“Another winner from the Anchor & Hope stable”, say fans of this “buzzy” gastropub which inspires many reports of “fabulous” cooking; they’re “finding it hard to cope with the popularity”, though, and a rather worrying number of critics found standards “poor all round”.
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High praise from the critic for this “startlingly impressive” spot, recently transformed from a “puke’n’sawdust football pub” into a “cracking bistropub” (and with an “engagingly boho feel” too). “Terrific puddings” and main courses inducing “murderous envy” combine with “jolly and expert service” to make this a “gleaming gem” – an establishment “among the very best of its kind in Britain.” In Oxford??? Surely it will never last.
Matthew Norman (22nd March 2010)
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