Percy Street guidebook

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Percy Street guidebook

Food scene

The Magdalen Arms is really good too. It has a modern British menu, with really great meat dishes - the shared dishes in particular tend to be wonderful. The service is often a little slow though so don't expect instantaneous food. Better to order a nice bottle of wine or a pint of ale and take your time. There is usually no need to book ahead except perhaps for the more busy Friday and Saturday nights. It is also a really nice cosy pub. Turn left out the front door, turn right on Iffley Rd and it is on your right.
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Magdalen Arms Oxford
243 Iffley Rd
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The Magdalen Arms is really good too. It has a modern British menu, with really great meat dishes - the shared dishes in particular tend to be wonderful. The service is often a little slow though so don't expect instantaneous food. Better to order a nice bottle of wine or a pint of ale and take your time. There is usually no need to book ahead except perhaps for the more busy Friday and Saturday nights. It is also a really nice cosy pub. Turn left out the front door, turn right on Iffley Rd and it is on your right.
Silvie’s is a great local café. It is 3 min walk away on Iffley Road. Turn left out of the house, left at the main road, cross Charles Street and there it is on your left. It’s a great place to have brunch/lunch and the cinnamon buns are gorgeous in the morning when fresh out of the oven! It also does a Nepalese eat-in/take-away on thursdays at certain times of the year.
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Silvie
281 Iffley Rd
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Silvie’s is a great local café. It is 3 min walk away on Iffley Road. Turn left out of the house, left at the main road, cross Charles Street and there it is on your left. It’s a great place to have brunch/lunch and the cinnamon buns are gorgeous in the morning when fresh out of the oven! It also does a Nepalese eat-in/take-away on thursdays at certain times of the year.
The Missing Bean Roastery on Magdalen Rd is also a great place to grab a coffee, and they roast the beans on site. The single origin beans are just amazing!
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The Missing Bean Coffee Roastery
66-72 Magdalen Rd
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The Missing Bean Roastery on Magdalen Rd is also a great place to grab a coffee, and they roast the beans on site. The single origin beans are just amazing!
The Rusty Bicycle is our favourite local pub. It does good food during the day and is open late at weekends. The home-made burgers, pizzas and ales are great. It is also on Magdalen Rd.
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The Rusty Bicycle
28 Magdalen Rd
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The Rusty Bicycle is our favourite local pub. It does good food during the day and is open late at weekends. The home-made burgers, pizzas and ales are great. It is also on Magdalen Rd.
Hamblin Bread is a brilliant (if pricey) bakery. It also does really good pizzas, and super-expensive but brilliant cheese.
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Hamblin Bread
247 Iffley Rd
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Hamblin Bread is a brilliant (if pricey) bakery. It also does really good pizzas, and super-expensive but brilliant cheese.
Our latest favourite restaurant is Arbequina on the Cowley Road – serving exceptional tapas and a great wine selection. It is well worth a visit for lunch or dinner.
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Arbequina
72-74 Cowley Rd
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Our latest favourite restaurant is Arbequina on the Cowley Road – serving exceptional tapas and a great wine selection. It is well worth a visit for lunch or dinner.
Along the tow path on the canal (about 20-25 minute walk) is The Isis. This is an incredibly cosy, atmospheric and strange Oxford institution. It is far better than the more well known Perch and Trout Inns. It can only be reached on foot and has limited opening hours in winter (it will close early on Sundays, for instance), but it is well worth the trek. To get there, turn left out of the house, turn left on the Iffley Rd and turn right at the second traffic lights (i.e. the big junction). Walk down the busy Donnington Bridge Rd until you cross the river. Turn left onto the tow path and continue on for another five minutes.
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Isis Farmhouse
The Towing Path
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Along the tow path on the canal (about 20-25 minute walk) is The Isis. This is an incredibly cosy, atmospheric and strange Oxford institution. It is far better than the more well known Perch and Trout Inns. It can only be reached on foot and has limited opening hours in winter (it will close early on Sundays, for instance), but it is well worth the trek. To get there, turn left out of the house, turn left on the Iffley Rd and turn right at the second traffic lights (i.e. the big junction). Walk down the busy Donnington Bridge Rd until you cross the river. Turn left onto the tow path and continue on for another five minutes.
The Chester has reopened under local management. It is a friendly pub and the shared steak platter is mind-blowing. Walk down Iffley Rd towards town and take the first left onto Chester Rd. It is at the bottom on your left.
The Chester Arms
19 Chester Street
The Chester has reopened under local management. It is a friendly pub and the shared steak platter is mind-blowing. Walk down Iffley Rd towards town and take the first left onto Chester Rd. It is at the bottom on your left.
There are loads of places to eat on the Cowley Rd (turn right on Magdalen Rd, go to the top of the street and turn left). You'll find everything from Nepalese curry houses, to American diners, Chinese or middle eastern restaurants. For take-away, the chips are excellent in the Oxford Fish Shop, just around the corner on Iffley Road (turn left out of the house, turn left on the Iffley Rd and walk 3 minutes). Everest Nepalese on Howard St does good and quite distinctive Nepalese curry take-away. The Ultimate Picture Palace is the local arthouse cinema. It is just off Cowley Rd, on your right as you walk towards the centre. There is some great coffee in Oxford.
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Cowley Road
Cowley Road
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There are loads of places to eat on the Cowley Rd (turn right on Magdalen Rd, go to the top of the street and turn left). You'll find everything from Nepalese curry houses, to American diners, Chinese or middle eastern restaurants. For take-away, the chips are excellent in the Oxford Fish Shop, just around the corner on Iffley Road (turn left out of the house, turn left on the Iffley Rd and walk 3 minutes). Everest Nepalese on Howard St does good and quite distinctive Nepalese curry take-away. The Ultimate Picture Palace is the local arthouse cinema. It is just off Cowley Rd, on your right as you walk towards the centre. There is some great coffee in Oxford.
Best coffee in the city centre
Society Café
12-16 St Michael's St
Best coffee in the city centre

