Rachel Grenville-Hunt runs Rachel's Apron, a cookery school with classes that focus on bread, cakes and patisserie. We ran a competition recently to give away tickets to a class, but were also invited along to try one for ourselves. On this occasion, an afternoon tea class with The Real Macaron Company that ran for four hours on a Monday afternoon. The class costs £75 per … [Read more...]
FitFest Oxford Review
Fitfest was a one-day fitness festival held at The Oxford Academy in East Oxford, styling itself as "Oxford's largest fitness and wellness festival". After buying your ticket, you can select from a variety of talks, cooking demonstrations, and fitness and yoga sessions. My choices were - Intuitive eating and intuitive exercise with Leah McClean This was an informative and … [Read more...]
Restaurant Review: Thaikhun
Thaikhun is fun. It is fairly noisy and there is a boat hanging from the ceiling and they sell reasonably priced Thai food. You probably already know from that description whether it’s the kind of place you like to go. Assuming that, like me, you enjoy bright colours and spring rolls, I think you will like Thaikuhn. For starters, we ordered a platter of fried veggie snacks … [Read more...]
Review: Fizz Tasting at Vine Oxford
Vine has been around the Cowley Road for a couple of years now, serving up some lovely wines by the glass and very good vegetarian (and non vegetarian) brunches. While I’d been in for a glass of wine now and again, I’d never tried one of their wine tastings before. I’d been to other tastings in Oxford and enjoyed them, but felt that they were a little stuffy, taking themselves … [Read more...]
Macdonald Randolph Hotel unveils new £100k ballroom
Oxford's five-star Macdonald Randolph Hotel invited Bitten for a Christmas themed event in their function rooms last week, to celebrate the transformation of its grand ballroom after a £100,000 investment. The extensive remodel saw the function suite, which can host up to 400 people, undergo a complete refurbishment. The space features three exact replica chandeliers of … [Read more...]
Shoryu Ramen x Gudetama Pop-Up
Shoryu Ramen is running a pop-up collaboration with Gudetama, a grumpy cartoon egg from the same stable as Hello Kitty, from until 14th October in its Oxford, Oxford Street and Manchester restaurants. You get a three-course meal with a drink, one of the courses featuring Gudetama himself in the form of an egg half with a nori grimace, floating in your ramen. It is ridiculous … [Read more...]