Oxford pubs and restaurants

I have to get to Cambridge from London also, but I'm taking the Chunnel over so I gather I can just walk across the street to change trains in order to get to Cambridge.

I'm used to long commutes these days; Paris is expensive like London. but our trains are cheap at least if you have a monthly pass (which employers have to pay at least 50%, yay socialism). and comfortable and reliable enough, unless there's a strike. so you can just live further away and commute into the city.

I'm more worried about the Eurostar's reliability for this trip tbh.

fwiw seems like the closure of the oxford/cambridge line predates privatisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Line

"gardeners arms on north parade is good trad local pub."

still good? staying quite close to this for the next few nights, have tonight free, never been to an english pub

belly currently full of BEANS! first english breakfast too, in a cambridge college

If you've never been to an English pub go to the rose and crown opposite. Or for a longer walk, the harcourt arms.

I did go to the rose and crown after all and had a nice time.

beer seems very expensive here compared to other beer countries like say germany, at least the "real ale" I was drinking. but it was very good. hoping that others will be buying after my talk today.

wifi on the X5 was very good. ride itself was nondescript, had been hoping for some shenanigans like you get on usa greyhound trips (e.g. people fucking, brandishing weapons) but nothing. did see a lot more of milton keynes that I needed to.

rose and crown is a v expensive pub but beer in the uk is certainly more expensive than germany, it's true

royal oak tonight b/c it's across from the philo building, very nice. I like Oxford.

This thread inspires a wave of nostalgia for Ask A Drunk. We drunkards would have made a proper hash of it.

royal oak tonight b/c it's across from the philo building, very nice. I like Oxford.

That used to be my playground, do they still have a bar billiards table? (It's like pool but smaller and with the holes in the middle of the table.)

no they removed bar billiards some time in the last 5 years (was the default speaker drinks place after astro talks during my phd, and i was there last month)

if you are right there then do go to the harcourt arms. new owners but still the best pub in oxford imo. and then the bookbinders arms is a couple of blocks closer to the canal.

the gardners arms on plantation road (not the one on north parade) is also worth the trip.

I am close to the harcourt arms, will go tonight

Drank in Beerd (formerly The Grapes) today. Bemused to find drinks served as two-third pints rather than pints. Can see that would make sense for ridiculously strong beers but ... it just irritated me.

http://www.zhengoxford.co.uk/index.html

^ Here was amazing, this evening.

Beerd is fortunately now back to being the Grapes again and pintage is restored!

2/3 & 1/3 measures are the order of the day in The Big Society (formerly the Elm Tree, and briefly a Chinese restaurant) and Brewdog (formerly The Corridor, and before that The New Inn - v popular with people in bands). In Brewdog I will let this aberration pass seeing as the beers are mostly stupid percent.

Coming back here chiefly to say, we have a NEW Oxford FAP planned! At a revived Oxford pub!

Thread here!

why didn't that work? still hate bbcode

try FAP Oxford

Not an Oxford question just chucking it here rather than starting a new thread. Day off and I'll be travelling *from* Oxford.

Any Bath, Cheltenham or Cirencester recommendations?