“While through your pores the dews distil / Like amber bead” Address to a Haggis With Burns Night coming up this Friday, we sought the advice of Michael from newly opened Grape Minds in Summertown, an independent wine, beer and spirits shop, for their top whisky tips and recommendations. Whisky is the subject of great adoration and complete bafflement, a delightful drop … [Read more...]
Introducing: Ogglio Olive Oil
How Ogglio Oil all began… My name is Giuseppe Trapani, and I have been working and living in Oxford for more than a decade now. I work for Oxford University Press, but recently, I have started an olive oil project in my spare time, outside of working hours. I am originally from Sicily, and I come from a family of farmers. As tradition wants, the land is passed on from … [Read more...]
Restaurant Review: Rocket, Witney, Oxfordshire
Rumours abound that Witney does its best to keep chains out of the town. But is civic support for independent local restaurants and cafes enough? Nope. The team behind the Chequers Smokehouse took over the old Red Lion Pub in Corn Street in late 2014 and turned it into Koi, a bar and Japanese restaurant which was like Wagamama but… well… better. MUCH better. The food was … [Read more...]
The Most Instagram-worthy Cafés in Oxford
If you’re anything like me, nothing is more pleasing than finding, upon the arrival of my flat white, an elaborate adornment of coffee art. A café experience for many is not just about taste, but rather the visual – or, to put it bluntly, whether it’s going to go down well on Instagram. Here are some of my favourite aesthetic adventures: the cafés of Oxford that don’t just … [Read more...]
Roll Out The Barrel: Brakspear Brewery Tour
Words: Graham Brown Guest writer Graham Brown goes on a tour of Oxfordshire's Brakspear Brewery, courtesy of Ember Inns. Beer. Love it or hate it, it's part of being a Brit, like tea, HM the Queen and being only slightly obsessed with the weather. No we don't drink it 'warm' (a particularly American misconception), nor do we freeze it to neuralgia-inducing levels of … [Read more...]
