RestaurantsOxfordshireOxfordOX2

survey result

Summary

£48
   ££
3
Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “picturesque riverside venue” on Oxford’s Osney Island (which opened in 1871 as The Waterman) is notable for its “laid-back but beautifully presented vegetarian food, full of flavours from a varied and interesting menu”. “I’m not a vegetarian myself but most definitely hope to be back”. Top Tip – “the whipped goats’ cheese”.

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Restaurant details

No dress code

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Sunday Times

Charlotte Ivers had no such qualms about calling Oxford Oxford, and went so far as to name-check the Thames as the Isis, which as Giles would know as an Oxonian graduate is the local student custom.


Still, she found The Punter’s menu struggled to name things correctly, so a
massaman curry was not at all what it claimed to be: instead “it’s a decent
approximation of a pub Thai green curry”.


“Whatever was going on with the curry, the rest was a solidly decent veggie lunch” – but she’s still looking for “somewhere really good” to take her vegetarian mum for a meal.

Charlotte Ivers - 2024-03-10

Prices

Traditional European menu

Starter Main Veggies Pudding
£6.30 £16.00 £4.00 £8.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £24.00
Filter Coffee £3.00
Extras  
Service 10.00%
7 South St, Oxford, OX2 0BE
Opening hours
Monday12 pm‑2 pm, 5:30 pm‑8 pm
Tuesday12 pm‑2 pm, 5:30 pm‑8 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑2 pm, 5:30 pm‑8 pm
Thursday12 pm‑2 pm, 5:30 pm‑8 pm
Friday12 pm‑2 pm, 5:30 pm‑8 pm
Saturday12 pm‑8:30 pm
Sunday12 pm‑8:30 pm

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