British, Modern Restaurants in Banbury
1. The Fuzzy Duck
British, Modern restaurant in Armscote
Ilmington Road - CV37
Within striking distance of Stratford upon Avon (about seven miles away), this boutique inn has been spruced up by Adrian and Tania Slater – the owners of Baylis & Harding – in ‘Contemporary Cotswolds’ style and offers pub classics (steak, chicken pie, fish ’n’ chips) alongside more brasserie-style items (e.g. tortellini, duck breast).
2. The Castle at Edgehill
British, Modern restaurant in Edgehill
Main Street - OX15
2022 Review: A dearth of feedback this year on this eye-catching landmark, which looks like a fairytale castle and occupies a striking position, with marvellous views over the countryside (and, for history anoraks, sits near a famous battleground from the English Civil War). Expect decent gastropub fare and a particularly cosy bar.
3. The Boxing Hare
British, Modern restaurant in Swerford
Banbury Road - OX7
This Cotswold local for the Chipping Norton set is a “very busy pub on a Sunday, with great beef choices” and meat – sourced from a farm just six miles away – and is a mainstay on weekdays too: “even if it’s expensive, it’s well worth while ordering the very best of the menu”. Owner Antony Griffith Harris and chef Nick Anderson first worked together more than 35 years ago before teaming up here in 2017.
4. The Royal Oak
British, Modern restaurant in Whatcote
2 Upper Farm Barn - CV36
Richard & Solanche Craven’s “exceptional” venue in a converted village pub on the northern fringe of the Cotswolds is “well worth the detour” for its “well-judged menu” of “beautifully cooked” dishes (many with foraged ingredients) and “democratically inclined wine list” in a “very attractive space”. You don’t have to endure a massive number of courses either, with evening options starting with a four-course menu for £80 per person.
5. The Killingworth Castle
British, Modern restaurant in Wootton
Glympton Road - OX20
In 2021, after selling The Ebrington Arms near Chipping Campden, which they’d run for 15 years, Jim & Claire Alexander were able to fully focus their attentions on this seventeenth-century inn, handy for Blenheim Palace; chef Adam Brown (a Ramsay alum) oversees the locally sourced food, which inspired solid marks this year, if little in the way of commentary (other than to say that it’s “good again at last” – perhaps a result of the Alexanders’ renewed focus).
6. Oxheart
British, Modern restaurant in Long Compton
50 Main Street - CV36
Mark Ramshaw’s ‘micro-restaurant’ serves a “seriously inventive menu at a great price” to no more than 11 guests a night on just Fridays and Saturdays. “We sat at the kitchen counter and enjoyed a brilliant modern British menu, strong on local produce and full of lovely bitter-fermented-charred-umami flavour combinations. Pork, peas and pickled strawberry was a yummy main course”. It opened in June 2021, with Marina O’Loughlin of the Sunday Times an early enthusiast.
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