Oxford Restaurants

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: 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: Bardwell Road, Oxford, OX2 6ST (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 Indian Brasserie

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: £27.00

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

Edamame

And so the wonderful variety of cuisines available in Oxford rolls on. Edamame is clearly popular, as the lines outside at lunchtime bear witness to, but it does seem to be one of those places that you either love or don't.

• Address: 15 Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Japanese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £10.00, Dinner: £18.00

Escape Le Prive Restaurant

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• Address: 9A High Street, Market Avenue 1, Oxford, OX1 4DB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

First Floor Restaurant, The

The First Floor is a new Cowley Road buffet restaurant that brings together Indian, Chinese, Thai and continental halal cuisine in the form of an appealing Pan-Asian fusion. So rest assured you will find something to delight even those that are the hardest to please! The ambiance is modern and open plan and the dishes are all available for a set price.

• Address: 158 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1UE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese, Indian, Thai
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £10.00, Dinner: £22.00

Fishers Restaurant - Oxford

Fishers is one of the places to be seen in Oxford and should you be fortunate enough to get a table there you might enjoy some celebrity-spotting to while away the time. Dons, film names, famous Professors and actors all regularly put in appearances.

• Address: 36-37 St Clements Street, Oxford, OX4 1AB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £37.00