This Saturday sees the launch of the 2017 season of Bitten Street at the Oxford Castle. As always, we will be bringing you our favourite street food traders as well as some exciting new flavours to tantalise your tastebuds. We'll have cracking music from DJ Ollie East (I've already submitted my music requests so listen out for some fairly eclectic selections - much to … [Read more...]
Bitten Bites – New food in Covered Market
Rumour has reached us that Ricardo's, the much loved sandwich and salad bar in the Covered Market has closed. Famous for their hot roasted baguettes with that extra bit of pork crackling nestling at the bottom of the bag and their huge selection of fillings. Now that Olives is also under new ownership, I suspect I may be shopping around for my lunch now. Luckily though, … [Read more...]
Bitten Bites – A Rant About Small Plates
It is well known that I am the ranty one at Bitten HQ. Recently there has been a new trend that mildly irked me to begin with, then started to annoy me and now full on gets my ire raging. As you may have guessed from the title above, it's small plates. Not tapas or sharing dishes, but small plates. I understand that a restaurant may want to showcase their chef's array of … [Read more...]
Bitten Bites – All change at Jacobs Chop House
Jacobs Chop House has been closed for the last few days for a bit of a revamp, including a name change. It's now known as Jacobs Brasserie and the team behind the Jacobs empire had this to say: "Although we loved "Jacobs Chop House" and it had a good following, we feel that 'Jacobs Brasserie' better represents our offering. The rebranding also presented an opportunity for a … [Read more...]
Pint Shop Soft Launch
Some time ago, the work wife messaged me on one of the many platforms we use, all excited and bubbly and happy. "Look at this menu for Pint Shop" she fizzed "It's awesome and they're coming to Oxford!!!!" My interest piqued, I duly clicked the link. And promptly closed it again. "They're from Cambridge" I huffed. "I don't do Cambridge. I'm from … [Read more...]
