James May gave us a tour of his new pub

hello viewers this is the royal oak in the village of swallow cliff south wiltshire and i own half of it [Music] now i've been told that there's never been a worse time to buy half a pub this pub has been closed for over a year because it's never made a profit and the previous owners had had enough and we also know that pubs in britain have been closing down at an alarming rate almost ten thousand in the last decade coupled to that since the early thousands the duty on beer has been going up alarmingly while the price of supermarket booze has been going down meaning more people buy it from the supermarket and drink at home and then we have the pandemic now under the new pandemic rules there can be no standing at the bar there has to be table service only the tables have to be spaced more widely apart to maintain social distancing and a lot of people are simply nervous about going to the pub this means capacity is reduced by about 50 percent and if the capacity of the pub goes down by more than 25 percent it goes into the red yes there has never been a worse time to buy half a pup but let's look on the bright side at least nobody else wanted it do you wanna have a look inside step this way this is where you're going to see what makes the royal oak unique although you're not going to see it very well because at the moment it's being redecorated on the outside it's an 18th century inn but once you come inside you discover this cool and austere interior with contemporary furniture by matthew bird there's no horse brass or stuffed morris dancers or any of that traditional rubbish this is the bar area not that we can use it at the moment in the accepted sense but that does at least mean there'll be no farmers leaning on it arguing about the price of grain this year that by the way is chris he's our new manager he's run a number of award-winning pubs in the area and came highly recommended by some people who are trying to get rid of him he's from yorkshire so we will be offering these services of an interpreter would you like to have a look at the snug that can go anyway this is the formal dining area it's a little too formal in my view but we will soften it up with some brightly colored cushions and some work by local artists that nobody wanted to buy now i'm going to take you to show you the oak room but on the way there's something you can help me with now i really object to the word lose i think it's horrible but what should it be should it be the kazi the dunny the clutchy why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and while you're there watch what i'm doing here like and subscribe and actually i've just had a night just don't go away excuse me mate could i ask you can i ask you a favor i know um i know you've masked around this very carefully but you mind painting that out absolutely yeah and similarly over there where it says just but don't tell anybody i said that um right come this way here's a place where you can sit if you're very old having a cup of tea or something like that the larvaes are behind you and this is the oak room so called because it's a room and it's made of oak now i suppose you could call it a conservatory but if you do chris will assist you in leaving the pub through the window look at this all new within the last five years and absolutely fantastic it's a brilliant kitchen this is johnny he's the chef so he's probably artistic and temperamental and down here is a copy of my new book plug which i've donated to johnny in the belief that he will use some of my recipes to use as daily specials in the pub it's quite clearly never been opened so that is the royal oak swallow clip or it will be when it's finished and it opens formally next week but prior to that we're going to have a dry run with some writers from food tribe to make sure everything in the kitchen works properly and that people can understand what chris is saying when i say a dry run i don't mean dry in the sense that some of the states in the united states are dry i mean dry as in a test it's not going to be dry obviously i'm going to encourage everyone to drink as much wine as possible because the markup is enormous [Music] you

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Keywords: jeremy clarkson, richard hammond, james may, cars, top gear, the grand tour, james may pub

Id: AAfwfZr0EHo

Length: 5min 47sec (347 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/eduardofusion]

buy when low sell when high

[u/prestatiedruk]

Hideous on the inside

[u/morganstern]

Those chairs looks uncomfortable

[u/DesiHobbes]

They better serve some cheese

[u/RecklessNotNegligent]

A meh tour of a meh pub.