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...]
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...]
Restaurant Chains Invasion
Guest post by Hannah Bond London is one of the food capitals of the world, and Oxford is a culinary outpost of London. Alright, fine, Oxford’s more than that. There are libraries and stuff. But as far as food goes, if London’s the trendsetting big brother - the first one to get a girlfriend and discover the bands no one has heard of - Oxford is the eager tag-along younger … [Read more...]
The Big V – Value!
Over the course of last weekend, MrF and I, along with the kids, ended up eating out at two very different venues. The first: an upmarket gastropub in an Oxfordshire village, with waiters and waitresses in neat monochrome uniforms. The second: a humble little Turkish café on a busy road in the heart of Oxford. The food at the gastropub was expensive, under seasoned and under … [Read more...]
