LATEST UPDATE: 8th December 2017 Our regularly updated top ten best Oxford restaurants. There are some obvious choices here and some less obvious, we hope you'll enjoy them as much as we do. This list will change as we discover new places or rediscover old. It's in no particular order, just places where we know you can get consistently good food. There's food for when you … [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...]
Food on Film: December 2014
By Rob McCallum Christmas offers me so many choices as what to write about and discuss, however I cannot remember a single Christmas film in which Christmas pudding is the leading star. Please feel free to correct me however if I have missed one. So, I’ve decided to focus on the meals you have on the day - breakfast, dinner with Christmas pudding and that cheeky late night … [Read more...]
Food on Film: October 2014
Well thanks again to those amazing people at Bitten for allowing me to continue to carry on discussing ‘food on film’ and how it can be the leading light. So far I have shown in previous articles how such food as marshmallow, spaghetti and beans can take the leading role. This time however I have decided to take a different angle and change from food to drinks. Strictly … [Read more...]
Pulled Pork: Live or Let Die?
Jacqui and I had a fairly heated discussion the other day, over pulled pork! Now I realise there may be more important things we could be discussing but pulled pork is a very serious business and one which has been left to do it’s own thing for far too long. Jacqui’s opinion was that she is totally and utterly over pulled pork and to some extent I agree. Once you see a dish … [Read more...]
