The Wheatsheaf

Are you aware of what your Local Community pub does in your community and how very important they are? They help to keep, build and bring communities together. One way we help to do this is every Wednesday evening " The Woolzone Oakham Knit and Natter" group come and knit......and natter!!😁 Thank you Julie (Woolzone Oakham ) and your group of knitters on supporting your local. ❣

The lovely ladies from Oakham Womens Institute braved the weather this morning to play a game of petanque here at The Wheatsheaf, Oakham. They then came indoors to dry off and have a spot of lunch with us. 🙂How very civilised. Hope you had a lovely day ladies. Thank you x

Are you aware of what your Local Community pub does in your community and how very important they are? They help to keep, build and bring communities together. One way we help to do this is is on a Tuesday afternoon we allow members of the local U3A group to use our petanque court in our award winning garden. What a very lovely way to while the day away.

We are so honoured and thrilled to announce we have received a Gold award from Everards Spencer Memorial garden competition once more for the 9th year running. We are so incredibly happy!!🥳🍾🌷☀️ Thank you Everards for awarding us. 🙏Only 24 pubs received Gold this year out of 185 pubs. We are so honoured. We now await the next stage of competition in Sept. Rutland nursery Manton your stock of flowers are always so healthy. Big thank you to Ben Fawcett at Rutland Nursery for caring for the begonias again this year before we collect them.🌼👏🏻❣
Thank you to John cook and Teresa cook for looking after our garden last week and showing our garden to judges Julian Everard,Richard Everard and Serena Richards whilst we had a well deserved rest. 🌷❤👏🏻😁

Our restaurant is fully booked this evening and we do apologise we are not accepting walk-ins this evening.
Please be advised that our kitchen is closed for staff maintenance from Tuesday 23 July and reopens Tuesday 6 Aug. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
PUB REMAINS OPEN FOR DRINKS DURING THIS TIME.
Thank you.

Garden is starting to bloom and flourish!!
Just need the sun to show its self. Come on Sun!!🤞☀️🌼🌷

Are you aware of what your Local Community pub does in your community and how very important they are? They help to keep, build and bring communities together. One way we help to do this is, is hosting "The retirees luncheon group" volunteereed by the lovely Maura and Heather. It is so lovely seeing you all.

What a beautiful day for the CAMRA ale and cider trail festival to start today here at The Wheatsheaf, Oakham.🥳☀️🍻 Celebrating 175 years of Everards with 7 Limited Edition Everards real ales and 12 amazing British ciders!!!!MIMO!!!

Its Friday..Sun is trying its hardest to keep its hat on! Come on in and get that friday feeling with Limited Edition IPA Superdelic or Starstruck!! Yeahhh baby!🍻🤣

Pub Natter Episode 12, is available to listen to directly from this webpage (link below) or any of your favourite podcast apps. Please follow us on Instagram at pubnatter. This episode was recently recorded at The Wheatsheaf, Oakham, Rutland. We chat with the Landlord, Dan Lacey about his pub with a short potted history from Justin. Tracey Dene Powell, who is also in the photo is our guest for part 2.
https://timothyives.com/pubnatter/

A great turn out last night for the presentation, by our Chairman Rich Harris, of the Autumn Pub of the Season award to Dan and Kerry of the Wheatsheaf in Oakham. Congratulations to the whole wonderful team!

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone that took the time to send lovely messages and congratulated us on our CAMRA pub of the season award. We feel very humbled.

We are very honoured to receive this award. Thank you for your support and to everyone who voted for us.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHEATSHEAF, OAKHAM
who are the very worthy winners of our Autumn Pub of the Season as announced at our February branch meeting .
Many congratulations to Dan and the team and we look forward to presenting the award on Wednesday 14th February 6:30pm.

Commiserations are extended to our two runners up the Captain Noel Newton, Oakham and the Vaults, Uppingham.

Polite reminder that we will be closed Sunday 21 January for maintenance.
Kitchen is closed Sunday 21- Thursday 25 January.
Kitchen reopens Friday 26 January.
Bar will reopen on Monday 22 January and will continue to operate at normal opening times.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

We would like to thank all our customers for your support throughout the year. We wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas x

Please note that we are open Christmas Day for DRINKS ONLY 11.30 - 13.45. We reopen Boxing Day - normal opening times.
KITCHEN WILL BE CLOSED 25 - 27 Dec. Kitchen reopens Thurs 28 Dec.
Thank you.

The sun may have stopped shining , however it continues inside The Wheatsheaf . Come in and enjoy a refreshing drink of Aspalls Suffolk cider.

Early start this morning with the Morrisdancers from Rutland, Leicester and Northampton. Brought the sunshine with them. Good to see you. Enjoy the rest of your day dancing🍻☀️🕺

A reminder for tomorrow lovely people.

WE ARE HAVING AN EARLIER OPENING TIME ON SAT 14 OCT AT 10.00 AM FOR THE PUBLIC AND THIRSTY MORRIS MEN!!🍻. Rutland Morrismen are hosting a huge Day of Dance ( please see image below for locations)There will be over 50 morris dancers who will dance outside the pubs. Come join us!!

We had results from The Everards Spencer Memorial garden competition 2023. We received a Gold Award and Best in Show. Thank you🙏🌻😁

WE ARE HAVING AN EARLIER OPENING TIME ON SAT 14 OCT AT 10.00 AM FOR THE PUBLIC AND THIRSTY MORRIS MEN!!🍻. Rutland Morrismen are hosting a huge Day of Dance ( please see image below for locations)There will be over 50 morris dancers who will dance outside the pubs. Come join us!!

Do you know any young people aged 12-16...take a look at this wonderful ,exciting opportunity in Oakham with St.Johns Ambulance!! They also looking for Adults 18+ to volunteer too

GREEN HOP 23!! Everards Brewery team picked and collected whole hops themselves from Charles Faram Hop Farm in September to be able to make this strictly Limited Edition Craft beer. Come try it for yourselves. Brewed to order only this one!!!

Everards guest ale Limited Edition AMMONITE.

Its Friday again 🥳and it's a hot one!!☀️☀️☀️🥳
Come in...relax....have a great time... and try Everards Limited Edition IPA INFINITY. 🍻😁

Walked past this beautiful sight this morning . Amazing talented people that have knitted and crocheted flowers.Turned a boring and ugly post in to something beautiful and made me smile 🌺☀️😁Think we have some competition with the flowers !!😉🤣

It truly was a Super moon - 'blue moon' on Wed night.To celebrate this amazing event come try Everards Limited Edition ale SUPER MOON.
We also have a Langton Brewery smooth best bitter- WIDEBEAM. A seasonable bitter with a gentle roasted flavour and caramal finish.
Happy Friday!!😁🍻🥳

Limited Edition craft kegged pale ale....NOW AVAILABLE!! Cosmic !!!✌☀️😁

Its Friday..and the suns trying to come out!!☀️Pop in and try Everards Limited Edition Ale. Unplugged IPA session ale and Embers amber ale. £4.50 a pint.