Oxford Restaurant Guide

Brasserie Blanc - Oxford

One of the greatest pleasures in life for celebrity chef Raymond Blanc is sharing a good meal with family and friends. He achieves this through Brasserie Blanc, where his team take great joy in serving authentic French cuisine in a modern, brasserie atmosphere.

• Address: 71-72 Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French, Mediterranean, Brasserie
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £41.00

Brookes

• Address: Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, OX3 0BP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £35.00

Cafe Coco

• Address: 23 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Mediterranean, Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £25.00

Cafe Rouge - Oxford

Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.

• Address: 11 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX1 2HP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00

Cafe Zouk

I never fail to marvel at a cuisine that, whilst it does not have all that many different cooking processes, manages to produce so many diverse culinary sensations. Much of the answer, of course, is in the use of spices, but even so the extensive menus of places like Café Zouk nearly always offer a riot of anticipation, not to say titillation.

• Address: 1st Floor, 135 High Street, Oxford, OX1 4DN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Indian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £23.00

Carluccio's - Oxford

Carluccio's was started by Antonio and Priscilla Carluccio as a small café and shop stocking Italian food and ingredients in 1991, and grew into a restaurant serving authentic cuisine at sensible prices in 1999.

• Address: 42 Oxford Castle, Oxford, OX1 1AY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £26.00

Cherwell Boathouse, The

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When college food loses its charm, or you just plain want a change, it doesn't have to be obvious comfort food. In this uncompromising and thinly disguised boathouse excellent, tasty fare is available for prices that will still leave at least some of the grant intact.

• Address: 50 Bardwell Road, Oxford, OX2 6SR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £37.00

Chiang Mai Kitchen

The incidence of ethnic restaurants in Oxford can be no coincidence and is to a degree matched by Cambridge, though with nothing like the same intensity. Does this indicate a better standard of in-house catering in the Fenland bastion - I doubt it.

• Address: Kemp Hall Passage, 130A High Street, Oxford, OX1 4DH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Thai
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £37.00

Chutney's

Believed by many to be amongst the best of the ethnic cuisines that compete for the privilege of catering ex officio to the future governing classes. Well, I do like being provocative occasionally but there is little reason to doubt the claim for Chutney's ascendancy.

• Address: 36 St Michael's Street, Oxford, OX1 2EB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Indian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £26.00

Cibo!

In bright new premises offering a warm, friendly environment where informal dining is positively encouraged. The overriding influence is without doubt Italian as evidenced by a good range of homemade pastas and, on the cellar side, an interesting selection of Italian organic wines.

• Address: 4 South Parade, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7JL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £34.00