Oxfordshire Restaurant Guide

Pizza Express - Oxford

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: The Golden Cross, 8 Golden Cross, Oxford, OX1 3EU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Pizza Piazza - Summertown

• Address: 260 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7DX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £22.00

Plough Restaurant & Hotel, The

A glorious Elizabethan manor house on the edge of the Cotswolds, not widely known but cherished by those who do. The cooking is a blend of French and English which works to good effect and produces such dishes as duck and wild mushroom pate with red onion marmalade and continental leaves, a fillet of Aberdeen Angus beef with fresh tagliatelle and a green peppercorn sauce, and creme brulee with tiny figs marinated in rum.

• Address: Bourton Road, Clanfield, nr Faringdon, OX18 2RB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £43.00

Prezzo - Oxford

Prezzo has been delighting diners for over seven years, and this Italian restaurant chain has since been able to expand throughout large parts of England with well over a hundred outlets. Interestingly, the company seeks to restore either impressive buildings or ones of local interest.

• Address: 2 Oxford Castle, Oxford, OX1 1AY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Quod - Oxford

Situated in the High Street of Oxford, surrounded by university colleges and dreaming spires, Quod Restaurant & Bar attracts a range of students, dons, tourists and families. These Georgian buildings, a former banking hall, have been beautifully converted to house the restaurant Quod and the Old Bank Hotel.

• Address: 92-94 High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £17.00, Dinner: £27.00

Radcliffe Arms, The

The Radcliffe is populated largely by the student fraternity who flock here in great numbers to enjoy the bonhomie and the incredibly cheap food. As such others in search of 'atmosphere' or cheap food also congregate there.

• Address: 67 Cranham Street, Oxford, OX2 6DE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Budget
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £13.00

Rainbow Inn

• Address: Stonor Road, Middle Assendon, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 6AU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, Fish & Chip
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £31.00

Red Lion Inn, The

The Red Lion strives to serve good, honest English food at prices which are comfortable and by and large it succeeds. Old Oxford sausages with spicy red cabbage and mash is about as traditional as they come, followed by chocolate tart with home-made ice cream.

• Address: 115 High Street, Chalgrove, nr Watlington, OX44 7SS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £28.00

Red Lion, The

• Address: South Side, Steeple Aston, Bicester, OX25 4RY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Seafood
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £28.00

Restaurant at Bay Tree Hotel

The Cotswold are blessed with some extraordinarily beautiful pubs and hotels and The Bay Tree has to be at the forefront. As you enter you are immediately aware of the very authentic English antiquity, ranging from the delightful walled garden and tapestry-hung walls to the real fires and flag floors - this is the genuine article.

• Address: Sheep Street, Burford, OX18 4LW (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £60.00