James May is now serving up doggy dishes at his pub The Royal Oak, after introducing a menu for pooches.
The former Top Gear presenter, 61, owns the pub in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, and has made sure to keep his dog guests well fed.
James has started offering pooches a variety of meals, from Sunday roasts and fish and chips to bark bangers.
Four-legged customers can also get their paws on a tipple with Bark Brew beer and Paw Star Dog Martini’s being offered.
Both the Sunday roasts and fish and chips will cost £6.50, whilst all the sausages and drinks are capped at £3 each.
James May is now serving up doggy dishes at his pub The Royal Oak, after introducing a menu for pooches
The former Top Gear presenter, 61, owns the pub in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, and has made sure to keep his dog guests well fed
One customer said: ‘I did not expect to actually see James May wandering about so of course had to grab a photo with him. He was surprisingly shy but maybe I caught him at a bad time.
‘The staff were lovely and welcoming and we’d love to come back next year to do the same again. Ian stated: I was particularly looking forward to it as it’s dog friendly and they had a “doggy” menu.’
Alina added: ‘Put aside the minor-celebrity connections and take this place for what it is – a perfect blend of a tiny inn, gastropub and locals hangout.’
Jonathan said: ‘The pub itself reminds you of an old rustic cottage or a barn. Very cosy feeling. The staff are very polite and helpful, the food menu is on the small side however there are great dishes to choose from.’
Another said: ‘Dogs are very welcome, even in the restaurant, which even though we don’t have dogs ourselves, we loved. It added to the friendly, happy, relaxed atmosphere.’
In February, James revealed the way to success in the bar trade is to have ‘clean bogs and good food’.
Otherwise, he claimed, people will not want to visit and spend money. Those bars who are reluctant to change are destined to fail.
James, who is part owner of the Royal Oak in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire said fewer people going to pubs and that things have changed dramatically over the past few decades.
James has started offering pooches a variety of meals, from Sunday roasts and fish and chips to bark bangers
One customer said: ‘I did not expect to actually see James May wandering about so of course had to grab a photo with him. He was surprisingly shy but maybe I caught him at a bad time’
Four-legged customers can also get their paws on a tipple with Bark Brew beer and Paw Star Dog Martini’s being offered
Both the Sunday roasts and fish and chips will cost £6.50, whilst all the sausages and drinks are capped at £3 each
He said: ‘I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In this day and age a good pub has to serve decent food.
‘Not all bars can be blessed with a good location. I live in London and my local pubs in Hammersmith, Chiswick and Fulham are located near the river. The best spots have outside areas which are brilliant during the summer.
‘But, I believe that for pubs to survive in future they have to adapt to the times and provide more activities.
‘There are too many pubs. There are people who complain when a pub shuts down, but it has closed because it was not good enough to survive.’
In February, James revealed the way to success in the bar trade is to have ‘clean bogs and good food’
Otherwise, he claimed, people will not want to visit and spend money. Those bars who are reluctant to change are destined to fail
The new addition to the menu comes after his TV colleague and pal Jeremy Clarkson’s pub – The Farmer’s Dog opened in Burford, Oxfordshire.
The TV star said he hoped to make a success of The Farmer’s Dog but added using only British produce meant that profit margins would be much lower.
He said using pork from his Diddly Squat farm would cost 0.74p to turn into sausage to be sold at the pub.
But if he used imported pig meat it would be 0.18p.
‘It costs us 0.74p to get a sausage into here, but if I buy imported pig meat it is 0.18. There is something wrong with the food system in this country,’ Jeremy said.