her that she should have some respect, that this is a wake with a grieving family and that she is causing more stress with her shocking behaviour, and I hope you’re proud of yourself, to which this woman replied, ‘yes I am’ !!I could not believe what I was hearing, admitting that she is proud that she has caused more stress to a grieving family?!To first be so awful to the children and then very rude to the mother, at a wake that she was hosting, it was absolutely outrageous.The decent thing to do here, would be to apologise and say, yes I should have come to the parents if I had an issue with the children.She never gave a reason in the end, as to why she didn’t speak to the parents.I’m really not sure what she expected of the children. To not play? To sit quietly in the corner the whole time?Other than the people at the wake, there were only a handful of other people in there, for a Friday it was a very small amount, if that is a typical Friday, she should have been very grateful for the custom.I may also add that I earlier took the children to the bar to get some water, where I let them both ask for the water themselves, this same woman was serving and didn’t speak, didn’t smile, didn’t communicate with the children at all which I thought at the time was VERY rude, but let it go. They then asked for a straw, to which she just chucked a straw in the glasses and walked away! The children had much better manners than this fully grown woman serving the public.I think it’s quite clear that she is not a child friendly person, I would strongly advise anyone against holding anything here where children would be included.On another note, there was a lot of food left after most people had eaten. That was cleared away and I’m not sure why that was necessary, other members of the wake mentioned how that was quite disappointing as it could still be picked at.

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