Oxfordshire Restaurant Guide

Carpenters Arms, The

The Carpenters Arms is a sympathetically restored Cotswold pub, which offers a complete country dining experience; they run a daily changing blackboard menu, which always reflects the seasonality of their produce, much of it local.

• Address: Fulbrook Hill, Fulbrook, Burford, OX18 4BH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £27.00

Carriages Restaurant at The George Hotel

One of the handsome coaching inns that survive, transformed, in this pretty little village. The cooking is straightforward and skilful with strong emphasis on fresh produce. The pan-fried halibut fillet on parsley mash with a morel mushroom sauce demonstrates these skills particularly well.

• Address: 25 High Street, Dorchester-on-Thames, nr Wallingford, OX10 7HH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British UK, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £38.00

Chef Imperial

• Address: 22 High Street, Woodstock, OX20 1TF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £24.00

Chequers, The

At The Chequers they have covered in the former courtyard, creating a light and airy dining space that is ideal for the purpose. John Reid's wife, Kay, is a former home economics teacher and her touch is evident in the familiar, well-sourced and attractively served dishes that ensure The Chequers is seldom anything less than busy.

• Address: Goddards Lane, Chipping Norton, OX7 5NP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Cherry Tree Inn, The

This award winning inn with rooms continues to delight under the initiatives of Paul Gilchrist and chef Richard Coates. Whilst there is plenty for fans of English cooking to be happy about, a wider approach is taken whenever the chance arises.

• Address: Stoke Row, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 5QA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): European, Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £36.00

Cherwell Boathouse, The

Book Online

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

Clanfield Tavern, The

Book Online

In the heart of the Cotswolds in the pretty village of Clanfield, The Clanfield Tavern has been welcoming locals and travellers since 1610. Pale walls give the traditional oak-beamed dining room a modern feel, while the bright conservatory has an open, airy atmosphere and a striking wine wall.

• Address: Bampton Road, Clanfield, nr Faringdon, OX18 2RG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00