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(Original post by Procrastinatius)
I'll back Hassan's and Atomic Pizza and raise you Mission Burrito.

i wholeheartedly second this

[Elles]

Some that haven't been mentioned yet... Are they still around?
Moya - just up St Clements & does fab cocktails & ?Slovakian food - yummy & different.
& The Big Bang - up near Somerville just round the corner from Little Clarendon - amazing bangers & various types of mash & gravy + good atmosphere.
Chopstix - up Cowley Road - all you can eat Chinese

& some that have that I concur with...
Pink Giraffe - St Clement's - Chinese
Mario's - Cowley Road - good Pizza
Pierre Victoire - Little Clarendon - French
Le Petit Blanc (now Brasserie Blanc?) - round the corner of Little Clarendon near Somerville - French

More standard kind of places...
Quod - High street
Browns - Woodstock

For lunches/teas...
Georgina's - Covered Market - for nachos/potato skins etc.
Grand Cafe - High Street - best afternoon tea
G&Ds - all 3 of them! Cowley, Aldates, Little Clarendon - Ice cream, sundaes, cake, bagels etc.
Ben's Cookies - Covered marker - Cookies
Queens Lane Coffee House
Alternative Tuck Shop - road by New College at the Magdalen end turning up to the science area - wraps & stuff for lunch - bonus points for seeming to recognize me/remember my usual when I came back way after the years of being based in the Science area?! & I didn't go there that obsessively, honest...

Breakfast
Browns - Covered market

& showing age - Mongolian Wok used to be where Opium Den or Sojo are now & that was amazing - huge big wok thing for cooking & you took up your selections.
& I nearly shed a tear when Cleo's Creperie (Gloucester Green) closed.

Om nom nom - good thing I'll be visiting soon.

[JoMo1]

Edamame is an amazing find that you need to make sooner rather than later. Just make sure to get there right at the start of any opening times or you will be queueing. The edamame and miso soup are particular highlights.

I've never been to Paddyfields, but only recently discovered Sojo opposite. Most authentic chinese food I've been able to find outside of China, stunningly good.

I've also given far too much of my student loan to Olive's, a Sandwich Shop/Deli on the High Street. Blindingly good sandwiches with a rotating "Baguette of the Week". The Rare roast beef with blue cheese and horseradish and Italian Chicken Club are particularly excellent BotWs.

You'll also have people rave at you about G&Ds, don't get your hopes up, it's average at best.

(Original post by Elles)
Some that haven't been mentioned yet... Are they still around?
Moya - just up St Clements & does fab cocktails & ?Slovakian food - yummy & different.
& The Big Bang - up near Somerville just round the corner from Little Clarendon - amazing bangers & various types of mash & gravy + good atmosphere.
Chopstix - up Cowley Road - all you can eat Chinese

& some that have that I concur with...
Pink Giraffe - St Clement's - Chinese
Mario's - Cowley Road - good Pizza
Pierre Victoire - Little Clarendon - French
Le Petit Blanc (now Brasserie Blanc?) - round the corner of Little Clarendon near Somerville - French

More standard kind of places...
Quod - High street
Browns - Woodstock

For lunches/teas...
Georgina's - Covered Market - for nachos/potato skins etc.
Grand Cafe - High Street - best afternoon tea
G&Ds - all 3 of them! Cowley, Aldates, Little Clarendon - Ice cream, sundaes, cake, bagels etc.
Ben's Cookies - Covered marker - Cookies
Queens Lane Coffee House
Alternative Tuck Shop - road by New College at the Magdalen end turning up to the science area - wraps & stuff for lunch - bonus points for seeming to recognize me/remember my usual when I came back way after the years of being based in the Science area?! & I didn't go there that obsessively, honest...

Breakfast
Browns - Covered market

& showing age - Mongolian Wok used to be where Opium Den or Sojo are now & that was amazing - huge big wok thing for cooking & you took up your selections.
& I nearly shed a tear when Cleo's Creperie (Gloucester Green) closed.

Om nom nom - good thing I'll be visiting soon.

Hate to break it to you but I'm almost certain Big Bang (tax avoidance) and Chopsticks have both closed.

Though I did forget about Pink Giraffe. Table served all you can eat chinese food for £16? Why, yes I will.

[dnumberwang]

(Original post by JoMo1)
Though I did forget about Pink Giraffe. Table served all you can eat chinese food for £16? Why, yes I will.

Is that cheap for Oxford!?!?

[Elles]

Pink Giraffe is fairly classy Chinese... so yes.

(Original post by JoMo1)

Hate to break it to you but I'm almost certain Big Bang (tax avoidance) and Chopsticks have both closed.

Better I know now than I walk round the corner in a few weeks...

But then maybe I should try new places when I go back?

[MrCarmady]

(Original post by JoMo1)
Edamame is an amazing find that you need to make sooner rather than later. Just make sure to get there right at the start of any opening times or you will be queueing. The edamame and miso soup are particular highlights.

I've never been to Paddyfields, but only recently discovered Sojo opposite. Most authentic chinese food I've been able to find outside of China, stunningly good.

