Oxfordshire Restaurants

Cafe Rouge - Henley

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: 37 Hart Street, Henley, RG9 2AR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00

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

Café Sojo

• Address: 96 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Chinese, Japanese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £18.00

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 - Bicester

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: Bicester Village, Bicester, OX26 6WD (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £16.00, Dinner: £26.00

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

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): 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