Day-time in Oxford
Eating out
Oxford has a rich and generous mix of places to eat and drink. Students, locals and visitors all rub shoulders in Oxford’s liberal helpings of pubs, cafés, bistros and cocktail bars.
Establishments with historic connections include the elegant The Grand Café on the site of England’s first coffee house established in 1651; The Parsonage bar and restaurant in the Old Parsonage Hotel with its Oscar Wilde connections; and the Eagle & Child pub, the regular meeting place of JRR Tolkein and his literary group, the Inklings.
For lunch, enjoy the stylish cafés in the Covered Market or Pizza Express with its medieval wall paintings. Or explore the exotic international range of restaurants on the Cowley Road.
Take afternoon tea in The Randolph Hotel – built in 1864. Explore the Morse Bar as seen in the film “Shadowlands” starring Debra Winger and Anthony Hopkins and, of course, in numerous episodes of TV’s “Inspector Morse”.