I've also given far too much of my student loan to Olive's, a Sandwich Shop/Deli on the High Street. Blindingly good sandwiches with a rotating "Baguette of the Week". The Rare roast beef with blue cheese and horseradish and Italian Chicken Club are particularly excellent BotWs.

You'll also have people rave at you about G&Ds, don't get your hopes up, it's average at best.



Hate to break it to you but I'm almost certain Big Bang (tax avoidance) and Chopsticks have both closed.

Though I did forget about Pink Giraffe. Table served all you can eat chinese food for £16? Why, yes I will.

Funny, Sojo seemed pretty bland and overpriced to me, while G&D's is a treat, both the bagels and the ice cream.

[Elles]

(Original post by JoMo1)
Hate to break it to you but I'm almost certain Big Bang (tax avoidance) and Chopsticks have both closed.

Hang on a minute... Yay:

(Original post by Big Bang Website)
http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/
The Big Bang is coming back very shortly, in an exciting new Oxford location.

Please follow @bigbangmax if you do the Twitter thing, or like 'The Big Bang Restaurants' on Facebook.

We should be open well before the end of Summer - bringing you Barbeque, Friday Fizz & Chips, Cocktails & Sausages,
and Sunday Roasts, along with Britain's very best selection of award-winning Bangers & Mash.

Looking forward to sizzling you soon,

Max & all the Bang Gang.

THE BIG BANG
In Good Food We Trust

[The_Lonely_Goatherd]

(Original post by JoMo1)
Hate to break it to you but I'm almost certain Big Bang (tax avoidance) and Chopsticks have both closed.

Noooooooooooo!

[Elles]

(Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd)
Noooooooooooo!

See the post above yours!

[The_Lonely_Goatherd]

(Original post by Elles)
See the post above yours!

Phew!

[JoMo1]

(Original post by dnumberwang)
Is that cheap for Oxford!?!?

Not cheap per se, but the food is damn good and it's freshly prepared and brought to you rather than having to fight for stuff or have it sitting around for a while. It makes a big difference and the whole experience more enjoyable. Definitely worth the £16.

(Original post by Elles)
Hang on a minute... Yay:

Hopefully it will be coming back, but they've had similar stuff up for quite a while now. I don't hold much hope I hope they do reopen, Big Bang was awesome, but at worst you can buy most of the sausages in the covered market.

Which reminds me: Pie Minister and moo moos, the perfect lunch on a horrible day.

[Syphillis]

Get yourself a Taste card (Buy one get one free in loads of restaurants), and then camp in Zizzi with a friend.
You're welcome.


Also, there's a Krispy Kreme in the old Prison complex, just saying...

[moritzplatz]

the first floor cousine on cowley for good all you can eat

[thegodofgod]

Bloody hell - I saw 'oxonians' and thought I read 'oxoanions'

[piya21]

(Original post by Captainmal)
Cous Cous Cafe is a Lebanese place on St Clements near Magdalen Roundabout, friendliest staff ever, seriously, also excellent food especially the variety of baguettes, wraps etc, easily as good as Taylor's or Olive's on the High Street but in a bit of a more interesting setting If you're looking for a Chinese Lan Kwai Fong on Cowley has (imo) the best food and a great variety of cocktails (must be at least 100). Enjoy

Cous Cous Cafe is amazing, but it's definitely Moroccan - I had a really long conversation about Marrakech with the owner, and their menu is VERY Moroccan. Definitely best service ever, and seconded about the food.

If you are looking for a Lebanese restaurants, I'd say As-Salaam is best for food, but Al-Shami is best for service. As-Salaam is more authentic in atmosphere as well, but the back room in Al-Shami is beautiful...BUT the Falafel House in Gloucester Green has the best Arab takeaway food in Oxford. Just thinking of their houmous is making my mouth water...

[Mellete]

Unless you're just having tea, eating at Quod can get very expensive. For special occasions I think The Randolph Hotel (opposite the Ashmolean) is better in every way.

Agree with Edamame and Pierre Victoire wholeheartedly, especially lunch which is very fairly priced.

Has anyone eaten at the Christ Church Pizza Van? It's hyped quite a bit, and others deride the hype, and I'm not really sure what to think

[MrCarmady]

It's not the best pizza you'll ever eat, but it is tasty and convenient for those whose college is right outside it. Definitely better than Domino's

[Mellete]

(Original post by MrCarmady)
It's not the best pizza you'll ever eat, but it is tasty and convenient for those whose college is right outside it. Definitely better than Domino's

And as compared to Fire and Stone?

[MrCarmady]

more expensive on thursdays, that's for sure :P
more conservative with ingredients and quicker. possibly better, yeah, though a sit-down place always carries higher expectations with it, so maybe that's why.

[Cirsium]

The best cheap and easy food has to be Mission Burrito, but I'm a big fan of Nosebag (although the concept of gluten free was wildly terrifying to them and they couldn't cope). Also Alpha bar in the covered market.

For a nice dinner I love love love Door 74 on the Cowley Road. If there are any vegetarians around, there is a pub off the Woodstock Road called... the Gardeners Arms maybe? Confusingly there are two pubs with similar names in close proximity. But one of them is all vegetarian. And serves some of the best garlic bread I have ever eaten.