A joint review by Hannah Bond and Lucy Ayrton – Lucy’s comments in italics. Full disclosure: there is no point in us reviewing The Rusty Bicycle as a pub in a more general sense, because we basically live there. They might as well have a plaque on a table for us. We spend a completely disproportionate amount of our earnings in this establishment. This does not mean, however, … [Read more...]
Review: Durban Spice Supper Club
I basically want to go round to Shabs and Sarah’s house every night for dinner for the rest of my life, please. Unfortunately, I think that ambition is going to have to remain unrealised, because I have the feeling that their dining room is going to be full pretty much constantly as soon as people catch on to the existence of this absolute gem of a supper club. As you might … [Read more...]
Review: Sneaky Supper Club
Curling your hands around a cup of warm soup on a freezing February night is immensely comforting, particularly when that soup smells absolutely delicious and you know you’re in for a massive treat of a meal. I’m going to tell you at the top: I haven’t got anything negative to say about my dinner at Sneaky Supper Club. The food was impeccable; the company delightful; the … [Read more...]
Review: The George Inn, Barford St Michael
A joint review by Hannah Bond and Lucy Ayrton - Lucy's comments in italics. It’s very easy, living in Oxford, to get stuck in a comforting cycle of visiting the same reliable restaurant haunts time and again because you know that you’re going to get a decent meal and that you’re facing nothing more than a ten-minute cycle journey home at the end of it. But that way … [Read more...]
Review: Cheesemas at Byron
I was rather keen to get my hands on Byron’s seasonal burger offering. It’s freezing cold outside. It’s dark before 4pm. We’ve already had our Christmas party and there’s very little on the horizon to ease my way through the ever-lengthening nights and grey days until the Christmas break begins. So why in the world would I not take the chance to sample an indecently huge burger … [Read more...]
