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.)
― ledge, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
I am close to the harcourt arms, will go tonight
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 10:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― djh, Sunday, 14 February 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.zhengoxford.co.uk/index.html
^ Here was amazing, this evening.
― djh, Friday, 29 July 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
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!
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 29 April 2019 05:48 (five years ago) link
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?
― djh, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:58 (five months ago) link