Pub Food

Top pub grub in South Oxfordshire

To describe the Crooked Billet at Stoke Row as providing pub food is not doing justice to Paul Clerehugh’s menu. The Observer food monthly described it as providing "the best Sunday lunch" and Waitrose food magazine has voted it their "favourite foodie pub"

The Lamb Inn at Satwell is a classic 16th century inn, serving traditional quality food, and is one of two pubs owned by tv chef Antony Worrall Thompson. The other is the 17th century Greyhound, with pretty cottage garden, in Rotherfield Peppard.

Keiron Daniels is head chef at The Fox and Hounds at Christmas Common and a demonstrator at Henley Food Festival. This pub prides itself on changing its menu daily.

Fothergill’s in the Spread Eagle at Thame is well-known for its brasserie, and always attracts a good number of customers for its Sunday roasts.

In fact there is no shortage of pubs serving excellent lunches, fine dinners and superb Sunday lunches through the entire South Oxfordshire District. It would certainly take a very long time to visit them all, but you would have fun trying.

Try Wallingford's Red Lion, a traditional English "village-style" pub serving locally brewed cask conditioned ales and find wines.

The Old Fisherman at Shabington, near Thame, is a popular stream-side pub with gardens and the Birdcage Inn, to be found in Thame's Cornmarket, has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph.

There's plenty of choice near Didcot, including the Bear at Home in North Moreton, The Fleur De Lys in East Hagbourne and The Plough Inn at Clifton Hampden.

The White Hart at Nettlebed is popular and Henley's The Unicorn has many supporters, as do the Anchor Inn, Magoos, Henley Bar and Grill, which has become noted for its live music, The Maltsters Arms in Rotherfield Greys and The Crown at Playhatch.

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