Sightseeing

In Central Oxford There are plenty of guidebooks that will give you a good run down of the various things to do in central oxford, so let me suggest just one or two. Probably the most impressive college is Christchurch, although Magdalen is also very... Oxford. If you like your modernist architecture - and I realise this is probably a very small sub-set of the people who will visit Oxford - then don't miss the Deny Wilkinson Building on the Banbury Rd with its crazy fan shape or the James Sterling designed (almost invisible) Florey Building, which belongs to Queens College. The Oxford Modern Art Gallery on Pembroke St often has good stuff going on. The Ashmolean museum is always worth a visit and the Natural History Museum is great for kids. For slightly more grown up kids, there is the Pitt Rivers museum at the back, basically with relics of colonialism, including the horrifying shrunken heads. The Story Museum is a great place for younger children and has a really nice café. We tend to stay out of the city centre if we can avoid it, but the covered market has some excellent game, wild mushrooms and other unusual cool seasonal food, if you are cooking. Jericho, just north of the city centre is a nice lively place to be with another great art-house cinema (the Phoenix). We don't have much time for the official theatres in Oxford, but the student theatre scene is quite lively during term. The local free-sheet the Daily Info has all the details.
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Oxford
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In Central Oxford There are plenty of guidebooks that will give you a good run down of the various things to do in central oxford, so let me suggest just one or two. Probably the most impressive college is Christchurch, although Magdalen is also very... Oxford. If you like your modernist architecture - and I realise this is probably a very small sub-set of the people who will visit Oxford - then don't miss the Deny Wilkinson Building on the Banbury Rd with its crazy fan shape or the James Sterling designed (almost invisible) Florey Building, which belongs to Queens College. The Oxford Modern Art Gallery on Pembroke St often has good stuff going on. The Ashmolean museum is always worth a visit and the Natural History Museum is great for kids. For slightly more grown up kids, there is the Pitt Rivers museum at the back, basically with relics of colonialism, including the horrifying shrunken heads. The Story Museum is a great place for younger children and has a really nice café. We tend to stay out of the city centre if we can avoid it, but the covered market has some excellent game, wild mushrooms and other unusual cool seasonal food, if you are cooking. Jericho, just north of the city centre is a nice lively place to be with another great art-house cinema (the Phoenix). We don't have much time for the official theatres in Oxford, but the student theatre scene is quite lively during term. The local free-sheet the Daily Info has all the details.
Further afield Blenheim Palace is the stately home of rich and famous people. Churchill grew up there. Its beautiful but expensive. The Cotswolds are beautiful typical/idealised English villages. The type you would expect to see on a biscuit tin or in a stylised reproduction of a nineteenth century painting. Charlbury is a good way into this if you don't have a car. There are regular trains from Oxford, and its a lovely place for a walk around in the country. The Country Home there is often open for visitors, and I think the deer park is always open... but best to check online.
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Oxfordshire
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Further afield Blenheim Palace is the stately home of rich and famous people. Churchill grew up there. Its beautiful but expensive. The Cotswolds are beautiful typical/idealised English villages. The type you would expect to see on a biscuit tin or in a stylised reproduction of a nineteenth century painting. Charlbury is a good way into this if you don't have a car. There are regular trains from Oxford, and its a lovely place for a walk around in the country. The Country Home there is often open for visitors, and I think the deer park is always open... but best to check online.
London is within easy reach. There are two 24-hour bus services (the Oxford Tube or the Oxford Express) which are really reliable. I should know, I commuted on them for three years! The nearest stop is on the St Clements. Its about a 15-20 minute walk. The train station is best reached on the number 3 bus, which you can catch from the Iffley Rd (on the opposite side of the street). They have been messing with the final stop recently so it might not go all the way there any more, but it gets you close. Trains run every 30 minutes or so to London Marylebone and Paddington Stations and take about an hour. Make sure to catch one of the fast trains, the slower ones take two hours or so. If you travel after 9am (or so) then it is significantly cheaper. But if you have an off-peak ticket there are very few trains that you can travel back from London Paddington, until 19:22. There are no off-peak restrictions from London Marylebone, so that may be more attractive.
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London
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London is within easy reach. There are two 24-hour bus services (the Oxford Tube or the Oxford Express) which are really reliable. I should know, I commuted on them for three years! The nearest stop is on the St Clements. Its about a 15-20 minute walk. The train station is best reached on the number 3 bus, which you can catch from the Iffley Rd (on the opposite side of the street). They have been messing with the final stop recently so it might not go all the way there any more, but it gets you close. Trains run every 30 minutes or so to London Marylebone and Paddington Stations and take about an hour. Make sure to catch one of the fast trains, the slower ones take two hours or so. If you travel after 9am (or so) then it is significantly cheaper. But if you have an off-peak ticket there are very few trains that you can travel back from London Paddington, until 19:22. There are no off-peak restrictions from London Marylebone, so that may be more attractive.